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Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 06:30 AM Oct 2018

Dana Zeigler reaction to seeing a black teen at her front door

She recalled the initial moments when she noticed Brennan walking toward her home.

Zeigler was arrested and charged with assault with intent to murder and possessing a firearm

‘I was screaming as loud as I possibly could, saying somebody is breaking into my house,’ she said.

‘I saw a black person standing at my door and I screamed at him and I asked him what he was doing there.

‘He tells me that he is going to school and at that point he approaches the door, forward momentum, comes forward, opens the screen door, and puts his hand on the door handle again, as though he's coming into my house.’

Dana Zeigler testified that she panicked. Her screams woke up her husband, Jeffrey Zeigler, who was in a deep sleep.

She said Brennan did not look like an innocent student.

‘He didn't look like a child,’ she told the court.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6267725/Surveillance-video-shows-retired-fireman-shooting-black-teen-rang-doorbell.html

Jeffrey Zeigler said that it wasn’t until he watched the surveillance video that he realized the person who came to his porch was a 14-year-old boy.

‘I felt extremely remorseful. I was - I was just shocked,’ he said.

He was then asked what, if anything, he would have done differently.

‘I would have given him a ride to school,’ Zeigler said.



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JI7

(89,250 posts)
2. can you imagine the story they would have made up if they didn't have this on video
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 06:44 AM
Oct 2018

and especially if he had been shot and killed ?

the thug trump would be going on about it along with the rest of his trashy fucked up supporters .

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
4. He originally said the shotgun went off because he "slipped". Yeah right.
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 07:02 AM
Oct 2018

Hey you racist, lying piece of shit, your own video shows the entire incident and there was NO slip!

(I'm actually surprised he didn't destroy the video. Too stupid, I guess)

They're going to nail this asshole.

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)
5. Coward
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 07:09 AM
Oct 2018

In the old west, you shoot a person in the back. You were branded a coward. The kid was running away. Why shoot?

uponit7771

(90,346 posts)
7. Sounds like they don't get around anyone but their in group. America has so much to offer than so
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 07:41 AM
Oct 2018

... many narrow perspectives of people.

Instantly threatened by the unknown or conditioned to be threatened by non-whites.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,355 posts)
9. "He didn't look like a child." This is a common claim; black children are regularly estimated to
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 07:47 AM
Oct 2018

older than they are is these types of situations. They’re not allowed to be kids; while white people get the “young person” excuse until they’re 40.

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