what michael dunn's verdict said. he got convicted for missing.rder, when you think about marisa alexander, she shot a warning shot in the air and she got convicted for shooting a warning shot for 20 years, now possibly 60 years. michael dunn convicted for missing. what is the message we are telling to society? shoot to kill? make sure you hit the person? because then you won't be held accountable, but if you miss them, then you go to jail. that's a terrible message to send. >> absolutely. just for people who aren't sure about the difference with marisa alexander. they're retrying her because of the jury instructions that may have been improperly delivered or perceived, and now because her estrained husband had his two children nearby, they're adding 20 years for each of the two children. that's where they go from 20 to 60 now for this trial that's going to come down again in july. with regard to florida overall, though, benjamin, has anything changed? anything palpable from a legal perspective? >> well, the thing that they have passed in a commit

families and that it just needs to be gotten rid of. >> and cheryl, right now, as we've noted here, michael dunn'sithin the last few hours has filed a motion to withdraw as dunn's attorney. there have been reports that dunn will ask a judge to delay his sentencing on his conviction until he can be retried on charges that he murdered jordan davis here. i think for a lot of people it's still very difficult for that verdict to even sink in. for the family, what do they believe is the right course of action for them? is it holding rallies like this? is it demanding legislation, or is it still to focus on michael dunn? >> oh, no, this rally is demanding legislation. this rally is not focused on michael dunn. it is focused on all of the incidents and involving stand your ground and the use of the stand your ground law as a part of the prosecution and jury deliberations in a number of cases where individuals have been killed. >> what specific legislation would you like to see? you know, i think she's having difficulty hearing us. let's call an audible here. reverend al is speaking here. let's listen in,

michael dunn remains in jail. lucia mcbath is the mother of jordan davis. see you once again. let me just have your reaction now to know that dunn, in fact, is going to be retried on that first-degree murder charge. >> we're very, very happy with that. of course, it's the principle of the matter. we've been excited about the charges that have formally been brought against him. but it's the principle of the matter because the message that we're sending the country has to be that we're not going to stand for senseless gun violence. so we're looking forward to retrying jordan's charges. >> are you ready to go through this all over again because this just ended a short time ago. and now we're a couple of months away from another trial. >> probably better prepared this time than we were the first time. we know what to expect. i think it's not going to be any easier. but just a little bit more tolerable. >> a little more tolerable. something here i'm going to put up for our viewers, a tweet, you and trayvon's mother have become close after this. two mothers foreve

in a moment you will hear from a lady whose kid was killed by michael dunn because he was playing hisloud. >> reporter: two years after the death of trayvon martin florida's controversial stand your ground law remains untouched. and in spite of demonstrations in the state capitol streets it may stay that way except for one unlikely partnership. >> what are you trying to change here? >> we are trying to make a very good law even better. >> republican florida state senator wrote stand your ground law. together the two are now pushing to clarify the rules on who can be protected by stand your ground. would these changes to the law have saved trayvon martin's life? >> now that i think about it, yes. if george zimmerman followed the law in the amendments we are putting forward he wouldn't have gotten out of the car. trayvon martin would have gotten home and enjoyed his skittles and iced tea. >> reporter: the amendment requires law enforcement to create standard rules for neighborhood watch including training to avoid confrontations and also aims to clarify who is not protected by defining

. >> michael dunn is awaiting retrial in may. what do you think about the status of what has happened with him, the shooter of your son? into well, retrying him on the one charge out of 5 was a shooting death of my son. they did find him guilty on the other four charges. they found him guilty of in a separate act going to the back of the vehicle and shooting unarmed teenagers in the car. >> do you believe that your son will have justice? >> i believe so. i believe there is an outcry in this nation where a gentleman can shoot at unarmed children and prove that these children are unarmed because if the children had a gun it would have been the gun found number one. number two is if somebody had a gun and aimed it at you and you are in the car with your fiance, you never spoke a word of a weapon. you had hours and hours of speaking about a weapon and you never said one word about a weapon. so, that tells me that you knew that there was not a gun, but you are trying to justify your actions. >> you testified before the commission toda

we again confronted the issue in the michael dunn trial in the killing of david jordan. the bias is addressed or not addressed in our justice system that remains unexamined and unchecked. as our next guest points out in her book, we know those biases are having an impact in young men of color. "for first-time child offenders, african-americans are six times as likely as whites to be sentenced to prison for identical crimes." african-american youths are more like to be arrested, more likely to be tried in adult court and more likely to be sent to an adult state prison. it's a systematic problem with our justice system, the same system these black and brown youth are supposed to be able to trust when they need help. it's not just a florida problem, it's a national problem. joining me now is the author of "suspicion nation." thanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> i love the book. you were very hard on the prosecutors in the zimmerman case. but one of the things that strikes me, you talk a lot about the biass eses in our system. john guy twice had an tonight to r

to address the jury's deadlock of the first-degree murder charge of the man who killed davis, michael dunn, the bill gained momentum in response to a third stand your ground case out of florida. that of marissa alexander, a woman with no criminal record who fired what she says was a warning shot near her allegedly abusive husband and his children in 2010. but alexander was charged by the florida state attorney angela corey with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. her lawyers mounted a stand your ground defense insisting alexander thought her life was in danger. a judge rejected that defense and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. alexander had since been granted a retrial, after a court found the judge gave the jury improper instructions. now angela corey's office is looking to put her away for 60 years. marissa alexander's case is being used to still florida's expansion of stand your ground, but stand your ground didn't provide justice to marissa alexander the first time, what makes us think a small legislative fix will make any difference the next time? joining

. >> i am not here to accuse michael dunn of hiding behind this stand your ground law.accuse that law of giving him something to stand behind. >> today's ent was called the self-defense rally. stand your ground advocates say self-defense is the point of the law and they cite the danger of retreating in a potentially life threatening situation. but as former florida state senator points out in his "sun sentinel" opinion piece, the law in florida even before the stand your ground was enacted never required someone to retreat if it meant endangering themselves or another. in other words, before stand yo ground you were allowed to stand you ground. should you be able to take another person's life when you don't need to? florida state senator and florida house democratic leader is here with us. dan, you were one of a lonely few who opposed the stand your ground law when it was passed in 2005. and i want to read you something you wrote about why you were against it. you wrote, it's not the killing of an attacking criminal that stabbed your ground i'm packs. those killings wil

also on hand on monday the parents of jordan davis, who was shot and killed by michael dunn also in 2012laimed he shot in self-defense. a jury convicted him of attempted murder. activists from all over the state are here in tallahassee marching in unison. >> i think we're finding far more numbers of individuals that are not minorities that are willing to stand up and say what is happening with the laws across the country legally is not right. >> this march and rally is the latest effort to push lawmakers into action. two similar events were held last week. the rally was organized by reverend al sharpton. since florida adopted the stand your ground law, more than 20 other states have enacted similar laws. the goal, get the law repealed in florida, then push other states to follow suit. >>> well tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in japan where more than 15,000 were killed. >> reporter: japan's northeastern coast is marked by what is missing, houses, and loved ones from thousands of lives. this man is doing what he can do to rebuild. he is puttin

♪ >>> this week, the florida state legislature is back in session for the first time since the michael dunnemocratic minority has set a perhaps impossible goal. amending the state's controversial stand your ground law. standing in their way? the florida nra and its veteran super lobbyist marion hammer, and while democrats have been trying to tweak the law, the nra has been plotting ways to expand it. case in point. the so-called warning shot bill. it was voted out of senate florida judiciary committee on tuesday clearing the hurdle for a full vote. the nra is selling it as a measure that would have prevented someone like marisa alexander from serving a lengthy prison sentence. from chris smith, quote, you're telling people i can shootç a warning shot. the legislature is telling me to shoot a warning shot. and that warning shot may not be in the air. to me, that's inviting negligence. meanwhile, nra executive vice president and ceo wayne lapierre is rallying the troops at today's conservative political action committee. he's expected to speak at any minute. four days from now, advocates inc

that teen also 17 killed by michael dunn in 2012 and dunn claimed he fired in self defense using thend your ground law as a defense. this march and rally trying to persuade lawmakers to keep this in the forefront. it sets the substantially for other states had have similar laws and they hope to move forward with it. >> julia, thank you. attorney general eric holder called the rise in heroin deaths to be an urgent crisis. he urged attention to it. patty culhane takes a look at one area actually following his advice. >> lorraine, ohio, in his mother's middle class home that lucas has been fighting his addiction, heroin, a drug that has been increasingly available in the united states. he has overdosed 12 times. he has been here to talk about a drug called narcan. >> hey what is going on here? that was the absolute only option there was. minutes later there wouldn't have been no waking up. >> that time he received the lifesaving drug because he made it to the hospital in time. but last month when he overdosed again, he didn't have to wait so long. police are carrying narcan. everyday in

. >> reporter: and the rally comes weeks after a jury in jacksonville convicted michael dunn of attempted murder, but not of actually killing jordan davis, and davis was shot dead after dunn opened fire on the car full of teenagers who he says threatened him following his complaints a about the loud music. jordan davis' mother spoke at the rally, too. >> i am here to choose the state of florida and 25 other states of creating legislation that is nothing more than permission to kill. >> reporter: trayvon martin's parents with were also at the rally after martin was shot and killed by george zimmerman. a jury acquitted zimmerman after he said that he feared for his wife. >> florida is killing our young men and women, and florida has to change this law now. >> amen! >> reporter: at the very least, protesters are urging the state legislature to a amend the law to read that if you are attacked and can safely escape without kill someone, you should. chris clackum, nbc news. >> and for the first time today, we are hearing from the father of the sandy hook school shooter adam lanza. and in a chil

michael dunn shot and killed an african american teenager in a dispute over loud music the same statef florida is facing a minimum of 60 years for attempted murder. the jury failed to convict him on the central charge in the case of the murder of jordan davis, case that many recalled the shooting of trayvon martin by george zimmerman. >> to talk about more of these issues, we spend the rest of the davis.th angela for over four decades, she is mostone of the mos influential activist. she speaking this friday at columbia, university. it is great to have you here. do you since progress? >> well, yes. i think this is a pivotal moment. there are openings. i think it is very important to point out that people have been struggling over these issues for years and for decades. this is also a problematic moment. as those of us who identify prison abolitionist as opposed to prison reformers make the point that often times reforms create situations where mass incarceration becomes even more entrenched. so therefore, we have to think about what in the long run will barsce fewer people behind and,

certainly michael dunn is facing that same 60 years because of the attempted murder charges arising outse. but, you know, governor really needs to take a very hard look at all of this. i think it's incumbent on him to make public statements about them. >> state senator chris smith and goldie taylor, i'm going to have to leave it there. but thank you both for your time. >> i'll see you next week, reverend. >> see you monday. >>> ahead, very good news tonight on obama care. it has to do with republicans and the medicaid expansion. >>> and what democratic leader handed the billionaire koch brothers today for, quote, campaign of deception? you'll want to see this, next. ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ my mom works at ge. >>> harry reid is going to war against the koch brothers. the senate majority leader is making headlines today after a blistering attack against the billionaire conserva

mother of jordan davis when she spoke with lawrence a month ago about the verdict in the trial of michael dunnilled her 17-year-old son at a gas station in jacksonville, florida, in november 2012. like the trial of george zimmerman, the dunn case sparked national debates about the laws of self-defense, stand your ground and limits on access top guns. she works as a spokesperson for moms who demand action for gun sentences in ameri s -- sense . she is now speaking out about a gun bill in georgia that will allow carrying firearms in churches, bars and airports where they were once not allowed. allowing convicted felons to evoke self-defense rules and loring the age to for a concealed weapon from age 21 to 18. the nra approves. it says this bill would be the most pro gun law in the state's recent history. joining us now is lucia mcbath. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start with what you're doing in advocacy around this bill and your views of the bill. >> well, basically in working with moms for gun sense in america and a hoest of coalition members across georgia, we h

. >> i am not here to accuse michael dunn of hiding behind the stand your ground law.t law of giving him something to stand behind. >> i come too far from where i started from. i come too far to give up now. >> yes. >> florida has a problem. >> we're going to stand with you all. we're going to continue to fight. and eight months, if stand your ground ain't changed, we got to make change in that office. >> florida is where this law began, and it's where we'll start to end it. new bills in the state legislature would call for new neighborhood watch guidelines, and make it more difficult for aggressors to use the stand your ground defense. but right now repeal is off the table. the law still stands. it's time these politicians start listening to the will of the people and to all the victims of this unjust law. as i sat on that stage today, seeing leading personalities from tom joyner and on, and leading ministers, leading lawyers, everybody, what really touched me was looking out at all of the young children that marched, thinking which of those children stand in the dang

first the zimmerman came, and then the michael dunn case and now this.ms completely tone deaf to what the community is saying which is marissa alexander probably should not be behind bars at all if the next jury finds this was a self-defense situation. even if it wasn't self-defense, even if the jury finds that she fired to scare her husband off, her allegedly abusive ex-husband off, 20 years is so far out of keeping with any sense of proportionality when no one else was hurt. and now she wants to triple that to 60 years? i mean, this is really shocking. >> no, it's shocking and i happen to be in florida today. and when you look at the fact that we're just dealing with no conviction in the murder counts on jordan davis' killing where he died. a 17-year-old kid, trayvon martin, 17-year-old kid died, no conviction. and this young lady convicted, sentenced to 20 years. the court of appeals said the judge didn't charge the jury right. now she is going to be retried facing 60 years. the contrast couldn't be more striking and shocking. >> well, that's right. a

the michael dunn trial has all been proven that it's legal in red stand your ground shoot first states for a white man to kill a black man simply because he's afraid of black people. and just a few months ago the supreme court said there's no longer any significant racial discrimination or animosity to america and its ruling on the voting rights act so with that in mind let's take a look at how things really are american say when it comes to racial equality in response to the jordan davis case the trayvon martin case the folks over at color of change dot org of launched a new campaign titled black lives matter they're calling on americans to take action to help prevent the loss of another trayvon or george they say join us to bring an end to stand your ground and other shoot first laws that undermine public safety senselessly put people at risk and enable the kind of tragedy we witnessed in the case of jordan davis one main goal of the campaign is to convince white americans that black lives are just as valuable as white lives and the most black people are not scary but they're just li

. >>> the attorney for michael dunn has filed a motion to withdraw from that case.'ll remember, this is the so-called loud music case. dunn was found guilty last month on three counts of attempted murder. but the jury was hung on the most serious of the charges, first degree murder. for shooting and killing 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn's attorney is citing, quote, slight but irreconcilable differences, end quote, and also noting dunn can't pay his attorney fees. this is the same attorney who filed a motion for a new trial. >>> in the crisis in ukraine, the ukrainian prime minister is headed west this week. all the way to the white house. that's wednesday. and then the united nations security council, that's thursday, for its part moscow is saying that it is preparing, quote, counterproposals to resolve its armed occupation of crimea, quote, on the basis of international law. ukrainians expressed their views yesterday in these dueling demonstrations. loud and very, very populated. this was in a city near the russian border. the ukraine military, meanwhile, though c

because cynthia were a trayvon martin campbell and michael dunn situation happen, people are like wait minute, are we going to allow this to happen again? the jurors understood it the chechen new state. the prosecutor understood we could not let this happen again. so it made people hyperaware. conversations were being had. people were prepared to rally. in other words it doesn't have to take a celebrity or politician. they can come from the ground and we can see with this type or awareness actually yields. it pays dividends. >> in a militaristic community. but not as moneymakers, but in terms of doing -- taking care of the needs of the community. and in the political constituents get hooked also. that is not having so much terms of the needs of black america during the obama. >> well, you know, debeers senate, right, was an important moment as was the eric holder moment because that was when you got to see what it would look like if the black president, right, the person who has been given so much love because he seems to be able to talk about race in a way that defuses situation for a

attorneys for michael dunne now set to ask a judge to delay sentencing.unne as you know was convicted last month of attempted murder for shooting at three teens after an argument over loud music. another teen died in the incident but the jury was unable to decide on that murder charge. >>> new study finds woman women who gave birth to two or more babies cut risk of cancer by 24%. researchers in finland looked at date for 5,000 women. jenna: 10 is the magic number, you may try it be my guest. jenna: terrifying incident caught on tape in anaheim, california. investigators are trying to figure out what caused this wooden platform to give way during a show injuring dozens and dozens of students. will carr live in los angeles. what happened here? >> this all happened saturday night. there were 200, 250 girls on stage. they were dancing, they were jumping around and that's when the stage collapsed. the collapse sent dozens to the hospital. most had minor injuries. the students go to rosary high school. it is an all-girls catholic school. they were are performin

just last month mcbath watched a jury deadlock in michael dunn's murder trial, claiming self-defenseh. jordan is trayvon. >> people who use the stand your ground statutes are able to use it with no accountability. it gives them immunity for their criminal behavior. >> but florida appears ready to expand its stand your ground law, not repeal it. lawmakers are considering two bills that would allow anyone in fear of his life to fire a warning shot. >> i think it's a clarification. >> reporter: state representative neil combe, one of the bill's sponsors. in 2012, she fired a warning shot during a domestic dispute. a court rejected her stand your ground claim and sentenced her to 20 years under florida's gun law. >> it was never the intent to prosecute folks who fired a warning shot or displayed a weapon in a defensive manner to 10 or 20 years in state prison. >> fire the warning shot, but how is your life in imminent danger? >> i guess it's all about placement, whether you place it in the ground, in the air or between somebody's eyes. >> florida lawmakers are now considering whether to

the 17-year-old was shot and killed my michael dunn.fired in the teen at self defense. a jury convicted him only of attempted murder. incidentally, another participant in today's rally, family members of emmet till. you may recall that that 14-year-old was killed back i have not 1955, accused of whistling at a white woman, so a large gap in years here, but his death helped spark the civil rights movement, so an interesting mix of people who will be here at the rally. >> where exactly do lawmakers in florida stand right now on stand your ground? >> well, it seems to be split, because today's calls for the repeal to the law are not the first. adam williams sponsored a bill to repeal the state allow, defeated in committee. florida governor rick scott supports the law. twenty other states have enacted similar laws since florida did, to sides rally to bring more attention and bring it in the forefront. >> we see the buses arriving, julia, thank you very much. >> more violence erupting in caracas, venezuela this weekend. >> anti-government pr

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