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keyboardshinobi
Tallahassee Police are investigating an incident in which four Florida A&M University students had a gun pulled on them by a man at an apartment complex for off-campus student housing.
The man, identified as Don Crandall, told the students they weren’t allowed to get into the apartment complex, nor ride the elevator with him, according to a video of the incident that has gone viral. Crandall has since been fired from his job as a hotel general manager.
According to BuzzFeed News, Isaiah Butterfield and his three friends, Fitzroy Rhoden, Stephen Brooks, Joshua Cosby—all juniors at FAMU,—were going to a friend’s apartment at the Stadium Centre apartment complex on Saturday for a party. While in the parking garage, waiting for the friend, Zavian Flowers, to let them in, Crandall walked past them and told them they couldn’t come in.
Crandall then walks inside the building toward the elevator and tells the other men to find their own, because that’s “[his] elevator.” Another student challenges him, saying, “If you own the building, let me know.” Crandall again repeats that they’re not getting in the elevator, and says they don’t belong and don’t have a key. After Chad shows that he has a key, Crandall says, “You think I’m fucking kidding?”
Crandall then pulls out a gun and holds it in a fist, his cellphone in his other hand. He then shows the other men his key.
Hey look, removing the emphasis on Race still tells the story, but makes it about a deranged individual threatening students, it does not make him any less of a shit head, but avoids race baiting. But I guess the only important factors nowadays is if it is a racial thing, not just a bad person doing bad things to good people.