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Posted on 12/28/2019 8:39:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Supporters of an effort to recall a McKinney councilman are celebrating Friday, after they turned in what they believe to be enough signatures to push the election forward.
The movement to remove council member La'Shadion Shemwell, who was elected in 2017, also received the support of McKinney Mayor George Fuller. Shemwell and his supporters have said the recall is in retaliation for his comments about racism and police use of force.
Recall organizer Jolie Williams said they collected more than 3,000 signatures, well above the 2,100 threshold set by law.
“We’ve done our work,” Williams said. “We’re confident in our numbers.”
McKinney residents launched the recall after Shemwell proposed a proclamation calling North Texas a “Black State of Emergency” after a number of high-profile cases in which police officers fatally shot a black person. He urged people of color to not travel to the state after the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson in Fort Worth.
“My comments are not an indictment of all officers,” Shemwell said at a Nov. 5 council meeting following the backlash to the proclamation.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
That being said, there have been a few high profile incidents of police shooting innocent people in their own homes so I do believe police departments should re-evaluate polices and procedures when responding to calls.
If you're in your house doing nothing wrong and you see someone outside your home looking in the window when it's night is your first thought going to be, 'that must be the police'?
I’m declaring an Ed Hardy t-shirt and fake tan emergency in McKinney, Texas.
1. Earlier this year, Shemwell accused a McKinney police officer of racial profiling after he was pulled over and arrested for refusing to sign a speeding ticket. After seeing body camera footage of the arrest, he admitted he handled things poorly and later voted to censure himself.
2. #NEW Court documents reveal that a woman who was in “dating relationship” with LaShadion Shemwell alleges assault on 3 seperate occasions this year. Docs reveal the assaults are “Continous Violence Against Family” and constitute a 3rd degree Felony. @wfaa pic.twitter.com/QWIUsjyM7v
— Jobin Panicker (@jobinpnews) December 6, 2018
He cries racism or police brutality every time he gets in trouble, which is often.
No wonder people in McKinney have had enough.
Typical Democrat.
“...you see someone outside your home looking in the window when it’s night is your first thought going to be, ‘that must be the police’?”
That was a murder that cannot be explained away.
> He urged people of color to not travel to the state...
Didn’t the Dems try that in the 60’s?
Here is the esteemed Honorabble Member of Council interacting with law enforcement last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ejH6avzjb0
You use a ghetto name generator, on the internet.
Any idea of the follow up? Did he tell the Magistrate that he, too , was in really big trouble?
After the run in with the cop, the city council voted to censure him for misconduct. He was a team player and voted for the resolution, as well.
The turd on his head his leaking into his brain
There are a lot of good black people. It is a damn shame that they should be smeared and stereotyped because the actions of people like this.
On that subject, it offends me mightily that hard working and capable black people are smeared by the racism of quotas and “affirmative action”.
His new name, Shadrack Shamwell, the cousin of Eric Swallowswell. Brother by a different mother.
La-Shadion is actually the Ebonics version of “The Shadow”. Just an old name updated for the man-bun ahole.
LOL! The Shadow knows.
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