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Indiana lawmaker wants to expand 'stand your ground' law
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) -- Indiana lawmakers on Monday tackled a bill that would expand the parameters of justifiable use of force in the defense of yourself and others. State Rep. Jim Lucas, a Republican from Seymour, said his bill expands on Indiana's current 'stand your ground' law and would grant immunity, meaning you would not be liable in a civil case.
Two years ago, in February 2017, News 8 reported a woman shot and killed a man while he was fighting with a conservation officer in Ohio County, near Rising Sun, Indiana. "I couldn't just stand there and watch a police officer murdered in front of my eyes, when I had the ability to help that day, and so I helped," Kystie Phillps said Monday at the Statehouse.
State Rep. Jim Lucas said that's why that same woman shared her story Monday with lawmakers.
"The aftermath of those events have torn my family limb from limb," Phillps said. "Those scars are never going to completely go away."
Now she says she's being sued by the family of the man who died
https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana...ts-to-expand-stand-your-ground-law/1733613118
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) -- Indiana lawmakers on Monday tackled a bill that would expand the parameters of justifiable use of force in the defense of yourself and others. State Rep. Jim Lucas, a Republican from Seymour, said his bill expands on Indiana's current 'stand your ground' law and would grant immunity, meaning you would not be liable in a civil case.
Two years ago, in February 2017, News 8 reported a woman shot and killed a man while he was fighting with a conservation officer in Ohio County, near Rising Sun, Indiana. "I couldn't just stand there and watch a police officer murdered in front of my eyes, when I had the ability to help that day, and so I helped," Kystie Phillps said Monday at the Statehouse.
State Rep. Jim Lucas said that's why that same woman shared her story Monday with lawmakers.
"The aftermath of those events have torn my family limb from limb," Phillps said. "Those scars are never going to completely go away."
Now she says she's being sued by the family of the man who died
https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana...ts-to-expand-stand-your-ground-law/1733613118
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