Posted on 11/07/2013 10:41:41 AM PST by equaviator
A community is looking for answers after 19-year-old Renisha McBride was shot in the head after seeking the help of residents in what media reports are describing as a predominantly white Detroit suburb following a car crash in the early morning of Nov. 4.
While Dearborn Heights authorities have refused to release details of the investigation, they have "identified the person who fired the shot and killed the woman."
According to her family, McBride was likely forced to go door-to-door because her cell phone had died.
"She probably wanted to ask him to make a call for her or if she could use the phone," said McBride's maternal aunt, Bernita Spinks told WJBK News.
Yet McBride and others have no idea how their loved one ended up dead.
"This man just came to the door, by somebody just knocking? She didn't break in his house; she didn't break a window. What, you seen somebody on your porch and you just start shooting? And then you say it was accidental? That wasn't accidental; that wasn't accidental, no," Spinks said.
The family believes that McBride, who is black, was likely racially profiled and is relieved that the police have decided to seek charges in the case.
"I just want justice. I'm not going to stop until we get it," Spinks told Detroit News.
At a Wednesday night vigil, close to 40 family members and friends gathered to pray and share in their grief. Some chanted "No justice, no peace" and "Justice for Renisha."
"We are not going to let him get away with this senseless act he committed against this 19-year-old girl," Rev. W.J. Rideout told Detroit News.
According to Spinks, prosecutors have informed family members that the shooter is in his 50's. An autopsy has not yet been released.
McBride's case recalls a September incident where 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell knocked on the front door of a house in Georgia in the early morning following a car accident. The homeowner, instead of opening the door, called 911. When three police officers arrived, Ferrell ran towards the squad before officer Randall Kerrick drew his gun and shot him 10 times, killing the unarmed Ferrell.
And you would believe incorrectly.
When I lived in the area seems to me Dearborn Heights was predominantly Arab?
But a classic push-in robbery situation - committed by methheads of even the most rarified Scandinavian extraction - is the woman in distress needing to get into a house to use the phone, while her boyfriend stands just out of the homeowner's line of sight.
Even if that's what happened, does it justify a shooting?
No responsible gun owner should ever take Joe Biden’s advice about self defense, or the ownership or use of guns.
If Joe Biden tried to unwrap a Twinkie with a crayon, somebody would probably get hurt, then arrested.
Not much to add. Just the usual “hunting season on black children”. Oh, wait that wasn’t king hussein that said that. No. It was someone else that said that. But it might as well have been him. If he only had a daughter. Oh, wait again. He does. Hope neither one of them is punished with a baby anytime soon.
It's not very fashionable to admit on FR, but the muzzies saved Dearborn from the scourge that inflicts their neighbors to the east.
How many incidents of someone using a “woman in distress” as a decoy for a home invasion have happened in this area?
I wouldn’t let her in, but I wouldn’t shoot her, either.
Call the cops, yes. Tell her I did, yes. Let her in, no. Shoot, no.
Good point. At that hour, I answer the door armed and with suspicious expectations at least. I expect something bad and don't like where it is going. It might not take much to be pushed into fear of life.
Also, what was she doing out at 2:30AM? I too am not taking sides yet as I doubt all the details are out there or accurate.
“Fine, I’m a racist. But I still have my phone!”
Lots of insinuated racism in the story with zero evidence to back it up. Interestingly enough, the day after Rachael Madcow declared the Detroit election to be racist because they elected the first white mayor since Coleman Young.
I read where she was shot in the back of the head ... like she was leaving. If so, that’s murder.
It REALLY depends on what was said, how it was said and who it was said to. If a 6'6" 340LB offensive lineman tells a 15 year old girl, "Let me use your phone or I'm going to kill/rape/hurt you!", the girl should shoot him and call the police. Right?
We may never know what all happened and why. Again, I am not taking sides yet. I waited on the Saint Skittles case and am glad I did.
I haven't been there for a couple of years, either, but if Dearborn Heights had any Arabs, they probably were Chaldean.
She could just walk away, and what would you do?
If it were a guy you maybe could just slug him and get it back if you could catch him and he had no accomplices.
However, this is just an unintended consequence of Obama's race war against whites, and the ongoing coast-to-coast racially motivated crimes against whites by black criminals.
96% of black voters voted for the muslim, communist, anti-American, racist POS Obama. 96% of them obviously joined him in his war against America.
A reasonable person would assume that 96% of their encounters with blacks would be with someone who has criminal intent against them personally.
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