Posted on 01/02/2016 12:49:16 PM PST by Kaslin
Jackson, Mississippi Councilman Kenneth Stokes is possibly facing an investigation after suggesting that city residents throw rocks, bottles, and bricks at policemen who enter the city in pursuit of a criminal. Stokes suggested this in response to police officers from other jurisdictions who chase petty criminals into the city, and suggested that throwing projectiles at the officers would dissuade officers from doing as such.
From CNN:
Councilman Kenneth Stokes has a reputation of saying what he thinks and stirring controversy.
"Let's get rocks; let's get bricks, and let's get bottles," Stokes told CNN affiliate WJTV. "And we'll start throwing them, and then they won't come in here anymore."
It was no one-off quip. Stokes repeated the suggestion to other local news outlets.
"When you have these police officers coming from other jurisdictions and they will not respect human life, then I said we should use rocks, bricks or bottles to try to get the message over: stop endangering our children," Stokes told Jackson's The Clarion-Ledger newspaper.
While these comments are certainly jaw-dropping, they may also be criminal. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant (R) posted on Facebook that he is requesting that the state's attorney general investigate Stokes to see if his remarks would constitute a criminal threat against officers:
Below is my full statement regarding Jackson city councilman Kenneth Stokes' remarks about law enforcement officers. "...Posted by Phil Bryant on Friday, January 1, 2016
These comments make me sad, because they do nothing productive to address a situation and instead spark more controversy and anger. Police brutality and the militarization of police forces are things that should rightfully be discussed, but Stokes' comments do nothing to aid in that discussion. Instead of discussing whether or not the police forces in the area were acting appropriately, we're now discussing how an elected official is encouraging people to throw rocks at officers. (Which is never okay.)
It is dangerous to throw rocks at cars--people have been maimed or killed by such acts. It is incredibly irresponsible (and possibly criminal) for an elected official to use this kind of rhetoric, and it is right that Stokes is being investigated.
It should be universally condemned.
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“Well the last thing I wanted was to get in a fight, in Jackson, Mississippi on a Saturday night...”
So let’s throw rocks at him. Fair is fair.
I thought “inciting riot” was a crime. But I guess that’s because I also think that in the USA that all laws are supposed to be applied to all citizens equally.
Orwell is right about some animals being more equal.
“”Let’s get rocks; let’s get bricks, and let’s get bottles,” Stokes told CNN affiliate WJTV. “And we’ll start throwing them, and then they won’t come in here anymore.”
Throwing rocks, bottles and bricks should be expected from 50 IQ apes.
No, how about you TIE a few large rocks to this low-IQ food hound and toss him in one of those bayous I hear about. Hopefully Ol’ Scaleytooth the gator will take care of this problem of utter stupidity. What a complete childish sack of excrement!
If police stop going in to “the hood” who will “the hood” citizens call when a McNugget is missing from their McDonalds order??? If there is only one emergency in “the hood” it is a mixed up McDonalds order.
sorry, but buying guns means nothing.....show me people that stand up to tyranny and crime and then we’re talking...
Ken Stokes is on his way to a big stroke....
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