Donald Trump was bitching about due process Tuesday, but just hours later made a mockery of his FBI investigation by essentially calling Dr. Christine Blasey Ford a fraud. POTUS mocked Dr. Ford at a rally in Mississippi Tuesday…
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Lil Lonnie, Beloved Mississippi Rapper, Shot and Killed
Lil Lonnie, a fan favorite in his native state of Mississippi, was one of two people fatally shot in while driving in Jackson on Sunday night.
He was 22 years old.
The artist, whose real name was Lonnie Montrel Taylor, was in his vehicle along with an unidentified female passenger around 10:30 p.m. yesterday.
According to news station WAPT, the Jackson State University student was shot from the rear multiple times, which caused his SUV to swerve and crash into a house.
The female passenger remained unharmed, while Taylor was pronounced dead at the scene.
As of this writing, Jackson Police Department has been unable to find a suspect or a motive for the killing.
The artist rose to local game in 2015 due to the release of the track “Colors.”
He later earned the the top-downloaded mixtape spot on LiveMixtapes with “They Know What’s Goin’ On” that same year.
Elsewhere, the single “Special” has garnered over 2.4 million views on the Worldstarhiphop YouTube channel.
In a December 2017 interview with ThisIs50, Lil Lonnie talked about advice he got from 50 Cent, telling listeners his goal of buying his family a home with his first “mega-check.”
In Lonnie’s view, that day was coming up in the near future, too.
“Career-wise everything has been going [well], so I took that advice and I ran with it,” he said of what 50 Cent told him, adding just four months ago:
“Keep the ground consistent, keep moving around, make my face a presence everywhere.”
During this same interview, Lonnie was asked who he signed with to put a billboard up in Jackson, with the interviewer actually asking whether he was selling drugs.
“I don’t do none of that,” Taylor replied. “I’ve got morals that I stand by.”
Just hours before he was fatally shot, Lil Lonnie wrote as a caption on Instagram:
no going back….you know imma keep it coming.
In light of this tragedy, some major names in hip hop have expressed their condolences via social media:
LL Cool J: Rest in power Lil Lonnie.. may your music live on…. may the almighty lift up and bless your family..
Juicy J: RIP Lil Lonnie he was so talented. prayers up.
Tha Joker: Woke up to terrible news for the city and state as a whole. Prayers up for the family and team of @_LilLonnie_ #RIP.
Finally, and tragically, in this December interview, Lil Lonnie said the following:
“I want to be the next icon people look up to.
“I want to motivate others around from where I’m from because not too many get the recognition I do, and I just want to bring that impact to where I’m from and help people out.
“I’m willing to open the door to everybody.”
May he rest inpeace.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Louis C.K., "One Mississippi" Star Tig Notaro Knows His Victims
Tig Notaro knows a lot about Louis C.K. In fact, there’s a scene in her Amazon show, “One Mississippi,” in which a powerful man masturbates in front of a woman, and there are numerous stories that the male character portrays C.K … and Tig…
Monday, May 29, 2017
Peter Gallagher Says Mississippi Killer Proves the Country"s on "Verge of Crazy" (VIDEO)
Peter Gallagher says the U.S. is “on the verge of crazy” in light of the Mississippi shooting that left 8 dead this weekend … but he has hope for the country. We got the “Law & Order” actor Sunday at LAX, where we asked for his thoughts on…
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Mississippi Shooting Leaves Eight Dead Including Sheriff"s Deputy, Suspect Confesses (MUG SHOT)
A man is in custody Sunday after allegedly going on a killing spree in Mississippi that left eight people dead … including one sheriff’s deputy. Lincoln Country Sheriff Steve Rushing says 35-year-old Willie Cory Godbolt was captured and…
Mississippi Shooting Leaves Eight Dead Including Sheriff"s Deputy, Suspect Confesses (MUG SHOT)
A man is in custody Sunday after allegedly going on a killing spree in Mississippi that left eight people dead … including one sheriff’s deputy. Lincoln Country Sheriff Steve Rushing says 35-year-old Willie Cory Godbolt was captured and…
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Trump Supporters Allegedly Burn Black Church in Mississippi
Obviously, the 2016 presidential election hasn’t exactly been a level-headed contest of ideas, as the Founding Fathers intended.
But despite the fact that one candidate has repeatedly encouraged his supporters to commit acts of violence, we hope that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would both condemn what appears to be a politically and racially motivated hate crime perpetrated in Mississippi this week.
According to police in Greenville, MS, arsonists set fire to the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church late Tuesday night after spray-painting the words “Vote Trump” on the side of the building.
Greenville mayor Errick Simmons says first responders found the church “heavily engulfed in flames” upon arriving on the scene.
They were able to save the 111-year-old structure, but not before it sustained significant damage.
Federal agencies, including the FBI and ATF, are reportedly investigating the incident as a hate crime.
“We’re very cautious in this climate, in this day and time, to make sure we’re very deliberate in investigating matters like this,” Simmons said.
He added that the fire was “a direct assault on people’s right to free worship,”
“I see this as an attack on the black church and the black community,” Simmons stated in a press conference held this morning.
Asked by reporters, Simmons said that he believes the majority of Greenville’s 34,000, predominantly black residents will be supporting Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.
“It appears to be a race crime,” Simmons said.
“It happened in the 50s, it happened in the 60s. It shouldn’t happen in 2016.”
Trump has yet to comment on the crime, but throughout his campaign, he has been criticized for inciting his supporters to violence.
Trump called for the assassination of Hillary Clinton back in August, and throughout his campaign, there have been dozens of reports of protestors being attacked at rallies, often after the real estate mogul encouraged the crowd to assault his detractors.
Politicians and prominent figures in the black community have called upon Trump to condemn this latest attack in order to help ensure that no copycat crimes will take place.
Thus far, the candidate has yet to do so.
His most recent tweets center around the topic of last week’s news regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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