For more than eight days, a group of activists and students organized by the Dream Defenders
have occupied the Florida Capitol, right outside Florida Governor Rick
Scott’s (R) office. The activists say they plan to occupy the Capitol
until the governor calls a special session to review the state’s Stand
Your Ground law, racial profiling, and the school-to-prison pipeline,
and consider what they call the Trayvon Martin Act. But after meeting
with the protesters last week, Scott announced he has no intention to review Stand Your Ground, which played a role in jury deliberations that led to George Zimmerman’s acquittal.
“That’s very disappointing on our part,” Dream Defenders legal and
policy director Ahmad Abuznaid told ThinkProgress. “We are attempting to
get Governor Rick Scott and the state leadership here to be real
leaders and so far they have not stepped up to the plate. So far, we
have decided to hold our own legislative session to show them how it’s
done.”
Next Tuesday, Dream Defenders plan mock legislative sessions where
civic leaders and juvenile experts will weigh the pros and cons of
Trayvon’s law.
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