If you aren’t aware of this story, let me break it down for you. White man is IN HIS CAR. Black teens are IN THEIR CAR. White man doesn’t like the music black teens are playing because it’s too loud. Man asks teens to turn it down. Teens curse him out and turn the music back UP. White man…STILL IN HIS CAR says he saw the “barrel” of a gun on the dashboard of the black teens car, and then shoots at black teens’ car. Four rounds. Black teens drive off, white man shoots off ANOTHER four rounds. One black teen is killed. White man says it was self defense. That he feared for his life. Trial starts today.
If you don’t believe me, here is the official story from CNN.
It was the day after Thanksgiving 2012, and Michael Dunn had just left his son’s wedding. He’d had two drinks but wasn’t buzzed, and he and his girlfriend were in a “great mood” — headed to a nice bed and breakfast in St. Augustine, Florida, where they planned to enjoy a bottle of wine, he told police.
A stop at a Jacksonville gas station would flip the happy day on its head. His car doors and windows shut, he was annoyed by the “heavy bass” coming from a nearby SUV and asked four teens to turn it down.
He heard what might have been a threat, Dunn told police, then saw what might have been a gun. He pulled a 9mm handgun from his glove compartment and fired four times. Then four more times. He picked up his girlfriend as she came out of the convenience store and fled the scene, not realizing one of his eight bullets had killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis, Dunn told police interrogators.
The couple continued on to St. Augustine, where they checked into their room and ordered pizza but didn’t call police, Dunn said.
This bastard shot at a vehicle eight times and then went to a bed and breakfast with his girlfriend and ordered a pizza. Didn’t call police, didn’t check to see if anyone was harmed, nothing.
“I was polite. I asked them nicely. … I said, ‘Hey, would you guys mind turning that down?’ They shut it off, and I was like, ‘Thank you,’ ” Dunn tells police.
One of the passengers became “agitated,” Dunn further explains, and someone turned the music back up. Dunn says he wasn’t sure if the teens were singing, but he heard someone say, “Kill him,” so he rolled down his window and asked if they were talking about him.
“It was like, um, ‘Kill that bitch,’ ” Dunn says, claiming that he saw one of the Durango’s occupants produce what looked like a shotgun and open the vehicle’s door.
Asked later if he was certain he saw a gun, he replies, “I saw a barrel come up on the window, like a single-shot shotgun … It was either a barrel or a stick.”
“I’m sh***ing bricks, but that’s when I reached in my glove box, unholstered my pistol … and so quicker than a flash I had a round chambered in it, and I shot,” he says, adding that he has owned the 9mm handgun since 1990 and “always” keeps it fully loaded in his glove compartment.
He initially fired his weapon four times, Dunn tells police, and the Durango began to pull away.
“I was still scared and so I shot four more times … trying to keep their heads down to not catch any return fire. And that was it,” he says.
I don’t GAF if you don’t like the music people are playing, you either sit there and deal or you drive off to another gas station. Who does this man think he is? Oh. I know EXACTLY who he thinks he is. He thinks he’s the authority on what people do and do not have the right to do in public.
The couple had plans at a “fairly expensive” bed and breakfast in St. Augustine, 40 miles south of Jacksonville, so they drove there and ordered pizza. Dunn didn’t call police, he says, because he wanted to go back to his South Patrick Shores home, another 130 miles south of St. Augustine.
Dunn “was waiting till we get around people we know” to call authorities, and he wanted to ensure “our dog and everybody were where they needed to be. I did not want to bring a s**tstorm down on them in Jacksonville,” he tells interrogators.
In hindsight, he says, he shouldn’t have left the scene, but he was too afraid to stay.
“I went over this a million times, and what I should’ve done is put the car in reverse” to escape the confrontation, he says, but “it was fight or flight. I don’t think there was any time for flight at that moment. I was going to get shot.”
One of the police interrogators tells Dunn, “I will be the first to tell you that there are no weapons in that car. I don’t know what you saw.”
“Is it possible when they drove off they dumped it?” Dunn asks.
“They never left the parking lot,” the officer replies. “They drove off, circled right back around and came right back to that spot.”
I can’t believe this. And to make it worse, on CNN’s New Day this morning Chris Cuomo opened this story by saying, “compared to this case, the Zimmerman verdict is a no brainer.” That may or may not be what he said verbatim but it is really really close. WHAT!?
Black America is aware that there are some people who can’t stand us. Like, in general. But the whole Zimmerman case REALLY brought to light how worthless the life of a black man is in the eyes of the law. And the only reason a lot of us (both black AND white) got hit with a ton of bricks when that verdict came was because that case JUST SO HAPPENED to make national news. This happens everyday. The life of a black man holds little value.
It’s sickening, sad, and heartbreaking.
Opening statements are expected to begin Thursday in Dunn’s trial. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Davis’ death and to three counts of attempted first-degree murder for shooting at three teens accompanying Davis. Dunn has told police fear for his safety drove his actions that day.
If he doesn’t end up in a jail cell for life I am DONE. But. State Attorney Angela Corey is the prosecutor. I won’t get my hopes up too high.
