Markeis McGlockton

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A white Florida man who told detectives he was irritated by people who illegally park in handicapped spots was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man outside a convenience store. Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone called 49-year-old Michael Drejka a “wanna-be” law […]

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A white Florida man who told detectives he was irritated by people who illegally park in handicapped spots was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man outside a convenience store. Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone called 49-year-old Michael Drejka a “wanna-be” law […]

Michael Drejka, then 47, shot and killed 28-year-old father of 4 Markeis McGlockton, last summer during an altercation over a handicap parking spot in Clearwater, Florida. Of course Drejka claimed stans your ground, but, Attorney Ben Crump says this time Florida got it right. He told the Tom Joyner Morning Show crew that the all […]

It’s only Wednesday and already three significant things have happened this week in the movement toward criminal reform. Fist, Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who placed Eric Garner in an illegal choke hold killing him, was finally fired. Reverend Al Sharpton says though, we wanted criminal charges, this is a form of justice. He points out […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities on Monday released hundreds of new pages in the case of a white man accused of fatally shooting a black man in a parking lot dispute in July. According to a transcript of Michael Drejka’s interview with Pinellas County Sheriff’s detectives, he said that if Markeis McGlockton had […]

The 28-year-old was shot and killed on July 19.

Yesterday, Andrew Gillum won the democratic nomination for governor of Florida. Rev. Al Sharpton says the thing that sticks out in his mind about Gillum is that he was the first candidate to stand up against the stand your ground law in the recent killing of Markeis McGlockton. In other news, our president is “petty!” […]

Good Morning Everybody! As always, we have a lot going on in our country and this morning I wanna give you important updates on a few stories, but first I wanna encourage to vote. Today we have important elections in Connecticut, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Vermont. If you are in those states, or have friends or […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Markeis McGlockton‘s father knows the manslaughter case against the man accused of killing his unarmed son outside a Florida convenience store will take months, possibly years. He’s talked to others who have been in a similar position — notably, the family of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Attorneys have briefed […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a white man with manslaughter Monday in the death of an unarmed black man whose videotaped shooting in a store parking lot has revived debate over Florida’s “stand your ground” law. Michael Drejka, 47, has been charged with the July 19 death of Markeis McGlockton outside a Clearwater […]

  Michael McGlockton is convinced that two things killed his son in a Florida parking lot last month: The man who pulled the trigger and the state’s polarizing “stand your ground” self-defense law. Markeis McGlockton, 28, died a few yards from his children and girlfriend at a store in Clearwater after a confrontation over a […]

Over the weekend Rev. Al Sharpton was in Clearwater, Florida at a rally calling for justice for Markeis McGlocton’s family. The turnout was phenomenal and even more impressive, all five of the democratic candidates for Governor of Florida were in attendance. While Sharpton was in Florida, he says that she sheriff told him to “get […]