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In Miami-Dade, several dozen students from the Miami Lakes Educational Center marched after school Monday in support of Trayvon Martin, before a planned meetup with students from a dozen or so other schools. The group headed north before turning west onto NW 183rd St. (SR 860) just before 3:30 p.m. with the aid of a slew of police vehicles who shut down a major intersection. They gathered for a prayer at the end, and students thanked police for their help.
Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law allows an individual to use deadly force before having to retreat if they believe they are being threatened. Those advocating for George Zimmerman's arrest for shooting Trayvon Martin say he has no right to claim self-defense because he admitted to following the teen during a 911 call. Criminal defense attorney Jonathan Meltz argued the statute can be used as a defense. He compared the stand your ground statute to "self-defense on steroids." Meltz was part of the first case involving the statute when 9-year-old Sherdavia Jenkins was murdered by his client?s stray bullet in 2006.
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