You know, there was a case like this on Long Island, where the shooter was black and the victim was white.
Some teenagers got into some kind of “facebook fight” and somehow some of the white kids ended up at the black kid’s house. The father of the black kid confronted them outside the house, but on his property. Ultimately he shot and killed one of the kids.
I’m sorry I don’t remember the details well, and I can’t think of any of the names. It did get a lot of press in NYC and LI and it might even have been written up at length in the New Yorker or New York Magazine.
I think the shooter got off with what many saw as a slap on the wrist, but I think he did do some jail time.
I do have it good authority (from someone whose father knew the shooter) that the father was an OK guy.
I’m being a bad reporter here, I know. But I just remembered this story, it’s kind of interesting nobody around NY has recollected it and compared it to the Trayvon Martin incident.
I reread this case from August 2006, and this time, I figured out that the target of this case was not John White, but gun rights, self defense rights, and racial harmony, all things hated by the progressive Marxist elite ruling class public "servants" America and especially New York.
White was convicted of second degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. The weapons charge is a typical police state tactic and what 2A was intended to preempt.
White teenagers accused John White's son of threatening to rape a female acquaintance on Facebook, so five white young men went to White's home in the middle of the night to take White's son with them. (You will note here that the MSM makes it difficult to ascertain that the group was five, they make it sound like three, and they fail to point out that the white teens did not make a report, ask for an investigation, inform the police, call 911, or inform any authorities about their accusations or the intent to follow White's son and confront him at his (White's) home.
The young men deny making racial taunts, threats and threats of violence or intimidation, but UNFORTUNATELY there were no unbiased witinesses, especially unnotified authorities, on the scene.
The prosecutor alleged that White should have called 911 even though he had less than three minutes from hearing the commotion outside to when Daniel Cicciaro was fatally wounded. The prosecutor was less concerned that five men had many hours, even days, to inform 911 of the allegations against White's son or their intent to go to his home and take him with them. The rape threat was later proved to have been made by a person that hacked White's son's Facebook account.
White was convicted by a jury divided until the judge said she would sequester them over the hollidays or until a verdict was reached.
The leftist and statist ruling class could win power on a conviction in this case, as it would:
1) Because of the obvious racism, enrage blacks and drive them further to the DemoRat plantation for "justice".
2)Encourage the further erosion of self defense and castle doctrine law that "almost" got White off.
3)Further demonize the possession of guns by civilians.
4)Promote mob assembly to confront those individuals "meriting" disapproval, at their homes (think union demonstrations at private residences).
I conclude White was sacrificed by the Marxist statist "just us" system for the specific purpose of increasing the power of New York State.
I wonder if the Whites and the whites continue to vote DemoRat? I'll bet they do.