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I'm also relatively confident that it wouldn't have happened at all had it been a white man ringing the doorbell, or a black man on the inside of that house.
Wild how the poster above terms suing a man for shooting you in an act of blatant racism as "race baiting" by the victim.
It's like his brain is on backwards and he knows racism is involved, but he can't acknowledge what actually happened so he has to blame the victim for it.
He's not saying the victim is race baiting (which wouldn't really make sense), he's saying the media is.
No, he literally replied to me saying the victim is race baiting.
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he overlooked the "by the victim" and probably was talking about the media.
Your larger point still stands, that given the reported facts, it seems pretty apparent that the old man was scared by the person in large part because the person was black. I don't know why he wants to die on the hill that race didn't matter when the old man said seeing a large black man scared him enough to shoot.
"Large black man." Checking the photo in the article yeah that's a teen boy. Image search for "Ralph Yarl" kid looks even younger in more candid shots.
Fucking of course there was a racial element, you have to deliberately close your eyes to pretend otherwise.
If a man ~50 years younger than me that I don't recognize/know knocks on my door at night, regardless of his race, I would be concerned. Would I just shoot him? No. Would an 80 year old man just shoot him? apparently, I guess... But equating it to racism, without any evidence, is simple race baiting...
The old man is clearly in the wrong, that doesn't mean he is racist just because the kid was black