Jordan Davis: This Year's Trayvon? (Part Two)

Jordan Davis: This Year's Trayvon? (Part Two)

The tragic death of black teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26th, 2012 in Sanford, Florida and a jury’s exoneration of the man who was forced to kill him in self-defense under Florida’s controversial stand-your-ground law, 28 year old part-hispanic George Zimmerman, still reverberate throughout black America as a travesty of justice.

That opinion is primarily based on very disputable claims that seventeen year old Trayvon was an innocent African-American boy who was just strolling along in the rain in the gloaming with a box of Skittles and a bottle of Arizona Fruit Juice in a mostly-white Sanford, Florida community that had recently experienced a rash of burglaries and push-in robberies.

As with so many other details about Martin–who, by the way, somehow looked like President Obama’s son if he had had a son and could even have been Obama himself–the president’s mainstream media never bothered to mention that Skittles and Arizona Fruit Juice are ingredients used to create an illicit, home-made drug called “Sizzurp” or “Lean” when combined with codeine.

Seventeen year old Jordan Davis, however, wasn’t carrying candy or juice on the evening of November 23rd, 2012 when Michael Dunn shot and killed him in a Jacksonville, Florida convenience store parking lot after Davis and his friends had threatened to murder him.  Dunn testified at his trial that he believed he saw the barrel of a shotgun in their dimly-lit suv but, following the fatal shooting and Dunn’s firing at their fleeing car with his licensed, legal pistol, no weapons were found in their vehicle.

Dunn’s shooting seven times at their car and the subsequent failure of police to find any weapons may have influenced Duval County to upgrade the initial charge of second degree to first degree murder.

Deceptively dubbed the “loud music trial” by the MSM in reference to what Dunn described as the painfully-thumping sounds blared from the suv, the “stand-your-ground trial” would be much more apt even though Dunn’s attorney never invoked that law which permits deadly force if people “reasonably believe” someone will hurt them. 

Dunn pinned his defense not on the deafening music but rather on that perceived shotgun barrel and Davis yelling, “You’re dead” and other obscenity-laced threats which caused him to fear his death was “imminent.”  

Last Saturday, the jury found Michael Dunn guilty . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35891.)