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One Black person on jury. Assistant District Attorney Mark Williams, who is white, expressed concern Monday that only four of the 40 prospective jurors in the panel were African-Americans, when blacks make up about 30% of Milwaukee County's population . When just one black man made it onto the final panel of jurors selected Monday afternoon, Williams said Gimbel's reason for striking the other three was "not race-neutral." [ MORE ]
A psychopathic white man's own surveillance cameras show him confronting a 13-year-old Black boy on a sidewalk outside of their houses, pointing a gun at the teen and firing into his chest from a few feet away. (An open and shut case right? Not so, in a white supremacy system with a jury loaded with racist suspects, a white judge, white law enforcement and all white lawyers. Oh, and a white defendant; by and large white people treat each another humanely. In their relations with non-white people, many white people function as psychopaths [MORE ]).
The wounded teen flees away from the cameras' view and collapses in the street where his mother, according to her testimony, held him as he took his last breath.
The video was shown in court Tuesday as evidence in the trial of John Henry Spooner , who's accused of gunning down Darius Simmons in May 2012 after accusing the teen of breaking into his home and stealing guns. Spooner , 76, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide.
In the surveillance footage, Spooner emerges from his house that morning and confronts Simmons. He points a gun at the boy, who quickly moves backward a few steps. Both Spooner and the teen direct their attention toward a porch at Simmons' home, where Simmons' mother is standing. Moments later, Spooner points the gun back at Simmons and fires, hitting him in the chest. [ MORE ]
Darius Simmons' mother (above) testified Tuesday that she watched from her front porch as John Henry Spooner gunned down her son. "As I turned around, Mr. Spooner was standing there in front of Darius," Patricia Larry said. "He got a gun and he pointed it at Darius."
She said Spooner , 76, demanded that Simmons put his hands up, and the 13-year-old Darius complied. Larry said she asked the defendant why "he had that gun on (her) baby."
"He told Darius that he's going to teach him not to steal," she said. "And he shot him."