Liberals are so deep in denial mode regarding the realities of our society that it is really sort of breathtaking.
Whatever you feel the causes of it are, whether it be a history of slavery and mistreatment, poverty, culture, lack of opportunities, "stereotype threat" or whatever - the fact is that in our culture as it stands now, there is a very high rate of criminality in the black community currently.
What this translates into is a situation where it is not unreasonable for people to factor that in when they're trying to assess either an encounter they themselves are having, or one someone else had.
This is just like how when a liberal hears about a domestic violence situation at the house down the block last night, their mind instantly jumps to picturing the husband/boyfriend being the violent one. They're allowing their knowledge of statistics to impact their perception and this CAN lead you astray certainly, but generally is not unreasonable to do.
When evidence to the contrary comes forward, you change your view.
When I heard about this case and heard about the occupants of each car, their behavior, the stereotypes they fit into, it was not at all hard for me to believe that the kids in the truck reacted very poorly to a request to lower their music volume, and may have made some very aggressive threats and moves in reaction. Possibly even crossing into the realm of legally justifying self-defense against themselves.
Then again, some middle aged white guy being a hot head and giving into a "dirty harry" fantasy for the flimsiest reasons or because he was "disrespected" isn't out of the question either.
None of us really know whether he was legitimately in fear for his life and whether Davis and/or the others in that car said or did anything which would pass muster legally to justify that fear. We can only weigh the probabilities and the evidence we know about. There has been a lot of effort to keep evidence under wraps by Angela Corey in this case.
I don't think either scenario can be ruled out at this time.
I think Dunn's goose is likely cooked, and that may or may not be appropriate.
Keep in mind he can be a racist and/or a douche and/or a horrible, abusive husband and still have been in the right. We can't know.
Davis and his friends could be little hoodlums and still have been in the right, too.
And yes, it is true that when people end up in the infamy spotlight like this, people come out of the woodwork with tales about them. Some true, some not, some exaggerated.
I don't think the presence of a gun that was ditched can be entirely ruled out. It is certainly interesting that one of the handful of 911 calls mentioned them looking like they were "stashing something."
As for Trevor Dooley, he basically threatened a man with his gun by brandishing it, and then shot that man in the heart, to death, because the man reacted to that threat in an effort merely to subdue him. Shot him dead in front of his young daughter. Because he stood up for some skateboarders. Dooley is guilty. Would be guilty if he was magenta.
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