U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., in a much-anticipated speech before the NAACP annual convention in Orlando, took a strong stance Tuesday against what he called “senseless” state stand-your-ground laws, while continuing his neutral position regarding the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
“It’s time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods,” Holder told a crowd of nearly 2,000 people. “These laws try to fix something that was never broken.”
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