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Black college students say there’s a key component missing from Governor Rick Scott’s task force to review stand your ground, them. As Whitney Ray tells us, a student civil rights group is demanding a spot on the 17 member review team.

With their mouths taped shut, these students from FAMU and FSU marched silently through the halls of the state capitol. Their message to the governor, “give us a spot on the newly formed stand your ground task force.”

“Young people are often the ones victimized the most by these practices, by stand your ground law,” said FSU Senior Michael Sampson.

The task force was formed following the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman’s claims he pulled the trigger in self defense.

There are 17 people on the review team, including four people who voted for the self defense law. There are attorneys, prosecutors and sheriffs but there are no students.

The Dream Defenders, a student civil rights group is leading the call for student representation. The group would also like to see racial profiling addressed.

“Governor Rick Scott has failed to make this task force about systematic racism and public safety and we feel like as the Dream Defenders there’s more things that we can get covered in this task force,” said FAMU Student Lucky Thomas.

Scott says his group is racially and professionally diverse. He picked Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll to lead the investigation and named the pastor of a black church vice chair.

“We tapped a diverse and qualified group to carefully review our laws and our policies,” said Scott in a Thursday News Conference Announcing he members.

The task force will hold its first meeting in May and public testimony will be allowed throughout the process. But with no young black men on the force, these students will be leery of its conclusions.