{"id":19584,"date":"2013-11-06T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19584"},"modified":"2013-11-06T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T13:51:25","slug":"black-woman-shot-to-death-for-asking-for-help-in-a-white-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/11\/black-woman-shot-to-death-for-asking-for-help-in-a-white-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Woman Shot to Death for Asking for Help in a White Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ku-xlarge.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19585\" alt=\"ku-xlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ku-xlarge.jpg?resize=640%2C400\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Last Saturday morning at around 2:30am 19-year-old Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/factfinder2.census.gov\/faces\/tableservices\/jsf\/pages\/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">predominately white<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">Detroit suburb. Because her cell phone battery was dead, she went to nearby home for assistance. That might seem like the reasonable and understandable thing to do, but it was the biggest mistake of McBride&#8217;s short life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The unnamed person who answered the door didn&#8217;t offer to help the stranded teen out, instead the Dearborn Heights resident fatally shot McBride in the head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Weirdly, Dearborn Heights police initially told McBride\u2019s family that her body was found dumped in another area of town, but they&#8217;ve since changed their story, saying she was<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/story\/23876234\/death-of-girl-19-in-dearborn-heights-may-have-been-self-defense-gone-wrong\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">shot in self-defense<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">on the homeowner\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressandguide.com\/articles\/2013\/11\/05\/news\/doc5277a39e0bc10449700691.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">front porch<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\">. Naturally,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(ieuo2kajbyzym555uao4p455))\/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&amp;objectName=mcl-780-972\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Michigan is a Stand Your Ground<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">state \u2014<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/tag\/trayvon-martin\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">sound familiar<\/span><\/a><\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/raniakhalek.com\/2013\/11\/06\/black-detroit-woman-shot-to-death-while-seeking-help-in-white-neighborhood-after-car-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Rania Khalek<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">points out:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Even if that\u2019s the case, and there\u2019s reason to believe it\u2019s not, the shooter still failed to call 911 after shooting an unarmed woman in the head, instead leaving her their to die. Does that sound like the behavior of a law-abiding gunowner who made a tragic mistake?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">No. No it does not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Police have asked Wayne County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for charges to be filed against the unnamed resident who shot McBride. We&#8217;ll see how well that pans out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">[<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/raniakhalek.com\/2013\/11\/06\/black-detroit-woman-shot-to-death-while-seeking-help-in-white-neighborhood-after-car-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rania Khalek<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20131105\/METRO01\/311050098\/1409\/METRO\/Family-slain-Detroit-woman-seeks-answers-about-incident\" target=\"_blank\">The Detroit News<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000\">]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday morning at around 2:30am 19-year-old Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a\u00a0predominately white\u00a0Detroit suburb. 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