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irisblue

(32,961 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 10:10 PM Sep 2020

"Were they Black?" she asked." 2 elderly white Floridians shoot at 3 POC dropping off a UHaul

Source--https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2020/09/01/gunfire-tallahassee-parking-lot-leads-arrest-armed-couple-complaints-racism/5654072002/

Long article at source

snip-"Charles McMillon Jr. was dropping off a U-Haul van with his young son and childhood friend Kendrick Clemons when out of nowhere bullets started flying."


snip-"They managed to escape Thursday night with their lives — incredibly, a police officer who happened to be in the parking lot intervened after the shooting began. But they’ll never forget their ordeal — the product, they said, of racial profiling by would-be vigilantes."

snip-"It turned out the two shooters, Wallace Fountain, 77, and his wife, Beverly Fountain, 72, own the strip mall and were staking it out inside a U-Haul of their own. They said they were having problems with people stealing gas and wanted to scare off any culprits."


snip-"Both the male and female were not obeying my commands at first," the arrest report says. "However, they eventually placed their firearms on the ground and laid on the ground away from the firearms."

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"Were they Black?" she asked." 2 elderly white Floridians shoot at 3 POC dropping off a UHaul (Original Post) irisblue Sep 2020 OP
If that was a black couple the cops would have shot them for not doc03 Sep 2020 #1
Sounds about white. Coventina Sep 2020 #2
This sentence: Takket Sep 2020 #3
Lack of security from wingnuts who owned the property MaryMagdaline Sep 2020 #5
The people returning the Uhaul should have just complied Proud liberal 80 Sep 2020 #4
MAGAt racist white trash, lock ''em up Celerity Sep 2020 #6
Nope, out on bail . . . hatrack Sep 2020 #7
they'll probably get a gofundme and be rich soon. nt Grasswire2 Sep 2020 #8

Takket

(21,552 posts)
3. This sentence:
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 10:32 PM
Sep 2020

“Wallace Fountain told officers his wife heard what sounded like someone siphoning ”


She HEARD someone siphoning? Either she is full of shit or she has the best hearing of any human on earth.

Also I’m confused as to why the victims are suing Uhaul??? For what exactly?

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