Florida is YET AGAIN the host for a murder trial involving a black teen and a middle aged white man. This time, the players in the game are Micheal Dunn, a 47 year old software developer, and Jordan Davis, who was a 17 year old student with military based aspirations at the time of his 2012 murder. Many comparisons have been made between this and the Martin/Zimmerman trial........but the media and civic attention is by no means CLOSE.
I digress.....let us journey back in time to the night that intertwined these lives for eternity. It was a November night at a gas station when Dunn's girlfriend went inside the station to make a purchase. Next to Dunn's car was a Dodge Durango with 4 teens inside. They teens were playing loud rap music, that according to Dunn rattled his car tremendously. Dunn asked the teens to turn their music down and when they refused....he pulled a 9mm handgun from his glove box and shot into the vehicle subsequently killing Davis.
That sounds pretty bad as is correct? Oh but WAIT. Dunn began making racially based comments as he pulled into his parking space at the gas station and BEGAN the tense argument with the MINORS in the vehicle. After shooting up the SUV, Dunn left the scene WITHOUT calling the authorities and checked into a local hotel. While at the hotel, Dunn enjoyed an evening of pizza and romance. The NEXT morning when he was apprehended by police Dunn claimed that he was the VICTIM and that he acted out of SELF-DEFENSE. According to Dunn, he felt threatened when [allegedly] Davis yelled a threat from an open window.
Now to me this is an OPEN SHUT CASE.....BBBBBUUUUUUTTTTTT this is Florida. So one NEVER truly knows how this will turn out. MY TRUE issue is all of the people that cried out during the Martin/Zimmerman trial claiming that they would stand up and shout out for any CHILD shot down unnecessarily. Where are they now?
Where is Hollywood? Where are the FaceBook campaigns? Where is the call for local [peaceful] demonstrations and blacked out profile pictures? What happened to the resurrected black empowerment movement? What happened to the outraged citizens that were willing to come to arms in defense of any black child that was MURDERED?! I stand by my sentiment of a few months ago.......people are just like cats following a laser pointer......they follow the hottest racism based trend to the fullest. It's not about the actual person, its about who has the greatest media coverage and how egregious the prejudice is. This case is fairly CLEAR CUT. Dunn had NO regard for the life of any one who's skin was kissed by the sun. He picked a fight with a CHILD and opened fire wild west style and went to celebrate his kill with his girlfriend!
Davis was a student that was HIGHLY praised by his teachers and peers. He wanted to go into a career in the military. This was a young man that wanted to make a difference in the world. He NO LONGER HAS THAT CHANCE due to an overzealous BIGOT.
How to you just open fire on someone simply because of a disagreement over VOLUME? How do you LEAVE the scene and NOT call the police if you feel threatened and in the RIGHT?! Oh yea......did I forget to mention that the Dunn family has ALREADY settled a civil case launched against them via the Davis family?
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