A Black Teenager Asked for Directions. A Man Responded With Gunfire.

[Bourbon]

Brennan Walker, 14, of Rochester Hills, Mich., woke up around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday — too late. He had slept through his alarm and was going to miss the school bus.

So he decided to walk to Rochester High School, where he is a freshman. That takes about an hour and a half, but he thought he would at least make it in time for his third-period class in world studies, his favorite subject.

Brennan did not have his smartphone that morning, and so, lacking assistance from GPS, he tried to follow the route his bus usually takes. He ended up in a quiet subdivision where the roads looped into each other, and when he noticed he had gone in a circle, he stopped to ask for help.

He tried one home, and then another. A woman answered the door, he said, and began yelling almost immediately, as if he were trying to break into her house.

“She didn’t really give me a chance to speak a lot, and I was trying to tell her that I go to Rochester High and I was looking for directions,” Brennan said on Friday. “A few moments later the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the shotgun.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-area-man-shoots-black-teen-asked-54446778



Just a normal day being Black in America ....

[Guno צְבִי]

Brennan Walker, 14, of Rochester Hills, Mich., woke up around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday — too late. He had slept through his alarm and was going to miss the school bus.

So he decided to walk to Rochester High School, where he is a freshman. That takes about an hour and a half, but he thought he would at least make it in time for his third-period class in world studies, his favorite subject.

Brennan did not have his smartphone that morning, and so, lacking assistance from GPS, he tried to follow the route his bus usually takes. He ended up in a quiet subdivision where the roads looped into each other, and when he noticed he had gone in a circle, he stopped to ask for help.

He tried one home, and then another. A woman answered the door, he said, and began yelling almost immediately, as if he were trying to break into her house.

“She didn’t really give me a chance to speak a lot, and I was trying to tell her that I go to Rochester High and I was looking for directions,” Brennan said on Friday. “A few moments later the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the shotgun.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-area-man-shoots-black-teen-asked-54446778



Just a normal day being Black in America ....

suprise suprise suprise , another feral gun hugging peckerwood

[Bourbon]

suprise suprise suprise , another feral gun hugging peckerwood

Well I can see how he would be in Fear for his Life ... at the sight of a 14 Year Old Black Kid.

[Irish Exit]

Well I can see how he would be in Fear for his Life ... at the sight of a 14 Year Old Black Kid.

My issue here is that the wife is the one who freaked out who then got her husband thinking someone was trying to break in. He should be charged for firing his weapon at the kid as he ran away, but my problem is that the wife is the one who really is the one who caused all this and she doesn't seem to have any criminal exposure no matter how you dice it.

[Bourbon]

My issue here is that the wife is the one who freaked out who then got her husband thinking someone was trying to break in. He should be charged for firing his weapon at the kid as he ran away, but my problem is that the wife is the one who really is the one who caused all this and she doesn't seem to have any criminal exposure no matter how you dice it.

Same answer: Well I can see how 's'he would be in Fear for his Life ... at the sight of a 14 Year Old Black Kid.

[Irish Exit]

Same answer: Well I can see how 's'he would be in Fear for his Life ... at the sight of a 14 Year Old Black Kid.

The report I read of this story over the weekend had the kid acknowledging he looks older than 14, but regardless, he should be charged for shooting at someone running away as that is no threat to him at that point even if he was trying to gain entry and it presents a danger to the public.

[Bourbon]

The report I read of this story over the weekend had the kid acknowledging he looks older than 14, but regardless, he should be charged for shooting at someone running away as that is no threat to him at that point even if he was trying to gain entry and it presents a danger to the public.

Here we go again ....

[Irish Exit]

Here we go again ....

That you keep posting the same thing without making an argument. Why yes, here we are again....

[Bourbon]

That you keep posting the same thing without making an argument. Why yes, here we are again....

What is there to argue?

[Irish Exit]

What is there to argue?

You are correct. You don't even have an argument. Glad that is settled.

[iolo]

You are correct. You don't even have an argument. Glad that is settled.

You mean, that you are a raving nutter, like all racists? Doesn't seem polite to say it, somehow.

[Bourbon]

You are correct. You don't even have an argument. Glad that is settled.

You're obviously upset and argumentative about something ... what is it?

[Irish Exit]

You mean, that you are a raving nutter, like all racists? Doesn't seem polite to say it, somehow.

Strange that I am a nutter as I am the only one calling for the guy to be charged with the firing of his weapon thus far.

[Bourbon]

Strange that I am a nutter as I am the only one calling for the guy to be charged with the firing of his weapon thus far.

Really ... ? So who is saying he shouldn't be charged?

[iolo]

Strange that I am a nutter as I am the only one calling for the guy to be charged with the firing of his weapon thus far.

I understood you to say the boy 'looked older' (i.e. that 'black' people should be shot when they grow up), but I don't speak Backwoods well, fair play.