Affirmative Action Justice in Seattle: Black Hate Crime Killer Gets Convicted Only of Man 1, Instead of Murder 1, for Premeditated Killing of White Man

 

War crime victim Michael Travis Hood and his daughter Destiny 

Michael Travis Hood and Jodie Davis, circa 2011 (note that the Seattle Times did not see fit to show any pictures of the victim or his daughter in the story below)
 

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Thanks for this article to reader-researcher “W,” who wrote:

Note the line from his defense atty. There is no end to the excuse-making for black-on-white killings. He could have been Obama’s father or older male ‘lover’ and source of coke.

N.S.: I left the following comment. We’ll have to see if the thread Nazis permit it to stay.

Let’s translate defense counsel’s sophistry. The killer is a lifelong, murderous racist. He raped white men in prison, and committed first degree murder against Michael Hood, motivated solely by racism. Hood never yelled any racial epithets at Chambers. That’s just a typical racial fairy tale that black racists trade in, and no more credible than the murderer’s story of PTSD, and irrelevant, anyway. Mopes like Chambers don’t suffer from PTSD, they give it to others.

All his life, Chambers has benefited from affirmative action, and this was no different. He should have gone down for Murder 1/Hate Crime, but instead got a lousy Man 1.
 

I just did some more research on the vic. He had only moved to Seattle two months before Lovett Chambers murdered him on January 21, 2012, fleeing the violence and racism of Jim Snow Jacksonville.

Hood moved to Seattle in November and was starting a new life, his mother, Brenda Hood, 60, said Tuesday night.

“He left to get away from here,” she said.

The journey that ended with his death in Seattle began in Jacksonville’s Paxon neighborhood with two brothers and a friend, now all dead.

The first to die was Bobby Hood, a 21-year-old shift supervisor at a Pizza Hut on Edgewood Avenue. On Jan. 1, 1991, he was shot five times during a robbery. [The killer was almost certainly black.]

The second brother was Ted Leggett, 19, who was in a stolen Dodge Neon fleeing from two Clay County deputies on Aug. 24, 1998 when the car crashed. Leggett died and the driver was charged with murder.

Most recently Michael Hood’s friend, Mark Lee, 37, was fatally shot Aug. 22 outside his home on West Second Street in a possible home invasion, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. [The killer was almost certainly black.] [“Last of 3 Jacksonville brothers killed in Seattle,” by Dan Scanlan, Dana Treen last updated Jan 25, 2012.]

 

Felon found guilty of 2012 fatal shooting in West Seattle
The Seattle Times
Originally published April 8, 2014 at 7:05 PM | Page modified April 8, 2014 at 11:13 PM
Lovett “Cid” Chambers, 69, was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old stranger in West Seattle in 2012.
By Paige Cornwell
Seattle Times

 

War criminal Lovett Chambers 

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A King County Superior Court jury found a felon with a lengthy criminal history guilty of first-degree manslaughter Tuesday for fatally shooting a 35-year-old stranger in the back in West Seattle in 2012.

Lovett “Cid” Chambers, 69, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Michael “Travis” Hood, who was walking from the Feedback Lounge on Jan. 21, 2012. Hood later died from his injuries.

The lesser verdict also includes a firearm enhancement.

Chambers, who owned a small IT business in West Seattle before his arrest, faces a sentence range of 12 to 14 years in prison, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

During the nearly six-week trial, prosecutors argued that Chambers shot Hood for no apparent reason, while the defense argued that Chambers, who is black, fired in self-defense because he felt threatened by Hood and his friend Jonathan “Jaimie” Vause, both white.

Prosecutor Mari Isaacson said during opening statements in February that Chambers retrieved a .45-caliber pistol from his blue BMW around 9:30 p.m. and then waited outside the bar for Hood and Vause. As they were walking to Vause’s pickup, Chambers trailed them for more than 200 feet, Isaacson said.

Hood then grabbed a shovel from Vause’s truck bed and faced Chambers, Isaacson said. Chambers pulled the gun from his pocket and shot Hood in the back and chest. Hood died at Harborview Medical Center the next day.

Isaacson said that Chambers had been heavily intoxicated before the shooting, and his blood alcohol was measured at 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent, six hours after the shooting. He also frequently changed his story during interviews after he was arrested about 1½ hours after the shooting, Isaacson said.

Chambers, who has prior convictions for kidnapping, rape and several armed robberies, “created the situation,” Isaacson told jurors in February. “This was not self-defense.”

Defense attorney Lauren McLane said in her opening statements that Chambers acted in self-defense after Hood and Vause followed Chambers and hurled “vile racial epithets at him.” She told jurors Chambers shot Hood to protect himself from being assaulted with the shovel.

Chambers’ experiences in detention as a youth and young adult and later in prison in racially charged atmospheres shaped his view of police as violent and indifferent, McLane said.

She said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder because of his experiences, and that because of the disorder he doesn’t remember anything about the shooting.

The jury deliberated for two days, the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said. A sentencing date has not been set.
Information from Seattle Times archives is included in this story.

Paige Cornwell: 206-464-2530 or pcornwell@seattletimes.com