Two white Florida men targeted a 16-year-old Black boy in the same neighborhood where Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman, according to Newsone. The teen took a video of the incident, explaining in the caption that the men “didn’t like the way he was driving” and threw a large rock through his window.
The teen, Jermaine, wrote that the men approached him while he was driving through his friend’s neighborhood in Sanford, Florida. He took a video of the men and posted the scene to social media.
“They didn’t like the way I was driving, so they felt the need to hit my car with a cone, and throw a rock through my window. All I wanted to do was de-escalate until police came because I wasn’t about to get charges pressed on me for no reason,” he wrote in the caption of his Instagram post.
The footage was far more disturbing than the initial report of what happened.
Jermaine’s sister tweeted images of his car afterwards. The back window was shattered and the car door was dented and scratched, totaling over $1,000 in property damages.
Reports say one of the men, Donald Corsi was charged with weapon offenses for sending a “missile” into a vehicle. The other, Howard Hughes, was charged with first-degree misdemeanor battery. Both also have charges of criminal mischief.
Source: Black Boy Racially Profiled in Same Town Where Trayvon Martin was Shot
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