Armed 'mob' allegedly tried to enter black family's North Carolina home; white deputy charged
Category: News & Politics
Via: perrie-halpern • 4 years ago • 19 commentsBy: Kalhan Rosenblatt and Associated Press (NBC News)
A sheriff's deputy in North Carolina is facing criminal charges after authorities said he led a group of armed people to the wrong home in a search for a missing girl.
New Hanover County District Attorney Ben David said Friday that Jordan Kita, who worked for the New Hanover Sheriff's Office, led an armed group to the home of Dameon Shepard, a senior at Laney High School in Wilmington, on May 3, according to James W. Lea, a lawyer for Shepard's family who is preparing a civil lawsuit.
Shepard, who is black, says the all-white group tried unsuccessfully to force its way into the family's Pender County home about 20 miles north of Wilmington.
His mother, Monica Shepard, told the group that they should leave, Lea said.
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"Coming to the door like that with a mob of people with guns, what do we expect? What were their intentions?" Monica Shepard told NBC affiliate WECT of Wilmington. "What if he was the person they were looking for or what if I was not home? What would've happened? I don't want to have that conversation. I don't want him to be a statistic. It's scary."
Kita was looking for Lekayda Kempisty, a 15-year-old girl who had been reported missing earlier in the day. She was later found safe.
In its effort to find Lekayda, Kita's group was searching for someone named Josiah who used to live next door.
During the confrontation, Shepard repeatedly tried to point out to the group that they had the wrong house and that a yard sign out front explicitly congratulated "Dameon" on his high school graduation, to no avail, Shepard told news outlets.
There was believed to be some sort of familial relationship between Kita and the Lekayda Kempisty, said David, the district attorney.
Kita will be charged with trespassing and breaking and entering, in addition to willful failure to discharge duties, which alleges a failure to uphold his duties as a sworn officer of the sheriff's office.
Authorities said Kita has been fired. It was unclear whether he had an attorney who could comment.
A second man in Kita's group also faces a criminal charge of "going armed to the terror of the public."
NBC News has reached out to New Hanover County and the Pender County Sheriff's Office for more information.
Kalhan Rosenblatt Associated Press
What a complete fricking idiot. As an LEO he leads a mob of armed people to someone's house. WTF
My reaction completely.
pffft, it's just the confederate welcome wagon...
This is the face of a racist. Sad that in this day and age shit like this still happens.
I have to agree with you. Now that is two LEO's out of line in 2 months. And people want to know why blacks are afraid and don't trust law enforcement.
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It's almost as if there were 'persons' in our own government,
that might have given a Green light
to go White Sheet
on Black skinned Individuals, as it is so obvious that the thin skinned A Whole Juicy Read Apple of the far rightously so Wrong about everything in Chief, in so many of ours, yet somehow, not theirs, disbelief,
has slipped racism back into so manys' heads', as it has bin always stored within, but now, quite a sin, to watch so many bring US back again, to the Daze of when, Division Multiplied the heads of the pinz looking to thread the needle and stick it 'righ't' inn, ware housed is their pre-
judicial skinned thin skinned hatred of those with different shaded skin that was Pig, Meant it, and different from them
Watched yesterday, another "Race" lost when at any cost our inciter in Chief, disrespected something fierce, an approaching middle aging Asian reporter for asking a simple question, as our Time
Out Required Two faced Two year old Twittering Token Suggester inToTal DisBelief Toddler in Good Grief Charlie Brown Chief Instigator,
Inferred all Blame back to China where
he places
all those orders for made in China
Paper Plates
to be used with Cofvvee filtered through used T-bagger
Masks,
Masked as
Good Will Hunting for a Race to Lay Blame
buy WON, who's already LOST
When you have to bring up a member of NT on a seed who hasn't even commented on it, it says more about you than them.
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Perrie has specifically condemned that. Of course, the name is coded here, so it's ok.
Really, it's never OK, but I know you mean well.
Hmmmmmm...... One of our members on these boards the other day posted that "the fight for civil rights is basically over"
It's never going to be over as long as people like this so called deputy, and just as importantly, those armed idiots that followed him into the house are doing things like this.
This torch and pitchfork mentality has to end.
What is up with all these vigilantes?
This is why minorities are afraid they wont be treated fairly.
Go get a cop with a warrant.
Wow. Bunch of idiots. That could have turned out a lot worse than it did.
Based on the 'Castle doctrine', Monica and Dameon Shepard were in their rights to blow everyone who was armed and came onto their property without their consent. Of course, they'd probably be in jail if they did so because 'stand your ground' and the "castle doctrine' have been proven to be an exclusive right for white people. Remember the black woman who was denied the 'stand your ground' defense and was given 20 years.
think you forgot away, cause it reads like a bombs.
"Moncia and Dameon Shepard were in their rights to blow everyone who was armed and came onto their property"
unless you know some inside info on these two...
Indeed I did.