re: Let me guess, he was just a thirsty jogger who wanted a drink of water….

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anti-white racism

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In this case, I’m referring to TD.

Racism is not the appropriate response to racism. But I suppose it is a predictable result.

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They are not, and never have been, one-sentence summarizations of the article.

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That's not what I was taught in school, sir.

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That's not what I was taught in school, sir.

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Are you a journalist?

Uh wut?

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for the shooting of 16-year-old Ralph Yarl in a crime that had a “racial component,”

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Lester, who is white, exchanged no words with the teen before allegedly shooting him

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Where is this alleged "racial component"?

Have you seen this old man's house? Signs everywhere to stay away.. Keep off.. Cameras, fences. The old man was a terrified, paranoid human... Not a white supremacist out to kill blacks.The media is a bunch of pussies for not calling this what it is.. An 85 year old mentally ill man who felt vulnerable to the crime that is all of St.Louis today. . I have a carbon copy of this old dude 2 blocks from my house.

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What time did this happen?

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APnews

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Yarl, an honor student and all-state band member, was supposed to pick up his two younger brothers when he approached the wrong house at roughly 10 p.m. Lester came to the door and shot Yarl in the forehead — then shot him again, in the right forearm.

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No words were exchanged before the shooting, the probable cause statement said. But afterward, as Yarl got up to run, he heard Lester yell, “Don’t come around here,” the statement said.

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Lester told police that he lives alone and had just gone to bed when he heard his doorbell, according to the probable cause statement. He said he picked up his gun and went to the door, where he saw a Black male pulling on the exterior storm door handle and thought someone was breaking in.

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Police Chief Stacey Graves said that Yarl’s parents asked him to pick up his brothers at a home on 115th Terrace, but he mistakenly went to 115th Street

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By Monday afternoon, the home where the shooting happened had been vandalized. Black spray-paint on the side of the house showed a heart with “16” in the middle. Eggs splattered the front windows and the door.

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Did the public ever see arbery's criminal record?

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Wasn't it widely reported at the time?

Also, it I don't think it was relevant to the case.

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Lester told police that he lives alone and had just gone to bed when he heard his doorbell, according to the probable cause statement. He said he picked up his gun and went to the door, where he saw a Black male pulling on the exterior storm door handle and thought someone was breaking in.

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Not an unrealistic thought. If I was awakened in the middle of the night to some random guy pulling on my door handle, I'd probably think my house was being broken into as well.

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I don't agree that they were racist. The may very well have been

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It's fair to say the white trio made assumptions about Arbery which on that day did not bear out. Would they have made similar assumptions about a White jogger? Seems doubtful.

Perhaps one could argue that if their neighborhood was all White (doubtful), the fact Arbery was Black would identify him as not being a neighborhood resident. That would still be dubious rationale in terms of racism, but possibe.

In the end though, the behavior of the trio, caught on video before and after the murder was pathetic, especially that of the shooter. Testimony was the shooter repeatedly used the N-word, and addressed Black people as if lesser to Whites. His behavior walking away after the killshot supports that attitude.