Posted on 06/29/2017 10:27:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
The weekend fatal shooting of a teen at an apartment complex near downtown Athens was the culmination of a feud between two transgender groups, Athens-Clarke County police confirmed Wednesday.
Rayquann Deonte Jernigan, 17, who was known to friends by the chosen name of Ava Le’Ray Barrin, was killed Sunday morning by a single gunshot fired by 21-year-old Jalen Breon Brown in the parking lot of Riverview Apartments on College Avenue, police said.
Neither lived in the complex and both were there to visit friends who did live there when the deadly confrontation occurred, said Capt. Jerry Saulters, commanding officer of the Athens-Clarke County police Criminal Investigations Division.
The initial argument that started the feud was not even between Brown and Jernigan, who had not yet legally changed his name, Saulters said.
“It started out as an argument between friends of the suspect and victim,” Saulters said.
Jernigan and two friends were in the parking lot of Riverview Apartments at about 11:45 a.m. when they crossed paths with Brown, the police captain said.
Brown was on the second floor of one of the apartment buildings and the victim was in the parking lot when they reportedly began to argue. Saulters said Brown fired a “warning” shot in the direction of the victim, before he went down to the parking lot where he and Jernigan began fighting.
During the altercation, Brown shot the victim in the side of the chest, police said.
Jernigan was not breathing when police arrived, and was pronounced dead after being taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Brown, who was located by police at the complex, claimed he shot Jernigan in self-defense, a motive that police discounted.
“It did not hold up because he fired towards the victim prior to the fight, and a fight does not constitute deadly force,” Saulters said.
Brown was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault. He was being held without bail at the Clarke County Jail.
Several transgender organizations issued statements concerning the fatal shooting, including Black Transwomen Inc.
“What saddens and infuriates us as an organization that seeks to represent and empower black trans women is that Ava was just 17 years old and hadn’t even had a chance to follow her dreams yet,” the statement said. “Ava has become not only the 14th trans woman murdered in the U.S. in 2017, she unfortunately is now the youngest one killed this year. She is also the 12th African American trans person killed this year.”
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Throw bat$#! crazy male in a dress into the violent dystopia that is modern urban youth culture, and then the “advocate” usual suspects act all surprised and hurt at the outcome. They can’t possibly believe what they’re spewing, it’s just marketing spin.
D’Zeus L’Acropolis Galifanakis.
When you’re a Jet,
If the spit hits the fan,
You got brothers around,
You’re a family man!
You’re never alone,
You’re never disconnected!
You’re home with your own:
When company’s expected,
You’re well protected!
Then you are set
With a capital J,
Which you’ll never forget
Till they cart you away.
When you’re a Jet,
You stay a Jet!
feh...
Whatizit?
This phenomenon was observed by anthropologist Elliot Liebow in his ground-breaking book, Tally's Corner. What's sad is that the ghetto behaviors of the African-American underclass have remained so much the same after the Great Society program has poured $20 TRILLION primarily into the A-A community.
Liebow was a first-generation American of Russian Jewish extraction with a swarthy complexion and dark curly hair. He spent 18 months hanging out in a black DC neighborhood to research his doctoral thesis, on which he later based Tally's Corner. It was, and is, a very compelling book. Here's a 2011 article about it:
44 years later, Tally's Corner is revealed
Heh.
Thanks, I do remember that book. His observations were very good.
The problem with the ghettoes is that they were a moral chaos. After all, some of the residents came out of families from slave states with areas that did not allow African slaves to receive religious instruction or even be baptized, and in fact there were some counties in Georgia that, at least in theory, would punish missionaries by death (although this was never carried out, to my knowledge).
Once the “Great Society” came along and made the government everybody’s daddy, it was all over for what was a very fragile social structure in black communities.
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