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MURDER: A Florida man has been charged with murder and attempted murder after a dispute over loud music at a local gas station.

According to Lt. Rob Schoonover of the Jacksonville, Florida, homicide unit, 17-year-old Jordan Davis was playing music at a Jacksonville gas station last Friday evening when assailant Michael Dunn became upset over the volume. Allegedly,

According to federal data, 3.1 percent of black men were in state or federal prison at the end of 2010, compared with 0.5 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 1.3 percent of Hispanics. Among black men 30 to 34, 7.3 percent were serving a sentence of more than a year. (A total of 748,000 adults were in local jails, 1.5 million were in state or federal prisons, 840,000 were on parole and 4 million were under supervised probation.)

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