George Zimmerman 2.0
Kouren Thomas was 20 years old when he was slain by a “warning shot” that had been fired by 39-year-old Chad Copley. Thomas was black. Copley was white.
Oh right, Copley shot his warning shot BLINDLY through his CLOSED garage window AT the people outside his house.
“There are frigging black males outside my frigging house with firearms. I am locked and loaded. I’m going to outside to secure my neighborhood,” said Copley just before firing his “warning shot.” To me, it wasn’t about “securing the neighborhood” but rather securing his insecurities about race by getting rid of blacks and doing so in the “name of the law” and his right as one of the “neighborhood watch.”
Here is yet another example of violence as male and attempting to bend the law to his will. This is someone securing his insecurities by “measuring himself up to another person.” Copley thought his actions were justified when in fact he was just finding a reason to kill a black person.
This case is very similar to the George Zimmerman case.
Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a Caucasian neighborhood watch volunteer, in 2012. Zimmerman called it self defense and hid behind the law as it acquitted him of murder in 2013.
Similarly, Copley seems to be doing the same, except Thomas seemed to have no altercation with Copley before he fired his “warning shot.”
It’s frankly quite stupid.
“Hey, there’s someone outside my door… so I’m going to measure him up and PASS JUDGMENT on someone I DON’T KNOW, based on what he LOOKS like, what he’s DOING, and what I THINK he might be up to.”
Copley was in no foreseeable danger at the time, as he was inside his house just watching his neighbors have a party that spilled outside of the house. Thomas was where he was legally entitled to be, and he and the other participants of the party posed no threat, nor had any firearms as Copley had claimed.
What the hell happened to just going outside and talking to them to address your fears/concerns/complaints. It’s understandable that he called the police, but he did NOT have to take action, nor do I think he had the right to take the law into his own hands.
Copley did not have the right to play God.
Would the story had changed if it was a bunch of Caucasian kids having a party outside? There are lots of holes in Copley’s story and I simply see it as someone trying to hopelessly justify his insecurities.