Monday, December 12, 2016
Jordan David and Michael Dunn
Jordan Davis was shot and killed by a middle aged white male Michael Dunn near Jacksonville Florida after getting into an oral argument. This case covered one of the most important issues in US, race, and stand your ground rights and there were a lot of lessons I took out from this document. As we know Dunn was holding racial biases and defined Jordan as a "thug" from the way he looks, and also assumes he carried a gun: which evidence wasn't found. For this Dunn draws and fires the gun resulting the killing. Now as the court proceeded the defendant used the stand your ground laws to justify Dunn's shooting as self-defense. I completely agree on the court decision to not acknowledge Dunn's self-defense rights since no weapons were found from the boy's car nor Jordan's cloth, and Dunn's statement of seeing a weapon from Jordan is not credible. In addition Jordan didn't apply any force on Dunn, including physical combat, and thus he couldn't be perceived as a threat. It is simply shocking to find out Dunn's decision makings, and I think the juries in this case made the right decision.
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