Manslaughter Trial Begins For Florida Man Who Shot Another Over Parking Spot

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Posted August 19, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

It started out as being a reported case of someone using the “Stand Your Ground” law in Florida. Another case of a black man being shot by someone who claimed they were in fear of their life.

The usual suspects took their appointed sides in the debate. Opponents of Stand Your Ground were beginning to attack the law yet again. Those who remembered the misrepresentation of what happened to George Zimmerman were striking back, arguing that if there’s a threat, law-abiding citizens have a right to end it.

Yet when we took a look at the video, we saw something else. What we saw wasn’t a case of a man fighting back to save his life.

Now, that man’s trial is set to begin.

The Florida man who fatally shot an unarmed black man last summer outside a grocery store, sparking a nationwide debate on the state’s “stand your ground” law, is set to stand trial on Monday for manslaughter.

The case dates to last July when Michael Drejka, then 47, got into an argument with Britany Jacobs, then 24, who was parked in a handicapped-accessible spot outside a grocery store, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office …Read the Rest

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