Posted on 06/04/2019 6:42:43 PM PDT by snarkytart
An ex-employee of a Mississippi campground, fired last month after pulling a gun on a black couple, was arrested Tuesday, the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office said. Ruby Nell Howell, 70, of Starkville is charged with threatening exhibition of a weapon, according to a news release.
Howell turned herself in Tuesday morning and was released on a $500 bond, the sheriff's office said. She is scheduled to be in court June 25.
Video of the confrontation showed Howell on May 26 approaching Franklin and Jessica Richardson, along with their dog, as the couple sought a picnic spot and possible cabin on Oktibbeha County Lake near Starkville.
Wearing a shirt bearing the logo of Kampgrounds of America, which runs the site, Howell is seen in the video holding a handgun by her side. Jessica Richardson says Howell asked them to leave because they didn't have a reservation.
"This lady literally just pulled a gun because we out here and didn't have reservations for a lake we didn't even know we had to have reservations for," she says in the video, which was shared widely on social media. "That's what the office is for up there, ma'am," Howell responds. "We didn't know, ma'am," Franklin Richardson tells her. Adds his wife, "We didn't know. The only thing you had to do was tell us to leave. We would have left. You did not have to pull a gun."
Howell puts the gun in her shorts pocket, telling the couple, "Well, I'm just telling you you need to leave because it's under private ownership. Y'all just can't be out here."
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To not give CNN hits, type Kampgrounds firearm on YT to see the video. She has the gun in hand. We don’t see her pointing it at anyone or much of the confrontation at all.
I don’t know. Did she have a reasonable fear of imminent danger on grievous bodily injury or harm? Only She can answer. She is a 70 year old woman facing a disparity of force.
She should’ve shot the dog.
My “favorite” was at a tiny B&B at the Jersey shore, there was a parking spot that said something like private parking.
Someone, could have been a 10 year old, could have been a minority, a drunk, maybe even The reporter - took a scrap of paper and wrote “white only” parking.
The AP ran it as a national story, the poor owners had to go on and on apologizing. More “proof” of racist America.
I read the bestseller A Walk In The Woods about hiking the Appalachian Trail. The author described lots of women campers who have been raped and murdered. Then in the next breath he went on about how upset he was that a female park officer wears a sidearm. I hate liberals.
Good thing she didn’t have bleach and a noose.
Off topic, but “A Walk in the Woods” was an absolutely terrible book. As someone who hiked the Appalachian Trail myself in 1984, I was insulted that this idiot Bryson would write a book about hiking the trail when he actually didn’t hike much of it at all. He bailed early and drove the rest of the way, staying in motels as he went.
A much better book for hardcore hikers is David Miller’s “AWOL on the Appalachian Trail”. Not as much fluff and ironic humor, but a taste of the real experience of hiking the AT instead.
It shouldn't matter. But the media loves to tell the races of people when a white person does something to a minority person, when its the other way around they don't mention race at all.
While true... Too many old white people have been murdered or badly beaten by blacks because the felt diss’d over situations just like this.
I don’t know the law in MS, but in most states you must not display a gun when confronting a person.
If you are open carrying, the handgun must remain holstered.
If you are carrying concealed, you must not allow it to be seen.
The explanation of that theory is really a perversion of logic. The “logic” is that you did not consider yourself in danger of bodily harm or death or you would have fired at the suspect. Therefore you actually committed a crime by threatening. The law in effect forces you to shoot if you pull the weapon.
Concealed carry courses teach you that you should never draw until it is certain that your life is in danger.
That is not logical but it is the law in many states.
Article says she had it in her hand.
If she had it in her hand that’s brandishing. Guns aren’t toys or substitutes for words. Idiots like this don’t help gun owners.
Well said.
Around here she would have risked being nailed for “brandishing.’
The last 3 or 4 times that I was “dissed” or threatened, it was by “wiggers” with face tattoos and bloodshot eyes.
My carry piece stayed in its holster.
That reminds me that I left out of my post something important.
Brandishing is a very good way to get shot.
Imagine you are armed, concealed carry, legal.
On a picnic with your wife or family out in the woods or in the mountains and someone suddenly appears waving a gun and displaying an attitude.
You might not draw and shoot, but you certainly would be on edge and ready to fire at the slightest bad move.
In this area almost every gun store has a big sign at the door warning that you must not draw a sidearm for any reason, even if you only intend to by an accessory for that model.
It would be a wild ride at the store I frequent.
No doubt. She would have been better off to keep it in a coat pocket. My point is, as is yours, be armed.
Be armed,and well trained and practiced.
Very true. The reason for brandishing laws is that holding a gun in hand is intimidating in and of itself. The person holding it may not intend to intimidate but it’s a lethal weapon and it’s ready to be deployed so every gesture, every facial expression and every word is going to be viewed with apprehension and a lot of scrutiny. No one can know what’s on another person’s mind so it would be natural to be concerned.
“What do the skin colors have to do with it?”
Exactly.
Pure demagoguery reporting.
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