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Flock Files: He Was Fined In Florida, But Was In Alabama At The Time

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Josh Johnson On The Brawl In Alabama

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 ...and working in a grocery store:

Parents Hope Sentencing of Son Can Be Changed...

 ... in particular because of the circumstances : Their issue lies with Alabama’s accomplice liability law which allows a suspect to be charged with murder if someone is killed during the commission of a crime regardless of whether they caused the death. When the five teens broke into a Millbrook home, suspect A’Donte Washington was fatally shot by a responding Millbrook Police officer after he charged the officer with a gun.   As a result, Smith and three other co-defendants were charged with murder for Washington’s death. On Friday, Smith appeared before Elmore County Circuit Judge Sibley Reynolds in a post-conviction hearing. Smith’s attorney, Leroy Maxwell argued that Smith’s trial attorney failed to present mitigating evidence that could have helped to shorten his sentence. So instead of just being charged with breaking and entering and/or theft, Smith was charged with the death of someone he didn't kill (again, the police did that).  65 years seems like a long ...

This is What It Takes To Have Racist Police Punished.

 And no, it doesn't involve the phrase "shot innocent person": VINCENT, Ala. — A racist text message sent by a police officer has prompted officials in a small Alabama town to disband their police department and fire the police chief and assistant chief. Vincent Mayor James Latimore on Thursday confirmed that Police Chief James Srygley and Assistant Chief John L. Goss had been dismissed, al.com reported. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office on Friday condemned the two officers' actions and said it stands with the city "in providing emergency law enforcement related service to the citizens (of Vincent) at this time." In the message, which recently surfaced on social media, someone identified as "752″ texts: "What do y'all call a pregnant slave?" An unidentified recipient responds twice: "?" and "??" "752″ answers: "BOGO Buy one, get one free" "This has torn this community apart. It doesn't matt...

They Can Call It: "The Corona Correctional Facility"

 The Alabama Governor apparently wanted to use COVID-19 funding to build a prison . If the state didn't already have a high incarceration rate (which people have tried to offer advice on how to rectify ) and wasn't a COVID hotspot , I'd say the criticism of that move is unwarranted. If. 

For Amazon, It's One Step Too Far

 Sure they can fire people who want better working conditions during a pandemic or sabotage workers in Alabama who want to form the first union that the company would have in the US, but don't you dare claim that conditions are so bad employees have to pee in bottles !

What Happens When You Vote For Political Parties (Instead of the Issues & Policies)

You get someone who, despite doing something very noble back in the day, now starts talking about making nice with his opponents (who had nothing nice to say about him) and all but throwing the voters who secured his victory under the bus.

Shorter Bill Sailing (Who Served with Roy Moore's During Vietnam)

My old friend my have a thing for teen girls, but when we had the chance to bump uglies with child prostitutes in a foreign country, he refused . BTW: this election being about values is a big, fat, taco fart smelling lie .

Some In Alabama and Mississippi Haven't Accepted Post-Civil War America

As their views of President Obama and interracial marriage show .

Michelle Rhee Takes Her School-Reform Scam To Alabama

C&L has the story .