From the media report the three thugs were previously known to police. (ie. Potential repeat offenders).
DETROIT – You don’t want to mess with this mom! – A Detroit woman surprised a trio of armed teen thugs when they came to try and rob her house.
Instead of sitting back and watching them steal her stuff, she locked and loaded a rifle — and then fired it as she chased them back outside. The dramatic incident was caught on surveillance camera.
Footage shows the three teens trying to kick down her front door. But, as they start to make their way inside, the woman pops up with a gun. She starts firing to try and scare them off, and they all run away.
One of the boys, armed with a handgun, tries his luck again and rushes the door. But he soon scuttles off again after hearing bullets being fired in his direction. (more…)
(Salon.Com) Since Florida cannot defend black life against white fear, the question now is: How should black people respond?
How much more are black people in this country supposed to take?
On Saturday, a Florida jury failed to convict Michael Dunn for the callous murder of Jordan Davis. Though he was convicted of three counts of attempted murder and also on a gun charge, a mistrial was declared for the first-degree murder charge. He will face substantial jail time – perhaps up to 75 years on the four charges for which he was found guilty.
Prosecutor Angela Corey has also publicly declared her intent to seek retrial on the murder conviction. However, she is the same prosecutor who oversaw the Zimmerman murder trial and failed to get a conviction. (more…)
When you peel back the concentric layers around progressively driven racial story lines what you find is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
As with almost every aspect of life whatever inherent truths you deny, you are doomed to revisit. Yesterday we outlined the latest media-avoided conversation surrounding yet another racially inspired knock out assault.
Knowing that a single blow to the head can lead to death, as was evidenced recently in the “knock out murder” trial of Jesse Smithers, these awkward, horrific and continually repeating examples are not a game.
They are, for all intents and purposes, attempted homicides.
Capital Murder as generally defined is: “the unlawful killing of another person, with malice of forethought and specific intent to kill“. Remove any of the three essential elements [(1) Unlawful, (2) malice, (3) specific intent] and you have the various degrees of homicide charges.
Remove ‘specific intent’ and you have “Murder 2” unintentional killing. Add in the removal of ‘malice of forethought’ and you have “manslaughter”. Remove ‘unlawful‘ and you end up with “justifiable homicide”.
What you witness in this attack is (1) unlawful and (2) with malice of forethought. The unknown variable is ‘specific intent’. Does the attacker intend to kill the victim ?
Generally, at least in this example, I would surmise no – but one could easily argue, perhaps.
I’ll be writing up some thoughts on how the media is presenting this again.
The issues are far more complex than can be summarized in a six to eight hundred word synopsis.
There are serious issues represented in how Chris Cuomo and the larger media are continuing to advance a historically flawed narrative surrounding the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. When the trial evidence was presented (poorly in my opinion) and then the jury verdict was announced, a decision by the media was needed. Would they admit their former false presentations, or would they double down on their false media narrative.
It is now clear the media is wantonly doubling down on their falsehoods.
It is also clear the reason they can get away with it is because Mark O’Mara played a white-guilt apologist role in keeping the “why” out of the sunlight.
As the only person who interviewed hundreds of students in/around Krop Senior High School, and having invested thousands of hours in research to the people and motivation’s behind the story, we will attempt clarification.
VERY FEW, almost no-one, at Krop Senior High School knew Trayvon Martin. When you understand why that is, you begin to understand how totally false the entire construct of the shooting storyline, as presented by the media, actually is.
The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Let me repeat. The STAND YOUR GROUND statute was NOT used in either the Zimmerman or Dunn trials. Period.
Repetition is needed because literally every single media pundit talking about either trial says, as if it were true, that Stand Your Ground was a factor in the self-defense claims of George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn. However, for media and politicians they can never let facts get in the way of their propaganda.
FLORIDA – Critics of Florida’s Stand-Your-Ground law are using the verdict in the murder trial of Michael Dunn to showcase their argument that state laws should be changed.
Dunn was convicted on three counts of second-degree attempted murder, but the jury could not reach a verdict on first- or-second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis after about 30 hours of deliberations.
“It’s a sloppy bill. It needs to be narrowly tailored and judges need more discretion,” U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, said Sunday.
“When the law started, the intention was very good: If you break into my house, I’m going to deal with you. But when you extend [that premise]…. there are problems.” (more…)
(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.
(JACKSONVILLE) Jurors took more nearly 40 hours and finally decided: Michael David Dunn is guilty of attempted murderin 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…)
Perhaps this explains why Maryland was so sensitive to avoid any inquiry in the case of John Filippidis. It certainly sounds like the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Hub is but a mere test venue for a larger federally linked data hub of the same information.
Were the feds using Maryland to establish the protocols ? It sure seems that is a very strong possibility…… and, if so, the denial of the FOIA would make even more sense.
In Mr. Filippidis example the “hot list – target vehicles” appeared to be CCW holders.
WASHINGTON DC – The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload it to a database which will include a “hot list” of “target vehicles”.
The details are included in a PDF attachment uploaded yesterday to the Federal Business Opportunities website under a solicitation entitled “National License Plate Recognition Database.” (more…)
“No my friend, you don’t sell this stuff to me. You sell this to the people who don’t have self-respect and self-determination, and they are weak, and they love to be subjugated and to be dependent on the government.”
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…)
