Welcome to

More than a thousand people marched on the state Capitol today demanding a repeal of Stand Your Ground legislation. When they left, they left with a threat.

Led by the Reverend Al Sharpton, police estimate 1200 people came from as far as Miami with a common goal.

“We’re trying to amend the Stand Your Ground law,” said Virginia Lawrence of College Park, GA. “Can you imagine all the injustice?”

On stage, Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-Jacksonville) called the state and Stand Your Ground “stuck on stupid.”

Trayvon Martin’s mother said she would not let her son die in vain. “Right is right and wrong is wrong,” said Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton. “Stand Your Ground is absolutely, positively wrong. And it has to be changed.”

And the mother of the Jacksonville teen killed over loud music said change must come. “It was a shady law known as Stand Your Ground that robbed his father and I of any hope for justice,” said mother of Jordan Davis, Lucia McBath.

The Reverend Al Sharpton told the crowd that Florida is “standin’ on shaky ground.” He said he’s here because this is where Stand Your Ground began. “It started in Florida. And we’ve come to start the ending of it in Florida.”

The biggest surprise came at the end: A call for boycotting two of Florida’s largest companies, Disney and Tropicana. That’s because the two support the group that pushed Stand Your Ground.

“And the small world is gon’ start crumblin’ down,” said Rev. Jamal Bryant. “And Tropicana, you gon’ feel the squeeze.”

As this was wrapping up, organizers say this was more than a march, this was a launch.

Organizers say they’ve given the companies until April 4th to help support the repeal or face the consequence. They chose that date in particular because it’s the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.