Neil Shah: Stand your ground laws benefit low income communities

According to Shah, if Minnesota were to pass stand your ground legislation, the people who live in the most dangerous neighborhoods of the state would benefit, since they could defend their families without having to raise millions of dollars to beat a legal system that’s stacked against them.

“In particular, some of our citizens that are living in the most vulnerable communities, lower to middle socioeconomic status, certainly don’t have those means [to hire high-end attorneys] and the state has unlimited prosecutorial resources,” Shah observed. “How equitable is that?”