Gun Owner Blames Fictional Black Man for Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

http://www.mediaite.com/online/gun-...l-black-man-for-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound/



For the better part of a week, police and residents of a Redding, California neighborhood were on the lookout for an armed and dangerous, and possibly unshaven, black man who had allegedly shot Brent Posada in the stomach during a struggle over a handgun. Then, police quizzed Posada about his report on the wound that sent him to the hospital, and discovered that there was no menacing black man, only Posada shooting himself with a high-powered air rifle.

According to the Redding Police Department, officers responded to a report of a gunshot victim at Shasta Medical Center, and when they questioned the victim, Brent Posada, he told them that a “black male adult, mid to late twenties, 6’0”, 185 pounds, black hair,” approached him and pointed a black handgun at him. Posada said he pushed the man’s arm to the side as the gun went off, and he was hit in the stomach. Posada told police the man was wearing a “black hoodie style sweatshirt, blue jeans and black high top shoes with silver stripes.”

The shooting, and the suspect’s description, were widely reported by local news stations, who interviewed shocked neighbors about the at-large suspect. The news was also likely unwelcome to Redding’s 1.2% black population.

This week, though, police disclosed that Posada had made the story up, and that the wound he suffered was self-inflicted:

 

So are black men imaginary creatures now? Will people tell their children bed time stories about "The Big Bad Black Man" or "The Boy Who Cried Black Man"?

 

True indeed. Those conservatives blame the Black man in the White House for every problem.

 

Well, you know we are the stuff that nightmares are made of. Lol

 

These same folks so sure they can make up a credible alibi if they say the perp was black also "know" they can get way with shooting a person if they're black, or perpetrate basic workaday stuff like discrimination and bullying people on the job if they're black.

Yet people will still try to say stuff like "trayvon martin" could've been anyone - race had nothing to do with it"

Nonsense. Impunity, "plausible deniability," scapegoating, stuff like that all has a racial element. It's about what people think they can get away with

 

DREAMS :smt051

 

And yet the band plays on. Saltine bastards.

 

Medlashin,even the house slaves say the same thing and it it happens to them they would make a excuse.

 

I heard about this story earlier.

I thought it was from the Onion.

 

Next thing we will have is a paranoid movement of vigilantism to kill any black man based on someone's imagination.

 

This could actually happen, history does repeat itself afterall

 

And it will happen because we as black folks will allow it to happen.