Because the race hos are involved.

Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death - but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.

In a case that has brought cries of racism from civil rights groups, Renato Hughes Jr., 22, was charged by prosecutors in this overwhelmingly white county under a rarely invoked legal doctrine that could make him responsible for the bloodshed.

"It was pandemonium" inside the house that night, District Attorney Jon Hopkins said. Hughes was responsible for "setting the whole thing in motion by his actions and the actions of his accomplices."

Prosecutors said homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire Dec. 7 after three young men rampaged through the Clearlake house demanding marijuana and brutally beat his stepson. Rashad Williams, 21, and Christian Foster, 22, were shot in the back. Hughes fled.

Hughes was charged with first-degree murder under California's Provocative Act doctrine, versions of which have been on the books in many states for generations but are rarely used.

The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill. Instead, "they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner," said Brian Getz, a San Francisco defense attorney unconnected to the case.

Personally, I think that Edmonds deserves a medal for helping to clean up the environment. After all, scum like Williams, Foster, and Hughes are clearly an environmental contaminant that need to be removed from society for the betterment of everyone elseÂ’s life.

But the NAACP and the associated race-baiters are out in force, wanting to charge the victim and let the criminal off with a slap on the wrist.

The NAACP complained that prosecutors came down too hard on Hughes, who also faces robbery, burglary and assault charges. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.

The Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP and pastor at Hughes' church, said the case demonstrates the legal system is racist in remote Lake County, aspiring wine country 100 miles north of San Francisco. The sparsely populated county of 13,000 people is 91 percent white and 2 percent black.

Brown and other NAACP officials are asking why the homeowner is walking free. Tests showed Edmonds had marijuana and prescription medication in his system the night of the shooting. Edmonds had a prescription for both the pot and the medication to treat depression.

"This man had no business killing these boys," Brown said. "They were shot in the back. They had fled."

Here in Texas that would not mater under the Castle Doctrine. There is no duty to retreat, or to let the criminals escape.

And let’s be really clear about who was victimized here, since the fake “man of God” Amos Brown wants to help a violent criminal from his church escape a just punishment for his crimes.

The district attorney said that race played no part in the charges against Hughes and that the homeowner was spared prosecution because of evidence he was defending himself and his family, who were asleep when the assailants barged in at 4 a.m.

Edmonds' stepson, Dale Lafferty, suffered brain damage from the baseball bat beating he took during the melee. The 19-year-old lives in a rehabilitation center and can no longer feed himself.

"I didn't do anything wrong. All I did was defend my family and my children's lives," said Edmonds, 33. "I'm sad the kids are dead, I didn't mean to kill them."
He added: "Race has nothing to do with it other than this was a gang of black people who thought they were going to beat up this white family."

Well, IÂ’m sure that fake man of God Amos Brown and company would argue that if only the white family hadnÂ’t been in their home with legally prescribed medication, there would have been no need to shoot the thugs who attacked them. Or maybe he believes that Edmonds, Lafferty, and the rest of the family just plain had an obligation to allow the animals to kill them.

Here’s my question for the fake man of God Amos Brown – if this situation had been reversed, and a white man were charged with the murder of his accomplices because a black man killed them after they broke into his house and nearly killed a family member, would you be objecting to these charges and demanding that the homeowner be charged with murder instead? Or would you be praising the prosecutor for trying to ensure that justice was done in a case of shocking and senseless violence.

No, Amos, don’t bother answering – the sort of appeal you’ve made in this case already tells us what would happen. Now drop to your knees and pray to God to be forgiven for and converted from your grievous sin of RACISM. And while your at it, show you have really repented by offering a prayer for Dale Lafferty as he sits in a rehabilitation center, the victim of the dead men and the man you falsely claim is a victim.

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