Jackson Jambalaya

"The alleged crime took place on federal property."

Surely they will. Someone may be about to find out the difference between the Hinds D.A. and the U.S. Attorney's office.

Should be surveillance cameras around there......

This is totally frightening to all who use this post office. My goodness how crowded the parking lot usually is. Quit carrying purses? I guess so.

Whoever did this should be made to stand in line for a long, long, long time.

This is a hate crime. They hate us. HATE US. But keep moving into OUR neighborhoods.

5:30, see the "Dedmon gang" post preceding this one.

Uh-oh. Time for the femme de fondren to don the vintage over-the-shoulder model and hang on for dear life. Get the extra large version to carry around those headbands, bandanas, scarves, faux fur hats, lumberjack hats, handmade bracelets, camera and vinyl records.

Thanks 5:52. Will do. Problem is watch the news. Every day. EVERY DAY we see these black thugs preying on white people. Every single day. Dedmon and redneck gang are freaks. This ain't 1958.

Blacks victimize whites every single day in the Bold Néw City.

When the perps were grabbing purses at gas stations, I stopped carrying a purse. Just tucked my d.l., ins. card, and debit card in my sock. Looks like I'll have to go back to that.

Total Thugville is less than three blocks away. Remember the young woman who was dragged down the street in Fondren by thugs in a car trying to steal her handbag? I haven't been back since.

Women carrying purses are targets. At least get the crossbody purses which thugs know they can't grab and run. Better yet, leave your purse in the trunk, and just take what you need in your pockets. You don't need a damn purse anyway.

Expect more and more of these crimes if you live along the State Street DMZ.

#GOODThingsJXN

Fair warning thugs. I renewed my concealed carry license today. I waited four hours because there were so many people ahead of me. All ages and colors were represented. I was the only one renewing. So there are a lot of people arming themselves for the first time. We are tired of your shit. P.S. The little Grannies have "shooting your ass" on their bucket lists.

The main downtown Post Office is very dangerous. I won't go there without my pistol after two thugs ran me off before I could get my mail.

I have one of these, and I make sure my hand is in the proper position from the time I walk out of a place, until I am in my car with the doors locked. I may seem like an easy target to some at first glance, but if one of these thugs runs up on me in a threatening manner demanding my purse or car, they will receive a side Of lead with it! I strongly urge every female to take a concealed carry course & get comfortable with a hand gun! It won't take but one or two little ladies to bust a cap in one of these thugs for the word to get around that we aren't all the easy targets we may initially seem!

http://www.cabelas.com/category/Concealed-Carry-Purses/409715280.uts

To 8:47pm, SALUTE! This is actually 9:19 posting again, but I was so glad to hear another concealed-carry gal speak up that I could help myself! Along with the fact that I'm sure some will accuse our comments as coming from the same person, ha. Regardless of what others think though, it's relieving to know that there's potentially another unsuspecting gal on-site if some sh*t just happens to go down ;-}

Brad Harbour's classes for women have been running pretty full this year.

REVISED (because I 1st read 8:47's comment as coming from a female, but am 2nd guessing that now): To 8:47pm, SALUTE! This is actually 9:19 posting again, but I was glad to hear another concealed-carry citizen speak up that I could help myself! Regardless, it's relieving to know that there's potentially another unsuspecting armed citizen on-site just in case some sh*t happens to go down.

Props to Kingfish for the post title.

My, My, such alarm! Why this is just around the corner from Sal& Mookies which speak-no-evil Jeff Good co-owns. Surely this isn't happening in the heart of the City of Soul. It's time for some community meetings so we can know and hug our neighbors and craft a plan. Let's not speak of these incidents. The Clarion-Ledger is assisting in this effort. If only we could get Jackson Jambayala to cooperate.

The thug will not be caught- too many thugs in jackson are 5'5 black males who steal cars then hold up people for money.

"Find it in Fondren"

Modern day Renaissance for sure.

I am a white female and have had a carry permit for many years. I am a competent shot. I certainly do not want to use my little friend, but can and will do so if necessary. But, can you imagine what the headlines would be if I did so? The collective IQ of the victim's relatives (and rest assured, I would win the argument)would go into negative terrritory and we would have Ferguson like retaliation in the area. The circumstances in Jackson, have become pathetic, predictable and very precarious. Particularily for women.

Get out of Jackson while you are still alive, now!!

But this can't have happened! It's a GUN FREE ZONE!!!

Hey... 5:54 yesterday, stay your ass out of Fondren. Go eat at Bonefish or Chili's in Madison and see how you like that atmosphere! Your misconceptions of who is living in the city makes you look pretty stupid. Run off to maybe Ridgeland, you might even get lucky and have nice little couple that teach school as neighbors.

7:57 makes a very valid point.

Perhaps the best way to do this is to start a series of seminars titled:

When Your Child Gets Shot While Robbing Someone

There can be a to-do list:

1) go to hospital/morgue to see child;

2) refer to these materials before you start complaining that your child was shot while robbing someone;

3) if you still feel the urge to scream and holler and act all crazy at the very notion that your child died as a result of being killed when he was robbing someone, please do so in your backyard to yourself.

What's wrong with 'couples that teach school'? Bonefish is fair and Chili's salsa is really wattery; but, there are fifty other places to eat in Madison County. So, is your method for rallying all-things-Fondren to criticize neighbors in Madison or speak ill of business eateries outside of Fondren?

What is needed in Fondren is a Laxmi franchise.

There are some really good places to eat in Fondren. Campbell's Bakery is a true treasure. Rooster's burger is one of the best. But, parking is a nightmare and the fact that I just have never felt safe keeps me away. Sorry, but that's just how I feel.

10:17 am apparently thinks that it is Jacksonians that are speaking ill of people in the suburbs and not the other way around. You see some out of line comments from people in the city towards their neighbors in Madison or Rankin Counties, but rest assured, its the other way around 90% of the time (usually by someone with a 7th grade reading level).

@ 9:42 - The Porters lived in Brandon.

Obviously you didn't read the post from 5:54 yesterday. He was making his 'ass-wipe' comments about people in Fondren. Maybe all that sterile air is getting to all the wonderful people living outside the city. Simple: stay the hell out!

Isn't it a federal offense to carry a gun into a post office? Concealed or otherwise?

10:46 clearly you have not been there in months. There is plenty of parking behind the Capri, or in the lot beside Babalu.

Life in the burbs is a bitch.

@ 9:42 - The Porters lived in Brandon.
How stupid can people get? Ignorance is bliss right
Cowboy?

11:44: I don't live in the burbs. I was born, raised, married and have lived in Jackson all my life. And I don't go to Fondren often. I don't feel safe and would not park behind the Capri on a bet.

The new "affordable housing" in Fondren is going to a real boon to the area. Congrats Fondrenites on your good fortune to attract more apartment buildings! Get on board, property values going up!!!

Channeling Wealty again,
"Why I would never Live at the P.O."

12:47 get out more....or better yet call Jim Wilkerson to get the facts on incidents of crime in the business district there. If you are too "boo!!!" afraid of the Capri, try the huge lot behind Babalu.

Additionally you are not a female, but are one of the hundreds of weird men that spend their days on the computer, telling us we should hate where we CHOOSE to live.

But, but, but 12:54 PM the apartments are going to have ceiling fans. CEILING FANS. Don't you get it? Druggies and pimps and such don't usually look for such an upscale amenity like ceiling fans in their affordable rental housing.

Besides LEDIC, who is going to be managing these rentals, has a great deal of experience evicting drug dealers and putting up No Trespassing signs. As you know 12:54 PM signs are strong deterrents to criminals. LEDIC really is the best and comes highly recommended.

Bottom line, Fondren needs more socioeconomic diversity. Every person should be able to experience the wonder and joy and beauty of living their own Fondren boutique and high cost eatery dream. Low cost affordable rental housing will only make Fondren more inclusive. That is our ultimate goal, isn't it? A more inclusive Fondren.

9:42, ask a business owner in Fondren if they agree with your suggestion that the patrons from the burbs "get their asses out of Fondren".

They'll awkward smile and say that they don't want us not frequenting their establishments. They need us. You need us. But alas, we are getting our asses out of Fondren, slowly we're giving up on the "experience " in favor of safety. And so are your neighbors. You just fiddle away.

"What's wrong with 'couples that teach school'? "

He was apparently referring to the pair of HS teacher pedophiles who got sentenced yesterday, a husband and wife. But the poster is geographically challenged, trying to talk trash about Madison County while using a couple from Brandon (Rankin County, FYI) as his example of dangerous neighbors.

"try the huge lot behind Babalu."

Hmmmm - Babalu, Babalu. Sounds familiar.

Wait - wasn't that the place where a woman on the sidewalk outside the restaurant had her purse, which was hanging across her neck & chest from one shoulder to the other side, grabbed by thugs in a car who drove off, dragging her by the purse strap around her neck down the street?

Fondrenites idea of "safety" is apparently very different from those of us poor, uncultured, unsophisticated rubes in the 'burbs who prefer our wives and daughters to come home from dinner without ligature marks around the neck. But y'all in Fondren enjoy it!

If LEDIC evicts drug dealers,they'll be doing a million times better than HUD. HUD - taking your tax dollars to turn your neighborhood to crap.

3:03, we certainly will enjoy having a high concentration of some of the best restaurants in Mississippi. We will also enjoy the new development in our area such as the Meridien and the District. Enjoy your Western Sizzlin, Wal-Mart, Golden Corral, and your seventh grade reading level. We are soooo jealous.

Kingfish...great job of stirring up the local Klan!

Poll for the day. Who do you dozen hood wearers hate more: ALL black people or white people who don't hate ALL black people?

Seriously...y'all are just frothing at the mouth to come into Jackson with your concealed weapons and start shooting black people and "hippies" because you "feel threatened." But it's "THEY" who "HATE YOU" as you say!

Then you kill the bag boy who's trying to take someone's groceries to the car. Or the young, hard-working student-athlete wearing his warm-up suit because in your contempt all you can see is black skin and your own fear. But it makes you justified, right? Because in your narrow mind folk like that don't really exist.

Hey...the crime is real. There's no hiding it. I'm concerned for my personal safety and for that of my wife. But what kind of a p---y do you have to be to spend your days and nights on these message boards attacking people for doing business in their neighborhoods and promoting common ground? Yeah, some people exist to exploit race on every matter and justify away wrongdoing. Those are vile people. But then...so are you folk who come on here pointing to particular statistical events and saying,"Yep! There ya go! That's why I don't want THEM living in my neighborhood. Or going to OUR schools. Or OUR churches. And we'll lynch 4,000 of them, take away jobs and school funding, wall ourselves up in our gated communities and laugh at those poor n----rs and n----- lovers as they kill each other."

Well, I tell you what. I was born and raised here, too. You can leave. I understand a hard day's work and an ethical life. Maybe you can go to some place a little whiter and less tolerant...like Russia.

(And before you jump and say I'm tolerating crime...think again. You can get real about crime, its causes, and its potential solutions without pandering and without being a racist p---y. Are you ready to do that?)

(And before you jump and say I'm tolerating crime...think again. You can get real about crime, its causes, and its potential solutions without pandering and without being a racist p---y. Are you ready to do that?)

Worldwide crime statistics, national statistics, and local statistics all point to a black culture problem. You cant have a real discussion about crime without discussing the corresponding black culture.

We will also enjoy the new development in our area such as the Meridien [sic] and the District.

The District is going to hurt Fondren businesses, not help.

so are you folk who come on here pointing to particular statistical events and saying,"Yep! There ya go! That's why I don't want THEM living in my neighborhood. Or going to OUR schools. Or OUR churches. And we'll lynch 4,000 of them, take away jobs and school funding, wall ourselves up in our gated communities and laugh at those poor n----rs and n----- lovers as they kill each other."

Link where anyone has posted any such comment on JJ. Do it. Show us.

Fondren's new low income apartments will be available to families with incomes 60% or LESS than the Jackson median income. That means $20,060 or LOWER annually.

Jeff Good, Mayor of Fondren, says this neoHUD housing will be a "net gain for the neighborhood, no question".

Fondren's low income apts. will just be the latest version of Hallmark Garden apartments. Or North Hill Square. All thug, all the time.

4:54. Why are posting? Why do you care?

Fondren's low income apts. will just be the latest version of Hallmark Garden apartments. Or North Hill Square. All thug, all the time.

#GOODThingsJXN

@ 4:42

Thoughts like that are implied on this board all the time. Just look at the top of the thread.

"They hate us. HATE US. But keep moving into OUR neighborhoods."

First of all, you want to pretend this doesn't exist? I know...it all happened in a different era long ago in a galaxy far far away. Whites today are merely reacting to black aggression and racism, right? Whites bear no responsibility for their own prejudices and blanket assumptions.

Secondly, the black people who are moving into traditionally white neighborhoods are moving there for safety, social mobility, opportunity, schools--the same reason white people want to live there. But, aren't they all criminals? Aren't all of them gangsta? Just moving there to rob their white neighbors and bring down the property values? Aren't they all thugs and animals? (Except, of course, for the few you know and can "personally" approve of.)

Can't you just admit that comments like 5:30 are totally ignorant and racist and come with an incredible amount of unspoken baggage?

Jackassery is obviously lost on 6:09. You might find the JFP more your speed.

@6:09pm

Substitute criminals, rapists, indicted and released, into your quoted statement and you the statement applies to very real situations like the one the carjacked the woman in Flowood. The statement reads true. You might want to pay attention to the higher level of discussion going on and get your mind out of the "race" gutter.

@ 6:50pm

These criminals and rapists are indifferent to your race. They want what you got (probably with a few exceptions). The race gutter is clearly defined here by the comments meant to attack black people and any white people who would dare live in their midst. That's pretty much the raison d'etre for some people on this board. ("higher level of discussion"...is that meant to be jackassery, 6:34?)

By the way...Kingfish, please DO keep the heat on Hinds County judges!

6:50, the word of the day is irony, an illustration of which is a group of commenters who harp on Jackson's "denial" of it's crime problem, but at the same time, is in denial of its own racism problem. There are plenty of examples on this site where it's pretty explicit, whether you chose to turn a blind eye to it or not.

Matthew 7:3.

The ranks of loyal JJ readers only grows and grows!

6:09. Just like Dan Rather, you leave a major part of 5:30's comment out. Just put in the part you like. The "this is a hate crime part". It is a hate crime , right?? You know the little shitbuckets that murdered a 69 year old Carolyn Temple. And the butt trash we see on TV savaging the white community daily.

Yes they move to "our" white neighborhoods. Why don't they fix their own instead of bailing out? I remember a time when Broadmoor was nice. Pecan Blvd. Sedgwick Drive. Look at them now.

Yawn. More liberal apologists. Eat overpriced pizza, attend pray breakfasts, join progressive councils, attend St. James, shop at whole foods, douse yourself with color runs, ignore the obvious. When your spouse or child gets killed by the every demographic you so desperately try to persuade us to be tolerant toward, I will feel sorry for you.

Once the new apartments get built Good can change the name of the joint to Sal & Tookie's.

9:17, thanks for being honest on what kind if person you really are (ignorant and racist). Your honesty is a trait half the commenters on here don't share.

I started to count the posts being made by the same person, e.g. "Men sitting around typing on the computer all day" and "7th grade reading level", both being made two or three times....But I gave up.

Wash your black apron and go get a damned job! Sitting cross-legged at the feet of Donna Ladd is NOT contributing to society.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

There is clearly a problem with crime in Jackson and in particular in Fondren.

The residents between State and West Street have lots of minor children who are the cause of most of the crime in the area.

I really don't give a damn if you think I am a racist by pointing out a indisputable fact.

Its THE problem. Car burglary, house robbery, home invasions, snatch and grab purses, and now multiple shootings involved autos and humans.

It is time to map the area, house by house, and identify each resident by name, age, and picture. Each Landlord should create a public database of all residents in his/her houses.

If you are going to act like an enemy of the public at large, you are going to be treated as such.

'They move to 'our' white neighborhoods'

That's fine. I have absolutely no problem with the respectable black neighbors I have. The problem is the ones running from the good are bringing their hood rat children with them and the new area quickly turns to hood. The kids are still 'gangsta' no matter where the parents move, because that's what black society tells them is the way to be.

4:49, but haven't you heard? Contagion theory is a fallacy!!

Hmmmm

6:57 it's not contagion theory. Contagion theory is that my children and myself will start acting like hoodrats because the fools down the street do. The problem is the hoodrats are moving up the street and bringing the hood with them. Sorry that's so hard for you to understand.

Okay 9:07, so when commenter 1 says: "crime will follow you to the burbs," and idiotic commenter 2 responds: "contagion theory is a fallacy," what exactly do you think commenter 2 is referring to? (hint, the contagion is that of incidents, not attitudes). No one is suggesting that the people that actually live in these places (whether it be Belhaven or Madison) are the ones committing the crimes.