A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend's house in rural upstate New York, authorities said.

A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said

:agony: :agony:

The shooting happened just days after a Black teenager in Kansas City was shot twice by a White homeowner after going to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. No words were exchanged before Andrew Lester opened fire on 16-year-old Ralph Yarl as the teen stood at Lester’s front door, according to a probable cause document obtained by CNN. Lester, who told police he thought the teen was trying to break in, faces two felony charges in the case, which has reignited the debate over so-called “stand your ground” laws.

Truly wack-ass, goddamn awful country where "shoot first, ask questions later" is taken as ethos

  • Tormato [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    And to think that literally, people who were traveling across this huge landmass known as N America (after Europeans pillaged it from the Indigenous Peoples for themselves) on foot, by horseback or on wagon, were part of a cultural understanding that if one happened to be stranded in a storm or injured or some other situation they could most likely seek shelter or aid at the nearest home.

    How the fuck did we get so far from this communal decency and empathy?

    It has to be the fear-based propaganda of protecting property and suspicion of others, along with the still-conditioned American Exceptionalist idea of the frontiersman individualism and modern consumerism in which one becomes so self-absorbed and layered with fear. Of course RW hate machine media is a big part too.

    So goddamn sad, stupid, infuriating and depressing.

    How do things change? By having a black family or two on every single block across this whole country. Segregation is real, from the racist legislators to the racist real estate brokers.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      How the fuck did we get so far from this communal decency and empathy?

      Honestly I think it's a myth, god knows the number of murders (non-genocide murders) that people got away with, settler colonialism breeds a genuine demonic mindset in human beings

    • usa_suxxx [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      And to think that literally, people who were traveling across this huge landmass known as N America (after Europeans pillaged it from the Indigenous Peoples for themselves) on foot, by horseback or on wagon, were part of a cultural understanding that if one happened to be stranded in a storm or injured or some other situation they could most likely seek shelter or aid at the nearest home.

      if you were white, tho. gotta state that.