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Pastor questions grand jury indictment in 'road rage' shooting death
KHOU 11 News ^ | February 20, 2013 | Kevin Reece

Posted on 02/22/2013 7:53:35 AM PST by Uncle Chip

HOUSTON -- The pastor of the young woman who indicted for murder five months after a road rage incident in northwest Harris County says that if the races were reversed there might not be a murder indictment at all.

Crystal Scott, 23, shot and killed 22-year-old Jonathan Ables, September 17, 2012 ...

The drivers had pulled into a Shell gas station at Perry and FM 1960 after Scott says Ables bumped her car.

“Unfortunately the actions of an enraged man led to his untimely death,” said Scott’s pastor, Bishop James Dixon, II, who held a news conference on Wednesday -- the day after the indictment was announced.

Crystal Scott is African American. Jonathan Ables was white.

"Had this been a black male, a white female, most people are doubtful we'd be having this kind of press conference,” said Dixon when a reporter asked specifically about the race issue and whether he thought a white female would face a murder charge under similar circumstances.

"How is it that you get a murder charge when you're the one under attack,” Dixon asked.

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Crystal Scott surrendered to authorities Tuesday night for a mandatory booking process and was released pending trial on $50,000 bail.

An initial court date has been set for early March.

(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...


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Here is a short primer on this incident for the benefit of Bishop Dixon II:

Scott had been driving recklessly for which she had been charged 10 days earlier and also later that day. She hit Ables vehicle and they both pulled off into a gas station to exchange insurance information as is required by Texas law.

He parked 125 feet from her and walked unarmed over to her vehicle. What did she think he was coming over to her for -- to steal her bag of Skittles and iced tea???

Instead of getting out of her car with her insurance information she reached into the glove box for her CHL permitted gun and waited behind the tinted windows of her car for him to get close enough.

When he got toward the front of her car, she then fired at him from within the car but missed. That one shot that went into the window frame shattering the window sent him backing up away from the car with his hands up.

This woman then, "so fearful for her life", exited the vehicle gun in hand, and as Ables backed up away from her car with his hands up in the air, pleading for her to put the gun away, went after him, and fired three more times, two of them hitting him in the chest, killing him 30-40 feet from the car.

With her black activist pastor on speed dial her prefabricating NAACP attorney was there in minutes claiming self defense.

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And now a little bit about Bishop Dixon II:

Bishop James Dixon travels to Sanford, Florida to join other social justice advocates including Rev. Al Sharpton of National Action Network, Marc Morial of the National Urban League and NAACP leaders.

The purpose is to protest the killing of 17 year old Trayvon Martin. He was an unarmed youth who was gunned down by a Neighborhood Watch leader named George Zimmerman.

Bishop James Dixon was recently appointed Chairman of Religious Affairs of the Texas NAACP. He works closely with national religious and civil rights leaders, many of whom will be speaking in Sanford, Florida on Thursday.

Upon returning to Houston, Bishop Dixon will be sharing with leaders across Texas how they can lend their voices to the cause of justice and show their support for Trayvon Martin's family.

He will also hold a meeting with African-American youth to help soothe the growing anxiety stemming from their fear of police.

Bishop Dixon recently introduced a new campaign to area leaders, Be Your Brother’s Keeper, Not Your Brother’s Killer. The purpose is to promote the concept of brotherhood within and across lines of race, and to discourage violence by promoting the sanctity of human life.

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How's that new campaign working out for you, pastor???

1 posted on 02/22/2013 7:53:44 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Totally disgusting.


2 posted on 02/22/2013 7:57:24 AM PST by Dudoight
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To: Dudoight
Totally disgusting.

Yep. In a case like this, it is best to turn around with your back to them and walk away. If you are shot, it makes the "scared for my life" defense much more unlikely to succeed.

3 posted on 02/22/2013 8:00:07 AM PST by BipolarBob (Happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Do not approach a vehicle with tinted windows; wait for the police.

Unless the facts are disputed, this pastor is a race baiter trying to excuse murder. Unfortunately, race baiting pays.


4 posted on 02/22/2013 8:00:41 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9318779.htm


5 posted on 02/22/2013 8:00:41 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: BipolarBob

Why my Glock is always with me, everywhere.


6 posted on 02/22/2013 8:03:26 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Uncle Chip

With racist hate pimps like Dixon fomenting the murder of Whites in Houston and thousands of Katrina parasites still infesting the city, why would any White person with a choice move to humid Houston?


7 posted on 02/22/2013 8:09:15 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: machogirl

Previous discussion here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2934768/posts?page=1

Photos and other info here:

http://diwataman.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/black-woman-stands-her-ground-kills-white-man/


8 posted on 02/22/2013 8:11:19 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Resolute Conservative

Zactly! Especially in Houston.

Depending on the veracity of the story of #1 post, sounds like da ho be lookin fo some cracka to pay back.


9 posted on 02/22/2013 8:21:31 AM PST by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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To: Dudoight

Darn it, don’t they know that road rage is now part of entitlement policies? She should just walk. /s


10 posted on 02/22/2013 8:21:31 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Is he maintaining that black people ought to be able to kill white people whose vehicle they have bashed?


11 posted on 02/22/2013 8:25:03 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Uncle Chip
uncle chip, you know that's not the story. Abiles was just another of thousands of hispanic yout' who travel the highways and byways of Texas with chips on their shoulder looking for women to push around.

That's their way doncha' know.

This time he ran into a woman who was tired of it ~ witnesses report he tried to get in her car ~ she shot him.

The only mistake the preacherman made was describing him as 'white' ~ 'cause he wasn't. Crystal knew exactly what he was up to.

12 posted on 02/22/2013 8:28:11 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Uncle Chip
"How is it that you get a murder charge when you're the one under attack,” Dixon asked.

Perhaps George Zimmerman can answer that for you Pastor.

13 posted on 02/22/2013 8:39:34 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Uncle Chip

Thanks for the further info. This is definitely not Stand Your Ground or self defense. And this Bishop (uh huh) is with the anti-Zimmerman Black Racist Lynch Mob in Sanford.

People need to wake up to Black Racism


14 posted on 02/22/2013 9:06:13 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Uncle Chip

http://diwataman.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/black-woman-stands-her-ground-kills-white-man/

Here’s something interesting I found.


15 posted on 02/22/2013 9:32:09 AM PST by Amberdawn
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To: Dudoight

Yep. It shouldn’t matter who is black and who is white. Why did she kill him?


16 posted on 02/22/2013 9:50:34 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: muawiyah

Seems like we have two distinctly different versions of events. If it was at a service station, I gotta wonder if there is video. That would clear things up nicely.


17 posted on 02/22/2013 11:25:52 AM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: zeugma
it's like that shooting at Walmart where the rentacop managed to kill a shoplifter in the parking lot. That place, like all Walmarts, has videos coming out it's ears ~ yet ~ and I checked again today ~ no Walmart video of what went on is available!

I said earlier that if everything happened the way the shooter said it did the tape will be out on the street quick, and if there's a problem we may never see it!

Still waiting ~ their lawyers may need more time.

This case probably had surveillance on the front door and the pumps where trouble usually happens. The woman pulled off the road and parked some distance from that central area. There can be good reasons why there's no video there.

BTW, I check back on this case from time to time as well, and refresh my memory of what went down. The earliest story tried to portray the hispanic guy as white but he's undoubtedly mestizo. She's American!

18 posted on 02/22/2013 11:36:00 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Amberdawn
Interesting that HE'S UPDATED the file ~ and has backed off his earlier postion regarding where people were at the time of the event ~ note his statement that her car could have been moved, or his body moved by the time these photos were taken ~ hence, claims about him being over 100 feet away may not be relevant.

He's left that identity piece in there ~ but I thought we'd all gotten past that business since there were over one dozen women in that part off Houston metro with that exact same name.

19 posted on 02/22/2013 11:44:35 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Amberdawn

The indictment by the Grand Jury was a given if they had the same set of facts that were obvious at that Diwataman website — and clearly they did.

This case was previously discussed here 5 months ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2934309/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2934768/posts


20 posted on 02/22/2013 2:35:00 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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