Wednesday, February 7, 2018
To Serve
Tennessee sheriff boasts about fatal shooting he ordered: "I love this shit"
If this latest episode of overt lethal force is not a mess, it will do till one gets there.
Watch the videos (that is right there were multiple video and audio recordings), read the transcripts and decide for yourself. I have seen things similar to this where I live. A minor incident occurs and things get out of hand. In my opinion, cooler heads should have prevailed and this man did not have to die. Again I was not there, but based on the current information available I would say this is a huge mistake.
I remember when I was about thirteen there was a guy who had already graduated high school. When he was younger he rode my school bus. Anyhow, this guy bought an old Honda 750-4 right out of high school. One night the local policeman tried to pull him over for speeding and the kid gunned it. The cops were driving an old LTD with a 460 cid police interceptor. With blue lights flashing and the siren wailing the cop ran the boy on a road that was on the west side of our place and around a backroad that ran about a mile east of our farm. It was basically a lop-sided oval of about eight miles. I don't know how many times they made the loop, but each time the motorbike was pulling away from him. We were on the back porch listening and watching when they'd come down the long straight in front of my house. My daddy said to me, "if that was you, I'd whip your ass for driving that fast and running from the law. I'd also whip the dogshit out of that policeman for chasing you". His point was the cop knew who the boy was. All he would have to have done was go to his parent's house the next morning and pick him up. By chasing him, the boy could have been injured or killed as could have the policeman and anyone else on the road or even close to it. The kid finally ran out of gas and got to go to the "stout house" over at the county seat. Anyhow, here is the "meat" of the subject.
Phenix City, Alabama
A couple of posts back involved the Phenix City police officer who was charged with rape. That post has nothing in common with this story except both took place in Phenix City, Alabama. I first heard of the legacy of Phenix City from my old high school principal who was a native of that area (Smith's Station) and used to tell some harrowing stories about the crime and corruption that went on in and around Phenix City/Columbus, GA. Most of the crime was prostitution and gambling and perpetuated on soldiers from nearby Ft. Benning. During WWII there were so many instances of soldiers from the U.S. Army Training Center being "rolled" in the town that Gen. George Patton threatened to roll his tanks into the town and to shut down the crime wave. He did not. The vice and violence continued on several more years and reached a climax when Phenix City native, Albert Patterson who had been recently elected Attorney General of the State of Alabama (ran partly on the premise of cleaning out Phenix City) was shot and killed outside of his office in the town by some of the local syndicate. I was wondering if anyone had seen the 1955 movie The Phenix City Story. In the movie the AG's son gives a rousing speech to the townsfolk and is insturmental in restoring decency to the town. In real life, Patterson's son Albert, went on to become governor of the the State of Alabama. The movie is "OK", but the real history is fascinating. This is especially true if one is lucky enough to hear it first hand. Here is the movie poster. Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia and a YouTube snippet.
Phenix City was notorious during the 1940s and 1950s for being a haven for organized crime, prostitution, and gambling. Many of its customers came from the United States Armytraining center at Fort Benning, Georgia. The leaders of the crime syndicate in Phenix City were Jimmie Matthews and Hoyt Sheppard. Albert Patterson, from Phenix City, was elected to become attorney general of Alabama on a platform of reforming the city, but was shot and killed in 1954 outside his office on 5th Ave, N of 14th Street. As a result, the city had a negative reputation, and many people still associate this legacy with Phenix City. The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama by Margaret Ann Barnes chronicles these events, which led the small town to be known as "Sin City, USA". The bordertown was the subject of an acclaimed film, The Phenix City Story, made in 1955.
"Chimp Out" at funeral of murdered 20 month old girl
Kandice Cabbil died last week of blunt force trauma. Her father, Samuel Cabbil, has been charged with her death. Mourners who came together to console each other ended up in a helluva brawl. The video can be seen below and the story can be read by clicking HERE.
To Serve
Phenix City police officer, Eldrick Devon Kennedy, was charged with raping a woman in handcuffs. Kennedy was put on administrative leave and then fired after a brief investigation proved Kennedy had broken multiple department internal procedures.
Russell County Sheriff, Heath Taylor, said "Kennedy knew better. He was a five year veteran". Taylor went on to say he had no sorrow or sympathy for Kennedy and that Kennedy would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. STORY here.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
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Sunday, February 4, 2018
An Important Fundraiser For Angel... PINNED.. newer posts below.
Kenny over at "Knuckledraggin My Life Away" has set up a fundraiser to help Angel in her
time of need. Here is a link to KENNY'S page. Please send along whatever you can to help
someone who has definitely touched so many people in the blogosphere.
This comment by Phil over at "THEVULGARCURMUDGEON" offers his description of
Angel and it's spot on:
Angel has a blog also although it went dormant a few months ago because her personal life was stressed out. She had two autistic daughters, the oldest just passed away suddenly.
How to describe Angel to someone who doesn’t know about her? Very difficult but I’ll give you a quick rundown the way I see it.
Angel is the unofficial and decidedly unwilling “Den Mother” to a an assortment of bloggers who are all a part of the American Patriot movement in one way or another.A red head from Texas, she is one very sweet lady with a huge heart who you would not ever want to piss off. There was one instance that stands out when she was out in her garage alone with the door open in front and some pervert walked in out of the blue with his little Johnson hanging out. She was cornered and reached behind her and pulled out her pistol from her waistband and chased him right the hell out.
I have no doubt she would have plugged his ass if he hadn’t took off like a scalded cat. That kind of tough. There are a lot of people with a ton of respect for the lady and I count myself as one of them.
She has had fund raisers for other people in need and as a matter of fact, the last post she put up was just that. She is wicked smart and doesn’t put up with any bullshit. Her and Kenny (Wirecutter) from Knuckle Draggin’ My Life Away have had a friendly tease the hell out of each other very publicly relationship going back years and are actually good friends. the name of her blog is The Lonely Libertarian and you can find it quite easily by searching for that.
I hope this helps explain what is going on.
Angel's blog.........
The Lonely Libertarian
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