Posted on 06/20/2017 9:56:49 AM PDT by rktman
More than two dozen men were arrested Saturday at a Coweta County sports bar that officials had been investigating for months.
Montel Whitaker, a local rapper recently released from prison, was at the Hoops Bar and Grill on Old Corinth Road in Newnan when about 30 law enforcement officers raided the club, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Whitaker, who goes by the stage name M. Deezy, was performing during the Welcome Home party. His mother, Altomeisa Smith, told Channel 2 she believes deputies targeted him.
Smith told Channel 2 her son was in prison for cocaine possession and probation violation.
He keeps getting harassed, Smith said. He's just trying to go to the club to perform and make money.
Jasmine Ball, a bar patron, said officials immediately divided the crowd by sex.
When they came in, they said the quickest way out of here ... the women on this side and the men on this side, Ball told the news station. They didn't check no women.
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How many racial stereotypes can be packed in one story? After reading this I think I might have an idea....
“her son was in prison for cocaine possession...he keeps getting harassed”
I don’t think she knows what ‘harassed’ means.
The sportsbar’s called “Hoops”? What could possibly be stereo-typical about that. Follow the bouncing ball-bouncers.
"They didn't check no women."
Benjamin Franklin was right . . .
“Birds of a feather . . .
Apologies to Mr. Coe
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