Biana Nikol Roberson was 18 and had just graduated high school. She was on her way to Jacksonville University in the fall and had her entire life to look forward to. Sadly, her dreams and life came to an end on June 28 when she was shot and killed on the highway by another driver on her way home from a shopping trip in West Goshen, Pennsylvania.
In a press conference with reporters, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan confirmed that around 5:30 p.m., while traveling southbound on Route 100 in West Chester, Roberson and the suspect tried to merge into one lane at the same time. It was then, Hogan said, that Roberson’s green Chevy Malibu started to jostle with the suspect’s faded red pick-up truck. The man pulled out a gun and shot her in the head, Hogan said.
Roberson’s car went off the road into the adjacent woods. Hogan told reporters she died instantly. The defendant continued driving along the shoulder of the highway and fled the scene. “This was a senseless and brutal act of violence,” Hogan said of the murder.
After fleeing the scene, on Sunday, David Desper, the suspect in the murder, turned himself in. Desper, 28, is white. Bianca Nikol Roberson was black. Police are calling this a road rage incident. It is hard to know what in the world would have motivated Desper to have killed Roberson beyond becoming angry a the fact that they both tried to merge into the same lane at the same time. But it’s hard to ignore the racial implications in this case—especially in the current moment we are in. Our country is full of angry people. Folks are angry for all kinds of reasons right now, some of them quite legitimate and understandable. But we routinely fail to talk about the plethora of damage that angry white men are inflicting on this nation and how their anger is often directed at people of color.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2tj28Hq
0 التعليقات:
Post a Comment