Jacksonville Shooter of Jordan Davis

You cannot possibly be generalizing about young black teens and men with guns, can you? Because we have already established that that is racist and bigoted.

As it concerns Angela Corey, I am only speaking of her record before the cameras.

 

One the other hand, looking at crime statistics (and reality) one could conclude it is open season against white people be they male, female, old, young, or whatever. I don't believe there is a white neighborhood in the entire U.S. where a black person would have to be afraid to walk the street (with the possible exception of danger from the police in the rich white liberal enclaves in CA) but it would be dangerous for a white person to walk in most urban hoods.

 

Yea thats what Trayvon thought the night he was walking home.

 

Trayvon initiated the violence, so I wouldn't say he was attacked. I will say that I believe he was profiled, but a white person walking in a black urban hood will be more than profiled.

 

Hmmmm, if I jump out of my vehicle in pursuit of you with a loaded weapon please explain how I initiated the violence.

Really, thats funny seeing how whites come and go into black neighborhoods everyday.

 

Following someone on foot while making a police report is not initiating violence. Sucker punching someone and then mounting them MMA style is initiating violence.

 

Unless you are police, you have no right to follow anyone. They are going to get suspicious, threatened, and provoked.

 

What police report was he making? Didn't the dispatcher tell him they didn't need him to do that.

Who gets suckerpunched when facing someone in a hostile situation.

 

Most don't. Anger and insecurities cause people to make blanket statements like his.

And I think most hang out here at PF.

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What kind of generalizations?

This kind ?

 

If true, I am very sorry to hear that.

I wish you the best.

 

Let's just say Zimmy was a little lacking in the situational awareness department. When Travon said, "you got a f***ing problem homie" that should have been a clue for Zimmy to try to throw the first punch.

 

Not buying it, if that was the case he would have never jumped out of his vehicle in pursuit of this teenager. Zimmerman knew exactly what he was doing.

 

Can you believe there were actually 3 jurors on this jury who felt Dunn acted in Self-Defense.

 

It is hard to believe. Clear case of murder IMHO.

 

They should feel right at home with all the white racist that post here.

 

Leonard Pitts Jr.: In the case of Jordan Davis and Michael Dunn, white fear trumps black life

You can get killed just for living in your American skin.” — Bruce Springsteen

On Aug. 7, 1930, two young black men were lynched in Marion, Ind.

A photographer named Lawrence Beitler had a studio across the street from the lynching tree. He came out and snapped what became an iconic photo, which he made into a postcard and sold. It shows Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith hanging dead and their executioners, faces clearly visible, milling about as if at a picnic. Though authorities possessed this damning photographic evidence, they never arrested anyone for the crime. It was officially attributed to “persons unknown.”

This was not a unique thing. To the contrary, it happened thousands of times. And African Americans carry this knowledge deep, the understanding that the justice system has betrayed us often, smashed our hopes often, denied the value of our lives, often.

This knowledge lent a certain tension and poignancy to the wait for a verdict in the Jordan Davis trial last week. Davis was the black kid shot dead by a white man, Michael Dunn, at a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla., in November 2012 after an argument over loud music. Dunn’s story was fishy from the beginning.

He claimed Davis pointed a weapon at him. No weapon was ever found. Nor was Dunn ever able to satisfactorily explain why he fired off a second round of shots as the SUV in which Davis was riding tried to retreat. Or why he left the scene and failed to call police. Or why his fiancée, who was inside the convenience store when the shooting started, says he never mentioned Davis’ phantom “gun” to her.

A guilty verdict would seem to have been a foregone conclusion. It wasn’t.

Indeed, the verdict was mystifying. Dunn was found guilty on three counts of attempted murder — meaning the three other young men in the SUV with Davis — but the jury deadlocked on the murder charge. It makes no sense: If Dunn is guilty of the three charges, how can he not be guilty of the fourth?

The jury’s inability to hold him accountable for Davis’ death only validates African Americans’ grimmest misgivings about the “just us” system. Brittney Cooper, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, put it as follows on Twitter: “This is not just about jail time. This is about whether white fear legally means more than black life.”
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/artic...ic-trial-black-in-america-racism-Jordan-Davis