I Know Where The Rev.s are Heading

Hey folks,

Not much time this Friday, but I wanted to comment on this. Get ready for the next Circus, brought to you by Rev. Al, and Rev Jess. That’s right, I know they are most likely on their way to California right now. Another poor misunderstood Black guy is in trouble.

Get this, According to the AP - Rare robbery case brings cries of racism By JULIANA BARBASSA, Associated Press Writer

Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death — but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.

OK, STOP! Who cares what color these people are? Seriously. Read this for what it is. Three THUGS broke into a house, threatened the owner and his family. Two were shot in the process. I got news for you out there. I do not care what color you are. I do not care if you are White, Black, or GREEN. I do not care if you are Muslim, Jewish, or Christian. Don't care if you are young, old, Man, Woman, rich, or poor. If you break into my house and threaten MY family, do NOT plan on living through it. I WILL take you out.

In a case that has brought cries of racism from civil rights groups, Renato Hughes Jr., 22, was charged by prosecutors in this overwhelmingly white county under a rarely invoked legal doctrine that could make him responsible for the bloodshed.

Again, WHO cares what the color of the County is?

"It was pandemonium" inside the house that night, District Attorney Jon Hopkins said. Hughes was responsible for "setting the whole thing in motion by his actions and the actions of his accomplices."

ABSOLUTELY!

Prosecutors said homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire Dec. 7 after three young men rampaged through the Clearlake house demanding marijuana and brutally beat his stepson. Rashad Williams, 21, and Christian Foster, 22, were shot in the back. Hughes fled.

Hughes was charged with first-degree murder under California's Provocative Act doctrine, versions of which have been on the books in many states for generations but are rarely used.

The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill. Instead, "they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner," said Brian Getz, a San Francisco defense attorney unconnected to the case.

The NAACP complained that prosecutors came down too hard on Hughes, who also faces robbery, burglary and assault charges. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.

Here we go again. This poor misunderstood youth, just minding his own business, breaking into homes, beating innocent people, and getting his friends killed, is being picked on because he is Black. I can envision the Rev.s on the plane now. Or maybe they are already there. Will THIS be the next "Civil Rights March?" What happened to the Jenna Six?

The Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP and pastor at Hughes' church, said the case demonstrates the legal system is racist in remote Lake County, aspiring wine country 100 miles north of San Francisco. The sparsely populated county of 13,000 people is 91 percent white and 2 percent black.

Brown and other NAACP officials are asking why the homeowner is walking free. Tests showed Edmonds had marijuana and prescription medication in his system the night of the shooting. Edmonds had a prescription for both the pot and the medication to treat depression.

"This man had no business killing these boys," Brown said. "They were shot in the back. They had fled."

What A complete MORON. He had EVERY right to kill these "Boys" They BROKE INTO HIS HOUSE, BEAT HIS SON. You complete IDIOT! They DESERVED to get shot. The Home owner did NOTHING wrong. He had a prescription for the stuff he was on, and, oh yeah, he was in his own HOUSE. I do have to admit, I had no idea you could get a prescription for Marijuana for Depression, but he had one.

On Thursday, a judge granted a defense motion for a change of venue. The defense had argued that he would not be able to get a fair trial because of extensive local media coverage and the unlikelihood that Hughes could get a jury of his peers in the county. A new location for the trial will be selected Dec. 14.

The district attorney said that race played no part in the charges against Hughes and that the homeowner was spared prosecution because of evidence he was defending himself and his family, who were asleep when the assailants barged in at 4 a.m.

EXACTLY!!

Edmonds' stepson, Dale Lafferty, suffered brain damage from the baseball bat beating he took during the melee. The 19-year-old lives in a rehabilitation center and can no longer feed himself.

He should have shot all three of these thugs. Then he should have shot them again.

"I didn't do anything wrong. All I did was defend my family and my children's lives," said Edmonds, 33. "I'm sad the kids are dead, I didn't mean to kill them."

He added: "Race has nothing to do with it other than this was a gang of black people who thought they were going to beat up this white family."

California's Provocative Act doctrine has primarily been used to charge people whose actions led to shooting deaths.

However, in one notable case in Southern California in 1999, a man who robbed a family at gunpoint in their home was convicted of murder because a police officer pursuing him in a car chase slammed into another driver in an intersection, killing her.

Hughes' mother, San Francisco schoolteacher Judy Hughes, said she believes the group didn't intend to rob the family, just buy marijuana. She called the case against her son a "legal lynching."

WHAT? They broke into this guys house at FOUR in the morning and BEAT his Stepson with a BAT. Hello? Reality Check, your Son is NOT innocent in this.

"Only God knows what happened in that house," she said. "But this I know: My son did not murder his childhood friends."

YOU, Mrs. Hughes are ALSO to blame in this. If YOU raised your Son better, he would not be breaking into houses, nor buying Pot. He would not be hanging out with these thugs. I can not prove it right now, but I would be willing to bet you, this is not the first time. This is a pretty brave move to break in a home and beat someone with a bat. You do not just wake up one day and say, hey, I know what we should do today. You lead UP to something like this.

I hope that the Prosecutor does NOT back down from this.
Peter