music davis and three friends were listening to as they sat in an suv in the parking lot of a jacksonville gas station. while initially dunn invoked florida s controversial stand your ground law, he s currently claiming self-defense. he said he also saw a gun, but no gun was found on the scene. though dunn s attorney has not filed a formal stand your ground motion, he did invoke the law in his opening statement. we re not here to change the laws. we re not here to say anybody deserved to lose their life. but under the law, it s justified. and michael dunn, after the facts of this case and the law, had every right under the law to not be a victim. now, following the shooting, dunn and his fiance reportedly fled the scene, returning to a hotel and ordering pizza. this week we also heard dramatic testimony from davis three friends who were in the car when davis was killed.
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and the fact that he actually never called the police when he found out that jordan davis, one of the teenagers, had been killed in the suv, he drove three hours away. he was running. he never intended to call the police. they found him. what about that says self-defense? right. let s take a listen to some testimony from mr. dunn s fiance. did the defendant say anything about the music when he parked the car next to the red car? yes. and what did the defendant say? i hate that thug music. and what was your response to the defendant? i said, yes, i know. now, faith and michael, i want to get your reaction on this. one of the things we re seeing is this question about what role race and stereotypes may have played. that certainly suggests, to me, that there was certainly, you know, this idea that thug music i mean, that suggests, faith, that the shooter, mr.
dunn, really had some kind of bias potentially. right. and this is a clear-cut case of first-degree murder and a clear-cut, trumped-up defense of self-defense. michael dunn is taking his chances because he s a white man against four black teenagers playing rap music. he s going to take his chances against them. it s going to be a play on race and racial bias in the worst way in this trial because he wants these jurors to believe that because it s four black teenagers, of course he s in fear for his life by arguing they are inherently dangerous, inherently threatening and using that as a defense in a play on those emotions and stereotypes in this trial. michael, i want to read to you because the florida attorney s office released letters written by dunn, one to his grandmother, one to his daughter. i think they go very directly to this question and to this point. in the letter to his grandmother in february he says, i m not really prejudice against race, but i have no use for cert