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Two white men were charged after the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said they damaged a Black teen's car in an encounter that the teen's family has suggested may have had racial undertones. One of the men was then accused of hitting the teen's white passenger with a traffic cone.
According to WKMG, Jones admitted the confrontation began after he sped through the gated neighborhood on the way to his friend's home. The CBS affiliate said the sheriff's office was reviewing surveillance video that appeared to show Jones peel out with a passenger hanging out the window before the altercation took place.
Still, the teen's mom suggested to WKMG that her son was targeted.
“There are kids, I was told, who speed through that neighborhood all the time, but they are not of his color," mother Niko Jones told the CBS station. "So I’m pretty sure that all of this happened because my son is Black."
Here come the excuses.
