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Angry sheriff demands community 'wake up' after suspect shot by deputy
WLOX.com ^ | 4-8-15 | Chris Finch

Posted on 04/08/2015 6:57:14 PM PDT by smokingfrog

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office found drugs, guns and bullets in the vehicle driven by a 25-year-old Algiers man who was shot and killed by deputies on Monday in Algiers.

Desmond Willis was killed during a shootout on Manhattan Boulevard in Harvey. The shooting came as officers tried to arrest him following a traffic stop.

An angry Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said Willis was part of an ongoing drug investigation. He started a news conference about the incident with a video of Willis talking about shooting police officers. Normand said the video speaks for itself and discredits what Willis' family said about him being good. "Now, not to be insensitive, but I'll be damned if this office is going to stand by and have its reputation impugned by people when this video is out there trying to pollute the minds of our youngsters in the community day in and day out," Normand exclaimed.

In the video, Willis said "f*** cops" and made references to drugs and running away from police.

Tuesday, Willis' grandmother tried to discredit claims by the JPSO that he was involved in criminal activity.

"Desmond was not a bad child and ain't nobody going to label him as a bad child and I'll tell that to the damn police," Barbara Jackson said.

(Excerpt) Read more at wlox.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: aspiringrapper; policeshooting
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1 posted on 04/08/2015 6:57:14 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

I have been watching this unfold. The Sheriff will not be intimidated by a bunch of race hustlers.


2 posted on 04/08/2015 7:04:27 PM PDT by BBell
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To: smokingfrog

This nation is a boiling pot that’s going to explode.


3 posted on 04/08/2015 7:05:29 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO WISCONSIN BADGERS GO!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yep.


4 posted on 04/08/2015 7:07:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: smokingfrog

Only made it about halfway through that. Gots to watch my blood pressure.


5 posted on 04/08/2015 7:07:28 PM PDT by digger48
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To: smokingfrog

[”Desmond was not a bad child and ain’t nobody going to label him as a bad child and I’ll tell that to the damn police,” Barbara Jackson said.]

Oh yes , another good boy.


6 posted on 04/08/2015 7:07:49 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: smokingfrog

The left is working hard under Obama to pour gas on any fire it can to start a conflagration before November 2016.


7 posted on 04/08/2015 7:08:34 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: BBell

This guy definitely wasn’t unarmed!


8 posted on 04/08/2015 7:08:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog
But he was a good boy.
9 posted on 04/08/2015 7:12:04 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

Damn. I was right there Monday afternoon.

The West Bank of Jefferson Parish makes New Orleans look like Reykjavík.


10 posted on 04/08/2015 7:12:18 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

There is a reason for that.


11 posted on 04/08/2015 7:14:49 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

What is your theory?


12 posted on 04/08/2015 7:17:07 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: smokingfrog

Memo to the thug’s grandmother...25 year olds are NOT children!


13 posted on 04/08/2015 7:19:32 PM PDT by kalee
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To: smokingfrog

Barbara Jackson needs to be caned. Literally. Her kind of attitude needs to be stopped immediately and at the same time everyone else with that attitude needs to know if they express it, they too will be caned.


14 posted on 04/08/2015 7:20:20 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: smokingfrog
"Desmond was not a bad child and ain't nobody going to label him as a bad child and I'll tell that to the damn police," Barbara Jackson said.

Denial. Either that, or she's trying to get a book deal - $ching ching!$

15 posted on 04/08/2015 7:22:30 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: BBell

Just starting to turn his life around, an aspiring rap artist, going to start community college in the fall.....


16 posted on 04/08/2015 7:34:20 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: BBell
"The Sheriff will not be intimidated by a bunch of race hustlers."

Or the fifth-column media leftist pimps.

17 posted on 04/08/2015 7:38:24 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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an aspiring rap artist

Well, he could be a movie/rap star in the next documentary on Tupac.......he can play the "after."

18 posted on 04/08/2015 7:39:04 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: smokingfrog

Dayum....what the h3ll did I just watch?


19 posted on 04/08/2015 7:43:29 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yes, unfortunately it is.


20 posted on 04/08/2015 7:44:12 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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