A teen missed the school bus. When he knocked on a door for directions, a man shot at

[FUCK THE POLICE]

A teen missed the school bus. When he knocked on a door for directions, a man shot at him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.74102d168a72

Brennan Walker didn’t make the morning bus to school. He didn’t have his phone. And he wasn’t sure how to get to his high school.

Brennan needed help finding his way, and the home of Jeffrey Zeigler appeared to be just as good as any to seek neighborly guidance.

Zeigler answered with a shotgun blast.


Jurors on Tuesday watched video of the incident during Zeigler’s trial, which showed how close Brennan, then 14, may have come to a violent death on April 12 in Rochester Hills, Mich.

Zeigler, a retired firefighter, was charged with assault with intent to murder, which could lead to life in prison, Oakland County District Attorney Jessica R. Cooper told The Washington Post on Thursday, along with use of a firearm in a felony.

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A camera that appears to be on Zeigler’s porch captured the teenager, who is black, approaching the house with his hands in his pockets and wearing a backpack. Brennan testified Monday that Zeigler’s wife answered the door and immediately accused him of trying to break into the home, the Oakland Press News reported.

“I was scared. I was trying to tell them that I was trying to get to high school, but they weren’t listening,” Brennan testified.

Zeigler’s wife yelled, and Zeigler sprang out of bed, armed himself with a shotgun and ran out to the porch. Brennan, upon seeing the commotion, turned and ran from the house, the video shows.

Brennan was nearly out of the yard when Zeigler appeared shirtless, shouldered his shotgun and leveled the barrel in the teenager’s direction.

He fired a single shot, the video shows. Brennan was not injured.

Cooper declined further comment, citing the trial this week.

Zeigler’s attorney Rob Morad has said that race was not a factor in the shooting (Zeigler is white), and that his client and his wife were on “high alert” after five previous break-ins at their home. Zeigler “acted from passion instead of judgment,” Morad told jurors. He did not return a request for comment Thursday.

Zeigler has also claimed that he accidentally fired the shotgun after slipping. The video shows Zeigler pausing for a few beats before firing the gun. Oakland County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Marshall testified he could not say definitively where Zeigler was aiming after reviewing the video, the Press News reported.

Shawn Pace, a detective with the sheriff’s office, testified Tuesday that he had been investigating the claims of a break-in and then watched the video. “I was shocked,” Pace said, according to the Press News. He watched it again, then became “charged up, because I was offended by what I had seen.”

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said soon after the incident: “It is just absurd that this happened. I feel terrible for the young man; I feel terrible for the mom and the anxiety that they had to go through.”

Brennan’s mother, Lisa Wright, said in April that she believed the reaction in the Zeigler household was racially motivated. She watched the video soon after the incident. “You can hear the wife say, ‘Why did these people choose my house?’ Who are ‘these people?’ " Wright said. “And that set me off. I didn’t want to believe it was what it appeared to look like. When I heard her say that, it was, like, but it is.”

Zeigler maintained that he believed Brennan was a threat. But Pace showed him the video and asked him to point out where the teenager had shown bad intentions.

Zeigler “took a big drink of water, he looked at me, and he said, ‘I’m tired of being a victim,' ” Pace testified.

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Let me repeat that last bit:

Zeigler “took a big drink of water, he looked at me, and he said, ‘I’m tired of being a victim,'

And there we have it.

Poor ittle white "victims" shooting at random innocents because society oppresses poor ittle white them so much. What whiny pieces of shit.

Listen, the mean facebook post you read the other day about white privilege doesn't give you the right to ignore the law and shoot without thought against anyone who startles you while having black skin.

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Quit the Jesus act, white men.

[Micawber]

By Melissa Gomez
Oct. 9, 2018

Corey Lewis first noticed the woman as he crossed the Walmart parking lot in Marietta, Ga., on Sunday afternoon. She was sitting in a Kia sedan, he said, as he led the two children he was babysitting back to his car.

By the time he had them buckled up and ready to go, he had his phone out and was live-streaming on Facebook as he narrated a story about how the strange woman had begun stalking them after he refused to let her talk to the children, Mr. Lewis, 27, said in an interview.

She followed him out of the parking lot, to the gas station across the street, and to his home, where Mr. Lewis, who is black, was questioned by a Cobb County police officer about why he had with him two young children, who are white.

“I didn’t know what was going on, what she wanted to do,” Mr. Lewis said on Tuesday, believing that the woman had called the police because he was a black man walking around with two white children. “I felt like my character was being criminalized.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/u...bysitting.html

Republicans can't help themselves. Their prejudices are baked in from really early ages.

[Jack]

Try to look at the bright side ... the kid will learn how to be at the Bus Stop on time.

[Micawber]

Quit the Jesus act, white men.

I think they've abandoned that mostly. Now it's "I'm white, fuck yeah!"
Like being white in America needs added white pride sprinkles on a vanilla ice cream cone of advantage.
It's white on rice. Adds nothing. Betrays a lot, however. Insecurity, fear, ignorance.

[dukkha]

Brennan was nearly out of the yard when Zeigler appeared shirtless, shouldered his shotgun and leveled the barrel in the teenager’s direction.

can't do that

that his client and his wife were on “high alert” after five previous break-ins at their home. Zeigler “acted from passion instead of judgment,” Morad told jurors.

goes to state of mind of the defendant .

[Jack]

By Melissa Gomez
Oct. 9, 2018

Corey Lewis first noticed the woman as he crossed the Walmart parking lot in Marietta, Ga., on Sunday afternoon. She was sitting in a Kia sedan, he said, as he led the two children he was babysitting back to his car.


By the time he had them buckled up and ready to go, he had his phone out and was live-streaming on Facebook as he narrated a story about how the strange woman had begun stalking them after he refused to let her talk to the children, Mr. Lewis, 27, said in an interview.

She followed him out of the parking lot, to the gas station across the street, and to his home, where Mr. Lewis, who is black, was questioned by a Cobb County police officer about why he had with him two young children, who are white.

“I didn’t know what was going on, what she wanted to do,” Mr. Lewis said on Tuesday, believing that the woman had called the police because he was a black man walking around with two white children. “I felt like my character was being criminalized.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/u...bysitting.html

Republicans can't help themselves. Their prejudices are baked in from really early ages.

It is suspicious. A black man with two white children. We've all heard the stories, the rumors, the unsubstantiated facts, ... black people have gone on record many times claiming 'white children are too hard to keep clean'.

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Poor ittle white "victims" shooting at random innocents because society oppresses poor ittle white them so much. What whiny pieces of shit.

Finally you said something intelligent. Yes indeed - AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS EVERYWHERE!!!! White men are denied jobs and college placements and scholarships because of their race and/or sex. When AA started 50 years ago, white men should have grabbed their guns and shot everyone in sight.

AA is pure evil.

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Finally you said something intelligent. Yes indeed - AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS EVERYWHERE!!!! White men are denied jobs and college placements and scholarships because of their race and/or sex. When AA started 50 years ago, white men should have grabbed their guns and shot everyone in sight.

AA is pure evil.

Like even under the most stubborn system of affirmative action white men would still be guaranteed jobs at least proportional to their numbers. It's hardly the holocaust.

[Fentoine Lum]

Finally you said something intelligent. Yes indeed - AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS EVERYWHERE!!!! White men are denied jobs and college placements and scholarships because of their race and/or sex. When AA started 50 years ago, white men should have grabbed their guns and shot everyone in sight.

AA is pure evil.

The mournful wail of the poor downtrodden white male snowflake in america desperately searching for his safe space.

[Guno צְבִי]

Finally you said something intelligent. Yes indeed - AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS EVERYWHERE!!!! White men are denied jobs and college placements and scholarships because of their race and/or sex. When AA started 50 years ago, white men should have grabbed their guns and shot everyone in sight.

AA is pure evil.

This might help you on your journey

[Text Drivers are Killers]

No one believes the "official" story. Far more likely the kid had black thugs close by ready to rob the white homeowner. When he showed up with a gun, they all took off. The white guy did the right thing, but he's still gonna pay for it.

[tsuke]

This might help you on your journey

Let me just say that in the age of #believeher and #metoo I love that the Tom Robinson trial from the to kill a mockingbird movie is included in that video. Lol!

[Minister of Truth]

Sounds like Brennan Walker is getting bussed too far away from his home.