#RalphYarl got up and ran but had to ask at three different homes before someone agreed to help "after he was told to lie on the ground with his hands up," Spoonmore wrote. SOURCE: Khaleda Rahman for Newsweek
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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"He pulled into the driveway & rang the doorbell. The man in the home opened the door, looked my nephew in the eye & shot him in the head," [Yarl’s aunt, Faith Spoonmore wrote on the GoFundMe page] #RalphYarl "fell to the ground & the man shot him again."
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Lester was taken into custody, held for only 2 hrs & released pending further investigation - because he is white & the victim is Black. SOURCEs: Tina Burnside, Amanda Jackson, Cheri Mossburg, Taylor Romine & Steve Almasy for CNN.com
#RalphYarl
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Facts: #RalphYarl was shot through a glass door with a .32 caliber revolver but according to Lester’s own statement, Yarl didn’t do anything more threatening than ringing the doorbell on the wrong house.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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#OTD in #History 2023
Apr 13: 16-yr-old #RalphYarl, Shot by 84-yr-old Andrew Lester
Context: Yarl’s parents sent him to pick up his siblings at an address on 115th Terrace, but he mistakenly went to a home on 115th Street. SOURCE: T. Burnside & A. Jackson - CNN.com
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"For nearly two years, Andrew Lester never apologized," the family added. "Instead, he and his attorney used every legal maneuver possible to delay accountability.
#addtoblacksky
#blacksky
#ralphyarl
#justicesystem
#blackchild
You train kids to find help from an adult but it can be the death of you #ralphyarl
Andrew Lester, the Kansas City homeowner who shot #RalphYarl, has died, prosecutors said.
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Man who shot black teen after he rung his doorbell dies before sentencing. Lester was charged with first-degree assault in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, who survived and is now a freshman at Texas A&M.
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An 86-year-old Missouri man who pleaded guilty to shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell by mistake has died ahead of his sentencing, prosecutors said Wednesday. #RalphYarl
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“…We remain committed to seeking a world where no child fears for their life because of their race and no family has to endure what we have. Ralph’s story is far from over, and neither is our fight for justice.”
Love and light to #Ralph’s family
#FuckAndrewLester #RalphYarl #blacksky
#andrewlester, the #kansascity man who pleaded guilty to felony assault in the second degree for the shooting of #ralphyarl, has died while awaiting sentencing, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson announced on Wednesday.
Breaking : Andrew Lester, 86, Dies While Awaiting Sentencing for Shooting Black Teenager
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#AndrewLesterAge
#WhoIsAndrewLester
#AndrewLesterKansasCity
#RalphYarl
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I guess that's one way to get out of responsibility. #RalphYarl I wish you peace and success in your life. 🙏🏻
The 86-year-old man was expected to be sentenced on March 7.
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#AndrewLester, the 86-year-old #Missouri man accused of shooting Black teenager #RalphYarl after he mistakenly rang his doorbell, has pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal.
Lester will be sentenced March 7 and faces up to seven years in prison.
Look at these two headlines. The man who murdered #RalphYarl got seven years. The man who killed his (white) wife got life.
He's 86; if he is sentenced to the full 7 years, that is probably as good as a life sentence.
#RalphYarl #AndrewLester
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#RalphYarl #JusticeForRalphYarl #WrongDoorShooting #PleaDeal #GunViolence #Accountability #StandAgainstHate #TeenShot #SeekingJustice #EndGunViolence #LegalNews #BreakingNews
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"There's a lot of evidence & research done around adultification, but folks are scared to call that out... this is not new in America, this is a rich history of white supremacy, bigotry, & racism." #RalphYarl
Read #CPE @PolicingEquity on adultification:...
"There are systems, there are policies & there are people, that when they see Black children...they see them as being violent, inherently violent, they see them as lacking innocence." #RalphYarl
Pls watch #CPE's Eric Cumberbatch speaking w @PamelaBrownCNN...
I do not need to hear what a great musician, great student and overall nice guy #RalphYarl was in order to know that the US has too many guns and not enough #GunControl @Freeyourmindkid
PLEASE stop tell me what a great young man #RalphYarl was. I'm sick of hearing about it. If #RalphYarl was a 16-year-old thug who rang that doorbell with malicious intent I STILL think shot NUMBER TWO to the CRANIUM was unjust.
