Davis Moturi lay awake in bed last October, eyes on the ceiling, unable to shake the burning image of his neighbor pointing a gun directly at him through the bedroom window.
The week before, that neighbor — a white man named John Sawchak — had brandished a large knife from his own upstairs window next door, where he often tracked Moturi. Sawchak had screamed racial slurs at Moturi, who is Black, threatening to kill him.
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He had been calling the police, pleading with them to do something for a year now, but they said they couldn’t do anything if Sawchak didn’t come outside. One officer suggested the couple move out, which Moturi later learned was what a Black family who previously lived in their house did, facing similar threats and no relief from the police.
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… days later, Moturi was shot while trimming a tree in his front yard. It took the police about five days after that to arrest Sawchak.
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MPR News combed through court documents and spent hours with Moturi, as he continues to recover from a year of torment police apparently couldn’t stop until after the trigger was pulled.
“The paid racists do not do anything against racists” I can not even being to imagine how it is to be a minority in this shit-infested world. Hell, i can not even find a job without racists in them and i am white.