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In February, John Walter Lay went to go enjoy the outdoors at a dog park in Florida. Everything should have been simple: he should have enjoyed a nice walk, had a good day, and gone home peacefully.
At the park, another man approached him and began hurling cruel, homophobic slurs at him. Then, he revealed a gun and threatened John Walter with it. Ultimately, the man shot John Walter and killed him. For nothing more than being out and about on a February day.
It turns out the shooter, Gerald Declan Radford, had targeted John Walter before. Just the morning prior, he apparently charged up to John Walter and screamed in his face: "You're going to die, you're going to die."
Since then, the gunman has tried to claim "self-defense" — and in Florida, that could be enough to let him get away with literal murder. The state's "stand your ground" law provides lots of protection for killers, as long as they claim they killed to protect themselves.
This "stand your ground" law has been used by many perpetrators of murders and hate crimes to evade justice, including in racially-motivated cases involving the murder of BIPOC people.
In this case, state prosecutors are charging the shooter, Gerald Declan Radford, with murder and classifying it as a hate crime. But reversing Florida's chilling "stand your ground" law is also important.
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