Delivering For FedEx While Black

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well, keep throwing stuff at the wall, something will stick eventually.

At least I'm not just throwing the same stuff hoping it will stick this time.
Tom

Yeah, the good ole, two guys chasing a driver in a Fedex truck (and not contacting the police), firing a gun and striking the truck and the case being potentially buried by the local police due to the time to react and then the police chief warning "outsiders" to stay away like this is 1960s South race canard.

I suppose they could have just hated Fedex. *splat*

 

[Politesse]

I can't help but think that a person who shoots at somebody then doesn't report it to the police is a criminal. I mean, that's what criminals do right?

Or "thugs", as they are often called colloquially.

Interesting that they were released on bond the same day they were arrested. That must really offend their conservative values!

Well, I bet their guns were confiscated as part of the bond release. I'm so certain that is the case. No really, I'm not joking.

Meanwhile in an identical (hypothetical) case with a black shooter, he is withheld the right to bail and has murder charges on him, this is also after SWAT arrested him the same night of the shooting.

I hadn't read this part.

Bullet holes and punctured packages were found in Gibson’s delivery van and, later, a shell casing. Eight days later the Cases were charged and allowed to turn themselves in to Brookhaven Police.

I hadn't realized they did in fact hit the truck. Why in the heck aren't they up on attempted manslaughter charges?!

There seems to be very little movement on addressing the charges that were filed, at least according to the victim's lawyers.

 

[Gospel]

Attempted manslaughter (at a minimum) suspects released on Bond (which is rare for any state) meanwhile, FedEx put the victim of attempted manslaughter back on the same route. The Police chief was right, no racism in that town.

 

[Gospel]

Attempted manslaughter (at a minimum) suspects released on Bond (which is rare for any state) meanwhile, FedEx put the victim of attempted manslaughter back on the same route. The Police chief was right, no racism in that town.

I mean for god sake people just look at all the fucked up stuff in one post? Can you imagine someone trying to kill you, then your job sends you back to the same area to work & after they try to "address that issue" the police release the people who tried to kill you on bond? Like who needs that shit in their life?

And a Police chief that thinks there is nothing to see here to boot.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Attempted manslaughter (at a minimum) suspects released on Bond (which is rare for any state) meanwhile, FedEx put the victim of attempted manslaughter back on the same route. The Police chief was right, no racism in that town.

I mean for god sake people just look at all the fucked up stuff in one post? Can you imagine someone trying to kill you, then your job sends you back to the same area to work & after they try to "address that issue" the police release the people who tried to kill you on bond? Like who needs that shit in their life?

Well, it is Fedex. This sort of thing should be expected from them. I suppose he should feel lucky that Fedex isn't firing at him.

And a Police chief that thinks there is nothing to see here to boot.

Honestly, if I were them, I'd push the racism angle, because otherwise, it feels too much more like Deliverance.

"And I want to make this clear... this isn't about racism. This is about southern boys taking out their gun, and randomly corralling a delivery truck and its driver, then when that failed, getting in their vehicle, and randomly firing bullets at the truck that is trying to flee from them as he desperately tries to get to the highway with the boys in pur...

...you know what, on second thought, it was racism."

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I can't help but think that a person who shoots at somebody then doesn't report it to the police is a criminal. I mean, that's what criminals do right?

I don't believe it's categorically required but you better have a darn good reason for not reporting it.

 

[Gospel]

I can't help but think that a person who shoots at somebody then doesn't report it to the police is a criminal. I mean, that's what criminals do right?

I don't believe it's categorically required but you better have a darn good reason for not reporting it.

Sure the written law doesn't explicitly say "you must report shooting at a person that's fleeing for their life to the police immediately" but it's implied because shooting at a person that is fleeing for their life is fucking illegal.

 

[TomC]

I hadn't realized they did in fact hit the truck. Why in the heck aren't they up on attempted manslaughter charges?!

I never wondered whether they hit the truck.
But:
" Bullet holes and punctured packages were found in Gibson’s delivery van and, later, a shell casing. Eight days later the Cases were charged and allowed to turn themselves in to Brookhaven Police."

Doesn't a shell casing inside the truck mean a gun was fired from inside the truck?

Pardon my ignorance of dumbassery like shooting a gun while driving. I'm just not familiar with how that works. But doesn't a shell casing inside Gibson's truck mean that they were shooting at each other?
Tom

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I hadn't realized they did in fact hit the truck. Why in the heck aren't they up on attempted manslaughter charges?!

I never wondered whether they hit the truck.
But:
" Bullet holes and punctured packages were found in Gibson’s delivery van and, later, a shell casing. Eight days later the Cases were charged and allowed to turn themselves in to Brookhaven Police."

Doesn't a shell casing inside the truck mean a gun was fired from inside the truck?

Pardon my ignorance of dumbassery like shooting a gun while driving. I'm just not familiar with how that works. But doesn't a shell casing inside Gibson's truck mean that they were shooting at each other?
Tom

Could be a grammar problem. Bullet holes were found in the van. Punctured packages were found in the van. A shell casing was found, location not specified.

It's also possible they were in the van at the time.

A scenario occurs to me that makes at least half a bit of sense:

He's delivering packages. He gets out of his truck with a package and comes up to their house--but then sees a house number and realizes it's the wrong house. He returns to the truck with the package and they think he's a porch pirate.