{"id":22590,"date":"2013-07-18T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22590"},"modified":"2013-07-18T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T19:36:03","slug":"jordan-davis-parents-speak-our-son-will-not-die-in-vain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22590","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Davis\u2019 Parents Speak: \u2018Our Son Will Not Die In Vain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As killer <strong>Michael Dunn<\/strong>, 45, prepares to face 1st-degree murder charges in September for the November 23, 2012 slaying of 17-year-old <strong>Jordan Davi<\/strong><strong>s<\/strong>, in an exclusive interview with <em>Jet Magazine<\/em>, the teen\u2019s parents, <strong>Ron Davis<\/strong> and <strong>Lucia McBath<\/strong>, share the difficulties in keeping their son\u2019s story alive and how they\u2019ve bonded with<strong> Trayvon Martin\u2019s<\/strong> parents,<strong> Sybrina Fulton<\/strong> and <strong>Tracy Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis<\/strong> was gunned down by <strong>Dunn<\/strong> at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. Dunn claims that he felt threatened by the teen \u2014 who was sitting inside of an SUV with friends \u2014 and loud music coming from the vehicle, so he shot inside of it 8 or 9 times before driving away leaving Davis to die in a friend\u2019s arms. None of the teens had weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that<strong> Dunn<\/strong> was carrying a legal concealed weapon, and is counting on Florida\u2019s controversial \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 law to justify his actions, has drawn attention to the racial implications of the law in a state where Black manhood is consistently criminalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As killer Michael Dunn, 45, prepares to face 1st-degree murder charges in September for the November 23, 2012 slaying of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, in an exclusive interview with Jet Magazine, the teen\u2019s parents, Ron Davis and Lucia McBath, share the difficulties in keeping their son\u2019s story alive and how they\u2019ve bonded with Trayvon Martin\u2019s parents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}