I hate that thug music.
Those were the last words Rhonda Rouer heard her fiance, Michael David Dunn, say before he fired 10 shots at a car containing four black teenagers at a Southside Gate gas station. One of those teenagers, 17-year-old Jordan Davis, was killed.
On Saturday afternoon Rouer, crying and shaking uncontrollably, was compelled to testify against the man she intends to marry and told jurors what happened before and after Davis was killed on Black Friday in November 2012.
Her anguish appeared to unsettle the courtroom. Dunn, 47, and his family sitting in the front row fought back tears, and members of the Davis family looked at the ground as she hyperventilated and tried to keep her hands from shaking. Acting Circuit Judge Russell Healey took the unusual step of bringing Rouer into court before the jury was in the room in an effort to calm her down before she was called to the stand.
When she finished testifying, Rouer whispered, Im so sorry as she got off the stand. It was unclear if she was speaking to a bailiff, Dunn, the Davis family or someone else.
Something wrong with this thread, and THAT trial. Rap Music promotes a violent lifestyle that glorifies intimidation and guns. And the volume, the sheer loud penetrating violation of both human dignity , basic human respect and noise ordinances. How many black kids shoot each other, how many rap artists have been murdered all without a peep. But when a white guy is angered by the sheer raging hate of rap, and the VOLUME AT WHICH IT IS PLAYED over reacts, there is something wrong with him ? Perhaps. Lets ban loud stereos. They are a health issue, and a civil rights issue. People do have a right to privacy, ( think E. Snowden) . Loud music is used to coerce people, think Manuel Noriega to Al-Qaeda suspects. The culprit here is the loud stereo manufactures, the stores that install the base amplifiers. They should be treated like the cigarette industry , curtailed and eventually shut down as a nuisance or public health menace. This thread is one example of WHY.
I can't tell if you are a troll or an idiot.
It's the loud stereos!