Posted on 05/27/2014 11:05:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Madison County jurist allegedly twice struck young man, called him the n-word. Witnesses said the incident happened at public flea market.
A judge in central Mississippi slapped a young black man in the back of the head and yelled “Run, n----r, run,” the teen’s parents claim in a police report.
The allegations against Madison County Justice Court judge Bill Weisenberger, who is white, will be weighed by a grand jury.
“This is 2014,” said former Canton mayor William Truly, who now heads the local NAACP, according to The Clarion-Ledger. (It’s) “not 1960, where someone could slap a young man and call out “run n-----, run.” Weisenberger was moonlighting as a security officer at the Canton Flea Market when the incident allegedly occurred two weeks ago.
Eric Rivers, 20, was asking for work at the open-air market when Weisenberger accosted him, the young man’s parents said in their complaint.
Truly demanded that Weisenberger step down at a news conference on Friday.
“No citizen should have to face justice before a judge who holds such a high degree of racial animus and hatred,” he said.
Flea market vendor Cathy Hendrix told the newspaper she and others routinely rely on locals who help unload goods.
She said Rivers was standing on the sidewalk, asking if anyone needed help.
“That young man was wanting to work to earn money to buy a bike,” she said.
Her sister, Tammy Westbrook, said she saw Weisenberger “rear back and slap” Rivers twice, the newspaper reported.
As Rivers ran away, she said the judge yelled after him “run boy, run” and “run, n-----, run.”
Weisenberger did not return phone calls asking for comment, the paper said.
Yes. How many times have claims of this type been proven false?
Too many. I wonder if the judge is up for reelection?
That’s a good question.
See post #25.
I don’t see a similar pattern. A lot of those cases someone wrote something, and their were no witnesses and it was very suspicious.
Time will tell.
Right. That's why they were burning school buses in Boston so their kids didn't have to go to school with "those people" a full seven years after Maryland schools were integrated.
NIMBY, anyone?
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Of course not. My original post stated that I was hesitant to believe that this event was true. My last post was that time would tell. I may be sceptical, but if it is your intent to imply that I am racist, I would have to say that is unfair.
I hear Bourdain did Luscos?
If Hillary said it, would the media hear it?
I don’t know anything about it....
My wife had mentioned it last week I think
I used to go to Luscos in my hunting clothes from the Brake
Late 70s
I have seen some wild things behind those curtains from illegal things to delta debutantes with too much to drink and too few clothes left on
Lol...memories
They have two white witnesses both of whom work the market.
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