Family of man allegedly killed over loud music by security guard asks for justice
Ben Crump called on the Shelby County DA and Kroger to take responsibility.abc11.com
"A Black man on his way to visit his niece and nephew was fatally shot by a security guard in Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday evening over an argument about loud music, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by ABC News. Alvin Motley Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene. He was at a Kroger fuel center with his girlfriend, Pia Foster, when he and the security guard, Gregory Livingston, got into a verbal altercation over the volume of music coming from their car, according to police.
Foster told authorities she saw Motley walking toward Livingston after the initial altercation and asked him, "Let's talk like men," according to the affidavit. The surveillance footage, which has not been released to the public, showed Motley approaching Livingston while holding a beer can and a lit cigarette, according to the affidavit. Livingston drew his weapon and shot Motley in the chest. Livingston has been charged with second-degree murder and is currently being held in the Shelby County Jail on a $1.8 million bond."
The guy who was arrested was a former police officer so he would know more than anyone how to access imminent danger and threats of harm -- so there was something this Motley guy did that justified him being shot. This case is similar to Jordan Davis; a teen who was playing loud music in a car with his friends; refused to turn it down when a man named Michael Dunn asked him to.... this left Mr. Dunn no other choice but to fear for his life and shoot into the vehicle multiple times, killing Jordan.....Livingston is charged with murder now but people need to understand that playing loud black music by the likes of people like Public Enemy, Kanye, Drake or even Bob Marley -- this is very dangerous and you are basically giving people no other choice but to defend themselves against it. Just turn your music down or listen to more appropriate music or at least more American music.
A very good question.
I think it is a matter of dominance.
They play very loud and generally vulgar and inappropriate music, marking any place that can hear it, as their territory.
You can't have a nice middle class life or community, when a family going to the gas station has to put up with some "music" blaring about "*******" and "hoes" and such shit.
The white family in question has to either avoid the area like the plague, or learn to keep their heads down, and be quiet, because if they say anything, they will be wacist and possibly attacked and/or killed.
This leads to either white flight or the next generation learning that they don't have a right to complain or have their feelings or culture respected.
The security guard, wanting to "Talk to him like men" was purely this. He wanted the kids to show some respect for the other people around them.
What seems to be a clash between a bunch of kids and a wacist asshole was actually an attempt by a white guy to come to some level of common respect and tolerance.
But the kids, being blacks raised in a culture where they were told they are superior, insisted on their Privilege, and refused to give an inch.
There was a dominance fight and the white guy lost. The black group lost a member but won the battle. THe guard is going away and no one else in the area will ever dare to try to test the dominance of blacks again.
