The ancient peoples believed that their gods controlled all human endeavors.
On Wednesday, November 24th, God spoke through 12 people in Georgia state, the 11 whites and one black on the jury, regarding the fate of three white men charged with the murder of a young black man in February 2020.
Names: Gregory and his son Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan were convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges. The victim was Ahmaud Aubrey.
The jury’s vote on conviction was given in the morning by the jury, who requested that the original video of the persecution and murder of one of the killers and the replay of the original five-minute 911 be provided.
The video was one thing, but playing the first few seconds of the 911 tape strengthened my conviction from my point of view.
The first few seconds of the 911 tape summed up the basis of the case in half a dozen words.
It wasn’t three country walkers who killed Ahmed Aubrey, or rural Georgia “crackers” who spat up worn-out chewing tobacco. They were not the racist white defense lawyers who racially glossed over the victim, his “bad shorts” and his “dirty toenails”. They weren’t the racist white defenders speaking out against black pastors in the courtroom or against black protesters outside the courthouse.
The jury was brilliant and so different from the Wisconsin jury who acquitted a white juvenile offender of murdering two white men and wounded another with an illegal gun. His name, Kyle Rittinhouse.
Former President Donald J. Trump, “By claiming (Rittenhouse) is a hero,” political scientist Lilliana Mason told the Washington Post, “what he did is not a tragedy at all. It wasn’t a conflict that went deadly wrong, it was a good, deadly conflict. “
While former President Trump admires Rittenhouse for acting beyond vigilance, sane people believe the boy’s mother should be charged with contributing to a minor’s crime for raising a teen who breaks a law which prohibits the purchase of a rifle by minors under the age of 18.
To be clear, I can understand why the Wisconsin jury acquitted Rittenhouse. They bought a self defense; they bought that it was not a “provocation” as it took to find him guilty.
Rittenhouse provoked the shootings. Had he been grown up and in uniform, his jury would likely have found him guilty. But because he was a tear-eyed punk kid who was undoubtedly mindlessly afraid of men who chased him – they didn’t think he was guilty.
Nobody shot him, so shooting three men was far from justified. However, some may view his shooting as real self-defense because he “reasonably” thought he was going to die.
Self-defense generally allows a response equivalent to attack, but does not allow an unarmed man to be shot and killed with four shots from an illegal weapon.
I wouldn’t have voted not guilty if I had served on that Wisconsin jury, but then again, I’m not a small town resident in Wisconsin.
Nor am I a Georgia suburban resident who grew up on the huge racial difference that the South has been “blessed” with for 400 years. This is especially true of Georgia, which was originally a convict colony where England deposited its worst criminals.
I have never threatened a black man with “stop or I’ll shoot your head” for jogging in a white neighborhood; I’ve never pointed a gun at a black guy in Georgia while calling him a “nigger”. Never have I ever chased a black man with two pickups and locked him up with an armed truck.
I’ve never threatened anyone with a gun. I was trained by the U.S. Marines not to aim a gun unless I was ready to shoot. Since I came from a police family, I was also trained not to falsely accuse anyone of a crime.
So the Georgia case came down to a few seconds of the 911 tape for me and the jury; namely:
Emergency call center: “What is the emergency?”
Greg McMichael, father of Travis: “There’s a black man running down the street …”
God was paying attention. The three white men have been tried by jurors who seem to think like me.
Raoul Lowery Contreras is a US Navy veteran, political advisor, and author of The Armenian Lobby & American Foreign Policy, The Mexican Border: Immigration, War and a Billion Dollars in Trade, and A Hispanic View of President Donald J. Trump. “He moderates the Contreras Report on YouTube and Facebook.
