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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Michael Drejka sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatal shooting of unarmed man on </strong></span><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Thursday</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>The 49-year-old White Florida resident Michael Drejka was convicted of fatally shooting 28-year-old Markeis McGlockton</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Described by a judge as a “wanna-be” law enforcement officer, Drejka had been found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in August in connection with last year’s shooting death of McGlockton</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>McGlockton who is Black was unarmed during a dispute over a parking spot which was initiated by the shooter</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Drejka confronted McGlockton’s girlfriend outside a store in Clearwater, Fla., on July 19, 2018</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>The defendant had admitted that he had a “pet peeve” about people abusing handicapped parking spaces</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #3b2d2d;"><strong>Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri initially would not arrest Drejka, claiming the shooting was not a crime under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows someone to use deadly force if they believe it necessary</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="align-center"><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-332350" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Michael-Drejka-1.jpg" alt="Michael Drejka 1" width="800" height="604" /><strong>Michael Drejka [right], seen sitting in court with his defense team last year received a 20-year sentence for the shooting death of an unarmed 28-year-old Black man, Markeis McGlockton, last year</strong></span></h6>
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<div class=""><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The white Florida resident convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed black man during a dispute over a parking spot was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Michael Drejka, described by a judge as a “wanna-be” law enforcement officer, had been found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in August in connection with last year’s shooting death of an unarmed 28-year-old Black man, Markeis McGlockton.</span></div>
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<p>He was given credit for three months already served.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Prosecutors say Drejka, 49, confronted McGlockton’s girlfriend outside a store in Clearwater on July 19, 2018. Drejka had admitted that he had a “pet peeve” about people abusing handicapped parking spaces.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Surveillance video showed McGlockton leaving the store and shoving Drejka to the ground. Drejka then pulled out a gun and shot McGlockton.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“I shoot to save my own ass, and that’s that,” Drejka told investigators after the shooting.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri initially would not arrest Drejka, saying the shooting was not a crime under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows someone to use deadly force if they believe it necessary.</span></p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-332348" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Markeis-McGlockton-1.jpg" alt="Markeis McGlockton 1" width="725" height="632" /><strong>Victim:</strong> <strong>Markeis McGlockton was shot to death last year in a dispute over a parking spot in front of pregnant girlfriend and his two toddlers</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><strong><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Michael-Drejka-shooting-Markeis-McGlockton.jpg?resize=620%2C428&;ssl=1" alt="Michael Drejka shooting Markeis McGlockton.JPG" width="749" height="517" />Michael Drejka [kneeling] shot Markeis McGlockton [left, standing] outside a store following a dispute about a parking spot outside a store in Clearwater on July 19, 2018</strong></span></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Judge Joseph Bulone said he found it “ironic” that Drejka himself parked illegally before confronting the family.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“He just seems to come out of nowhere, kind of like a superhero, to see that he enforces the handicapped parking spot,&#8221; the judge said.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Three of the couple’s four young children were in the vehicle when the shooting took place. Girlfriend Britany Jacobs and witness Robert Castelli testified that McGlockton was backing up when he was shot.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A six-person jury in Pinellas County had deliberated for six hours before finding Drejka guilty earlier this year. Drejka did not testify during the trial.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A defense lawyer read a letter from Drejka’s wife in which she said her husband was not a bad person. She also wrote that many loved ones had received threats and stayed away from the courtroom.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Defense lawyers asked the judge to show leniency, but Bulone told the court that “I’m not really sure that I’ve heard any remorse.”<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“There are no words to fully describe what his loss has done to our family,” Jacobs told the court. “Our youngest two children will never have memories of their daddy.”<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">McGlockton’s mother Monica Moore-Robinson added that her son “was loved by so many and because of you, Michael Drejka, my son is now a memory.”<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“I don’t hate you, but I will never forgive you,&#8221; she said.</span></p>
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Stand your ground defense fails Michael Drejka, as the white Florida resident is sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatal shooting of unarmed black man in parking dispute
