20: Jordan Davis

Morbidology

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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One of the most terrifying things in the world for young African American men is knowing that certain people can feel threatened by you, simply by existing. Black blindness is a phenomenon that makes white cops see an imaginary gun on an African American man during a routine traffic stop. Sometimes, it can go hand in hand with the Stand your Ground Law. In 2012, the Tampa Bay Times found that those who killed African Americans using the law went free 73% of the time while those who killed white people using the law went free 59% of the time.

This controversial law offers protection to people who harm or kill someone who they feel threatened by. The ambiguity of the definition of threat under this law grants so much latitude that the law can often be abused. The Stand your Ground Law sets the bar incredibly low for what constitutes as a threat and when deadly force can be used to neutralize that so-called threat, it makes for a slippery slope.

In 2012, much of America was celebrating the re-election of the nation’s first African American president but just three weeks later in Jacksonville, Florida, the murder of an unarmed African American teenager was a bloody reminder of just how far we still have to go in the battle against racism.

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0:00.0	The Oh, Welcome. Welcome to Morburogy, the podcast. I'm your host Emily J Thompson,
0:41.1	author of Unsoft Child Murders and co-author of Unsolved Murders, True Crime Cases, Uncovered. One of the most terrifying things in the world for young African American men is knowing that certain people can feel threatened by you, simply by existing.
1:08.0	Black blindness is a phenomenon that makes white cops see an imaginary gun on an African American man during a routine
1:16.0	traffic stop. Sometimes it can go hand in hand with the stand-your-ground law. In 2012, the Tampa Bay Times found that those who killed
1:25.4	African Americans using the law went free 73% of the time while those who killed
1:31.6	white people using the law went free 59 the time. This controversial law offers protection to people who harm or kill somebody who they feel threatened by. The ambiguity of the definition of threat
1:46.8	under this law grants so much latitude that the law can often be abused. The standard ground law sets the bar incredibly low for what
1:56.6	constitutes as a threat and when deadly force can be used to neutralize that so-called threat, it makes for a slippery slope.
2:06.2	In 2012, much of America was celebrating the re-election of the nation's first African American president.
2:14.0	But just three weeks later in Jacksonville, Florida,
2:18.0	the murder of an unarmed African American teenager
2:21.0	was a bloody reminder of just how far we still have to go in the battle
2:26.1	against racism. It was a pleasant evening in Jacksonville, Florida on the 23rd of November 2012,
2:46.0	when 17 year old Jordan Davis and three of his friends,
2:50.0	Leeland Brunson, Tommy Storns and Tevin Thompson pulled into the forecourt of Gate Petroleum Gas Station at around 7.40 PM.
3:00.0	Jordan Davis was a 17 year old African American student at Wolfson High School
3:05.3	who was just about to start his new job at McDonald's.
3:08.8	Jordan used to say, oh you name me after Michael Jordan.
3:12.3	And you know, and I would laugh about that but that wasn't it I mean we had
3:17.8	decided that if we had a girl he would choose the name if we had a boy I would choose the name and I never
3:27.0	told you because I already knew we had a boy anyway so I knew I was going to
3:31.0	get to choose the name.
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