If it happened. That statement right there. It doesn't happened often or at all though. Kids do not get gunned down over ringing door bells, that's why this story got national media attention.
Correct. If it happened, there would be no thread here on it. Exactly my point. Yes. correct. It does not. This is the first time I have ever heard of it happening.
(letting the personal attack fly by like the wind) I'm curious to learn more about your thought process and what led you to your conclusion. I wasn't able to find any exceptions to my statement, so I'm interested in hearing if you have any examples or counterpoints that I may have missed.
"This is the first time I have ever heard of it happening." So why are u getting triggered that the national media is reporting about it? No kid should ever b gunned down for ringing a door bell.
Of that exact situation, no, but people start these 'black crime' threads almost on a weekly basis here. I'm saying you liked one of his posts while he's been going on about black crime in a thread that has nothing to do about black crime. You seem so eager to call other people racist for simply saying this shooting had a racial motivation when all reports about it has been that there was a racial aspect to it.
what a stupid story shooting someone for trespassing (rightly, or in this case wrongly) is a tale as old as time it isn't indicative of anything broader, just basic human nature using it to stoke racial strife is shameful
No one shoots a kid for ringing a door bell and describe it an act of trespassing. No one shoots a kid in the head and once more while he's down bc he rang a door bell. Typical @Commodore response to frame this as a simple incidence of trespassing. U won't find many examples or incidence of a kid getting shot at for ringing a door bell. If ringing a door bell is now considered trespassing, who knows how many trick or treaters/mail man have been killed and hasn't been reported. Some folks just lack the empathy.
exactly, this is atypical, but the way it gets hyped, you would think it's a major threat faced by black kids
Exactly. Black on white violence is the far greater threat, which decades of statistics conclusively prove... simply overlay a crime map with a demographic map and the point is crystal clear. Not only that, but the media often falsifies these stories for dramatic effect. Stranger shows up after dark at the wrong house in a high crime area and rings an 84-year old's door bell turns into "innocent child shot for ringing a door bell". We don't know all the facts either... do we conclusively know that the victim did not try to break in? Or was he looking in windows to see if anyone's home? A leading method of home break ins is to ring the door bell and if no one answers, then force your way in. Is "I was at the wrong house" even a credible story here? I have video all around my house, so if anyone tries to break in and then says they were "at the wrong house", that lie will get extinguished quick.
In reality Black people have to worry more about power structures like local law enforcement having honors about the good ol days of lynching "n*****" as they say.
You have shot at zero people in your entire life so either it never happens to you or you are a little b**** who uses firearms as a dick measuring contest.
I’m waiting for the “‘maybe the kid was on drugs”… and what other speculation to cover the fact that a paranoid older guy shot a kid who had the wrong address looking to pick up his younger brothers not just once but twice.
The act of straight of shooting a black kid for walking on someone's property is the worst outcome. But the interaction of Black male "hanging out at the wrong spot" like a community pool and some busy body white suburban Kevin or Karen acting as if they witness an affront to humanity because a black kid is in their apartment complex pool is probably a near weekly occurrence in this country in terms of the ones that go viral. I'm sure it happens dozens of times a day. It's just not every interaction is recorded and blasted onto social media. It's that sentiment though of having this subconscious deeply ingrained belief that Black kids should be herded into specific areas and if they are outside their "pen", they are a threat to polite society that eventually can lead to these shootings. But the shooting is the worst outcome possible. That sentiment leads to a lot of daily interactions that fortunately don't lead to shootings but still are negative interactions that make black youth just not trust white people
So you justify black youth not trusting white people by an infrequent occurrence. Yet you reject the notion that whites should not trust black youth (on their porch, uninvited, at night, in a high crime area), despite the overwhelming crime data. Does this make logical sense to you? Seems totally inconsistent to me.
