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Rapper, 16, says wealthy Florida residents smashed up $30k Mercedes after being ‘racially profiled’ as two arrested
A TEENAGE rapper claims he was racially profiled and his car was attacked by residents in a wealthy neighborhood.
Two white men have now been arrested after video showed the damage to 16-year-old Jermaine Jones’ $30,000 Mercedes car and him being confronted in Sanford, Florida.
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Video posted by Jones’s dad when he arrived at the scene, shows men shouting at the teenager and also accusing him of drag racing in their neighborhood.
Donald Eugene Corsi, 52, and 61-year-old Howard Oral Hughes have now been arrested, the
The incident took place in the same town where African-American teenager Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, sparking the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I was racially profiled while driving through my friends neighborhood," Jermaine Jones wrote on Instagram.
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“They didn’t like the way I was driving, so they felt the need to hit my car with a cone, and throw a rock through my window.
“All I wanted to do was de-escalate until police came, because I wasn’t about to get charges pressed on me for no reason.”
In the video, a man in sunglasses yells into Jones’ face saying: “Burning out and racing through my fucking neighbourhood, you f***wad!”
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Jermaine stayed behind until police arrived at the scene despite being told to leave the scene, it was reported.
Corsi faces felony charges for damage to property and launching a weapon into a vehicle.
Hughes has been charged with felony property damage and a misdemeanor for battery.
Both men have since been released from the Seminole jail on bond.
Trayvon was just 17-years-old when he was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
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After he had left the store he walked through a neighbourhood in Florida that was notorious for robberies.
The unarmed teen was walking home from a 7-Eleven after purchasing Skittles and an iced tea when he was targeted by Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder.
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