Posted on 04/17/2023 12:29:42 PM PDT by Callahan
-Ralph Yarl was shot through a glass door by a white homeowner in his 80s after mistakenly approaching the wrong address
-He had been going to collect his two younger twin brothers from a house less than a block away in Kansas City, Missouri
-Police have not brought any charges in the incident, and released the suspected gunman after 24 hours
A homeowner accused of shooting a black teenager in Missouri after the 16-year-old mistakenly rang his doorbell is understood to be an elderly white man in his 80s…
… Ralph was known among his peers for his intellect and for being a 'musical genius', before he was shot in the head and arm. The teen had received a letter from Yale Undergraduate Admissions Board identifying him as a 'good candidate' for the prestigious university. Ralph is part of his high school's Technology Student Association and Science Olympia Team, plays in the marching, jazz, and competition band, and is one of the top base clarinet players in Missouri. He had big dreams of attending college after being recognized as a Missouri scholar academy alumni in 2022.
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I hear the old guy will got an invitation from Biden to be on his Committee on Crime and Security.
80 years old...10PM? Assuming that this guy wasn’t known to be a troublemaker this could very well be a tragic accident rather than something worse.
Emma James and her runaway headline. Tells the whole story.
Yet couldn't discern the address.
I though it was Bidens Mental Instability and Senility Committee.
I suspect there is more to this story.
Academically gifted 😂 Yeah, right. That does not exist. Zero credibility in this story.
“In his 80’s” is a pretty broad time
Yup.
But anytime it’s a white guy, Christian, heterosexual and male that does something, it will get pointed out especially if the victim is a “extra special person.”
Of course if it’s the other way around, religion often doesn’t even get mentioned even if witnesses hear the perpetrator yelling “Allah Akbar.”.
Looking more and more like a trigger happy old fool who gets nervous when the pizza guy has a tan.
If there’s nothing else to this story, this is a horrible tragedy. Old man got jittery, I guess.
Yes it does. I’m sitting here looking at one of the best engineers I’ve ever known. He is most definitely black. ‘Scuse me. He told me to tell your racist ass he’s mocha. Not black. So, there you go.
Ain’t all white folx automatically clan persons?
Elderly folks tend to scare easily.
And I am not white. Paper is white. I am a lovely shade of pink.
where is outrage.
Yet couldn't discern the address.
My first thought exactly.
Well, the story about going to the wrong mirrored address is easy to confirm. So is shooting through a closed door. New facts better start swinging hard the geezer’s way or he’s getting tossed under the bus and left to rot. Nobody wants to get blown away by some trigger happy doofus just for knocking on a door.
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