Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Stand Your Ground: Racial disparity In 2012, in response to the Trayvon Martincase, the Tampa Bay Times compiled a report on the application of stand your ground, and also created a database of cases where defendants sought to invoke the law. Their report found no racial disparity in Florida cases in the way in which defendants claiming self-defense under the law are treated, with white subjects being charged and convicted at the same rate as black subjects, and results of mixed-race cases were similar for both white victims of black attackers and black victims of white attackers.[35] Shooters of black attackers overall were more successful at using the law than shooters of white attackers, regardless of the race of the victim claiming self-defense, but analysis showed that black attackers were also more likely to be armed and to be involved in committing a crime, such as burglary, when shot. A Texas A&M study found that when whites use the stand-your-ground defense against bl

This black victim of the ‘war on drugs’ has been sitting in jail for 4 years waiting for his trial After four years in jail, Marvin Louis Guy—the Kileen, Texas man who is facing capital murder charges for killing a narcotics officer during a no-knock drug raid in 2014—has yet to go to trial. But it isn’t because Guy’s main attorney, Carlos Garcia, hasn’t been trying to pin down a trial date. Last week on July 19—when Guy, Garcia and the prosecution met with Judge John Gauntt in a courtroom in Bell County, Texas for a status hearing—Garcia stressed that he was  ready to go to trial . “We’re ready,” Garcia told Judge Gauntt. “We’ve been ready. We’re ready to go. Give us a date.” But no trial date was set, although another status hearing has been set for Thursday, August 9. Guy is facing one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder for an incident that occurred on the morning of May 9, 2014, when he shot and killed narcotics officer Charles Dinwiddie. The pr

Police drew guns on Ving Rhames at his California home after neighbor called 911 Actor  Ving Rhames  took to the airwaves  on Friday  to recall a disturbing incident when he said police held him at gunpoint in his own home after a neighbor called the police and claimed that was committing a robbery,  PEOPLE   reports. READ MORE:  ‘Progress is not perfection!”: Michelle Williams feeling better after depression bout — The  Mission: Impossible — Fallout   star and Golden Globe winner said on SiriusXM’s  The Clay Cane Show , that he experienced a racist incident in his Santa Monica, California, home.

Black ‘hero’ firefighter saved kids but was demoted after complaining about racist abuse and threats: lawsuit A black firefighter who has been hailed as a hero for saving the lives of a family has filed a lawsuit saying that he was subjected to racist abuse and threats after he transferred to a busier firehouse,  the  New York Post  reports . In March, Roben Duge  saved a two children from a fire while off-duty . Despite the heroism, Duge says he has been discriminated against because he is black and is currently driving a truck for the department instead of fighting fires. Duge became a firefighter in 2013 but ran into problems when he transferred to a firehouse in a far-out Brooklyn neighborhood which was run by Capt. Daniel Florenco. Florenco allegedly demanded to know why Duge had been allowed to transfer into his firehouse and was told that he should have remained in “the neighborhood you live in.” Florenco allegedly refused to give Duge or another black firefight

Dallas Cowboys’ Dak Prescott calls national anthem protests inappropriate Dallas Cowboys quarterback  Dak Prescott  is going against the grain with his recent statement that kneeling during the national anthem at  NFL games is not the right place to protest, the  Star-Telegram  reports. READ MORE:  Omarosa warns Trump to ‘come clean’ before White House tell-all drops in August Prescott is one of few NFL players to publicly support the NFL’s new no kneeling policy. As the NFL and the players union work out the kinks of the deal that deals with penalties, Dallas Cowboys owner  Jerry Jones  doubled down  Wednesday  saying that his team must stand for the anthem, and can’t stay in the locker room.  

florida cop says his chief instructed him to frame  There is an ongoing federal investigation into the police department in Biscayne Park, Fla. Their former chief—52-year-old Raimundo Atesiano—and two other former police officers, Raul Fernandez and Charlie Dayoub, were indicted on a conspiracy charge after they pinned four unsolved home burglaries on an innocent black 16-year-old just so the chief could claim he had a perfect property crime clearance rate in 2013. Atesiano is said to have ordered the officers to frame the teenager by falsifying arrest affidavits.

Police stop and frisk black man — while looking for robbery suspect who’s white A Wisconsin black man on his way home from work was stopped and frisked by police looking for the perpetrator of an armed robbery—even though the suspect was white,  reports  the Steven’s Point Journal. Deandre Pettiford-Bates detailed his experience in a Facebook post. “I’m gonna start this post off by saying I respect police and all that they do but tonight was complete and utter bullshit,” he wrote. “I’m biking home listening to music when this cops pulls right in front of me and yells at me to get off my bike, I start off by asking if I did something wrong…he reply’s by saying “that’s what we’re figuring out” pats me down, asked if I had a gun, takes off my backpack and then 3 squad cars pull up…they dump my back pack on to the street grab my wallet out my back pocket and go through it.” When one of the cops asked him where he was coming from, Pettiford-Bates told him he was coming from w