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84 (some reports said 85) year old white man alone in his home is awakened after 10pm. Confused and AFRAID he takes his gun to protect himself and find out why anyone is ringing the bell that late at night. He sees a man almost seventy years younger, a tall figure he does not know, trying to pull open the outside glass door. No words are exchanged. He reacts out of fear. That’s not about race. He can’t help having a different skin tone. It’s about an elderly man afraid in his home. Why is he afraid? Are there factors in his lived experience of this neighborhood that enhanced the fear for his safety? If it wasn’t a elderly white man but instead an elderly white woman, do we feel differently given the other facts?

It’s irrelevant the teenager parked in his driveway, didn’t have his phone on him, didn’t actually know what house he was going to and came to the front door to ring the bell. The elderly man was asleep. They only bring this up to normalize the teenager and help him appear as normal a victim as possible. It’s a tragic confluence of factors and the teenager survived.

My problem isn’t with any of that because I have empathy for the elderly and am not triggered looking for racism for power and profit. My problem is with the second shot while the teenager was allegedly on the ground. At this point the elderly man has neutralized the threat, is able to secure himself inside the home and call to report the incident.

I want to know more about how the teenager picked the wrong house. Obviously he wasn’t following GPS if he didn’t have his phone. He would have had to be familiar enough with the neighborhood to know street names but not enough to know there’s two. Why were his twin brothers at a house he wasn’t familiar with? Who gave him incomplete information as to the address? Was it the twins? A parent or other responsible adult?

We cannot metaphorically or literally burn the neighborhood because an elderly person was afraid of someone trying to come into his house late at night just because someone else feels guilty for putting the teenager in this situation and he got shot.

We have to be fair in justice. I think it’s wrong to assume racism because the probable cause statement says the old man saw a tall black man trying to get into the door. It’s an accurate description of the teenager. Reading more into that statement of facts says more about the mayor and activists than it does this old man.

I have seen different versions in media reports, just saw one that said he had just gone to bed and most I had see said he was asleep. I suspect he won’t have an easy time if it comes to trial given the culture pressure cooker the Democrats have brought us to and the incident attention (the mayor and Joe himself got involved).