Well folks, the Floridian Judicial System has screwed Black America yet again. As you heard, another trial has been held in Florida in which the accused, a grown man, uses a gun to take the life of the victim, a teenaged black boy, for a very sad reason. This is the first trial in 10 months since--well, you know.
Here's the backstory:
On November 23, 2012, Michael Dunn, a software engineer, was visiting a convenience store in Jacksonville, Florida. This occurence happened after he and his fiance Rhonda Rouer attended his son's wedding. He parked next to an SUV with five occupants (four of them teenagers) inside, and loud music playing. While his companion went into the store, Dunn went up to the truck and asked the driver to lower the music volume. The driver complied and turned off the music.
After the accused thanked the boys for the nice deed, he walked to his car when, not long after, from the other car, he supposedly heard one of the occupants yelling curse-words and caucasian slang terms like "white boy" and "cracker" and the driver turn the music back on and to a higher volume level. After not having any of it, Dunn walks back to the vehicle and gets into an argument with one of the teens. Later, after seeing one teenager exit the vehicle (as he so claims), he grabs a pistol from his glove box and began firing, shooting the other car ten times. After the shooting, Rouer ran out of the store and Dunn high-tails it out of the parking lot, heading for a hotel.
One of the teenagers, 17-year-old Jordan Davis, was shot twice and killed in the altercation.
Fast forward about 3 months later, and Dunn is now in court, charged with first-degree murder and 4 other charges in the death of Davis, who didn't even reside from Jacksonville; he lived in Marietta, Georgia, and was vacationing in Jacksonville with his father while his mother was in Atlanta battling breast cancer. On Saturday, a jury deliberated on the case for 30 hours over 4 days and found Dunn guilty on three counts of attempted murder in the second degree and one other charge of firing a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle for the fatal shooting. The jury later declared a mistrial on the charge of first degree murder, after a deadlock on the charge. Dunn's sentencing on the four attempted murder charges is set for March 24. Dunn will face at least 60 combined years in prison, and could face life if convicted of the first-degree charge on retrial.
I would say "If that guy just ignored the loud music and just waited for his fiance to bring the food from the store, and then drive away, all of this would not have happened". But I won't, because it did happen.
This is a very sad case that really reminds us of the Trayvon Martin case, which has eerie resemblances to this trial. Some grown man is near a black teenager, the man goes up to the teenager, the man feels he's in danger and gets a gun, and shoots the teenager in cold blood. Although in this case, the man has a really stupid and piss-poor reason to kill a young man. He claimed he was in danger, when he really wasn't. That's the thing on two different sides of a coin. People think that black people (especially of the dark variety) are always looking and acting menacing and doing really bad things, usually taking this at face value, and have a reason to feel unsafe around them. While on the other side, they're not really wrong here. Some dark skinned blacks have been doing really bad things, and looking menacing while doing them. Flip the coin, and something will happen. This time, it's the former.
The guy should not have grabbed a gun, and kept the doors locked; that way he could've gotten away safe, along with his fiance. The claim he felt he "feared for his life" was really stupid and didn't add up with the evidence. And speaking of the evidence, there was more of that from him and not the teenager (or even his friends [for lack of a better term]). They never had a gun in their truck. I even began to think whether or not it was true he heard one of them shout expletives and called him a "cracker". I have never heard a black teenager call a white man a "cracker". I even think this probably never happened since the early 2000s. There are other slang terms they use against white people, though. "Cracker" probably isn't one of them.
I'm happy the man got convicted on four of the charges. Although, to be honest, I really don't mind that he didn't get the biggest charge against him--first degree murder. I'm not even one of those people who get angry and scowl at some certain things that affect the black community. He's still going to jail for a long time, and he deserves it. I have a feeling, though, that the black community will see this as a victory after the Gubbeorge Zubbimmubbermubban trubbial, where he only got a few smaller charges and yet is still walking. That wasn't fair, and he still shouldn't have gotten out of his car in the first place, and he's just a lying, no-good pussy and--sorry, relapse.
Anyway, this "Stand Your Ground Law" thing is a complete joke and should work only if there is an actual fight going on and you have an actual need to defend yourself, not just some bullshit that you just came up with in your head and went with. That way the culprit gets more jail time. I hope someday this is either looked into or abolished, because the more cases and trials that use it pop up, the more it becomes a joke to everyone but the judicial system in Florida...and the state police...and every other white man in the state.
My thoughts and prayers to the family of Jordan Davis.
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