KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson says Missouri’s stand-your-ground law is making it difficult to determine who is the criminal when multiple people are armed.
In an interview with KMBZ Radio News, Johnson said this past year has been a “struggle” to identify aggressors in certain cases, blaming the broad nature of Missouri’s self-defense laws. Johnson’s office recoded parts of the conversation and sent it to KCTV5 when we asked for an interview about the issue.
“Can we just, you know, kind of make our stand, your ground, and self-defense laws a bit more specific and do robust educational campaigns on when you can and cannot shoot somebody?” Johnson said in an interview with KMBZ Radio News last week…