It’s all covered in this news report video. I’m not even going to comment – you decide what’s going on here.
(Via MediaIte) CNN legal analyst Paul Callan noted the issue here is whether the shooting was premeditated or if it was a last-minute decision. Lemon took note of all the people pointing out online how angry he’s been over the case, saying, “I know people are saying Don Lemon is pissed on Twitter. Yes, I am pissed! I am absolutely pissed!”
He continued, “I think there needs to be a Mind Your Business law that goes along with the Stand Your Ground law.” (link)
Common theme of #MichaelDunn & #GeorgeZimmerman > 2 interfering busy-bodies who if they'd minded their damn business wouldn't have killed.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 16, 2014
(JACKSONVILLE) Jurors took more nearly 40 hours and finally decided: Michael David Dunn is guilty of attempted murder in the November shootings that killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis in a dispute over loud music.
The jury said it could not break its deadlock on the more serious charge of Davis’ murder, and Judge Russell Healey declared a mistrial on that count.
Dunn was convicted on three counts of the attempted murders of the three teenagers who were riding with Davis in a Dodge Durango. Dunn also was convicted on a weapons charge. (more…)
In a recent Washington Post article author Mike Wise opines the winter Olympics are an international assembly of white people and compares the athletic contest to “the inside of a snow globe”.
Apparently the absence of black athletes is due to institutional racism. Perhaps it’s time the Eric Holder DOJ rules of “disparate impact” are applied to Olympic athletics to insure more black people don skis, skates and snowboards equitably.
(I swear no bias toward curling implied)
Perhaps Olympic medals should be divided and shared; after all, at some point, you’ve just got to reach the conclusion whitey has earned enough medals. Heck, why go through all the pesky mathematical formulations to insure statistical representative appropriateness – perhaps the IOC could just appoint medals based on the same qualifications of Peace Prizes, or something.
The ridiculous diatribe actually published in the Washington Post is absurd beyond an imaginable magnitude; but what the heck, why let athletics out of the race-baiting equation. (more…)
JACKSONVILLE – They are deadlocked on at least one of the charges against him.
Around 5 p.m. jurors sent a question to acting Circuit Judge Russell Healey asking if it was possible to not reach a verdict on one count and reach a verdict on the other counts. Healey told them that was possible, and then granted a request they made for a 30-minute break.
The jurors appeared exhausted when they came into the courtroom, and one juror appeared to be close to crying. Dunn is charged with the murder of Jordan Davis, the attempted murders of Tevin Thompson, Leland Brunson and Tommie Stornes and shooting or firing a deadly missile. (more…)
Update ST CLOUD – MINNESOTA – A Stearns County judge sentenced 18-year-old Jesse Smithers to 10 years on Thursday. Smithers admitted to delivering the deadly punch in a St. Cloud alley almost a year and a half ago.
On Sept. 21, 2012, Colton Gleason was walking with friends when a car pulled up, and Smithers got out and punched him. Colton died after falling and hitting his head.
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9813074
His father, John Gleason, says the pain, bitterness and hurt his family feels did not go away with the sentencing of the man responsible for his son’s death. (more…)
Earlier in the week we shared with you the story of a large riot in Tampa Florida at the state fair. Now the County Sheriff, David Gee, is coming under fire for sending a letter to members of his appointed Black Advisory Council for help.
The Black community is outraged the sheriff would have the audacity to point out the identical racial profiles of the people involved in the riot. How dare he….
TAMPA (FOX 13) – New video released Tuesday by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office shows the start of what would become a massive stampede of rowdy students at the Florida State Fair that led to dozens of ejections and several arrests.
The video was shot by a vendor and handed over to investigators as they try to identify victims and make more arrests in connection to the organized stampede known as “wilding.”
“It’s more of a giant stampede, and that’s kind of the beginning of it that you see on that video,” explained Col. Jim Previtera. “It does give a brief glimpse of what ‘wilding’ looks like.”
[…] Sheriff David Gee, meanwhile, sent a letter to leaders in the African American community, asking for their help. (more…)
A recent review of another Washington Post article discussing Attorney General Eric Holder’s goal to reinstate voting rights of convicted felons shows an odd progressive disconnect.
Essentially, the post article outlines the goal is really to get black Democrats their right to vote in key swing states. {Insert a generically obtuse “DUH” sound here} But what strikes as odd is the unspoken reality:
(Washington Post) Reason Why Holder Suddenly Wants Felons To Vote: More Than 20% of Blacks In Swing States Can’t Vote Because They’ve Been Convicted of a Felony.
In Florida, more than one in five black adults can’t vote. Not because they lack citizenship or haven’t registered, but because they have, at some point, been convicted of a felony.
The Sunshine State’s not alone. As in Florida, more than 20 percent of black adults have lost their right to vote in Kentucky and Virginia, too, according to the Sentencing Project, a group that advocates for reforms to sentencing policy that reduces racial disparities. (more…)
21-year-old Tayvon Martin shot three people, killing one, last year. He had been on the run for over nine months and was caught/arrested recently after he returned back to the Denver Colorado area.
However, within the manner of murder you find an almost unbelievable irony, wrapped in apropos and topped with a bow sprinkled with metaphor.
Before being killed, the murder victim was asked a question:
“Do You Know Who Baby B.O Is” ?
(referencing the statement by President Obama about having a son who would look like Trayvon Martin)
That’s when Tayvon Martin stepped up, introduced himself, said “that’s me“, pulled a silver revolver and calmly shot the victim, Gabriel Scott, in the back of the head. (more…)
Good enough for me but not for thee.
Chicago has the most restrictive gun laws in the nation – of course the thugs were surprised, they don’t normally encounter armed resistance because their victims are barred from being allowed to defend themselves.
CHICAGO – A gun pointed at his gut, the off-duty sheriff’s sergeant digs through his pockets with his left hand, fumbling for money, as the three robbers surround him at the Far South Side gas station.
The sergeant is surer with his right hand, quickly drawing his own gun and firing point-blank. The gunman, 16, drops at his feet as the two others scatter, according to surveillance video that captured the robbery Monday night at a Citgo station at 103rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, across the street from Gately Stadium.
The sergeant swings around at the fleeing robbers, then points the gun down as the gunman struggles to get up. The video shows the sergeant kicking away the robber’s gun and then opening the passenger door of his own car, apparently to get his phone. (more…)