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.)

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.)