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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy and another man face criminal   
   charges after leading an armed group to the home of a black   
   teenager.   
      
   The group, led by former New Hanover County Sheriff’s Deputy   
   Jordan Kita, arrived May 3 at the home of Dameon Shepard, a   
   senior at Laney High School in Wilmington.   
      
   The teenager was playing video games when he answered a knock at   
   the door and was met by Kita, who was flanked by two men holding   
   a shotgun and a semi-automatic assault-like rifle, respectively.   
   A group of about 15 people — all white — were behind him, said   
   Shepard’s lawyer, James W. Lea, who is preparing a civil lawsuit.   
      
   The group tried unsuccessfully to force its way into the home of   
   Shepard, who is black. They were reportedly looking for 15-year-   
   old Lekayda Kempisty, who had gone missing earlier that day. She   
   was later found alive.   
      
   The group was searching for someone named Josiah, a student from   
   a different school who had ties to the girl and used to live   
   next door to the Shepards.   
      
   The Shepards are one of only two African-American families   
   living in the predominantly white neighborhood, according to the   
   Port City Daily.   
      
   New Hanover County District Attorney Ben David said Kita, who   
   has since been fired, went to Shepard’s home “while armed and in   
   uniform in a county where he was not dully sworn in and in   
   furtherance of personal — not law enforcement — purposes.”   
      
   Lea claims that Kita put his foot in the door and demanded to be   
   let in after Dameon repeatedly identified himself and tried to   
   shut the door.   
      
   “The individual named ‘Josiah’ had apparently lived next door   
   with his mother for some period of time but had left his   
   residence in the neighborhood approximately one month prior,”   
   Lea wrote in a letter to David. “At some point, the group   
   apparently began to understand that they were at the wrong   
   residence.”   
      
   There was a sign in the front yard congratulating him on his   
   graduation from Laney High, with his first name in large,   
   capital, bold letters, according to Lea.   
      
   Kita is now facing charges of trespassing and breaking and   
   entering. A man in Kita’s group – identified as Austin Wood – is   
   also facing a criminal charge for “going armed to the terror of   
   the public.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/05/10/north-carolina-deputy-led-armed-   
   group-to-black-teens-home-lawyer-claims/   
       
      
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