It IS About Race: Study Finds Significant Racial Bias In 'Stand Your Ground' Laws -

It IS About Race: Study Finds Significant Racial Bias In 'Stand Your Ground' Laws -

A Frontline piece titled Is There Racial Bias in “Stand Your Ground” Laws? discussed a study done last year by PBS Frontline on those very questions, focused particularly on how murder convictions and the racial make-up of victims have been impacted by the SYG. What they found was, to put it bluntly, that “Stand Your Ground” makes it easier for blacks to be murdered without anyone being convicted of the crime.