Michael Dunn, 47, has been found guilty of 4 counts of attempted second degree murder and one count of firing a deadly weapon. A mistrial was declared on the first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of 17-year old Jordan Davis. Fearful in America it’s clearly open season on young black men in this country.
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Michael Dunn, 47, gunned down Davis at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida on November 23rd, 2012. Dunn claims that he felt threatened by the teen — who was sitting inside of an SUV with friends — and loud music coming from the vehicle, so he sprayed the vehicle with nine bullets before driving away, leaving Davis to die in a friend’s arms. None of the young men had weapons.
The jury, composed of four White women, two Black women, four White men, one Asian woman and one Hispanic man, had to decide whether or not to convict Dunn of first-degree murder, or lesser charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter, second-degree attempted murder and attempted manslaughter.
Dunn was initially charged with 2nd-degree murder but his charges were upgraded to 1st-degree murder, in addition to three counts of attempted murder for each of Davis’ friends who were inside of the SUV.
Dunn claims that he was “standing his ground” because he was in fear for his life, even though there was no weapon and Davis never left the vehicle.
The state of FLORIDA plans on going after a first degree murder charge. Stay tuned to this ever evolving story.
Spotted on News One.
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This man if guilty from day one he kilt a black man just because his music was loud. WTF who actually kill someone because they are playing loud music that is not valid reason for allowing someone to commit murder. The problem is that we don’t value human life anymore especially if your black and that’s a shame on America. Black life have value just as much as any other ethnicity. I thought it was ironic that the jury found it hard to charge him with the first count of first degree murder but found every other count guilty… He had to have a white jury that stood behind and support such horrid actions toward an innocent human being. This guy didn’t attempt to fight back nor did he had the chance to defend himself he was just Gun down for no apparent reason at all.