A white Florida woman who fatally shot a Black neighbor through her front door amid a long-running dispute has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her manslaughter conviction.

A white Florida woman who fatally shot a Black neighbor through her front door during an ongoing dispute has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her manslaughter conviction.

    • Arbiter@lemmy.world
      11·
      28 days ago

      It’s a much higher legal burden to get a murder convictions though. Proving things like intentional malice is very tricky, especially if the prosecutor knows they’re likely to face an all white jury in rural Florida.

      • xor@infosec.pub
        7·
        28 days ago

        well, it’s still life since she’s 60 years old….
        but, if you shoot someone through your door for banging on the door and yelling, that’s definitely trying to kill them.

  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee
    15·
    28 days ago

    Gotta love how Karen’s come with the water works when they face consequences. The fuck are you crying for? You murdered a mother of 4 after terrorizing her and kids for years because you are a racist piece of shit. You now get to spend whatever few quality years you have left in prison, good riddance.

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    28 days ago

    Prosecutors said Owens had come to Lorincz’s home after her children complained that she had thrown roller skates and an umbrella at them, which Lorincz denied. Trial testimony showed Owens, a mother of four young children, was pounding on Lorincz’s door and yelling,

    There’s a reason why Owens is knocking on your door, god damn it…

    Circuit Judge Robert Hodges opted for a slightly lesser term amid evidence that Lorincz had been abused as a child and had mental health problems.

    Shut up… it’s always that us-foreign-policy chart, when it comes to euro-americans, individual ‘mental illness’ or when it comes to black and latin people, ‘ghetto’ behavior

    feared for my life

    monkey-typewriter She’s hitting every bingo, ain’t she? In the west, nothing new

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    28 days ago

    The shooting was the culmination of a long-running argument between the two neighbors over Owens’ children playing in a grassy area near both of their houses in Ocala, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Orlando.

    Literally a case of “get off my lawn”.

  • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
    36·
    28 days ago

    What a crazy unbelievable story! An all-white jury and a white judge found her guilty and sentenced her? In Florida?? That’s absolutely wild!

    The cops were still extremely racist, of course, but that was completely expected