White man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl to stand trial, judge rules

A #Missouri judge has ruled that #KansasCity man #AndrewLester, who shot & injured #RalphYarl after the Black teen went to the wrong house, must stand #trial.

#EndStandYourGroundLaws #GunControl
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/01/ralph-yarl-shooting-andrew-lester-trial/

84 yr old Andrew Lester will stand trial for the shooting of #RalphYarl a black teen who's "crime" was ringing the wrong doorbell.

#Thursday (via ABC News)

As #RalphYarl begins his senior year of high school, the man who shot him faces a court hearing

https://apnews.com/article/ralph-yarl-senior-year-e76c013d3458fbfe2fd7df8122119c65

“Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.” -- Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

#racism #RalphYarl #KansasCity #colorblind #SpaceInvaders #Black #ShotForBeingBlack

How the shooting of Ralph Yarl demonstrates the fiction of a colorblind society in America

https://theconversation.com/how-the-shooting-of-ralph-yarl-demonstrates-the-fiction-of-a-colorblind-society-in-america-206047

#RalphYarl says he's suffering lingering effects from being shot in the head

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ralph-yarl-still-suffering-lingering-effects-shot-head-rcna91394

In His First Public Appearance Since Horrific Shooting , #RalphYarl Walks in Brain Injury Awareness Event

https://www.themarysue.com/ralph-yarl-walks-in-brain-injury-awareness-event/

In His First Public Appearance Since Horrific #Shooting, #RalphYarl Walks in #BrainInjury Awareness Event
https://www.themarysue.com/ralph-yarl-walks-in-brain-injury-awareness-event/

New episode!

(Ep. 68) Our Culture Is Killing Us - From The Reactionary, Anti-Homeless of the Bob Lee Murder to the Indefensible Shootings Across the Country

Bob Lee was killed in San Fran & the elite turned their ire on the #unhoused.

Multiple victims of 4 separate unjustifiable #shootings and murders across the country.

We discuss how our #culture in the US created & supports a society where these atrocities are merely background noise. #RalphYarl #BobLee #murrica

https://youtu.be/KGbeK10HleM

But on a good note, #RalphYarl 's GoFundMe has well surpassed the goal - it's up to $3.4 million! 💙

https://gofund.me/b68601b2

RT @garyyounge
Andrew Lester said he was "scared to death" of the six foot black male who knocked on his door and shot him. https://wapo.st/41GcNec . But #RalphYarl is 5.8" and just 16-years-old.
"My son is tall for his age; these are the things you worry about." https://bit.ly/3LffwWu

Thanks @medium for including my story about the #shooting of #RalphYarl and respectability politics in this week's staff recommendations.

https://blog.medium.com/what-were-reading-want-to-see-something-beautiful-40b7f7a2c5c3

“If Black people can develop and refine metaphors to understand the white experience (in all of its constituent complexity, pain and privilege), how is it that white people are excused from understanding the Black experience?”

—Christienne Leigh Hinz
“Fieldnotes on Allyship: Achieving Equality Together”

#RalphYarl #allyship #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #gunviolence #RacialEquity

https://www.ohfweekly.org/you-can-know-me/

Right now Chris Hayes is wisely connecting the dots between the shooting of #RalphYarl and the constant stream of paranoid, racist crime coverage on #FoxNews

I see the same shunning of #MAGA cult members by their children and grandchildren that I witnessed at large holiday parties in Germany 35 years ago. I asked about elderly gentlemen that nobody was talking to, and was told they were Nazi collaborators.

#AndrewLester ‘s children and grandchildren are disgusted by who he has become after constantly watching the hate-filled liars on #FoxNews. 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/grandson-andrew-lester-ralph-yarl_n_6441aa5ae4b039ec4e7db3de

#RalphYarl

Grandson of man who shot #RalphYarl says 'fear' and #conspiracies consume him

https://flip.it/kJLnf-

‘Fear and paranoia.’ Grandson says #AndrewLester bought into conspiracies, disinformation #RalphYarl

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article274517706.html

The grandson of Andrew Lester (the shooter of Ralph Yarl) has written a graceful statement of belief his grandfather should be held accountable and should have been arrested the day of the shooting. He also said his grandfather was consumed by conspiracy theories and right wing media. Oh Rupert what have you and Fox done...where is your accountability for this? Friends encourage your friends and relatives to turn off fox or use your parental controls.
#fox
#conspiracytheories
#ralphyarl

Disgusting stuff from the New York Post. When you’re visiting a house that you think your friends are at you’re obviously not a solicitor or in a criminal state of mind.

#ralphyarl #blm #2a

To absolutely nobody’s surprise… 🦊 💩 💣
#RalphYarl #gunviolence #FoxPropagandaNyetwork

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/grandson-of-ralph-yarl-shooter-tells-don-lemon-attack-was-racially-motivated-fueled-by-watching-fox-news/

https://twitter.com/kaivanshroff/status/1648408713558908929?s=12&t=4ZT29WNe_iCR2VIiSTnoWA

#RalphYarl #gunviolence #students #guns #america #kansascityshooting