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Thomas Jefferson Byrd, known for Spike Lee films, killed
WPRI ^
| 10 04 2020
| Staff
Posted on 10/04/2020 6:59:23 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, known for his roles in Spike Lee films, has been shot and killed in Atlanta, police said Sunday.
Police responded to a call around 1:45 a.m. Saturday and found the 70-year-old Byrd unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds in his back, police spokesman Officer Anthony Grant said in a statement.
Responding paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene on the city’s southwest side, where he lived.
Grant said homicide detectives were working to determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting and declined to provide further details.
In an Instagram post Sunday, Lee said he was sad to announce Byrd’s death and recalled how the actor “did his thang” in his films including “Clockers,” “Chi-Raq,” “Bamboozled,” “He Got Game” and “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus,” among others.
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To: yesthatjallen
Having worked for years in a big city ER I learned...up close and personal...that my mother was right when she said “nothing good ever happens at 1:45AM”
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:02:53 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon's Now A Battleground State)
To: yesthatjallen
To: yesthatjallen
The ultimate racist name.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:03:44 PM PDT
by
2banana
(Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
To: Gay State Conservative
Especially when you are 70 years old. Hell, I’m 58 and I’m usually in bed by 11.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:05:12 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(Orange Man GOOD!)
To: yesthatjallen
If they built a statue for this guy would it be torn down?
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:06:04 PM PDT
by
hercuroc
To: 2banana
To: HighSierra5
Yeah I’ll cry all night.
That piece of garbage lee made Italians look like morons any time they were in his films.
Probably got beaten like a b... by then when he was young.
Anyone who works with him I do not respect.
Broke my heart when Danny Aiello did. I forgave him because I like him so much...but it took a while
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:08:11 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
To: yesthatjallen
Oh, yeah. He was one of the junkie band members in the movie Ray.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:08:29 PM PDT
by
Semper Mark
(Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
To: yesthatjallen
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:09:30 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
To: yesthatjallen
Are there pro(riot)tests?
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:11:04 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Ghislaine Maxwell lives and Joe Biden is losing.)
To: yesthatjallen
Damn Covid claims another one.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:12:16 PM PDT
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
To: yesthatjallen
“Clockers,” “Chi-Raq,” “Bamboozled,” “He Got Game” and “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus,” among others.Classics I’m sure we all remember...
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:12:17 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: Magnum44
I think I saw She-Rack, but that was a while ago when I was in my younger days.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:13:34 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(Orange Man GOOD!)
To: Steely Tom
White guy kill him? If he did I believe it would be stated in the headline. That's how this things generally play out.
To: yesthatjallen
If he did I believe it would be stated in the headline. That's how this things generally play out. To the memory hole it goes.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:17:45 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
To: yesthatjallen
Didn’t know who he was, but after seeing his picture, I thought Richie Havens died years ago. But RIP, whoever he was.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:25:33 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
(Biden has dementia.)
To: yesthatjallen
Interesting. Thanks to every poster. All I know about Spike Lee is “Do the Right Thing”(i think and try to). Mr. Byrd? Dunno.
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:27:22 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: yesthatjallen
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posted on
10/04/2020 7:27:35 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Unlike Jeffery Epstein, George Floyd DID kill himself.)
To: yesthatjallen
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10/04/2020 7:28:47 PM PDT
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PGalt
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