Gunfire in a Tallahassee parking lot leads to arrest of armed couple, complaints of racism

[Judi Lynn]

Jeff Burlew
Tallahassee Democrat


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.

They had just parked the van at a U-Haul drop-off at Fountain Plaza on Apalachee Parkway and were sitting in McMillon’s truck getting ready to go. As he typed in the mileage on a phone app, a gunshot rang out.

They looked back and saw an older couple coming toward them, both pointing guns in their direction. The couple yelled “Don’t move!” and other commands to surrender.




But McMillon threw his GMC truck in reverse, drove around the van and sped off in a blind panic. They heard more gunfire as they fled.

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.

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

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WHITE FLORIDA COUPLE ARRESTED AFTER FIRING SHOTS AT BLACK MEN AND A CHILD RETURNING U-HAUL VAN
by Cedric 'BIG CED' ThorntonSeptember 2, 2020



A white couple from Florida was arrested after allegedly shooting at two Black men after they dropped off a U-Haul van, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

Late last week, Charles McMillon Jr. was at a U-Haul dropping off a rented van with his son and childhood friend Kendrick Clemons. They had just left the van at a U-Haul drop-off location at Fountain Plaza on Apalachee Parkway and as they were sitting in a truck where McMillon was preparing to leave and typing in the mileage on a phone app, there was a gunshot. As the men looked back, they noticed an older white couple coming in their direction with guns pointing at them. The couple then yelled “Don’t move!” and demanded that the men surrender. But McMillon placed his GMC truck in reverse, drove around the rented van, and took off in fear as they heard more gunfire as they fled.

More:
https://www.blackenterprise.com/white-florida-couple-arrested-after-firing-shots-at-black-men-and-a-child-returning-u-haul-van/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. All that's missing are a couple of Chinese-made MAGA hats.

White, rascist, gun-humpers, paranoid, and maybe a little senile. Yup, all of the boxes are checked.

[Freedomofspeech]

2. WTF?

This is what Amerikkka is.

[Lunabell]

3. N. Florida. Doesn't surprise me.

But I live in a rural, predominantly mixed race neighborhood in Gadsden county. I really like my neighborhood. I used to live in Jefferson county which is soooooo full of kkk. I had to move.

[Mister Ed]

4. Longer and more detailed story at this link:

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

Gotta love this excerpt from the story:

Both were slow to put down their weapons when ordered by police.

"Both the male and female were not obeying my commands at first," the arrest report says.

I wonder what would have happened to Black people who were slow to obey and put down their weapons? Actually no, I don't wonder.

[magicarpet]

5. Black while U-Hauling your ass outta there.

WTF !

[SCantiGOP]

6. Jacksonville is.....

A “Republic run” city.

[dhill926]

7. this shit has GOT to stop...

goddammit! Assholes like these are enabled by the asshole in the White House. Hope they spend most of the rest of their miserable, fucking worthless lives in jail.

[hatrack]

8. I'd bet this isn't how Wallace and Beverly thought they'd spend their Golden Years

Really? 77 years old and you work at the strip mall next to the U-Haul lot and you thought the Scary Black Men were coming to get you?

Have fun, you dipshits.