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🚨BREAKING: South Carolina Jury Finds Asian Store Owner NOT GUILTY After Shooting Unarmed 14-Year-Old Black Teen In The Back A 61-year-old convenience store owner chased down and shot a 14-year-old Black teen in the back even though the boy didn’t steal anything and a jury just found him not guilty. On May 30, 2023, Chikei Rick Chow chased 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton over 130 yards before shooting him in the back. Prosecutors said Carmack-Belton did not steal anything and did not point his gun at anyone — it fell during the chase. Carmack-Belton died in his twin brother’s arms. On June 1, 2026, a jury found Chow not guilty of murder after he claimed self-defense. Cyrus Carmack-Belton’s family sobbed in court as the verdict was read. The case sparked protests in the Black community, with many questioning how someone could shoot an unarmed 14-year-old in the back and still walk free.

BREAKING: Alabama set to execute 75-year-old grandpa who never killed anyone under ‘felony murder’ doctrine! Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, has spent over 30 years on Alabama’s death row at Holman Correctional Facility for murder, a crime he did not commit. No one disputes that Burton never pulled the trigger, never shot anyone, and never intended for anyone to die. Yet on Thursday, the state plans to execute him anyway. Here’s the story: In 1991, Burton was one of six men involved in a robbery at an AutoZone store in Talladega. He admits to entering the store with a gun, stealing cash from a safe, and fleeing outside to the getaway car. According to the state’s own filing to the Supreme Court, he was already out of the store when one of his accomplices shot and killed a customer. “I didn’t know a murder was going to happen, Burton told NBC from prison. “I would have stopped that.” Nonetheless, prosecutors labeled him the “ringleader” (a claim he denies), which is a legal tool that treats everyone involved in certain felonies (like robbery) as equally responsible for any killing that occurs during the crime, even if they didn’t commit, intend, or know about the killing. The man who actually pulled the trigger, DeBruce, received a different fate. Initially sentenced to death, his sentence was reduced to life in prison on a legal technicality. He later died in prison. Burton, who never killed anyone, faces execution despite five jurors from the original trial and the victim’s own daughter urging Trump-supporting Gov. Kay Ivey to spare Burton’s life. “I shouldn’t die for something I haven’t done,” Burton said. Yet Alabama is moving forward, using a controversial “ringleader” precept that holds everyone involved in certain underlying offenses to be treated by the legal system as if they committed an intentional murder.” This is law-and-order in MAGA-red Alabama, to condemn an accomplice to DEATH while the actual shooter lives, in this case a 75-year-old grandfather who never shot anyone – all because of a legal loophole that prioritizes punishment over justice. If Alabama executing a man who never killed anyone outrages you, like and share to demand a stop to this miscarriage of justice.