Black Detroit Woman Shot To Death While Seeking Help In White Neighborhood After Car

[evanovitch]

A 19-year-old Detroit woman was reportedly shot dead in the back of the head while family members say she was searching for help early Saturday in a white neighborhood outside the city.

Renisha McBride was driving through Dearborn Heights, Michigan around 2:30am when she was in a car accident. At some point after knocking on the door of an area home, she was killed by the homeowner.

Now her family is demanding the man responsible must pay, but police seem to belive he killed her in self defense because he thought she was a criminal.
Police first said McBride’s body had been dumped in the comparatively wealthy suburb because of its proximity to the city. That story has changed, however, and now authorities say she was killed near where she was found.

And they’ve identified the man who shot her, though it still unclear whether he was even the one who alerted authorities.

Police won’t release his name or say whether he’s in or out of jail. A neighbor who spoke to police on the scene said they believed it was a self defense case.
‘He say, somebody tried to get in his house, or seems like force,’ the neighbor told WJBK. ‘He got scared and shot the person.’

But McBride’s family says that cannot be true, that McBride would never hurt anyone and simply needed help in a neighborhood that was strange to her.

And that doesn’t explain why she was shot in the back of the head.


‘He did not have to pull that gun out and he did not have to kill my niece,’ said McBride’s aunt Bernita Spinks. ‘Especially if she was leaving off the porch.’

McBride's cousin agreed.

‘You wanted her dead,’ said Dmetria Burnett of her cousin Renisha’s killer. ‘For somebody to shoot her in the head and not think twice about it? She shouldn’t be free at all.’




Spinks said the man should have called 911 instead of just pulling out a firearm.

‘The police would have been pulling up in 2 or 3 minutes in Dearborn Heights,’ she said.

Spinks believes her niece died because of racism and wonders what would have happened had she been the one who shot a stranger: ‘Would I be standing here? No. I’d be in jail without a bond.’






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[Blackstar*]

Apparently, police and the DA are claiming Ms. McBride was shot in the face. The homeowner is claiming the gun went off by accident. I have a hard time believing the "accidental shot" defense.

In any case, this reminds me to walk with phone charger and keep one for the car especially if driving late at night. Road accidents can happen far from residential areas, I may need to take pix to document damage and injuries, etc.

[Blackstar*]

According to attorney Gerald Thurswell (representing McBride's family), McBride hit a parked car and "sustained bruises and lacerations" late Nov. 1 or early Nov. 2. Thurswell said that he spoke with people at a home near the scene of the accident who told him they came outside to help McBride and found her bleeding from the head.
"She kept telling them, 'I want to go home, I want to go home,'" he said.
Thurswell said that the neighbor went into her home to call 911, and when she came back outside and saw McBride was gone, got in her car to look for her - but couldn't track her down. Thurswell said McBride, whose cell phone was apparently dead, likely wandered the neighborhood for about an hour.

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[evanovitch]

Asking for help while black: How it became a capital offense

In society that sees black people as always seeking handouts, Renisha McBride's murder exposed our biggest problem

The murder of Renisha McBride suggests that asking for help while black is a capital offense. It has long been a crime. The right has done a wonderful job of making people believe that our biggest societal problem is black people who ask for help too damn much. We are, they argue, an undeserving, overeager lot with our hands always stretched out waiting on the next dispensation of TANF (welfare) and SNAP (food stamps). Never mind that white recipients of these programs far outnumber black and brown recipients.
We are talking about the lie of perception. We are talking about a system of white supremacy that makes white perception everyone’s reality. This, I argue, is black people’s biggest problem.
Still. Up until now, asking for help while black was a nuisance, a practice worthy of heavy social regulation despite calls to deregulate everything else, a problem to be solved through the criminalization of black and brown people to be sure. But it wasn’t a capital crime.
Even in the midst of such social calumny, many of us, no matter our race, have still chosen to believe that basic human decency is alive in America, that this land of our birth is what Benedict Anderson has famously referred to as an imagined community, “because regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.”

When 19-year-old Renisha stepped onto the porch of an unknown man seeking help after a car accident, undoubtedly scared and shaken, her entreaties for help were met with a bullet to the face. That kind of show of power is all about verticality and domination not horizontalism and camaraderie.

How have we arrived at a moment when there are white folks with such callous disregard for black life? So much so that they’ll shoot a black girl in the face. I am clear that a tenet of white supremacy is the active and wholesale disregard for black life. So don’t read my question as a kind of naiveté born of a belief in the myth of post-racialism.

I’m saying that a world in which a black girl gets killed while asking for assistance feels disorienting to me. When Jonathan Ferrell was shot and killed in North Carolina two months ago in an eerily similar situation in which he asked for help after a terrible car wreck and police mistook him for an intruder and murdered him, I understood that as a problem of racist police brutality in relation specifically to black men.


But as I watch black folks stumble and fumble in our response to Renisha’s killing, it is clear that we have come to believe that black girls get a pass on racial violence. It isn’t black girls whom parents worry about having the talk with about ending up in the wrong neighborhood or being harassed by law enforcement.
And it bears noting that the cop who murdered Jonathan Ferrell has been arrested and charged.
The man who killed Jordan Davis for playing his rap music too loud with his friends has been arrested and charged.
We marched so that George Zimmerman would be arrested and charged.
These stories devastate us. But they provide a clear course of action. We know what the narrative is, so we know not only where to direct our outrage, but also where to adjust our behavior.
Don’t wear hoodies, don’t get caught in certain neighborhoods after dark, don’t antagonize police with lots of questions when you are pulled over. These are the talks that parents and communities have with black boys.
I’m a black girl, though. So I never got that talk.
We get talks about keeping our legs closed, not getting pregnant, getting our education. We get talks about “killing ‘em with kindness,” being ladylike, and raising our children well.
Black communities have long intuitively known that black women and men experience racism differently. Unfortunately, we bought into the lie that only our black boys are in danger of becoming victims of racism.
Though Sojourner Truth and Anna Julia Cooper and so many others fought hard to be recognized as women and as ladies, we have somehow come to believe that black women’s femininity exempts them from what Kiese Laymon has called “the worst of white folks.”
Renisha McBride knows differently.

White supremacy is no country for black people. Gender be damned. And it remains abundantly clear that black life is still considered a reasonable price to pay for the protection of white property and white life. White supremacy works to reassert and maintain dominance by striking fear in the hearts of black and brown people, by restricting our free movement through the world, by reminding us at every turn, that we might end up the indiscriminate victims of white rage. We are made to believe that white rage is ephemeral, though, such that we look up in its aftermath, devastated by its inhabitation, but remain unable to track, trail or trap it. With a kind of profound certitude, though, we can generally trust its trail of black destruction. This is why I resist the lie of progress. Because I know that white supremacy is the changing same, defecating the same ole ****, just a different day.

Lest I speak about white supremacy as though it were God (or come to mistake God for a white supremacist), let me say simply that white people must stop their shoulder shrugging and head scratching and deal with the truth of their deep-seated racial resentment.

How many “accidental” black deaths will it take for us to recognize that this new epidemic
of black life-taking is a direct function of the new racial nadir in which we find ourselves?

What will it take for us to recognize — to paraphrase Lil Wayne — that white supremacy “is a ***** and death is her sister”? There was a scared, black teenage girl who needed help and got a bullet instead. The searing truth of white killing rage should move us all to act.
But since it has yet again become clear that black people are deemed unworthy to be helped, I am left to wonder how in the world we will be able to help ourselves?

Brittney Cooper is a contributing writer at Salon. Follow her on Twitter at @professorcrunk.

[kia027]

It pains me to read that it was too much for the man to just call the cops instead of shooting her

Has he been brought up on charges? That is not how society should behave toward anyone

[evanovitch]

It pains me to read that it was too much for the man to just call the cops instead of shooting her

Has he been brought up on charges? That is not how society should behave toward anyone

latest reports say dem still researching the warrant...wateva dat mean....

[evanovitch]

it is soo glaring when u think that an abused black woman who shot over the head of her husband was sentenced fi all dem numba a years n dis man shoot har in di face but dem a wonda if dem fi charge him...

my lady shot OVAH di head of har husband as in warning shot....mmmmmmmmm.....now u look out n see a woman pon u doorstep...did u ascertain dat she was armed before u open door n open fire....n if as dem report he shot her pointblank in the face, dat mean all u look pon an was looking pon was di face dat u aimed at an shot at....

[blugiant]

It pains me to read that it was too much for the man to just call the cops instead of shooting her

Has he been brought up on charges? That is not how society should behave toward anyone

still investigatinn itt so no charge as aff yet. dem affii charge imm ar itt aggoo tunn inna bigg racist sinting dat detroit need

[Suesumba]

A Michigan man who said he accidentally shot and killed a 19-year-old woman he thought was trying to break into his Dearborn Heights home this month will be charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said today.

Lawyers for the woman's family said she was looking for help after she was in a car crash. Officials said she had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit for drivers in Michigan.

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how could it have been an accident with the concious decison of getting the gun?

[blugiant]

A Michigan man who said he accidentally shot and killed a 19-year-old woman he thought was trying to break into his Dearborn Heights home this month will be charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said today.

Lawyers for the woman's family said she was looking for help after she was in a car crash. Officials said she had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit for drivers in Michigan.

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how could it have been an accident with the concious decison of getting the gun?

luv wen oyinbo tri fe mitigate oyinbo racism by blaminn da victim. shi was drunk ann dat y da oyinbo man shot ar.

[evanovitch]

by the same token Blugiant, if u gave it a likkle thought, the fact that she was soooooo intoxicated blows the claim that she was trying to rob him....stumbling about etc doesnt paint a picture of aggression does it....

[evanovitch]

Theodore Wafer Arraigned On Murder, Manslaughter Charges, Bail Set At $250K

DETROIT — Prosecutors on Friday charged a suburban Detroit homeowner with second-degree murder in the death of a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the face on his porch.Theodore P. Wafer, 54, of Dearborn Heights, also faces a manslaughter charge in the death of Renisha McBride (pictured) in the early-morning hours of Nov. 2, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. McBride was shot in the face after police say they believe she was involved in a car accident nearby in Detroit and family members say she likely approached Wafer’s home for help.

http://newsone.com/2774400/renisha-mcbride-theodore-p-wafer/

[Blackstar*]

Mods, can you merge this with the other thread please (if evan's OK with that of course)?