AOL/Huffington Post Making Race Baiting Calls about Jasper, TX Police Chief Rodney Pearson
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After the last article I wrote last week about racism in Jasper, TX, I have received calls from residents of Jasper who say that AOL/Huffington Post called them regarding allegations that the Police Chief, Rodney Pearson, was being discriminated against because he is black. Talk about Race Baiting! The media does not care about the several white people who have filed lawsuits because they were discriminated against by the Police Chief and the City. They don't care about that. As soon as they hear that the black police chief claims he is being discriminated against, that is when they care. Can anyone say liberal media...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
Black Jasper, TX City Council Pays White Police Officers in Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Settlement
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I previously wrote an article about how the City Council of Jasper, TX (the majority of the council members are black) turned down several white candidates in order to hire a lesser qualified black candidate (with a criminal record) for Police Chief, Rodney Pearson. Several lawsuits were filed alleging racial discrimination. Jasper TX City Council Hires Black Police Chief based on Race, not Qualifications - White Officers Get Demoted - new Chief has Criminal Record - Several Lawsuits Filed Of course there were those who cried racism and said that the black city council members were being attacked because of...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
White supremacist executed for Texas dragging
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas. Byrd, 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history. Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement." He glanced at his parents watching through a nearby window, took several deep breaths and...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
Mighty Jasper Duke (Vanity)
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We just had to put our old pal Jasper down. This is pretty much the first time for me and it’s the saddest thing ever. He was our watchdog when the kids were little. We live across from the county jail which has since moved but when we first got Jasper they used to take the prisoners to court in the morning and bring them back around 2:30 in the afternoon. The police often had rounded up a few more criminals and since the jail was already overcrowded they had to release a few around the same time that the...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
TxDOT's study to look into corridor
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In what is being projected as an economic boom for the East Texas region (if it comes to fruition), the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) will soon begin work on a feasibility study for an East-West corridor. The announcement was made last week as the TxDOT Commission voted to move forward with the study that will cost an estimated $2 million. The corridor is the brainchild of the Gulf Coast Strategic Highway Coalition. "If we had a major four-lane, east-west highway through Jasper it would mean to us what I-10 means to Beaumont and I-20 means to Shreveport," said Jasper...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
Brewer pushes for death date [James Byrd dragging death]
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Brewer pushes for death date By JACQUELINE LANEThe Enterprise 04/15/2004 Lawrence Russell Brewer is one of three men convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. Brewer has been on death row since 1999. One of the men convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. wants his execution date set. Lawrence Russell Brewer has written to District 1-A Judge Monte D. Lawlis, making the request. Lawlis was the trial judge in Brewer's case, which was heard in Bryan. Brewer and John William King have been on death row since 1999 for the June 7, 1998, murder. A third man,...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
Family of man who was dragged to death dreads release of film (James Byrd)
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The mother of a black man from Jasper who was dragged to death says she dreads the premiere of a documentary on the crime. Three white men were convicted in the 1998 death of James Byrd Junior. Two were sent to death row. The third man received life in prison. Stella Mae Byrd wrote a letter published in The Jasper Newsboy. She says her son has been dead for four years. She also says, quote: "What people said back then is their business and as for the family, we do not want to hear it!" The film "Two Towns of...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
Documentary On Jasper Murder -Multi Ethnic Filmmakers Shoot Documentary Over Racist Murder, Town
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Documentary To Air On Jasper Murder Multi Ethnic Filmmakers Shoot Documentary Over Racist Murder, Town Posted: 12:27 p.m. EST January 17, 2003 Updated: 12:58 p.m. EST January 17, 2003 FORT WORTH, Texas -- Two segregated film crews, one black and one white, used the perspective of race to create a documentary centered on the brutal dragging death of a black man by three whites five years ago in Jasper, Texas. The New York filmmakers behind the "Two Towns of Jasper" found the differences in perspective before filming began and the divide only grew more distinct during the two-year project....
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 07:52:43 PM
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