And then they LEFT OUT a WHOLE BUNCH of STUFF!!
"Defendant grilled in Detroit porch shooting trial" Associated Press August 06, 2014
DETROIT — A suburban Detroit man on trial for killing an unarmed woman outside his home said Tuesday that her ‘‘unbelievable’’ predawn pounding on his doors made him fear for his life, sticking to his self-defense claim during cross-examination on the last day of testimony.
What, no big articles regarding the opening or coverage during? WTF?
Prosecutor Athina Siringas asked Theodore Wafer a series of pointed questions, often in a skeptical tone. She poked at inconsistencies in statements he made to police and in court, and she mocked some of his responses.
That doesn't look very professional, does it?
As for inconsistencies, governments have a lock on that. Must be all the agenda-pushing, self-serving lies they tell.
‘‘I wasn’t looking for a confrontation. I was hoping to end a confrontation,’’ Wafer said. ‘‘You sure ended it, Mr. Wafer,’’ replied Siringas, who moments earlier asked whether his strategy was to ‘‘shoot first, ask questions later.’’
Wafer, 55, is charged with second-degree murder in Renisha McBride’s death.
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FLASHBACKS:
"Groups seek justice in Mich. killing" Associated Press, November 09, 2013
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — Protesters and civil rights groups are calling
for justice after a suburban Detroit homeowner fatally shot a
19-year-old woman on his porch.
No charges have been filed after authorities said Renisha McBride, of Detroit, was killed by a shotgun blast to the face early last Saturday in Dearborn Heights. A man told investigators that he thought someone was trying to break into his home and accidentally discharged the gun, according to police.
McBride’s family said she probably approached the home to seek help after getting into a car accident nearby.
“She was shot in the front of the face, near the mouth,” police Lieutenant James Serwatowski told the Detroit Free Press.
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"Homeowner charged in Detroit-area porch shooting" by Corey Williams | Associated Press, November 16, 2013
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — A suburban Detroit homeowner was charged Friday with second-degree murder in the death of a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the face while on his front porch nearly two weeks ago.
Theodore P. Wafer, 54, of Dearborn Heights, also faces a manslaughter
charge in the death of Renisha McBride, who was killed on Nov. 2, Wayne
County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said.
Police say McBride was shot a couple of hours after being involved in a
nearby car accident. Family members say she likely approached Wafer’s
home for help.
The shooting has drawn attention from civil rights groups that called for an investigation and believe race was a factor in the shooting — McBride was black; prosecutors said Wafer is white. Some have drawn comparisons between this case and that of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen shot in 2012....
Oh, WOW! The damn jewsmedia trying to enflame racial tensions again, cui bono?
Related: Arkansas Acrobatics
Don't Knock on Doors in North Carolina
Which shows you those groups are all controlled-opposition
agenda-pushers. They are silent on the slaughter of young black men
across this country every night and day by AmeriKa's security services
-- otherwise known as police.
And btw, it is not just minorities. It's also poor white across the rural south and west that get shot for no reason other than sheer state oppression.
In a 911 call from Wafer at 4:42 a.m., he tells the dispatcher: ‘‘I just
shot somebody on my front porch with a shotgun, banging on my door.’’
They found McBride’s body on the porch. Evidence shows that McBride
knocked on the locked door, Worthy said, and there was no forced entry.
Under a 2006 Michigan self-defense law, a homeowner has the right to use
force during a break-in. Otherwise, a person must show that his or her life was in danger.
I'm going to feel that way if someone comes knocking on my door unexpectedly and late at night.
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"Mich. porch shooting victim called confused" by Ed White | Associated Press, December 19, 2013
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — A young drunk woman fatally shot on a man’s porch in suburban Detroit was hurt, scared, and confused a few hours earlier when she crashed her vehicle into a parked car, a witness testified Wednesday.
Carmen Beasley provided details about the hours preceding the death of
Renisha McBride, 19, who was shot in the face by a 54-year-old homeowner
in the early morning of Nov. 2.
A Dearborn Heights judge is holding a hearing to determine if there is
enough evidence to send Theodore Wafer to trial on a second-degree
murder charge. Defense lawyers say he feared for his life, but
prosecutors say the shooting was not justified.
It's only justified when it is AmeriKa's security forces blowing someone away.
Beasley said she heard a crash outside her Detroit home about 1 a.m. and
discovered that her car had been hit. She called 911, went outside, and
found McBride, who had walked away but returned to the scene. McBride was bleeding and pressing her hands to her head, Beasley testified.
‘‘She couldn’t find her phone,’’ Beasley said. “She was patting her pockets. . . . She just kept saying she wanted to get home.’’
She didn't care about the crime or her condition, she just wanted to
get away. I've been there. It's why I'm stone sober and here every damn
day.
Beasley went back into her house to call an ambulance, but McBride had walked away again by the time help arrived.
How long was that?
McBride was discombobulated and appeared to be in a “confused state
of not knowing where she was and not being able to give a phone number
or anything,’’ said Beasley, who believed the young woman was drunk.
Certainly the coroner did blood tests to determine if alcohol was present, right?
There was no testimony about where McBride went during the next few hours, as rain fell and temperatures dipped to the 40s. But she somehow ended up blocks away, on Wafer’s porch in Dearborn Heights. Around 4:30 a.m., he called 911 to report that he had shot someone who had been banging on his door.
Detective Sergeant Steve Gurka said Wafer’s Mossberg shotgun was found
inside near the front door with a spent shell still inside. A gun case
was found on the floor in another area of the house.
Dr. Kilak Kesha, who conducted the autopsy, testified that McBride was shot in the face at close range. He said that her blood-alcohol level was about 0.22, more than twice the legal limit for driving, but that it was probably even higher before she was shot, as levels drop over time. He said she had also been smoking marijuana.
Look, this is an absolute tragedy and I blame the hedonistic
agenda-pushing media and the inculcating culture in which we swim. The
point I'm trying to make, though, is how would you feel if some drunk
woke you from a sound sleep by banging on your door at an ungodly hour.
I'm trying to think how I would. Do I pretend no one is there? Do I ask
them what they want? Do I holler at them to go away and warn them? What
if they don't go away and continue?
During cross-examination, defense lawyer Cheryl Carpenter focused on
alcohol, drugs, and a possible head injury from the car crash.
‘‘Could a person get more aggressive after a brain injury?’’ she asked.
‘‘That’s possible,’’ Kesha replied, later saying McBride ‘‘absolutely’’ could also have been quiet and withdrawn while drunk.
In the courtroom, McBride’s supporters wore shirts bearing her image and the message: ‘‘Don’t shoot. Call 911.’’
They said they wished Wafer had called police instead of shooting McBride from inside his home.
Related: Police take an hour on average to answer calls
How long you gonna wait? Until they have busted down your door and
damaged your property? How much fear and terror must one live with?
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"Murder charge upheld in shooting; Self-defense argument rejected" by Ed White | Associated Press, December 20, 2013
Now if he were a cop, he gets absolved and never even gets to trial.
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — A Detroit-area man who fatally shot a drunk,
unarmed woman on his porch will stand trial for second-degree murder, a
judge said Thursday, rejecting a self-defense argument for the killer’s ‘‘bad choice.’’
So fear for your life is no longer self -defense -- unless you are a member of AmeriKa's security services.
There is no dispute that Theodore Wafer shot Renisha McBride, 19,
through the screen of his front door in the early hours of Nov. 2. His
attorneys said the 54-year-old man feared for his life, but Dearborn
Heights Judge David Turfe said there were other ways to protect himself, including a phone call for help.
Related: Police take an hour on average to answer calls
How long would you wait, judge? Or is being a judge mean when you make the call there is never a wait, huh?
‘‘This court recognizes you can’t automatically penalize someone for making a bad decision when pressed to react quickly,’’ the judge said. ‘‘But at the same time we can’t allow one to use a bad decision as a shield to criminal prosecution.
Only if you are part of the elite, a banker, or a credit ratings agency can it be used.
‘‘The defendant made a bad choice when there were other reasonable opportunities,’’ Turfe said.
Like what, wait out the drunk pounding and hollering until they break the door down?
The standard for a court to order someone to trial in Michigan is not as
high as beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the common, traditional
threshold to win a criminal conviction. Prosecutors must show only a
portion of their evidence at this stage. Indeed, Wafer apparently made a
one-hour recorded statement to police, but it was not introduced,
despite efforts by his lawyers.
I'm not convicting the guy at trial, so you can count it in the loss
column, Mr. prosecutor. That'll help your career advancement.
Defense attorney Cheryl Carpenter said Wafer did not intend to kill McBride, only protect himself. She referred to Michigan’s 2006 self-defense law.
‘‘If someone is breaking into a home there is a presumption that a homeowner can use deadly force,’’ she argued.
‘‘You don’t know how many people are out there. . . . There’s violent banging on the front door. We have a man alone in his home,’’ Carpenter said.
But Wayne County prosecutor Danielle Hagaman-Clark said it’s ‘‘ridiculous’’ to believe that Wafer was deeply afraid yet still decided to open the door and fire instead of first calling Dearborn Heights police.
Maybe he knew how long the response time was! That is not ridiculous, ma'am!
‘‘He shoved that shotgun in her face and pulled the trigger,’’ Hagaman-Clark said.
You are saying he opened the door first? First thing I want to see is if the door has a shotgun whole in it.
Civil rights groups have suggested that race may have played a role in the shooting, but prosecutors presented no evidence to make that connection. Wafer is white, while McBride was black.
I'm not surprised that card is being played after Zimmerman. Still harassing him, huh?
Wafer called 911 around 4:30 a.m. and said he had shot someone who was
banging on his door. More than three hours earlier, McBride had crashed
her car into a parked car in a residential neighborhood, about a
half-mile away in Detroit.
A witness said McBride was bleeding and holding her head. She apparently walked away from the scene before an ambulance arrived.
How long did that take, two hours?
It is still unclear, at least publicly, what she did between the time of the car wreck and her arrival on Wafer’s porch.
An autopsy found McBride had a blood-alcohol level of about 0.22, more
than twice the legal limit for driving. She also had been smoking
marijuana.
Her best friend, Amber Jenkins, 18, said they had been drinking vodka and playing cards seven to eight hours before the shooting was reported to 911.
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I can see why the trial wasn't covered, and once again the old axiom must be applied: if the government is shit (and it is!) then you must acquit!
"Boy fatally stabbed by 12-year-old at playground" by Corey Williams | Associated Press August 06, 2014
DETROIT — A 9-year-old boy was repeatedly stabbed in the back by a 12-year-old boy at a playground, then ran screaming to his western Michigan home and collapsed bleeding on his porch, witnesses and police said Tuesday.
Michael Conner Verkerke died at a hospital shortly after the Monday evening attack in Kentwood, outside Grand Rapids. Witnesses said the 12-year-old went to a nearby home after the stabbing, called 911, and calmly turned himself in, then tried to flag down officers when they arrived....
Witnesses told investigators that four children were playing when one of them, for unknown reasons, pulled a knife and stabbed the boy.
Glen Stacy, who lives nearby, told The Grand Rapids Press that the older boy approached him after the attack and asked to use his phone. He said the boy called 911 to report the attack and turn himself in.
Stacy said he also called police and described the boy as ‘‘very calm.’’
The motive in the attack was still being investigated, police said.
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Related: Boy, 8, shot, killed in Detroit
Also see: Big City Monday
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