Posted on 07/15/2013 12:38:15 PM PDT by BO Stinkss
Nine months after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a White man has killed another Florida teen under troubling circumstances.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that on Friday night, 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis and a group of friends were sitting in an SUV in the parking lot of a Jacksonville convenience store when they were approached by another vehicle. Michael David Dunn, who was accompanied by his girlfriend, asked the teens to turn down their music.
According to Lt. Rob Schoonover of the Jacksonville Sherrif's Office, Davis and Dunn exchanged words. Allegedly, the 45-year-old then drew a gun and fired into the SUV eight or nine times, striking the young boy twice. He then drove off, but a witness inside the store wrote down his license plate number.
The following morning, the couple learned that one of the passengers of the car had died via a news report. They then returned home to Brevard County, where Dunn was arrested later that day and charged with murder and attempted murder.
Jordan Russell Davis was a student at Samuel W. Wolfson High School, a magnet school. He worked at the local Wynn Dixie grocery store. Frankly, I would not care if he was a member of Three Six Mafia who had stopped at the convenience store to re-up on blunts and 40 ounces. If a group of people is sitting in a car listening to loud music, it is not the job of a private citizen to demand that they turn it down. Furthermore, there is nothing justifiable or excusable about Dunn drawing a gun on a group of people whom he had accosted.
Michael David Dunn, likely high off the excitement of his son’s wedding, perhaps a few too many gin and tonics at the reception and certainly the feeling one gets from being White, male and armed, felt it was his place to approach these young people aggressively over the volume of their music.
And this gun wielding person, who allegedly APPROACHED THE CAR without provocation (much like George Zimmerman hunted down Trayvon Martin without provocation), felt threatened by the presence of teenagers in a car with whom he started an argument because HE THOUGHT THEIR MUSIC WAS TOO LOUD.
White privilege is just so, so real.
Dunn’s daughter has come forward to defend her father as “a good person.” While we all make mistakes, I’m inclined to say that picking an argument with a car full of teenagers and then shooting into the vehicle is the first step a “good person” makes off of the path of righteousness. I’m inclined to assume that the gun collector wasn’t a big fan of young Black men and had probably done other non-“good person” things before.
The shooter’s lawyer, Robin Lemonidis, originally stated that her client was not guilty and had acted responsibly, adding that the full story had not yet been made public. A report late Tuesday night included claims that Dunn had “seen a gun.” While he certainly is entitled to his day in court…why was the gun claim not made until two days after he was arrested? Why didn’t he turn himself in if he felt he’d done nothing wrong? Where was the “good person” his daughter swears he is then?
Dunn harassed a car full of young people, shot into the car and drove away. Upon learning that someone had died, he fled town and waited for the police to come find him. The only bit of hope here is that there was a car full of witnesses, in addition to the people in and around the store who saw the incident.
Alas, in a country that is dealing with increased racial tensions and the insane paranoia of White men who seem to feel that their country has been stolen by a burgeoning ‘minority’ population and a Black president who won the popular vote, it seems inevitable that we will hear more stories like this. And as a community that has been ravaged by not only external abuse, but our own inability to get any sort of handle on our issues with Black-on-Black violence, one cant help but to feel like we are stuck in a sense of perpetual outrage, grief and trauma.
And so Jordan joins Trayvon as one of many, many Black boys and girls to be felled by senseless violence. Death by White hands, death by Black ones…one thing seems to remain constant: our lives simply do not matter enough to be protected. We march, we pray, we cry and still, we die for no reason.
When does it end?
Leave it to a leftist race baiter to conflate things to make them appear to be something other than reality.
It’s pointless to ask the kids to turn down their music. You tolerate it as long as you are at the store, or the stop light, and enjoy the quiet when it’s gone. It doesn’t matter what color the kids are, you simply ignore it as best you can.
It is never worth firing shots over. If in fact the kids all remained in the car, the perp will get serious prison time and he should.
Why do only the incidents of white on black and never black on black, even black on white make the news?
This it man bites dog?
Dunn was immediately arrested and charged. He will be convicted.
There is no national movement to support him the way there was for George Zimmerman.
This is because Dunn is a criminal and Zimmerman is not a criminal.
Was the alleged shooter a “white” Hispanic male?
-BO Stinks-
What does one post have to do with the other?
The real story MAY be very different that the one told by the clearly biased article.
This is an old story.
(and it is NOTHING like the GZ-TM shooting)
You can see my confusion. The dateline is today and the story says it happenened on Friday.
Posted: April 9, 2013 - 11:14am | Updated: April 10, 2013 - 1:12pm
In recalling the event, he said he had been polite in asking the group to turn their music down, and that the boys complied, to which he thanked them. But he said the youth in the rear passenger seat, presumed to be Davis, was “getting really agitated” and became “livid.”Unsure whether he was hearing the music, now turned back up, or if it was the teen, he heard threats against his life and then saw the boy open the door to get out of the SUV, he said.
That’s when he said he reached into his glove box and took his Taurus 9mm out of its holster.
“Quicker than a flash, I had a round chambered in it and I shot.”
He said he shot four times through his window, and then stepped out and fired the final four shots as the SUV began to pull away, making sure the boys kept their heads down.
The detectives said the boys agreed that Davis had cursed at him and reacted in defiance but he had never threatened his life.
Police said none of the witnesses reported seeing anyone get out of the SUV, other than the driver when he got out to get gas.
The writer who seems very biased by face and politics does not tell us the entire story and does not tell us Dunn’s side of the story.
How many menacing teens were in that SUV?
How many weapons did they display?
What are the sound and noise ordinances in Jacksonville?
What made Dunn so fearful of his life that he had to escape the danger?
Yep.
this case is not same.
this is just the racists trying to make people guilty of being white.
ping
Trial begins for man, 76, accused of killing teen neighbor
That said, following it up with gunshots is... not appropriate.
Trayvon was the one who first responded to a non-violent action with violence. So if we want to compare these cases, then Trayvon would be the one doing the shooting.
We had a local case where a nutjob white guy killed an elderly black neighbor and cut her head off. He said she was emanating rays at him.
The killer’s family was joined by the victim’s family in calling for laws that make it easier for families to force treatment of mentally ill relatives.
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