Melissa S. RazdrihAugust 25, 2019
4min355
"We are hopeful that this conviction will be a brick in the road to changing the culture of racism"
Tag: Markeis McGlockton
Melissa S. RazdrihAugust 25, 2019
Peter SchorschAugust 4, 2019
7min465
It's difficult and sad to admit, but I am afraid.
Jacob OglesAugust 19, 2018
5min256
The National Rifle Association announced it will boost the grades of lawmakers who voted against holding a special session to review Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. That’s especially important to lawmakers who supported a school safety bill passed after the Parkland shooting and took a hit to their legislative scorecards. “The anti-Second Amendment, Democrat politicians […]
Drew WilsonAugust 13, 2018
9min494
Nearly a month after he fatally shot Markeis McGlockton, Michael Drejka was arrested and booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Monday afternoon on charges of manslaughter. Drejka, 47, last month started an argument with the 28-year-old McGlockton’s girlfriend, Britany Jacobs, over her use of a handicapped spot in a convenience store parking lot. Upon exiting the […]
Danny McAuliffeAugust 10, 2018
7min278
A Democratic push to reconvene state legislators for a special session on the state’s controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ law is dead. Although doomed Thursday night, when it became clear that the three-fifths support threshold could not be met, lawmakers had until noon Friday to go on record with their support or opposition to the special […]
Staff ReportsAugust 8, 20183min256
Florida lawmakers have until noon Friday to respond to a proposal by Democrats to call a special session to revisit the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law. As of Wednesday evening, responses have largely fallen along party lines. House Republicans, expected to reject the idea of holding a session, made up 43 of the 44 […]
Staff ReportsAugust 8, 201810min208
Michael McGlockton is convinced that two things killed his son in a Florida parking lot last month: The man who pulled the trigger and the state’s polarizing “stand your ground” self-defense law. Markeis McGlockton, 28, died a few yards from his children and girlfriend at a store in Clearwater after a confrontation over a parking […]
Scott PowersAugust 8, 2018
4min537
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King‘s offering the emotional speech he gave in a Clearwater Baptist Church Sunday morning to be a new digital internet ad for his campaign, presenting his call to change Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law and to change hearts. The 1-minute, 13-second video “Change Hearts” presents the conclusion of the talk King […]
Danny McAuliffeAugust 8, 2018
8min550
What began as an intimate protest at a church in Tallahassee over the state’s controversial ‘Stand Your Ground’ law turned into a small march to the capitol and a subsequent meeting between a senior member of Gov. Rick Scott’s staff and some of the state’s high profile critics of race relations and gun violence, including […]
A.G. GancarskiAugust 7, 2018
6min741
Republican Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam continued Tuesday to stress differences with the other gubernatorial candidates over the justification behind the Markeis McGlockton killing, a potential preview of talking points from his debate with U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis in Jacksonville Wednesday evening. McGlockton was fatally shot on July 19 by Michael Drejka in Pinellas County in a dispute over a parking […]