I’m black, don’t shoot me - Washington Post

[Yakno1]

Sometimes, when I’m in my car, I crank up the music pretty loud. All you Michael Dunns out there, please don’t shoot me.

Please don’t shoot my sons, either, or my brothers-in-law, nephews, nephews-in-law or other male relatives. I have quite a few friends and acquaintances who also happen to be black men, and I’d appreciate your not shooting them as well, even if the value you place on their lives is approximately zero.

Dunn was at least partly held accountable for the burst of mayhem in which he fatally shot Jordan Davis, while George Zimmerman got off scot-free for killing Trayvon Martin. But whatever the final outcome, prosecutors and juries never get involved until after the fact. When mothers have already cried over the caskets of their dead sons. When it’s too late.

Davis’s killing, if you haven’t been following the case, was just as senseless as Martin’s. On Nov. 23, 2012, Dunn and his fiancee stopped at a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla., and parked next to a red Dodge Durango with four African American teenagers inside. The young men made the mistake — ultimately fatal to Davis — of having the Durango’s music system turned up too loud.

“I hate that thug music,” Dunn muttered, according to the fiancee’s trial testimony. The woman went inside to buy wine and potato chips — the couple had already been drinking, she testified — while Dunn, a software engineer who was 45 at the time, waited in the car.

Dunn complained to the teenagers about the music. They turned it down, then turned it back up again. I’m not aware of any law that says young black men have to follow orders from every random white man who comes along.

Dunn told them again to turn down the music. He testified that Davis, who was 17, threatened him with what looked like a shotgun. No weapon was found in the teenagers’ car, however, and no witnesses saw anything that looked like a weapon — except the 9mm handgun that Dunn took out of his glove compartment.

Dunn fired 10 shots, three of which struck Davis. He continued firing even as the teenagers’ car squealed away. Davis probably died within minutes, according to testimony at the trial. Rather than wait for police to arrive, Dunn and his fiancee drove to their hotel — Dunn was in Jacksonville to attend his son’s wedding — where they spent the evening eating pizza and drinking rum and Cokes. He was arrested the following day at his home not far from Cape Canaveral.

On Saturday, a Jacksonville jury found Dunn guilty on three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting at the surviving teens, plus one count of shooting a deadly missile at an occupied vehicle. But the jury failed to reach a verdict on the most serious charge of first-degree murder for killing Davis.

Prosecutors have announced they will retry Dunn on the murder charge. Regardless of the outcome, he faces 20 years in prison for each of the attempted murder charges, and the judge could make those sentences consecutive. He might well spend the rest of his life behind bars.

So the system delivered a measure of justice, at least. We can and should examine the racial biases of juries, such as those that sat in judgment of Zimmerman and Dunn. We can and should work to repeal statutes such as Florida’s “stand-your-ground” law, which in both cases — notably through the instructions that the judges read to the jurors — encouraged giving defendants who claimed self-defense the benefit of the doubt.

I know it’s important that the next Zimmerman or Dunn be convicted of murder, if that’s what the evidence says. But I’m so very tired of funerals and trials. I want to know what we can do to keep the next Trayvon Martin and the next Jordan Davis alive.

While Michael Dunn was in jail awaiting trial — and authorities were recording his phone calls — he said this to his fiancee: “When the police said that these guys didn’t have a record I was like, you know, I wonder if they’re just flying under the radar. Because they were bad.”

What he meant by “bad,” evidently, was “young, black and male.” It was this assumption that killed Martin and Davis — and that surely will kill again. We don’t just have to change laws. We have to change hearts and minds.

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[ugksam]

we should print up shirts that say "Im Black, Dont shoot me" and all start wearin em

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I'll say it before, I'll say it again.

Insecure racist white people (fukk that...insecure and racist people that AREN'T BLACK period) that solve their problems with guns and violence consider it a badge of honor to kill a black person simply because they hate everything about us and they want to take their frustrations out on us.

It's sickening.

 

[Chris.B]

Get yourself a gun....

They shot once and if there is no response they keep firing away.

A dead person doesn't talk so they can always say you started it and get way with it

 

[Malta]

While Michael Dunn was in jail awaiting trial — and authorities were recording his phone calls — he said this to his fiancee: “When the police said that these guys didn’t have a record I was like, you know, I wonder if they’re just flying under the radar. Because they were bad.”

What he meant by “bad,” evidently, was “young, black and male.” It was this assumption that killed Martin and Davis — and that surely will kill again. We don’t just have to change laws. We have to change hearts and minds.

That's how the majority of them view us.

 

[yo moms]

we should print up shirts that say "Im Black, Dont shoot me" and all start wearin em

remember that "im not chris dorner. dont shoot me" t shirt

 

[Batman]

P

Get yourself a gun....

They shot once and if there is no response they keep firing away.

A dead person doesn't talk so they can always say you started it and get way with it

Pretty sure Trayvon and Davis were too young for a concealed license.

 

[Yakno1]

Now The NyTimes and Washington Post are some of the most liberal, forward papers in the country but the comment sections are always telling

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

This ain't new though...I remember that case of that African immigrant that got shot 49 times for pulling out a wallet by NYPD.

I'm not going to stop doing me, but I am careful these days. Especially considering being a black man in this country, you can sadly get shot for being black in the wrong place at the wrong time and people pulling the trigger will either get a slap on the wrist or get off scott free.

Now The NyTimes and Washington Post are some of the most liberal, forward papers in the country but the comment sections are always telling

I'm not even bothering reading it;. This country is full of hypocrites. Everyone else is innocent and gets the benefit of the doubt but the most twisted mental gymnastics are always applied to US.

"But...but...maybe he was a criminal..."
"Some of these black kids are dangerous though...and that scary rap music.."
"I felt threatened.."


SHUT THE FUK UP! Just say you f*cking hate everything about us and keep it moving you goddamn cowards...jesus!

This is why I don't even bother reading the comments section of these sites anymore...people are idiots and don't know how to really express how they feel and need to be told how to think so they use passive aggresive semantics and overall bullshyt I can smell 30 miles away.

 

[Yakno1]

This ain't new though...I remember that case of that African immigrant that got shot 49 times for pulling out a wallet by NYPD.

I'm not going to stop doing me, but I am careful these days. Especially considering being a black man in this country, you can sadly get shot for being black in the wrong place at the wrong time and people pulling the trigger will either get a slap on the wrist or get off scott free.


I'm not even bothering reading it;. This country is full of hypocrites. Everyone else is innocent and gets the benefit of the doubt but the most twisted mental gymnastics are always applied to US.

"But...but...maybe he was a criminal..."
"Some of these black kids are dangerous though...and that scary rap music.."
"I felt threatened.."


SHUT THE FUK UP! Just say you f*cking hate everything about us and keep it moving you goddamn cowards...jesus!

This is why I don't even bother reading the comments section of these sites anymore...people are idiots and don't know how to really express how they feel and need to be told how to think so they use passive aggresive semantics and overall bullshyt I can smell 30 miles away.

comment sections are important at times though, don't dismiss all. You never know who is leaving that comment, sometimes you will find good content(comment sections in general) and it's also a measure to poll the public's reactions etc. It's used for intel all the time, now trollish comment sections like yahoo, u can dismiss but national papers you should read some on certain matters

 

[Willie]

Get your CCW and put a bullet in any cracker that think he want that action.

Sick of playing nice with these fukkers.

 

[kermit da hustla]

black people need to stop being cowards and pussies and start shooting back. it's that simple. white people feel like they can spit on us and kick us and not receive any punishment. we need to make them understand that they can't kill our children without losing 5 of theirs. they can't spit on us without having their heads split open. they can't kick us without having us break their legs. that's where black people are failing. we are not fighting back.

 

[Batman]

So we can all end up like Chris Dorner? Are you out of your fukking mind?

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

black people need to stop being cowards and pussies and start shooting back. it's that simple. white people feel like they can spit on us and kick us and not receive any punishment. we need to make them understand that they can't kill our children without losing 5 of theirs. they can't spit on us without having their heads split open. they can't kick us without having us break their legs. that's where black people are failing. we are not fighting back.

Exactly, this turn the other cheek nonsense is the reason we're getting attacked like this cause they know we won't fight back.

It's about to get real real soon. The sad thing is that too many of us are asleep at the wheel.

 

[kp404]

I'll say it before, I'll say it again.

Insecure racist white people (fukk that...insecure and racist people that AREN'T BLACK period) that solve their problems with guns and violence consider it a badge of honor to kill a black person simply because they hate everything about us and they want to take their frustrations out on us.

It's sickening.

Its changed from public lynching parties and barbeques to "conceal and carry" and "probable cause"....New Nadir, man:fargasmad: