An 84 year old white man shot a 16 year old black male [Ralph Yarl] who he thought was trying to break into his house: https://archive.is/cEyj3
It was around 10pm. The 84yo picked up his gun & went to the door. He saw a 6ft tall black male pulling on the exterior door handle. He shot twice. The black male ran away & 84yo called 911. The 84yo stated that he was afraid & defending himself. There is no basis for any claim that race was in any way a factor.
That's it. That's all there is. The kid - who didn't die - obviously denies trying to force his way in & said he went to the wrong house.
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This has absolutely blown up to George Floyd levels of bullshit on the Left. Ralph Yarl & his family got a personal phone call from Joe Biden & an invitation to the White House.
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The libs are treating this as though it was an execution of an innocent black teen honor student by an evil old white man wearing a "Nuck Figgers" T-shirt.
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Ralph Yarl isn't "black black" he belongs to that special elite group beloved by the Left: recent African immigrants. Just like Obama. He's already being sainted in the media: North Kansas City School District Superintendent Dan Clemens emailed "Ralph is an excellent student and talented musician. He maintains a stellar GPA while taking mostly college level courses. While he loves science and hopes to pursue that career path, his passion is music."
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"Many celebrities, such as Viola Davis, Halle Berry, Justin Timberlake, Kerry Washington, and Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, have condemned the shooting."
This is the kind of "test case" the libs have been waiting for. The facts don't actually fit their narrative as there is absolutely no proof that the 84yo was motivated by race, and the circumstances [late night, a stranger trying to force the door] make his actions perfectly legal & reasonable. But it is close enough to have triggered a dormant lib rapid reaction race war task force.
Also a 20 year old white woman was shot & murdered under far worse circumstances around the same time in New York. Kaylin Gillis was a passenger in a vehicle that turned into the wrong driveway, and was murdered while still in the car by Kevin Monahan 65yo, firing from his porch. "It's a very rural area with dirt roads. It's easy to get lost. They drove up this driveway for a very short time, realized their mistake and were leaving, when Mr. Monahan came out and fired two shots," Monahan "refused to exit his residence to speak with police." & the cops had to call the SWAT team. This dude is clearly one of those "innawoods" fucking nut jobs who wrongly believes he can go weapons hot on anyone who crosses the boundary line of his land. But since the victim was white, no one gives a shit except for some local gun control grifters.
Democrats want to destroy this country. They want a race war. They'll stop at nothing to encourage stochastic terrorism from blacks as we saw with the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre.
edit: for people who thinking ringing the door bell is proof the kid wasn't up to no good:
KGW's investigative team sent letters to 86 inmates currently serving time for burglary in the Oregon Department of Corrections. The inmates were asked to respond anonymously to 17 questions detailing how they broke in, when the crime occurred and what they were looking for.
"Did you typically knock on the front door before breaking into a home? Yes. All of the inmates who responded said they would knock on the front door before breaking in." https://archive.is/M1zDQ
I've been on both sides of this one.
Victim:
At around 3am, I had an average-sized 20-something white guy start trying to break in the front door of my apartment, shouting a mix of "Let me in!" and "I'm going to kill you when I get in!"
I got my gun out of my bedside safe, chambered a round, and found my phone and called the cops. I talked to the dispatcher. I put it on speaker, and had the dispatcher confirm she could hear the threats to my life and the pounding on the door. I informed the man on the other side that he was at the wrong fucking apartment and if he managed to make it inside, it would be his last mistake (with the dispatcher off speaker and on mute). He got tired before he made it through the deadbolt, and left. At 7am when the police showed up to take my report, I showed them the cracks in the wood from him throwing his weight against the door, made my statement, and that was the last I ever heard of it.
3am, "I'm gonna kill you when I get in there motherfucker!" and it took over 20 minutes for him to give up and go away, and not a cop in sight, with dispatch listening to the threats the whole time.
I assume he was drunk, believed he was outside a friend's apartment, and they were fucking with him by locking him out, and it was bluster, but I had no way to be sure. I was glad I didn't have to defend myself. I didn't get any more sleep that night, and to this day I'm not sure whether I would've been able to make a call and react in time if he had been armed and serious.
Perp:
I walked up an extra flight of stairs by mistake, and spent what felt like 10 minutes trying to get my key to work in the lock. It wasn't until I dropped my keys and bent down to pick them up that I realized I didn't have a welcome mat and was at the wrong apartment. I wasn't loud, wasn't making threats, but I was trying to get in to somebody else's apartment after last call.
I'm quite glad I didn't get myself shot. If somehow I had, and had survived it, I think I would've been a witness for the defense, not the prosecution. I shouldn't have been there, and I shouldn't have been drunk enough I wasn't paying attention to the numbers by the door. On the upside, dwelling on this low moment helped me reign in my habit of occasionally seeking oblivion. A lot of people have found rock bottom in much worse ways.
The old man probably should have waited until the door was forced open, because evidence of forced entry would work in his favor in a court of law, if not a court of public opinion.
We don't get the benefit of hindsight in the moment, though. If you're going to be armed, and I recommend it, spend some time thinking through what you're going to do and what you need to do to protect yourself, not just in the moment, but after.