Monday, November 26, 2012

Vandals destroy Greenwood Cemetery monuments.

Vandals went on a rampage in Greenwood Cemetery last night. The pictures below show the destruction as many irreplaceable monuments were demolished. The Greenwood Cemetery Association is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the vandals' arrest and conviction. There are many more pictures but those posted below will give you a pretty good idea of the damage. Real sick bastards.

















17 comments:

Shadowsad said...

Spent more than a few hours working in the cemetery. One need look no further than the perimeter neighborhood.

Anonymous said...

Why the heck would anybody want to deface a cemetery??? Where is the profit to the perpetrator????

Greenwood Cemetery is a very historic place, I pass by there on my way to work and have been there many times. Eudora Welty is buried there. Link below to its site:

http://www.greenwoodcemeteryjackson.org/

Anonymous said...

I don't believe blacks did this - more like white teenage hoodlums! They caught some white kids doing the same thing to the Gartin Justice Building - on camera. The were on the top plaza pulling up the stone tiles and breaking them to pieces.

Anonymous said...


You're probably correct 6:45.

If the camera caught the lil' white thugs vandalizing the Gartin Building, it shouldn't be too hard to make a connection to Greenwood Cemetery.

I've been told this cemetery is still open 24-7 ? If so, that's the goofiest crap I've ever heard.

Greenwood is up there with Natchez & the Old French Cemetery in Biloxi ... as three of the most historic cemeteries in the South.

Hell, Natchez has always closed the gates to their cemetery at dusk.

The race & age of such vandals is irrelevant. There are some very tough characters buried in Greenwood Cemetery that will haunt their young asses for years
..... no matter their "ethnicity" .


Anonymous said...

Only Democrats do this kind of crap.

Shadowfax said...

It's long been said that on certain Confederate observances and holidays, one can stand among Greenwood Cemetery's Confederate Crosses and hear haunting volleys from the west. Close your eyes and they move northward and cross over, finally dying out in the not too distant east. On further investigation it's been learned that these are merely nightly caps being popped in the surrounding hood.

Anonymous said...

I hate to break the news to the racists, but a vandalism is more likely to be done by a group of " bored" , affluent teens and pre-teens. Even girls might be involved.

They go into the cemetries to drink and " hook up" and party. They ride through neighbors and bash mailboxes or break windshields or trash yards.

They aren't worried as momma and daddy will hire lawyers and get them out of it if they are caught. Or the parents will pay the victims for the damages if charges are dropped to keep little Johnny or Jane out of trouble.

Just like white collar crime, vandalism tends not to be a crime of the poor or undereducated.

There's a reason you don't see " perp" walks by vandals. And, many of you have done business with or sought the services of former " caught" vandals who are now adults.



Anonymous said...

When you see hoof prints, think horse not zebra. Unless you're in Africa; then you reverse that. (And, no, that's not "code" for Jackson all you racism-seeking louts.)

Anonymous said...

Oh my God!
Everywhere you look, there's a RAAACCCIIISSST.
Straight-up racists, reverse racists, latent racists, racists-in-training.
Thank all of you racist-pointer-outers for revealing that fact to us must-be-budding racists, but, most of all thank you, 7:54, for that eye opening disclosure that there might even have been "girls" involved. Well, I guess there is at least a 50/50 chance, right?

Shadowfax said...

Now cemetery vandalism is a 'white collar crime'? What a hoot,7:54. Everybody know black yoots is afraid of the graveyard boogey-man. Right? Wrong. Take a walk through the entire length of Greenwood Cemetery some Monday morning and count the liquor bottles (and note the brands), the beer bottles inside the open doors of crypts, litter around the large markers and assorted other memorabilia and tell me it's just a bunch of white kids, hookin' up with girls, protected by they daddies. But, first, tell me why white suburban youth would want to congregate in an inner city graveyard in the middle of the hood. Ain't happenin'.

Anonymous said...

My God, vandalism is vandalism. Who cares the race of the vandal?

This is a tragic occurrence regardless of the color of the perpetrators' skin.

I was born and raised a Mississippian until my 20's, but it makes me embarrassed to see y'all denigrate a conversation to such base levels.

meople said...

This cemetery has been linked to many different gangs through out the past few decades... As kind of there turf.

Anonymous said...

There should be enough surveillance cameras in that area to have picked up some images. There's always a camera watching.......

Shadowfax said...

Discounting the race of criminals, 10:41, is nothing more than the continued attempt to pretend that race has nothing to do with the crime rate in the capital city. It's like the media refusing to I.D. a perp by race. If race is a factor, and it certainly is, what's the melon-headed point of pretending people are raceless.

I'll suffer through your embarrassment if you'll wake up out of your "all things being equal" fog.

Oh, BTW, what's the point in stating that most illegal aliens in the area are Mexicans? I suppose that embarrasses you as well. We can't be getting to the root of our problems now, can we?

Anonymous said...

Shadow, you think white affluent teens aren't engaged in underage drinking? That finding bottles and cans are "proof"? ROFLMAO

Here's a shocker, some of them do drugs too!

" look no further than the perimeter neighbor" was assumption of poor blacks as the vandals.

It's really a hoot that code such as that is used that everyone KNOWS it is code and then when you get called on it, you go into denial mode and accuse the one calling BS of bringing up racism.

I agree vandalism is bad and that racism shouldn't have been brought up, but make no mistake " perimeter neighborhood" brought it up.

You all talk to the police , especially those who deal with juvenile crime, about a vandalism.

It's really most often an economic and not racial expression of anger and frustration. And, vandalism is not as likely to be done by adults either unless some domestic/lover's dispute is involved in which case, the victim knows damn well who " done it".












Anonymous said...

Any word on if they're going to start locking the gates at dark?

southernlymie said...

The gates are locked at sunset and have been even before the vandalism. Apparently, whoever was responsible either hid in the cemetery before the gates were locked that evening or hopped the fence.


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