Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "Why the death of a 7-year-old black girl became a national story about race and violence - family believed their daughter’s death was racially motivated, but the arrest of a suspect on Sunday has changed things" "Capital murder charge filed in Jazmine Barnes deadly shooting case" Shaun King hoax of black victimization leftist media denial deceit delusion
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/1/5/18168865/jazmine-barnes-shooting-manhunt-texas-race
By P.R. Lockhart Jan 5, 2019, 8:00am EST
Editor’s note: Since the publication of this article, the Harris County Sheriff’s office arrested a suspect late Saturday: a 20-year-old black man. Authorities say other shooters could be involved, but now believe the attack was case of mistaken identity.
It’s been nearly one week since Jazmine Barnes, a 7-year-old black girl, was killed when a white gunman fired into her mother’s car on December 30. As the hunt for the shooter continues, Barnes’s family and others have argued that the attack and her murder must be addressed as an act of racism.
On Thursday, the Harris County Sheriff’s office, which is leading the investigation into the Houston shooting, released a sketch of the gunman, who fled the scene of the crime. “We will not rest until an arrest is made. We are going to continue to search for this killer,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters.
The Sheriff’s Department also released surveillance footage showing the red pickup truck the shooter was driving on Sunday when he pulled up next to LaPorsha Washington, Jazmine’s mother, and opened fire, striking her in the arm. Moments later, Washington’s older daughter noted that her sister wasn’t responding.
”She said, ‘Momma, Jazmine’s not moving. She’s not talking,’” Washington told local news outlet ABC13. “I turned around and my 7-year-old was shot in the head.”
The search for the suspect is ongoing, and community members have been asked to come forward if they have any information about his identity and whereabouts. Meanwhile, Barnes’s murder has captured national attention. Shaun King, a writer and activist, and Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney working with Barnes’s family, have offered up a $100,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. And a GoFundMe account set up to cover the costs of Barnes’s upcoming funeral has already exceeded its goal, pulling in close to $60,000 in four days.
Barnes’s death has resonated with so many not just because of her youth, but also because of what the nature of the attack — a white man shooting through a car window at a black family — may say about the state of racism in America.
Barnes’s family has argued that the shooting was racially motivated, and local activists say that it’s possible Barnes’s death is connected to a 2017 shooting that took place just six miles away. In that incident, a black man, A’Vonta Williams, and his then-girlfriend’s grandmother, were shot after a man driving a pickup truck fired into their car. The shooter was never found and the case remains unsolved.
In regards to Barnes’s case, Merritt, the civil rights attorney, has no doubt that the family was targeted because they were black. “We want to emphasize the racial nature of the attack and that hate-crime charges are appropriate,” he told the Washington Post this week.
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/multiple-sources-say-black-man-in-custody-in-jazmine-barnes-case
POSTED: JAN 05 2019 08:45PM CST
VIDEO POSTED: JAN 06 2019 07:54AM CST
UPDATED: JAN 06 2019 09:45AM CST
HOUSTON (FOX 26) — Multiple sources tell FOX 26 News that a suspect is in custody in the shooting death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, along with a possible second suspect. Sources say the alleged shooter is black, not white, and also that the shooting may have been gang-related.
Eric Black Jr., the man accused of killing 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes appeared in Probable Cause Court this morning. Prosecutors say he was driving the vehicle that pulled alongside the Barnes family car and that someone else shot into the car. Black is currently being held at the Harris County Jail without bond and is expected to make his first court appearance tomorrow morning.
Black says he thought it was a car he had seen the night before, he didn't realize who was inside.
A composite sketch released by the Harris County Sheriff's Office on Thursday described the shooting suspect as a thin white man in his 30s or 40s. HCSO said that a man in a red pickup truck fired gunshots toward the car that Jazmine was in with her mother and three sisters. The shooting was reported on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018, on the East Sam Houston Parkway frontage in northeast Harris County. Jazmine's mother, LaPorsha Washington, was driving with the children and was shot in the arm.
