BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: MISSISSIPPI STATE TROOPERS, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS OPEN FIRE AT PROTESTORS IN JACKSON SUBURBS, TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED, COUNTLESS OTHERS WOUNDED
*Protests near the outskirts of Jackson, Missisippi in Jackson turn ugly, Mississippi Highway Patrol opens fire on protestors via sniper.
*Forty-Nine protestors killed, countless others ranging from 40-73 injured.
*Death toll rising according to unconfirmed reports.
*President White strongly condemned the violence, mobilized the National Guard; US Justice Department investigating
*Missisippi Governor Kirk Fordice (R) doubles-down on justification: "These outside agitators need to know their place!"
*March 24, 1998: Less than three weeks after signing executive orders banning all affirmative action programs throughout the entire Magnolia State including preventing businesses, industries or state, local government from giving contracts to minority-owned businesses as well as pushing a controversial statewide initiative banning racial preferences in colleges and universities Proposition 61 (which passed in November 1997) which was the poster-child of the controversial California Proposition 209 which was passed in 1996, a group of national and international journalists began publishing reports of ugly heinous crimes of brutality committed by the Mississippi Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies, loyal to hardcore staunch neo-conservative Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice (R), including allegations of violent methods of brutality against opponents of the Fordice administration in Jackson: instances including mysterious kidnappings, lynchings, violent rapes, etc.,
Protests among non-white Mississippians, impoverished or disadvantaged Mississippians and others broke out across Mississippi and other parts of the country. After the newest piece by Jet Magazine revealed more heinous violent crimes committed by a secret police force within the Mississippi Highway Patrol and local law enforcement agencies as well as depletion of natural resources in neglected communities in the Magnolia State, another protest escalated when protestors ranging from over an estimated large group of protestors ranging from college students to civil rights activists marching toward the suburbs of Jackson suddenly emerged. The original plan was to march to the grounds of the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson. About 572 to 673 people attended the march on the morning hours of March 24th with just over 7,000+ law enforcement personnel including troopers of the Mississippi Highway Patrol present keeping watch. Although the protest had remained peaceful somewhat in the early parts of the day, things began to take a dark turn.....
Depending on whom you ask, rumors circulated that Governor Fordice or associates of his administration instructed all white men over the age of twenty-one to report to the county courthouse to be deputized. Commanding officer Seymour Lee told the demonstrators to "go home and go back to your church. This is an unlawful and illegal assembly." When Rev. Dr. Theodore McPherson of the First United Methodist Church, tried to speak with the officer, Lee curtly told him "There is nothing to discuss!" Seconds later, the troopers assisted by local law enforcement officers began aggressively shoving the demonstrators, knocking some of whom to the ground and beating them with nightsticks, baseball bats and crowbars. Another detachment of troopers fired tear gas and mounted troopers on horseback charged the crowd on horseback.
What happened next was the worst phase of brutality.
Members of the Mississippi Highway Patrol, some of whom opened fire on the demonstrators via sniper fire from rooftops killing forty-nine. Other rumors alleged that members of local law enforcement chased some of the younger demonstrators into the woods and violently tortured them to death. The relentless and ruthless sadistic suppression continued as the state and local law enforcement agencies (nicknamed the Fordice-ista's) upped the ante even further by gunning down more of the demonstrators, some of whom smiled and laughed as a bleeding Gwendolyn McGuire was dying as she begged for mercy to stop the beating, one of the troopers yelled "Know your place you half-breed piece of shit!" before striking her with a baseball bat killing her. Another instance was McGuire's 12-year-old son, Jeremiah attacked one of the troopers "You killed my mommy. You murderers!" before Trooper Joseph Moody used a crowbar to bash his head and kept bashing him until Jeremiah was dead.
The confrontation continued to escalate further as the troopers were assisted by members of the Council of Conservative Citizens as they participated in the shooting of over 40-73+ demonstrators when chased into the minority neighborhoods and shot ruthlessly.
The entire nation watched in absolute horror as Mississippi unceremoniously took its horrific place as "Selma 2.0" in reference to the carnage of the Jackson suburbs. According to whom you ask, Fordice was gleefully watching the disgusting incident on television inside his office at the Mississippi Governor's Mansion while eating lunch and drinking some coffee.
COMING UP:
*Personal PoV from some politicians pleading with Governor Fordice to stop the violence.
*President White addresses the Nation on the Carnage in Mississippi.
*The Nation watches the Horror on television.
