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In this excerpt from “Vanguard,” correspondent Christof Putzel talks to Debra Peoples about her son, Chyvas, who according to court testimony was beaten at a nightclub and defended himself with a knife, stabbing an attacker, who died. Though this kind of case seems exactly what Florida’s “stand your ground” law would seem to cover, it was never introduced as a defense, and Chyvas Peoples was convicted of manslaughter. “I can’t understand that,” Debra says. “There’s a disparity in the application and the interpretation of the ‘stand your ground’ law of who benefits and who don’t, and from what I’ve seen, black people generally don’t benefit.”
