DETROIT: Gas station shooting...why different?

I have been talking about crime in Detroit for some time and what can be done to prevent some of it but this latest example gives one pause…

I am talking about a fatal shooting at a gas station where the clerk came out of the bulletproof glass protected cage that all gas station clerks have to be behind in Detroit, and shot a “customer” who argued with him about the price of condoms and then proceeded to trash the store when he did not get his way. The clerk shot the customer in the back with a shotgun as the customer left and came back to trash the store some more; obviously the clerk did not need to do that or should have done that because he was not in any physical danger but both were in their early 20s and you know how tempers fly at that age.

The next day, the gas station was inundated by family, friends and neighbors of the deceased protesting his shooting, shooing away customers, demanding the station be closed permanently and demanding that the clerk that did the shooting be locked up for life.

The amount of outrage by the community in this case was puzzling since this amount of outrage has never been shown in response to countless shootings and killings of innocent children in the city that has been going on nearly daily among other senseless and shocking criminal acts against innocent residents of the city including the very elderly.

The county prosecutor was quickly if not immediately on TV saying the shooter will be charged with first degree premeditated murder when it was clear this was done in the heat of the moment and not premeditated, and spend the rest of his life in jail; all this from a usually sensible and methodical county prosecutor.

What makes this crime different from the usual black on black crime; it was a shooting of a black man by a man of Middle Eastern decent. In Detroit, most if not all gas stations are owned and manned by either Chaldeans or other Middle Eastern men; I do not call them Arabs because they do not call themselves that.

Operating gas stations with tiny shops attached in Detroit is very dangerous with many of the owners and clerks killed during frequent robberies. The few (expensive) goods that these stations provide are sometimes the only close source for those goods for the entire neighborhood so they provide a vital service but they are despised... why?

This is not the first time this type of incident has occurred. The usual complaint you here is that the gas station owners do not “respect” the customers they serve. What this means I don’t know but I do know that this type of incident brings out an outrage that seems somehow disproportionate when compared to other crimes in the city especially involving innocent victims; the customer that was shot by the clerk should not have been shot but he was far from being an innocent shopper.

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