Armed Mississippi Woman Tells Black Couple to Leave Campground

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

 

"On May 26, Jessica and Franklin Richardson decided to take their dog to Starkville, Mississippi’s Oktibbeha County Lake to enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend and have a picnic.

But what was supposed to be a relaxing day quickly turned ugly when a white campground manager approached the young black couple while holding a gun and told them they were trespassing on private property and needed to leave immediately.

The campground employee, 70-year old Ruby Nell Howell, has since been fired. On June 4, she turned herself in to law enforcement to face a single charge of “threatening exhibition of a weapon,” according to the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office.

The misdemeanor charge carries a possible sentence of three months in jail and a maximum fine of $500, according to CNN. Howell is scheduled to appear in court on June 25.

The incident was captured in a now-viral video recorded by Jessica Richardson and posted to Facebook on May 26. In the video, Howell can be seen holding a gun at her side as she tells the couple that they need to have a reservation to use the land near the lake.

“This lady just literally pulled a gun because we’re out here and didn’t have reservations for a lake we didn’t even know we needed reservations for,” Richardson says in the 39-second video, as she faces the woman holding the gun. “We didn’t know. All you had to do was tell us.”

“You need to leave because it’s under private ownership,” Howell responds, after tucking the gun into the pocket of her shorts. “Y’all just can’t be out here. KOA [Kampgrounds of America] will not let you.”

The Richardsons stopped at the campground’s office as they left, telling a different manager about what transpired near the lake. That manager replied that the couple did not need a reservation. Soon after, Howell appeared again, yelling at the couple that they needed to leave the property.

According to the Washington Post, Howell was later fired by Kampgrounds of America, the commercial chain that oversees the Starkville site. “Kampgrounds of America does not condone the use of a firearm in any manner on our properties or those owned and operated by our franchisees,” the company said in a statement.

The Richardsons’ experience is disturbing — and disturbingly familiar. It’s the latest in a series of recent viral incidents in which black people have been treated with suspicion and accused of criminal activity while just going about their daily lives."

 

Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/5/29/18644543/mississippi-kampground-of-america-gun-picnic-black-couple-charges-video

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

A 70 year old white woman from Mississippi pulls gun on black couple...it speaks for itself...

 

[Miel 15,009]

"All you had to do was tell us."

God, the actual, literal, existing horror.

[Ryusei 61,502]

God I swear I don't understand people...

[Morphine Prince 109,663]

The absolute TERROR racist people live in must be suicide inducing. I don’t think I could handle it. 

[RoverLoader 1,254]

Well, there is some good news. This repellent individual has been arrested for threatening exhibition of a weapon.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/racial-campground-gun-case-white-woman-faces-misdemeanor-63488408

 

Look at her pretty mugshot!!!!!!!

[LeoFameMonster 1,592]

The actual fuking halirous thing about this whole thing is that this lady might have gotten her license to operate a vehicle taken away years ago but still has the right to run around with a gun. My gosh when will it stop........or maybe she has both lol

 

[Ariana Grindr 3,173]

Stupid hoe 

[Economy 52,854]

Im not sure why were mentioning race on the title tho. Were only speculating that she's biased and racist (tho she very well may be)

 

This whole thing was about private property and her over reaction to trespassing when the couple didn't even know

 

Why do we have to make this about race?

 

I have a recent example of something that happened with Police where it was assumed it was because of race and it turns out it had nothing to do with that

 

A black woman who was put on a form 1 (72 hour mental health lockdown) after breaking down in front of her doctor was taken to the hospital in handcuffs while her white husband had just been hospitalized himself and when the cops took him there were no handcuffs

 

The wife got upset and assumed she had been taken in handcuffs cuz she was black and not her husband cuz he was white

 

It turns out the reason he wasn't is because he wasn't officially written on the form yet and was just being taken to hospital where the form was written later. Because the black wife was already on the form by her doctor, then the 72 hour custody had already began and she was no a free individual and that's why the handcuffs were legally required

 

It was not because the cops feared her as a black woman more than her white husband

 

We don't need to jump to conclusions on everything all the time