One possibility is that the journalist has mischaracterized some of the real facts of the case in this article.
We have seen this over and over again
It is the Daily Mail after all. Will wait to hear the rest of the story.
Shooting through a closed door is not stand your ground…
Throw something at my kid and hit them, the woman should at least have been arrested for assault.
Press could be mischaracterizing or this woman is a damn psycho bitch.
I think you should probably say ..........”the journalist has most likely INTENTIONALLY mis characterized some of the real facts of the case in this article”.
I was reading the account and saw this: "...But the neighbor, a 58-year-old white woman, who was not named, had taken the iPad and threw it at one of Ms Owens' children, hitting the boy and cracking the screen, the attorney said..."
You would think from reading that account, that the iPad hit the child (they would infer in the head or some other sensitive place) hard enough to break the screen, but for all the sterling reporting, it could have glanced off the kid's leg and hit the ground, breaking the screen, that is how much I trust the reporting.
Also, the article says: "...But the neighbor, a 58-year-old white woman, who was not named, had taken the iPad and threw it at one of Ms Owens' children, hitting the boy and cracking the screen, the attorney said. The mother-of-four then marched across the street to speak with the neighbor after hearing of the incident..."
Yet, further down, the execrable Crump says: "This is Ajike 'AJ' Owens - a mother of four fatally shot after she reportedly knocked on the door of a white woman's residence to retrieve her child's iPad."
So, did the woman who shot her throw the iPad at the kid, or did the enraged mother have to go back to that woman's house and retrieve it?
I am going to bet money that given the ongoing fued, that woman pictured wasn't calmly going up to that woman's door to ask for the iPad back, if that is even what happened. Given the history, the behavior of the kids is not a one time thing, and they were probably not innocently playing. As the police state: "...'Was something thrown at them?.' Woods explained. 'Yes, but not directly at them of what we're being told now. It just unfortunately may have hit them. The children are a big part of answering a lot of our questions..."
And there is this from the police: "...police understood a heated exchange that took place between Ms Owens and the neighbor, describing it as an 'aggressiveness back and forth from both of them'. Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made. And then at that moment is when Ms Owens was shot through the door..."
It sure sounds like this enraged mother "marched" across the road, and there was some kind of loud interaction, possibly with the enraged mother banging on doors and walls, with threats being made. You don't have to have a vivid imagination to at least have an idea of what was going on. If this is how it was, I sure hope this woman has a lawyer familiar with the nuances of firearm defense, because having someone banging on your door and walls and shouting out threats sounds like the woman who shot and killed her felt a real threat.
I am not saying that woman did or did not have the need to use a firearm and kill that mother of those kids.
What I am saying is in agreement with your post, that there is every indication this story is being groomed and composed to show a purely racial white on black killing.
If not, lock her up! But if the family were little terrorizers, the story may take a different turn.
Oh no…couldn’t be a mischaracterization by a journo…
Yes, the Daily Mail is a tabloid and pretty much tends to throw things against the wall to see what sticks. It does feel like some critical information is missing here.
But whatever really happened, it’s very sad for those kids to lose their mom. :(