http://nation.foxnews.com/daniel-adkins/2012/04/09/black-male-shoots-unarmed-hispanic-remains-free-media-mum

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"Taco Bell Shooting Victim was Holding Leash, Not Weapon Victim's sister calling for shooter's arrest Updated: Wednesday, 04 Apr 2012, 5:12 PM MST Published : Wednesday, 04 Apr 2012, 3:38 PM MST LAVEEN - Police are saying more about a shooting at a Taco Bell Tuesday night in which one man died. They're also identifying the victim as 29-year-old Daniel Adkins. About 7:30 p.m., a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend ordered food at the Taco Bell drive-thru and were told to pull up while their order was prepared. At the same time, Adkins stepped around a corner into the path of the vehicle and angry words were exchanged between he and the driver. They got into an altercation and Adkins was shot once by the driver. He died at the scene. The driver, a 22-year-old black male, called police but has not been arrested. At first, the couple claimed that Adkins had a metal pipe that he swung at them -- but it turns out he was holding a dog leash with his yellow lab on the other end. Family members want that driver arrested, but he's claiming self-defense. "He needs to be behind bars. I'll never see my brother again," says sister Marina Reyes. "If he felt that my brother was threatening him, he could have easily just rolled up the window and called the cops.""

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/29/us/stand-your-ground/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

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"Shot 'straight in the heart' The confrontation that would catapult two more families into the middle of the lethal force debate began as the sun dipped below the horizon in Laveen, Arizona, a suburb southwest of Phoenix. It was April 3 -- 37 days after Martin's death in Florida. Daniel Adkins Jr. walked past Taco Bell's drive-thru just as a 22-year-old man pulled around in his SUV to pick up his order. Sitting in the passenger seat was his pregnant fiancée. CNN is withholding the shooter's name because he has not been charged with a crime. A police report describes how the deadly confrontation unfolded. The driver slammed on the brakes, just missing Adkins. The two men exchanged words. The shooter told police that Adkins "air swung" his hands in the direction of the SUV, but acknowledged he never hit him or his vehicle. Still, he said, he was afraid of what Adkins might do with the weapon he believed he was carrying. Although a weapon was never found, the shooter described it as a 3-foot metal pipe or bat. 'Stand Your Ground' law under fire When Adkins lifted his hands in the air again, the driver drew his Smith and Wesson .40-caliber handgun from his sweatpants. He pointed the barrel at Adkins and racked the slide of the gun, putting a bullet in the chamber. Then he pulled the trigger. Struck in the chest, Adkins fell to the ground, face first, clutching Lady's leash. The lab stayed at her master's side, even as the life drained out of him. The shooter pulled around to the front of the Taco Bell as his fiancée called 911. He told police he had no choice but to shoot. He said he couldn't drive away from Adkins because the dog was in the way and he "thought he had no other options," according to the police report. While the shooter said he did not believe Adkins would have killed him and his fiancée had he not fired, he also said he feared Adkins was trying to hurt him."

I mean, WTF.

You could have stayed in your god damn car and waited on the cops.

This is ENTIRELY different than the Zimmerman case.

There was obviously some kind of physical altercation that caused Trayvon to be shot for whatever reason.

This guy was in the safety of his own car, the other guy was not armed, only swung at his car in the AIR, and the guy just hops out and shoots him.

Now this is a fucking outrage.


The fact that nobody is even talking about this, should be all the evidence that the entire reason anybody cared about the Zimmerman case was because of race.



[Edited on April 29, 2012 at 6:29 PM. Reason : ,]

4/29/2012 6:28:02 PM

Daniel Adkins doesn't sound very hispanic.

ESPECIALLY IN MY CHIT CHAT

4/29/2012 6:32:52 PM

the soap box is like 7 spots down in the drop down menu, k

4/29/2012 6:33:58 PM

Well since the Trayvon one is in Chit Chat, this one shall be too.

You know, so the race thing is equal.

4/29/2012 6:35:40 PM

----> SOAP BOCKS IS DAT WAY

4/29/2012 6:35:41 PM

Funny, no outcry in the Trayvon thread about The Soap Box.

4/29/2012 6:36:44 PM

read again

[Edited on April 29, 2012 at 6:38 PM. Reason : we just tired of this shit]

4/29/2012 6:38:07 PM

There is a little here and there, but none this soon.

Is it because this guy is hispanic and the shooter was black?

4/29/2012 6:38:40 PM

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"Funny, no outcry in the Trayvon thread about The Soap Box."

4/29/2012 6:39:07 PM

^^

4/29/2012 6:39:57 PM

ntlb

4/29/2012 6:40:36 PM

so we can make chit chat threads out of soap box topics here, correct?

lols

4/29/2012 6:42:10 PM

why, yes...i do believe that is perfectly acceptable.

4/29/2012 6:42:53 PM

PONY UP, BITCH

4/29/2012 6:43:41 PM

this dude is all hung up on race

4/29/2012 6:43:46 PM

THEN I WILL ONLY POST BLACK AND WHITE HORSES

4/29/2012 6:44:27 PM

Interesting, so is the black community.

Now you see why it's so annoying to white people.

4/29/2012 6:44:42 PM

another post about race

4/29/2012 6:45:49 PM

4/29/2012 6:45:57 PM

Doesn't annoy me. In fact, I never think about it.

4/29/2012 6:46:08 PM

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"SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ALL WHITE PEOPLE"

4/29/2012 6:46:17 PM

4/29/2012 6:46:58 PM

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"Sitting in the passenger seat was his pregnant fiancée."

say what?????

4/29/2012 7:16:39 PM

SO he swung his dog at them?

4/29/2012 7:27:31 PM

http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/dignitymemorial/guestbook.aspx?n=daniel-adkins&pid=156874871&sign=3

so tuff

victim...

shooter...



[Edited on April 29, 2012 at 7:43 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on April 29, 2012 at 7:45 PM. Reason : lol]

4/29/2012 7:37:24 PM

JUSTICE FOR DANIEL ADKINS!!!!

5/1/2012 4:28:41 PM

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"He said he couldn't drive away from Adkins because the dog was in the way and he "thought he had no other options,""

If that's the only option the guy can come up with in that situation then he needs to be in jail... away from the public.

5/1/2012 6:49:56 PM

I couldn't agree more.

There seriously better be some god damn national outrcy at this point, and if they choose not to charge him and nobody throws a fit, Im gonna lose it.

5/1/2012 10:40:02 PM

you were funnier as pack_bryan

5/1/2012 10:45:18 PM