Posted on 03/16/2022 1:14:03 PM PDT by algore
Prosecutors have decided they will not press charges against the white man who shot and killed his black co-worker during a camping trip.
Vernango County (Pennsylvania) District Attorney Shawn White made the announcement Tuesday
'This is my call,' he added. 'I believe it's the right one.'
Spencer, of Pittsburgh, was shot nine times, two bullet wounds to his buttocks and one through the neck. He was the only black man invited on a hunting trip in rural Rockland Township with four other people December 12.
Spencer, who immigrated to America in 2013, worked in construction and contracting, and was asked to go on the trip by a former colleague. White said the unidentified 25-year-old co-worker who invited Spencer to the fcabin shot and killed him in self-defense after Spencer began acting erratically.
White said that night Spencer, who had been drinking, smoking marijuana, and taking psychedelic mushrooms, began shooting his AK-47 into the sky.
According to witnesses, Spencer grew more angry and erratic, telling his frightened co-workers that 'he was a god', and demanding their car keys and phones, White said.
White said Spencer's white co-worker only shot him with his handgun after the 29-year-old pointed his rifle at him.
The DA said the co-worker shot Spencer because he believed he was going to kill him and three other guest who were hiding out of fear shooter.
'He did not have to wait for a verbal threat.'
The case has been controversial, even dubbed a 'modern day lynching,' but Cpl. Aaron Allen of Heritage Affairs, the state police unit that investigates hate crimes, said on Tuesday there is no evidence of a hate crime and that he will not be bringing charges either
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Amazing.
RIP Saint Spencer
good riddance
“Hey Bob. We’re inviting you on our hunting trip.
“What’s that? No, you won’t need to bring a rifle, but some styrdy running shoes might be a good idea.”
Well, the media wants us to believe it’s a hate crime, so I will.
What does the fact that he was a black man have to do with it?
I’d be interested to know if a toxicology report backed up some of those facts.
Why’d they invite the nut-job on the hunting trip in the first place?
Great headline writing, guys! If read literally, one might infer that the actual shooting didn't kill the guy outright, so they finished him off afterwards.
JoSixChip hits the nail on the head, and deserves credit for thinking like a SANE person. What does the pigment tone color in the epidermis have to do with a crime?
He was supplying their drugs?
I suppose the big question is, how much alcohol, THC, and whatever toxin mushrooms produce were in the Spencer’s system?
Most lynching perpetrators are anonymous, so it is hard to prosecute. That is not true in this case. In America today, if a white man kills a black man, the white guy better have a good lawyer because the whole force of the government is going to come down on you. No matter what.
Which major city should we offer up to BLM?
white,black,white,black,white,black.
When’s the last time a group of black guys invited a lone white guy? Doesn’t happen very often. Groups of black guys usually become “bros”. And that’s usually not good for the white guy.
White coworkers inviting me - a proud black man - on a hunting trip. Seems legit.
My first thought exactly. You could reverse the races and with the same facts, no charges would be filed.
He may have not been a nut job until he got that cocktail of drugs and alcohol in him. Sad case but not the post upon which the turtle of racism ought be stranded. Pushing it as a hate crime is the hate crime, algore.
I agree, or the case has to be so open-and-shut that even the usual parties won’t take the bait. This guy must have been flying beyond anything we can imagine.
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