Two White were charged with smashing Black teen’s car with a rock, and a traffic cone on June 14th. The incident occurred in a neighborhood in Sanford, the Florida city known for the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012.
A Black teenager was driving his family’s Mercedes-Benz when he and his friend saw two White men angrily approach the vehicle with a traffic cone and a large stone. In a video posted to social media on Tuesday, June 14, Jermaine, a Black teenager narrated how he encountered violent racial discrimination and was accused of street racing by two White men who were letter joined by others in harassing the teenager.
The caption begins, “I was racially profiled while driving through my [friend’s] area.”A car with its side window smashed, a noticeable dent, and scrapes below can be seen in photos and video.
The video appears to capture the aftermath of the event, with Jermaine (who isn’t visible on camera) filming the damage to his car. Four Caucasian, middle-aged inhabitants — three men and one woman — can be seen yelling at him while he records, with two males approaching the boy furiously.
Jermaine issued an update after the video went viral on social media, garnering thousands of views, comments, and reposts, stating that two of the males in the video had been detained.
The individuals have been named as Donald Eugene Corsi and Howard Oral Hughes, and they are both facing felony charges, according to Heavy. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office issued their mugshots.
