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Community protests for Jackson gas station to be shut down
WLBT3 ^ | 7/28/24 | Nathan Lee

Posted on 07/31/2024 10:02:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Councilman Kenneth Stokes was joined by many in the community for a protest on Sunday against the Texaco gas station on Medgar Evers Boulevard after the recent homicides and crime in the area.

He says he will be bringing up a vote of no confidence against the city’s legal department and director for not declaring the gas station a nuisance and shutting it down before now.

“Where people suffer harm or injury, it’s got to be considered a nuisance. How many people have to die here before they realize it’s harmful?” Councilman Stokes said.

The most recent homicide happened earlier this month when 23-year-old Jacobi Austin was shot and killed in front of the gas station

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: crime; kamala; kennethstokes; society; texaco
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Why is the business being blamed, and not the local police and society?
1 posted on 07/31/2024 10:02:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Then POC will live in a gas desert.


2 posted on 07/31/2024 10:04:59 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: DallasBiff

Because, with some communities, they’ve been encouraged to blame others.

Liberals believe that outside circumstances causes inner evil.
Change the outside circumstance and you chance evil, according to liberalism.


3 posted on 07/31/2024 10:05:30 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: DallasBiff

This, children, is how you get Big Mike’s “food deserts.”


4 posted on 07/31/2024 10:05:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Medgar Evers Boulevard”

And I thought Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. was supposed to be the most dangerous place in town.


5 posted on 07/31/2024 10:06:25 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t get it either. The violence will just move someplace else in the vicinity.


6 posted on 07/31/2024 10:08:29 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t get it either. When the popo go after the criminals, they end up being accused of being the bad guys, so they cut back on patrols, etc. that would cut back on violent crimes. How is that the fault of the gas station owner?


7 posted on 07/31/2024 10:09:15 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: DallasBiff

children are our future.

God help us.


8 posted on 07/31/2024 10:09:30 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: DallasBiff
Convenience stores across the country should be shut down because they encourage shoplifting, shootings, and beer and Dorito consumption.

And don't forget, they sell rolling papers and Oreo cookies and that makes them responsible for weed smoking by otherwise innocent people.

9 posted on 07/31/2024 10:09:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Take Trump off ballots. Fail. Take his money. Fail. Put Him in jail. Fail. Assassinate him. Fail.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

At first I was irritated when they named streets after leftist icons.

Now I am thankful—almost as good as “dangerous part of town—stay out” signs.


10 posted on 07/31/2024 10:10:18 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: DallasBiff

I was expecting the Babylon Bee ...


11 posted on 07/31/2024 10:10:57 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DallasBiff

This calls for root-cause analysis. All they need is a mirror.


12 posted on 07/31/2024 10:11:37 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: DallasBiff

Jackson should be bulldozed. If it weren’t for the medical center in Jackson there would be nothing to speak of in it.


13 posted on 07/31/2024 10:11:46 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: DallasBiff

If you watch the video, the first idiot they interview is saying we want to be safe when we go into these stores….if you shut down the store there is no store to go into.


14 posted on 07/31/2024 10:11:56 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: DallasBiff

https://www.wlbt.com/2024/07/20/authorities-investigating-deadly-shooting-jackson-gas-station/

23-year-old Jacobi Austin was shot in front of the gas station.

JPD says there are no suspects at this time.


except for the gas station.


15 posted on 07/31/2024 10:12:11 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DallasBiff

You can get rid of every gas station in town and it won’t matter.
Get rid of the Feral Animals.


16 posted on 07/31/2024 10:12:32 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: DallasBiff
No hint in the article about why the victim was killed or by whom. Even the linked article said they had no suspects.

Medgar Evers Boulevard

Is that the new MLK Blvd.?

Councilman Stokes, who has been pushing for security guards at convenience stores, will have the item for the next city council meeting on July 30.

Will the guard be armed or will he just be allowed to say "Hey, you. You stop that." (No exclamation points because that would be too violent of response )

17 posted on 07/31/2024 10:13:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: DallasBiff

The councilman is doing more harm than the gas station.

His actions, and those protesters carrying signs suggest they really might want to check for lead paint in their homes. And if there has been repeated trauma to the head during a farm accident.

I mean, somewhere in that town there’s a box of rocks feeling really intelligent right now.


18 posted on 07/31/2024 10:15:08 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: SharpRightTurn

“And I thought Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. was supposed to be the most dangerous place in town.”

It’s the Jackson MS equivalent…just keeping it local.


19 posted on 07/31/2024 10:15:20 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: KarlInOhio

Like you have cancer and treating you for headache


20 posted on 07/31/2024 10:15:27 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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