Woman (white) fired and arrested for pulling gun on black couple.

CNN ^ | June 4, 2019 | Eliott C. McLaughlin

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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."

[foreverfree]

I did. Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mount Katahdin, Maine. One of the greatest experiences of my life.

Congrats.

Probably the longest I've ever walked on the AT is the pedestrian bridge (attached to a RR bridge) that crosses the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry. :)

I've also seen highway crossings of the AT at Newfound Gap in the Great Smokies on Route 441; I-70 in MD where that road goes under the AT (there's a pedestrian bridge for the AT there too), and one or two places in PA (not counting the few times I went through the Lehigh Tunnel on the PA Turnpike NE Extension, which goes under the AT).

Yes, I've read Bryson's book (my library's copy) and it is a bit of a ripoff.

ff

[Magnatron]

...I went through the Lehigh Tunnel on the PA Turnpike NE Extension...

Blue Mountain was a horrid stretch the year I hiked. It was in the 100s and all of the springs were dry. We sipped our way through our canteens and really struggled for a couple of days. That was the most miserable part of the trip. (Next was Vermont, which isn’t nicknamed Vermud for nothing...).

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I think she complied with what you said except she had a gun in a non threatening position. I worked in Mississippi before Obama and as someone else here on this thread pointed out there has been a rise in crime with a racial component. She is 70 and fat not suited to wearing a holster and KOA camp grounds would have rules posted. Since the video is one sided I can’t see what the couple were doing and the reporting is slanted too. The woman of the couple was quick to add the racial component which I didn’t pick up on in the couple’s video.