beyonceprivilege:land-of-propaganda:How to shoot and kill an immigrant Georgia Tech student and only
beyonceprivilege:land-of-propaganda:How to shoot and kill an immigrant Georgia Tech student and only pay a $500 fineIn January, 2013, Rodrigo Diaz, a Georgia Tech student from Columbia, was going skating in suburban Atlanta with his girlfriend and three of their friends. They had one last person to pick up, and as they pulled into the driveway of Phillip Sailors, a retired Vietnam veteran, to pick up their friend, they soon realized that it was the wrong address.According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Phillip Sailors stormed out of his house and fired a warning shot into the air with his pistol. Stunned, Rodrigo hurriedly put the car in reverse and attempted to get out of the driveway as quickly as possible.Unfortunately, Phillip Sailors never let that happen. Sailors, aiming at the vehicle, fired a shot directly at Rodrigo, hitting him in the head and killing him right there in the driveway.Insanely, when the Lilburn Police arrived, with Rodrigo dead in the car, they arrested his girlfriend and the two other passengers and held them overnight in jail.On this past Monday, Phillip Sailors struck a plea deal with Gwinnett County prosecutors that only required him to pay a $500 fine and have one year of probation.(Read more here)(11/19)I was just about to text the link to this article to my boyfriend and ask him if it was someone he knew (because he’s friends with a lot of colombian students at Georgia Tech since colombians in atlanta tend to flock together) but then I saw the date (Jan 2013) and remembered that… yeah. We talked about this last year when it happened and it was actually a good friend of his. And it was really traumatizing for him, his friends, and all of the people in that community. Which is really driving it home for me right now because I think I always dissociate myself from things like this. And tell myself that it’s stuff that’s happening to other people and it won’t ever affect me directly. But it could be my brother. It could be my dad. It could be my boyfriend or my cousin or my uncle.Yeesh. -- source link