You probably remember it. A 14yo kid missed the bus, went to a house to ask for directions and…
“…was not injured but escaped fatal injury only because Zeigler was unable to immediately fire his 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun since the safety was engaged, giving Walker enough time to run for his life down the horseshoe driveway outside Zeigler’s home.”
Am I understanding correctly this kid lived? I hope so.
It appears the homeowner was in the wrong in this one. How many have gotten lost in a residential neighborhood, then stopped at a house to ask for directions & not had such results?
North and South isn’t much different. Dick Gregory once said “Down South, they don’t care how close I get, as long as I don’t get to big. Up North, they don’t care how big I get, as long as I don’t get too close.”
There was a N/S divide about Jim Crow laws, but not Jim Crow practices.
You’ve acknowledged that you were wrong about it being night. So there’s that.
I understand being cautious of someone knocking at your door. I’ll even give you, that it might have been unusual for a black youth to knock on his door at 8:30AM in the morning. But does he bring a gun to the door everytime someone knocks on his door? Does he then put the gun down if its someone he knows? Why did he decide to shoot at the kid?