Posted on 04/30/2016 6:09:10 AM PDT by HomerBohn
But some Americans bravely elected the first negro as president.
Exactly. Appalachian communities have historically managed ways to resolve problems when more effete society was unable to do so.
The enemy is the Progressive mindset, at the forefront being the entitlement and victim mentality, a form of pathological psychology. Hell, I see it all the time here in the Akron region of Ohio. The colloquial term is wigger. Like it or not, there are more and more every single day!
BY CHOICE.
I see them all over northeast Florida. Neck, wrist and knuckle tats, rotten teeth, shirtless, unemployable except as occasional under the table laborers. They drink Steel Reserve and smoke 305s. They ask for "gas money" in the Walmart parking lot. Their kids go to school with my kids and my kids come home with notes that "lice was found on a student in class today" and parents need to inspect our kids to make sure it didn't spread.
Drug-addled, dysfunctional losers.
Kevin Williamson wrote a scathing article in National Review about this demographic but failed when he then tried to paint them as working class Trump voters.
B)All the more reason there might not be so much love for the slain family.
I realize that. Sometimes it is a case of pot calling kettle black.
It reminds me of a local case from years back. There was a small circle of party animals who caroused together regularly. Eventually, there was a car accident and one young man was killed. Horrific. Well, the young man who died was the drunk driver as often as any of the others, just never got caught and not on that fateful night.
An interesting theory. In fact, the sheriff in charge originally said, in twenty years there had never been a LE issue with this family. I found that to be a little odd, since the men in the family were always getting into fights with other locals. The cockfighting operation appears to be very close to the road and would be hard to miss. Also read that they were hard workers and active in community affairs. So who knows.....one interesting tidbit is that the youngest victim, sixteen, had been the target of a road rage incident. It seems a woman driver, 33, went after the boy. Slapped him around pretty badly, left bruises and charges were brought against the woman. The boy’s mother who is a victim also was active in getting the woman arrested. Two days before the murder the woman was given one year probation and not to go near the family.
He would be the first person I'd want to rule out.
I haven’t heard a word about him and that was my first suspicion. I thought it too coincidental that an infant had been born just four days before a family is wiped out. Thought maybe the Rhoden men had gone after the father and prevented him from being with the mother and baby. But now that money was thrown over one of the men’s body, it sounds improbable. I read that two of the three children are in child protective custody and this infant is one of them. There is a father, as there was a picture of him with the pregnant mother, wonder why he isn’t allowed to be with the baby.
Just tragic for those little ones.
In a rather small rural community such as this is, it is my experience that everyone knows what everyone else is doing or what they may be involved with. You can’t make me believe that LE didn’t know about who was the drug supplier in the community. Everybody knows the “go to guy”. Every body knows who the thieves are, which women are the sluts and who’s been cheating on who.
A diversion, maybe? DeWine did say something about the killer(s) deliberately hindering the investigation.
I thought that was a rather odd comment to make. I mean, what criminal doesn't try to hinder the investigation?
The folowing story tells me the sheriffs department has had some troubling deputies employed in the recent past.
PIKETON, Ohio – The sheriff’s department people are counting on to solve the massacre of eight family members here last week has had to investigate some of its own deputies for serious crimes in the past few years.
Since 2013, four deputies from the Pike County Sheriff’s Office have been involved in three separate incidents that resulted in criminal charges or resignations, according to our news partner, WBNS in Columbus.
And the Pike County Sheriff’s Office only employs 13 deputies.
What does that say about the sheriff’s department? Piketon resident Alan Newberry is familiar with the cases.
“You can think you know somebody and you check them out, but you don’t know the inner person as well as you think you do,” Newberry said.
Most recently, WBNS reported that Deputy Joel Jenkins was indicted in 2015 on five counts related to two fatal shootings — one at his home in December and another while on duty on a rural road in March.
Jenkins was charged with murder, reckless homicide, involuntary manslaughter, and tampering with evidence. He was fired.
The victims were 26-year-old Robert Rooker, a stranger, and 40-year-old Jason Brady, a neighbor.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that Rooker, who had spent a year in prison in 2009-10 for burglary and theft, was speeding and rammed two cruisers during a chase on March 28. His vehicle crashed on a dead-end road.
Another officer also fired at Rooker’s vehicle, but only Jenkins’ shots apparently hit Rooker.
Jenkins was suspended but later returned to work. In May, Sheriff Richard Henderson resigned and current Sheriff Charles Reader took over. Reader put Jenkins on administrative leave until he underwent treatment.
“He seemed to be doing fine,” Reader said.
Then came the Dec. 3 shooting at Jenkins’ house. Jenkins called to say he had accidentally shot Brady in head. Brady, a friend to many, used to feed and walk Jenkins’ police dog.
The first officers at the scene said it was clear that Jenkins had been drinking.
That case gained national attention because county prosecutor Rob Junk had lent Jenkins some of his guns for protection, the Dispatch reported.
In 2014, WBNS reported that Pike County deputies Phil Hopper and Paul Wheeler violently attacked Hopper’s 16-year-old stepson at their home. They weren’t charged but resigned.
Hopper’s wife said the deputies were drunk. The deputies claimed they were defending themselves against a violent, out-of-control teenager.
An independent Ross County Sheriff’s investigation found all three could have faced criminal charges.
Wheeler said the situation came to a head when Hopper ordered the teen to go in the house and the teen sucker-punched Hopper in the face.
“He started walking around toward Phil and when he walked past Phil he just turned around and jacked him,” Wheeler said. His fiancee supported his story.
But the 16-year-old, his mother, and his friend told a different story.
“I started to walk away when Phil yelled ‘march.’ I told them they were acting like jerks, then he grabbed me by the head and tried to put me on the ground,” the teen said.
His friend told investigators, “Phil grabbed (the teen) by the face and pulled him to the ground and then Wheeler and Phil were on top of him and Wheeler was holding him down kneeing (the teen) and Phil hitting (the teen).”
Hopper’s wife backed up that account:
“We just kept screaming, ‘Get off of him! Get off of him!’ and Wheeler was kicking him in the side. He had his knee down in him. Phil was punching him,” she said.
Residents say that incident doesn’t reflect upon the sheriff’s office.
“I think it’s just the individuals,” said Newberry. “Basically we got a good sheriff’s department - good men, good investigators - but things like that happen.”
In 2013, the Pike County News Watchman covered the case against former Chief Deputy Clyde Franklin, who pleaded no contest to gross sexual imposition.
In 2011, a grand jury charged him with engaging in sexual activity with a child under the age of 10. The crimes occurred between October 2008 and January 2009, according to the indictment.
Sanders was sentenced to five years of community control sanctions and ordered to register as a Tier 2 sex offender.
While the sheriff’s office continued its investigation into the Rhoden family murders on Thursday, Newberry and other residents defended Reader, who took over the sheriff’s post last year.
“Charlie didn’t have anything to do with (crimes by deputies). That was past tense,” Newberry said.
None of these deputies are implicated in the Rhoden case. WCPO wanted to know if the arrests point to general problems in the department.
The sheriff at the time of these incidents, Henderson, resigned last year.
We have reached out to both men for comment.
Yeah, that was really weird......I thought what an idiotic thing to say, possibly he meant used props to hide or hinder motive. I know this is terrible to say and will never happen, but the best thing that could happen to the infant and six month old baby, is that they be adopted and never know what their background was.
These were Americans, willing to work and not leave it to illegals to do./sar
Drug trafficking exists only where it is allowed by local law enforcement.
they'd go to church, send their kids to Catholic school...stay married but cheat constantly...
its hard to get your head around what they do especially killing so many but then you see these nice little Italian families, so loving....
in America today, our underclass, especially the white underclass, is screwed...totally screwed...their kids are not going to get scholarships, they will not get great jobs..
the money is going to the athletes, and their kids are not atheltes....
the rich continue to get richer...
and there is no justice and certainly no peace...
if you're a man with a family you might just think "screw them" (the govt) start doing your side businesses....
I can totally see why they do this...
and its going to continue....
Point is there are plenty around here who will scream about this sort of thing when it`s ‘those other kinds of people’ doing it, but where are those angry hand wringers now?
I always thought he was kidding affectionately until I actually went to Chillicothe, found Sugar Run, and discovered this article: The Hillicans.
Apparently the Hillicans were a bunch of degenerates back in the day, and they also lived in parts of Pike County. Sounds likes these people might also be Hillicans or their descendants.
Lash the users, hang the dealers.
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