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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Ruby Nell Howell, 70, of Starkville is charged with threatening exhibition of a weapon, according to a news release.
Sounds like she had the gun at her side and didn’t point it at anyone. Interesting world we live in, huh?
Sorry. If you don’t need it,don’t pull it.
What do the skin colors have to do with it?
Also sounds like Ruby is an idiot with a Rambo complex.
Maybe I’m missing something, the 70 y/o sees couple and a dog not supposed to be on the property has a gun, doesn’t pull it out, but tells them to they need to leave and get reservations then puts her gun away, and she’s made into the next Hitler on social media and is fired and now charged? Maybe I’m wrong but what did she do so wrong?
Woman (black) fired and arrested for pulling gun on white couple.
2 can play
IDK..that is what the story is about right? Would she have been fired and arrested over telling a white couple on private camp property to leave while holding a gun? LOL
Would CNN have picked it up? You need to as the MEDIA why it matters, sweetie.
Guess she was an evil white devil. That seems to be the article’s point. Because we know black people never point a gun at anyone. Only racist whites do that stuff.
Look everybody! In a country of 360 million people, a damn WHITE person did something to a black person. That’s the game the media plays.
Police have no leads and ask for the woman to please turn herself in
That’s my point. Stuff happens. It can even be racism sometimes. But it doesn’t prove what they’re trying to prove. That America is a racist country of constantly racist incidents.
Exactly, that’s why I posted it. And if she has a right to carry and it was private property, who cares if she had her gun out. She never pointed at them. She was alone with a younger couple. IDK seems like another viral edited video hits the SJW online and now it’s the biggest effing deal ever.
Tired of the social media dedicating our social structure and morals.
CNN making sure it’s racial.
CNN is ATT
Don’t patronize the Left. Dump ATT.
She may have brandished the weapon in some way, she may be an idiot, but the other side of the story is sometimes unarmed women at campsites get raped/ murdered.
OK, I am confused: If she never pulled the gun out, then what did she put it away?
KOA issued a statement that firearms have no place on their property, so there must be some level of raping/murdering they are more comfortable with than someone having a means of self-defense.
White. Black. Who cares?
*If your 70 year old mom can run off trespassers with a pistol at her side and a Pal Mal hanging off her lip, you might be a Redneck.
Hey fake news cnn, What color was the dog?
And thank god they wern’t black indians, what with throwing around the word “reservations” like that
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