Michael Dunn, the man who shot and killed Jordan Davis, is looking at sixty years for shooting in a vehicle with four black teens inside whom he felt were playing their music too loud. Thing is, he is going to jail for the attempted murder of the three who survived, but a mistrial was declared in the charge of murdering Davis. How the hell that happened remains a mystery, but we are all working to get to the bottom of this. In June, Theodore Wafer will be on trial for the shooting death of Renisha McBride, a black woman who knocked on his door after she was in a car accident and was met with gunfire. This and the Trayvon Martin case means that case will REALLY be watched, but luckilly that’s in Detroit and prosecutor Kim Worthy doesn’t put up with this crap the way Florida seems to. Davis’ parents speak out. Oh, and happy birthday, Jordan.
The Root
Sunday would have been Jordan Davis’ 19th birthday. His mother, Lucia McBath, sent out this message on Twitter early on Saturday.
“Tomorrow is my boy’s 19th birthday. I pray we will celebrate not only him but a just and righteous verdict.”
But there was to be no verdict for Jordan, as the jury, made up of four white females, two black females, four white males, an Asian female and a Hispanic male, could not reach a concensus on the first-degree murder charge against Michael Dunn. After some 27 hours of deliberation, repeated urgings by the judge and what observors described as “yelling” in the jury room, the jurors claimed they were hopelessly deadlocked. They convicted Dunn of three counts of second-degree attempted murder for firing at the car in which Davis and his friends were riding.
After the verdict, Jordan’s parents, Lucia McBath and Ron Davis, held an emotional news conference during which they spoke of how they had raised their son and their expection for justice.
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