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Soledad O’Brien on Exposing the ‘Chaos’ of Stand-Your-Ground Laws With Sundance Doc ‘The Perfect Neighbor’: ‘These Make It Easier to Kill People. Period’


Soledad O'Brien talks about exposing the 'chaos' of stand-your-ground laws in the Sundance doc "The Perfect Neighbor."

Gandbhir uses police bodycam footage to tell the story of how over a period of time, a neighborhood dispute involving children playing in a nearby yard slowly escalates to Owens’ murder. Gandbhir and broadcast journalist and executive producer Soledad O’Brien sat down over Zoom to discuss how the documentary came together and the implications of Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws and gun regulations. In the process of being on the ground, Benjamin Crump’s team came on board, and the lawyer, Anthony Thomas, who was working with the family, discovered all this footage.

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