Jordan Davis--This Year's Trayvon?

Jordan Davis--This Year's Trayvon?

 

Accompanied by his fiancée Rhonda Rouer, forty-six year old software developer Michael “Mike” Dunn pulled into the parking lot of a Jacksonville, Florida gas station/convenience store on the evening of November 23rd, 2012 following his son’s wedding reception. 

Exactly what happened while Ms. Rouer was inside the store is in dispute, except for the fact 17 year old high school junior Jordan Davis was dead when she returned.

Dunn was originally charged with second degree murder for shooting Davis with his legally registered pistol for which he has a concealed-carry permit, a charge subsequently upgraded to first degree murder by the Duval County state attorney’s office. 

That may have been the first indication that Florida would not be treating the case in the same manner it treated the other 1,009 fatal crimes committed in the Sunshine State in 2012.

You see, Mike Dunn like George Zimmerman is white and Jordan Davis like Trayvon Martin was black.

Zimmerman, who police initially refused even to arrest, was ultimately exonerated on the basis of self-defense for shooting and killing Martin in February, 2012 under Florida’s controversial Stand-Your-Ground law.  That law gives people the right to use deadly force to defend themselves without requiring them to evade a dangerous situation if they “reasonably believe” someone will hurt them. 

Though the circumstances in Dunn’s case are much different than Zimmerman’s, he is relying on the same law to win his acquittal.

Jordan Davis’s father, Ron Davis, has vowed to exploit his son’s death to launch a crusade against guns and against the Stand-Your-Ground law, similar to the Martin family’s reactions after Trayvon’s death.   However, to date and somewhat oddly, few have publicly joined his crusade or the racial circus that ensued when Zimmerman was deemed not guilty of all charges.

The New Black Panther Party hasn’t put a $10,000 dead-or-alive bounty on Dunn’s head as they did with Zimmerman; no nationwide demonstrations have been staged against Dunn as they were against Zimmerman; and, most surprisingly, President Barack Hussein Obama hasn’t declared that if he had a son he would look like Jordan Davis.

Still, pictures have been popping up featuring the unshaven defendant looking as if he could commit murder juxtaposed with the “victim” looking as if he couldn’t and wouldn’t hurt a fly, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35694.)