Community protests for Jackson gas station to be shut down

WLBT3 ^ | 7/28/24 | Nathan Lee

[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

[Organic Panic]

Stop raising a rotten generation of thugs and criminals. AND stop paying single moms to breed them.

[Sequoyah101]

When guns are banned only gas stations will have guns.

I can see it all unfolding now, a class action suit against Chevron for the murders of black people and a corresponding civil rights suit to go along with it for good measure.

I am absolutely positive that makes sense to someone in Jackson, Mississippi.

Black minds are different.

[Sequoyah101]

C-stores are a national health crisis! They also can possibly cause dementia. Ban them!!! /s?

Oreo cookies lead to weed smoking? I never knew.

[Sequoyah101]

Four people are the community? My my.

[No name given]

Well said.

[No name given]

I agree.

[Gaffer]

Yes, the right questions. But let them go ahead and create more food and gas deserts. They’ll be then complaining about the lack of everything.

[Dave911]

Was this supposed to be a rhetorical question?

[PeterPrinciple]

“Medgar Evers Boulevard”

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

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers

On June 28, 1992, the city of Jackson, Mississippi, erected a statue in honor of Evers. All of Delta Drive (part of U.S. Highway 49) in Jackson was renamed in his honor. In December 2004, the Jackson City Council changed the name of the city’s airport to Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport in Evers’ honor.[41]

[falcon99]

Has the good Councilman Stokes been a defund the police leftist and now wants to blame the business for the problem?

[alexander_busek]

Why is the business being blamed, and not the local police and society killers?

There, fixed it!

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

In my town, “yutes” were knocking over mail boxes at the PO and stealing the mail. Instead of arresting anyone, they took out the boxes. Older people go to the PO for everything. I see them hobbling out of their cars to go inside now.

What about oldsters who can't drive?

And those oldsters who can drive (and own cars): Are they now being mugged in the parking lot?

Regards,

[chrisser]

Weird. It appears that the lettering on all four signs was printed by the same person.

And I’d be willing to bet it wasn’t any of those four - looks like whytepeepo printing.

[dynachrome]

“I canst get no gas fo my caddylac.”

[Bryan]

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.

You're on the right track, Rooster. My guess is that the gas station parking lot is where drug dealers and/or pimps ply their trades. And rival factions are engaged in a low grade shooting war, over this particular high-traffic, high-revenue "turf."

I spent the first 15 years of my career in a big city Public Defender's office. I know all the warning signs & symptoms. That's what it looks like to me.

[RoosterRedux]

Oreo cookies lead to weed smoking?

Well, there's a strong correlation. The issue of causation is still being studied (by people who smoke weed and eat Oreos).;-)

[blueplum]

now, don’t tell me, let me guess - the gas station franchise owner is an Asian...amIright?