Wednesday, January 15, 2020

BLACK VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

His Name Is Bob Long: Prolific White Male Chess Author, 70, Murdered in His Iowa Home by 19-Year-Old Black Male
01/15/2020
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He had no “white privilege”.
He was a septuagenarian, a man of modest means, living in Davenport, Iowa.
His name is Bob Long. He was a prolific author of books dealing with chess.
He was a white man. You’ll never hear his name, unless you read one of his many books on chess, or live in Davenport, Iowa and learn about how he was strangled to death in a botched car robbery.
Mind you, his murderer was a black teenager.
According to Rock Island County Court documents, Charlie Gary III, 19, of Davenport is facing battery, theft, and robbery charges stemming from a case in October.
This is in addition to the homicide case where a 74-year-old man was strangled to death and found dead Tuesday evening in Davenport.
According to the criminal complaint, on October 27, 2019, Gary assaulted a 63-year-old man of Rock Island, striking him in the head with a TV and a lamp. The complaint also shows Gary reportedly stole the man’s vehicle and a 55′ flat-screen television.
Meanwhile, Davenport police tell TV6 there is no information that would indicate a cause for concern for community safety after the Davenport victim, Robert Long, 74, was killed.
Police say while the investigation is ongoing at this time, preliminary information shows the victim knew 19-year-old Charlie Gary III. Police say that information also shows they believe this was not a random incident.
Police say on Tuesday, just before 5:45 p.m., they were called to the 1500 block of LeClaire Street in reference to an unresponsive person. That man, 74-year-old Robert Long, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say Gary III, of Davenport, admitted to police that he went into the man’s home forcibly with the intent to steal the man’s car. Police say Gary III strangled Long, killing him and then stole property and his car and left the scene. Police say they later located Gary in Long’s vehicle when he was arrested.
Gary III has been charged with 1st-degree murder, 1st-degree robbery and 1st-degree burglary in reference to the incident. He’s currently being held at the Scott County Jail.
Gary III made his first appearance in Scott County Thursday morning via video arraignment.
The judge ordered Gary III to be held without bond and they set a preliminary hearing for January 17. The judge also informed Gary III that he was wanted out of Rock Island County on charges of robbery, theft and aggravated battery.
The judge did not take any action on the extradition matter and said the bond in the Illinois case is $100,000.
Outside of an incredibly niche community of chess enthusiasts, who will even remember the life of Bob Long, a white man strangled to death in his home by a black career criminal who had spent less than a score on earth?
Check-mate, bigot.
Rest in peace, Bob.
You weren’t just a pawn in the game of life, but a white man whose murder (and racial circumstances surrounding it) deserves a wider audience.



Black Male Who Killed White Ex-Penn State Quarterback in Philadelphia Cleared of Most Charges, Becomes Celebrity to Black Community in the City
01/13/2020
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Sean Schellenger was a white man, who played quarterback at Penn State. He lived in Philadelphia, a 41 percent black city. He was murdered in 2018 by a black male.
This black male was acquitted of the charge of murder, and will only face two years of probation for murdering Schellenger (of course, the probation is for tampering with evidence, since he was cleared of manslaughter).
In fact, 22-year-old Michael White is a celebrity to the black community of Philadelphia. One black journalist wrote about how she hugged him when she spotted Michael White walking on the streets of city…
Michael White’s lawyer: ‘When I saw him, I saw my son, wide-eyed and like a deer in headlights,’ by Jenice Armstrong, [Email herPhiladelphia Inquirer, October 22, 2019
It had been seven years since Keir Bradford-Grey, who heads the Defender Association of Philadelphia, had stood before a jury and litigated a case.
But there she was representing Michael White, 22, who had been charged with fatally stabbing real estate developer Sean Schellenger during a scuffle near Rittenhouse Square last year.
And this wasn’t just any old manslaughter case but one that had attracted national attention because it symbolized long-standing tensions over race and class.
As the mother of a black boy, the 45-year-old chief defender brought a unique perspective.
So she went to attorneys Jonathan Strange and Dan Stevenson, who initially headed up White’s defense, and “they were gracious enough to allow me to be part of the team.”
“When I saw him, I saw my son, wide-eyed and like a deer in headlights. [He was] not a malicious kid but someone who could get into an unfortunate situation. That’s what I saw when I saw Mike,” she told me Monday during an interview at the Defender Association office, at 1441 Sansom St. “I didn’t see a troublemaker. I just couldn’t see that in his face, let alone when he talked to me.”
Bradford-Grey is sensitive to how America perceives black males as threatening and criminal. She didn’t want White’s case to go the way of the five falsely accused boys portrayed in Ava DuVernay’s 2019 docudrama When They See Us.
She also didn’t like the narrative that she kept seeing in the media about White being an instigator because he involved himself in an exchange between Schellenger, who was white, and a motorist blocking traffic at 17th and Chancellor Streets.
It annoyed her how reporters described White — who testified that he was on a break from college at the time of the stabbing — as a food deliveryman, because it “drives a certain perspective.”
“He was just a private kid who didn’t know who to trust,” Bradford-Grey said of White, who had been accepted to eight historically black colleges. “He’s very expressive in his poetry, but it was hard for him to talk about himself.”
Bradford-Grey argued in court that White, who pulled out a knife during his encounter with Schellenger, had acted in self-defense. “It was never his intent to kill him,” she told me.
Jurors deliberated for eight hours over two days.
“I kept saying: ‘Please let them see what we see. I hope we did a good enough job. I hope we brought to light what we needed to,’ ” she said. “And I hoped that they looked at him when he testified and saw who this young man was and who he wasn’t and who he was being portrayed as.”
On Thursday, White was acquitted of all charges except tampering with evidence. His sentencing is scheduled for December.
Shortly after the verdict, I spotted him walking along Market Street. I ran up and all but grabbed him after he told me the verdict. A friend who was with me gave him a bear hug.
We were sad about Schellenger’s death, but excited that White had been acquitted and that he had gotten a second chance at life.
As for Bradford-Grey, she felt like celebrating but went home and slept. I’ll bet it was her best sleep ever.
In a city where black elected officials push to ban bullet proof glass at convenience stores because it represents an “indignity” to blacks, what type of justice did the family of a white man murdered by a black man expect to get?
His name is Sean Schellenger. His life mattered too, but we all know what being white in Philly means, right?
Rest in peace, Sean.


In 2019 St. Louis—A 49% Black/43% White City—91% Of Known Homicide Suspects Are Black
01/09/2020
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Out of 318,000 people, St. Louis is 49.2 percent black 43.9 percent white (as of 2010 US Census).
Our good friends at the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department not only put out an annual report on crime broken down by race, but a weekly analysis of the yearly crime rate.
Also, conveniently, the SLMPD breaks out violent crime by the race of suspects.
For 2019, there were 194 homicides in the city, with 175 of the victims being black (90%). 
Suspects are known in only 42 percent of the homicides, with 75 of the suspects being black and 7 being white (there were 15 white victims of homicide in St. Louis in 2019).
Thus, in 2019 St. Louis, black suspects represent 91 percent of known suspects.
This means blacks are 9.28 times more likely than whites to be arrested for homicide in 2019 St. Louis. And remember: Only suspects are known in only 42 percent of the cases… odds the 58 percent of the remaining cases have a black suspect? Pretty high.
There’s a reason it’s called Bell Curve City

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