During Obama’s first year in office, an unarmed white 16 year old was shot multiple times by a black man who said he was acting in self defense while protecting the neighborhood. Obama said nothing about the incident, and did not send the angry mob out after him or make any speeches.
Not guilty: The verdict in the manslaughter trial of Roderick Scott. After more than 19 hours of deliberations over two days, a jury acquitted the Greece man in the shooting death of Christopher Cervini, 17, last April.
“I just want to say thank you to the people who believed in me, who stood by me,” Scott said following the verdict. “I still have my regrets for the Cervini family; it’s still an unfortunate situation for them. I am happy that at least this chapter is over.”
As deliberations dragged on over two days and the jury asked for testimony to be read back, Scott admits he didn’t know how it would all turn out.
“I was nervous of course,” he said. “You never know what direction this whole thing is going to turn, so I have no idea. But it worked out and I feel that justice (was) served today.”
Cervini’s family members say justice wasn’t served. They say Christopher was murdered in cold blood, that he’d never been in trouble and Scott acted as judge, jury and executioner.
“The message is that we can all go out and get guns and feel anybody that we feel is threatening us and lie about the fact,” said Jim Cervini, Christopher’s father. “My son never threatened anybody. He was a gentle child, his nature was gentle, he was a good person and he was never, ever arrested for anything, and has never been in trouble. He was 16 years and four months old, and he was slaughtered.”
Scott says he acted in self defense when he confronted Cervini and two others saying they were stealing from neighbors cars. He told them he had a gun and ordered them to freeze and wait for police.
Scott says he shot Cervini twice when the victim charged toward him yelling he was going to get Scott.
“How can this happen to a beautiful, sweet child like that?” asked Cervini’s aunt Carol Cervini. “All he wanted to do was go home. And then for them to say, he was saying, ‘Please don’t kill me. I’m just a kid,’ and he just kept on shooting him.”
It appears that Obama is only interested in dead children whose story can further Obama’s personal ambitions.
h/t to Ted Sunday
that he’d never been in trouble….
……..During the early morning hours of April 4, 2009
this article adds a lot more meat to the potatoes…..
http://www.decodedscience.com/roderick-scott-the-black-george-zimmerman-acquitted-of-murder/33569
thanks Lat & Ted, amazing I live 2 hrs from Rochester and never heard about this? LOL
I get the point. But I have to say I have no tears for Christopher, a 17 year old knows better than to break into cars, and obviously this was not his first rodeo.
exactly, trash is trash no matter what color
http://themartialist.net/?p=306
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I think the gubmint is more interested in finding cases to support taking our guns than finding Justice for those involved.
That story is quite the perfect comparison.
Great find.