Jackson Jambalaya

Where is Francis Street?

Sounds like it could've been the same two guys that robbed that person on Forest Avenue that are impersonating police officers.

@5:58- in the time you typed that comment you could have looked it up.

Francis Street is off Caroline Dr. in Van Winkle

Very sad. I escaped Jackson in 1980, and for good reasons! Jackson has all of the problems of New Orleans, but none of the charm.

"@5:58- in the time you typed that comment you could have looked it up."

Amen.

Unfortunately, this is business as usual in this part of town.

Black on Hispanic ??
shouldn't this be a "hate crime"

11:04. I see what you did there: suggest that some people believe that all cases in which a minority is killed are hate crimes (likely in some half-witted effort to suggest that real hate crimes do not exist).

Really? It's a real problem. No need to delegitimize it by sarcastically stating that all minority deaths are hate crimes.

If you want to howl and moan every time someone calls you a racist, maybe you shouldn't be racist.

They were probably expecting him to have a large chunk of cash on hand. The black criminals are targeting the Mexicans more and more (see Canton) because they tend to not use bank accounts and keep cash on hand. If we sit back and watch long enough I believe we can expect to see the Mexicans start to resolve things themselves.

11:39: I'll accept hate crimes when you identify love crimes. It's a stupid moniker and a stupid idea. Enforce the laws on the books and stop adding meaningless modifiers. Murder is murder, assault is assault. The motivation for doing so is never positive. To decide that one reason for hating someone enough to do that is "worse" than any other reason is just plain stupid.

2:09PM The only reason for the "hate crime" modifier was so the DoJ and FBI can jump in regardless of the local outcome. Just as it is past time for the DoJ to be involved in states' voting practices, Federal prosecution of hate crimes is beyond outdated.

2:09: The hate crime distinction is not a stupid idea.

You imply that motivation for a crime does not matter and that it should not be taken into consideration.

Although that position may sound good at first, surely you would not believe that if you were to think about it.

If, for instance, someone kills three people in an attack motivated by hatred of Americans(e.g. Boston Marathon bombing), do you really think that case would deserve no more outrage than an unrelated case where a career criminal kills three people in the course of a robbery?

Both scenarios are tragic. However, when the motive is to target members of an entire community as a whole(i.e. Americans, black people, Christians, homosexuals, etc.) the impact is more widespread because it victimizes the entire community.

So no, not all murder is the same. Please don't keep your head stuck in the sand for too long before you say something to make yourself look stupid in real life (as opposed to an online blog).

3:06 I hope you are kidding. All life is valuable. Killing is not justified. If you kill, you should get punished accordingly. End of story. To imply that the "why" behind such a crime matters is to imply that there is some rational justification for the crime in some cases. There is not. The idea of a "hate" crime is in fact stupid. 3 dead = 3 dead. I can guarantee you that if the dead guy could speak, he wouldn't much care why he was killed...

3:06PM Robberies that end in murder don't victimize an entire community? Sure the residents of Belhaven would've disagreed in the weeks following the shooting on Euclid. Those of us that aren't criminals in the entire Jackson Metro have had our lives altered by repetitive criminal activity....declining home values, having to avoid parts of town we once called home, business owners left with no customer base, paying thru the nose for neighborhood and home security, etc. The symptoms of Jackson's criminal element most certainly victimize our entire community.

Calling a crime a "hate" crime just means that those victims are "more equal" than others.

Think about it.

If women were able to pull the 'hate-crime' scam for every crime perpetrated against us by males there would be difficulty in maintaining population. Nearly every crime against a woman is caused by disrespect of the sex and the knowledge that women are 'weaker' - and that belief is clearly sexist (READ: racist, ageist, etc, etc, etc). Let women play a bit with the wording and male criminals will soon all be in Fed Prison. The whole scam of hate crimes is ridiculous. If I end up dead at the hands of black thugs or white thugs I'm going to be pretty indifferent as to whether they called me a racial label before beating my brains out.

If and when they find these a--holes they should be shot.