Sunday, April 16, 2023

Feature, Not Bug

The Kansas Defender reported that a 16-year-old was shot in the head by a white man, and as he lay bleeding, the man shot him in the head again. Yarl ended up at the door accidently when he was asked to go pick up his sibling at a friend's house. The house where he was supposed to go was on NE 115th Terrace. Yarl went to NE 115th Street instead. 
“This was not an ‘error’; this was a hate crime. You don’t shoot a child in the head because he rang your doorbell. The fact that the police said it was an ‘error’ is why America is the way it is,” Dr. Faith Spoonmore, Yarl's aunt, told the Defender.

But why was he shot? 

The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence cites Missouri's "stand your ground" laws that "remove the duty to retreat before using deadly force in defense of self or others in any place a person has a right to be."

A black man at your door is a “threat” you don’t have to retreat from. So the law worked as designed.

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