Harris Co-Chair: Her Saying She'd Shoot Intruder and Stand Your Ground Is Often Cover for Racism Are Consistent

On Friday's broadcast of CNN's "OutFront," Harris-Walz Co-Chair Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) maintained that there is no contradiction between 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris' remark that she'd shoot an intruder -- which campaign Adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms said was a joke -- and her previous criticism of stand your ground laws and Harris "absolutely respects the fact that people have the right to defend their homes," and her criticism of stand your ground laws as a frequent cover for racism was her discussing "what has been happening in our country to black men and men of color and women of color all across the different states."