Posted on 10/14/2013 2:35:07 PM PDT by kcvl
JACKSON, Miss. — James “Jimmy” Johnson, a 56-year-old B.A.S.S. angler competing in the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open tournament on Ross Barnett Reservoir this week, was shot to death Sunday night at a motel in Jackson, police confirmed.
Jackson Police Department spokesperson Colendula Green said Johnson of Ganado, Texas, was fatally shot at the Motel 6 at 7145 Interstate Hwy. 55 North in Jackson, where he and his wife were staying during the tournament. Police received the call at 7:48 p.m. Sunday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Green told Bassmaster.com the incident is being investigated as a homicide, and police are looking for a black male who appeared on security cameras at the motel.
Details are limited as the investigation continues, but Chris Bowes, senior tournament manager for the Bassmaster Opens, said he received a call from a friend of Johnson’s Sunday night saying that Johnson had discovered someone apparently burglarizing his bass boat. The shooting occurred after that.
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When Je$$e Jack$son, El Bamba, and the “Rev $harpton” show up...yapping....let me know.
We kept calling to find out if they had found the car and they all said no. Then one day we got a call from the cops wanting to charge us for abandoning the car! I said maybe you all should TALK to each other and you would know the damn thing was STOLEN!
They left a bucket of chicken bones and a Gold's Gym t-shirt in the car. It was a gang of car thieves that had been doing this for almost a year in the area. Never will I stay anywhere near that place again and NO Embassy Suites after the way we were treated.
They could have hired someone to patrol the area but instead I think they had inside help.
He’ll leave the Glock out for you.
He probably didn’t know to stay away from certain areas of Jackson. Jackson is a hell hole to go with Memphis. Its the Amish influence.
Something fun that turned into a nightmare.
Once convicted and sentenced to death, the perp should be let loose in an open field for execution.
Johnson was probably a big fan of hate fishing. /s
I'm a regular Motel 6 customer and have never had a problem with the chain. They provide the Three B's--Bed, Bath, Bible--at a reasonable price.
Isn’t that the racist black separatist mayor? Wants to form an african nation in the middle of the US.
Yeah, he be one real wing dinger there. I wonder if he has Presidential ambitions? FYI: Jackson is a one-party town and the shade is what you think. This cat was elected mayor this year, from his bio below, expect nothing but great things!
He majored in Political Science and graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1969 where he formed the Black United Front to advocate for African American studies in Midwestern higher education institutions. Lumumba was elected to the cabinet of the Republic of New Africa in 1971 as the second vice president.] He was in the same position when the capital of the provisional government was moved to Hinds County, Mississippi and dedicated on March 28, 1971. Lumumba was in the lead car with Alajo Abegbalola which was halted by the Bolton police on that day when the "Land Celebration" was set to take place marking the establishment of the capital of the Republic of New Africa. In 1972 Lumumba was appointed by the Republic of New Africa president as the Minister of Justice to succeed Attorney William E. Miller Jr.
In 2009 Lumumba was elected to Jackson Ward Two council seat with the help of the organization he helped start, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Jackson People's Assembly, Mississippi Disaster Relief Coalition, and other community activists. He has served as chairman of the New African Peoples Organization and co-sponsored the Washington DC rally, Occupy the Justice Department, and in 2010 addressed the New Black Panther Party in Atlanta.
RIP and prayers for Mr James “Jimmy” Johnson and his family!
depends on where you are. In a high crime area, sure.
Delightful.
I’m sorry for your experience though. Nobody deserves to go through that.
Fortunately you weren’t personally hurt in the experience.
Mississippi is now open carry
An oft-repeated phrase, I'll wager.
Black Male Bass out for revenge.
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Mayor Chokwe Lumumba
JACKSON, Miss. — On July 1, Chokwe Lumumba, an attorney with a long record of black radical activism.
Then Lumumba smiled and raised his right hand halfway, just a little above the podium, briefly showing the clenched fist of a Black Power salute.
“And I want to say, free the land!”
Jackson’s new mayor is a former vice president of the RNA and a co-founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a national group born in 1993 that seeks self-determination for African-Americans — whom it calls New Afrikans — “by any means necessary.” Like many shaped by the Black Power era, Lumumba long shunned formal politics, until a successful run for City Council in 2009. Now, as mayor, he is seeking to apply the tenets of the black radical tradition to the duties of running a city.
Raised in Detroit, he was radicalized by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1969 he began law school at Wayne State University, gave up his given name, Edwin Taliaferro, for the “free name” Chokwe Lumumba — honoring the Chokwe ethnic group of Central Africa and the Congolese revolutionary Patrice Lumumba — and joined the RNA in Jackson, leaving law school for two years to dedicate himself to the cause. After graduating, he set up a practice in Detroit and represented the former Black Panther leaders Geronimo Pratt and Assata Shakur.
Lumumba moved back to Jackson in the late 1980s, settling in middle-class Ward 2 with his wife, Nubia, a flight attendant, and their three children. (Nubia died in 2003.) He took on racially charged criminal defense cases in Mississippi, as well as out-of-town clients like the rapper Tupac Shakur. He tangled with the state bar, earning reprimands for, among other things, calling one judge a racist and saying another had the “judicial temperament of a barbarian.” He led the team that secured the 2011 release of the Scott sisters, two African-American women who had gotten life sentences in 1996 for an armed robbery that netted $11.
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