Bethune-Cookman Coach raises concern about law

NORFOLK, Virginia   — The few hundred people who had gathered in the huge meeting room at the Waterside Marriott here were hushed. They came Friday afternoon to the media day luncheon to hear MEAC football coaches talk about the upcoming season.

But Brian Jenkins, head coach of defending league champion Bethune-Cookman University, stunned the audience when he challenged his peers to be proactive against stand your ground laws in their home states. Jenkins said he had to make the appeal in the wake of the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford.

It could have been his 13-year-old son.

“I asked myself what would I do if he were a victim,” he said. “I couldn’t deal with that so I decided that I wouldn’t wait to see if he becomes a victim of such a silly act.”

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