Despite calls from all across the globe for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law to be repealed, Florida Sheriffs Association voted unanimously last week to support the law exactly as written.
According to the Jacksonville Daily Record, the vote was made Tuesday with 57 Florida sheriffs in attendance at their summer conference. J.D. Patterson, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, is the only member of the group from Miami-Dade.
Their voice is crucial to the future of the law as Republican Speaker of the State House has indicated before that he’d be more likely to looking at making changes to the law if law enforcement spoke out against it.
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