Jackson Jambalaya

Had Stokes been white Donna Ladd would be apopletic already.

Donna Ladd is a FRAUD.

Boycott is a good idea. Done buying anything in Jackson till KIS is gone.

If in fact, Calhoun County did suggest boycotting Jackson, thank you. Though I live far from your jurisdiction, I support you and all law enforcement. Thank you for your service. May God Bless you and yours and keep you safe.

Has the Daily Mail picked up this story, yet? I'd love to see the pictures they run with an article about Kennuf.

As for a boycott... It's not like we're flocking to Jacktown, as it is. Who'd even NOTICE?

What the sheriff said is that his department will not do business in Jackson. Not exactly 'calling for a boycott'.

A boycott would hurt innocent people.

So this sheriff is going to punish businesses that aren't in Stokes district and who can't do anything to get rid of Stokes?
He's going to punish those who live and/or work in Jackson ( including the families of law enforcement)?
If one of his officers needs to be treated at a Jackson hospital because that's where the best specialist for them is located, he doesn't want their families to have a place to stay? His people aren't going to take training in Jackson? His county won't be represented at any meeting at the legislature that affects Sheriff's Departments? If there were a terrorist attack or natural disaster in Jackson, his department won't support first responders?
He's just a pale Stokes!

Isn't this ultimately what people have been doing for years?

Hard to believe it, but Kennuf may have bit off something bigger than he can chew on this one.

Com'on 7:31.... don't nit pic, get the gist of the statement which is 1) to show open disdain for this elected official who acts as an idiot for the media to sensationalize issues rather than using a common sense AND REASONABLE approach for problem solving and 2) showing a solid front of support for law enforcement officers in the State. I hope you realize that Stokes must have cooperation from others throughout the City, County and State to be effective as a politician and not just the bamboozled constituency of his ward that believes in him. I would like to say that I will start supporting this effort of a boycott but truth be told I have avoided Jackson like the plague for the past 5 years in that the moral fiber has degraded so that you cannot be reasonably certain of your safety at any given moment.

National demand to hold conventions in Jackson is off the charts! Kenneth Stokes singlehandedly revives Jackson tourism efforts! JCVB feverishly working to supply 2016 need for souvenir rocks, bricks and bottles!

Those of you bemoaning the collateral damage of a boycott seem to overlook the fact that that's how they work. They are INTENDED to inflict collateral damage. That's the whole purpose. If a boycott of Jackson would work, that might be one thing. It won't though.

Jackson is already boycotted. There are very damned few businesses in Stokes' district that you would frequent anyway. Maybe if the druggies in adjacent counties would stop purchasing from the dealers in Stokes' ward, those dealers would rise up in arms and throw his ass in the Pearl River with a gin-fan tied to his leg.

The man is a Teflon Buddha statue.

There is only one proper response to Stoke's comment: disgust. So go ahead, call out Stokes. Feel free to punish his voters in Ward 3, but those of us in the other six wards have nothing to do with this embarrassment of a councilman. By pushing a boycott for the entire city, you are punishing innocent people (something a good sheriff would avoid). I would boycott Calhoun County, but I don't even know where that place is, nor do I care.

Is there any business left in Jackson? Crime has forced most of them out of the city.

10:49

Hahahahaahah

The people of Ward 3 must be brilliant (and clairvoyant) if they can distinguish between petty crimes and felonies before they throw the bricks, rocks, and bottles at law officers. Hmmmm.

This Sheriff is as big an idiot as Stokes. Trying to figure out how in his little mind a boycott of Jackson's businesses eliminates Stokes? Most of Stokes's constituents are not the kind who are hard working business owners...they are the thieves going to surrounding cities to steal and then bring the cops on a chase back into Jackson into their ward. A boycott on Jackson's businesses does nothing to Stokes; rather, it hurts the individuals who work hard on a daily basis at their place of business. On the other hand, Sheriff Tucker and the Richland Chief have made rational responses. While I understand the Calhoun Sheriff's outrage and can appreciate his willingness to make a response to Stokes, he needs to stop and think before he speaks and calls for an action that basically has zero effect on Stokes.

There is nothing that I know of in Jackson that you can't get in the suburbs including excellent health care.

Just to keep it fair: How would Yarbor & Stokes respond if a Madison/Flowood/Richland/Pearl City Official said they wanted their residents to throw rocks,ect at JPD officials in pursuit of a criminal?

Possibly the same way Jackson residents react to people on social media calling for a wall built around the city and for those who leave "to be shot." (Yes, There have been people saying that) I live in Jackson (ward 7) and I highly disapprove of Stokes in general, including his comments (like I assume you did not approve of Daryl Dedmon). Disdain from you guys is something we are used to by this point. Atleast we weren't calling for a boycott of all the suburbs when city leaders in Ridgeland tried to devise ways to rid itself of black people and "Jackson's rot." That's because boycotting innocent businesses in Flowood for what city leaders in Ridgland do makes no more sense than boycotting wards 1-2 and 4-7 for what ward 3's representative did. I understand the anger at Stokes comments. Directing it at me and my community is entirely misplaced.

I do not -in general - like the concept of boycotts. But I realize that they oftentimes do work. Yes, a boycott of Jackson isn't going to hurt very many of this idiot's ward, but it would get the attention of the rest of the City leadership (if we can really call our Mayor and the majority of our council as leaders.) If the City started feeling the pain of a boycott, then maybe the rest of the black leadership would open their mouths and speak out against this clown. So far, have heard nothing from the Mayor, the Council (except for Foote, who might be noted is in the minority of the Council). Where are the black leaders of our fair city? They aren't standing against this idiot. A boycott would eventually get their attention.

And yes - I am a resident of Jackson with a business in Jackson. I don't need the effects of a boycott, but I do want to see something done about this loudmouth idiot claiming to be the leadership of this city.

I will be boycotting any business located in Jackson. I like to feel safe in any business I choose to go into. With police being attacked, and those attacks supported by the elected officials, I don't feel safe inside of the city limits.

Some of you need to remember the entire State of MS is (unfairly) the target of a boycott for its state flag. The MS boycott punishes innocent business people who have nothing to do with the flag, just like a boycott of Jackson would punish businesses run by people who respect law enforcement and dislike Stokes. At least the MS boycott was the result of an actual state policy, as opposed to a single loud-mouth politician who has no power to do anything by himself and whose ward covers only 1/7th of the city. A boycott would not fix any problems.

If we boycott Jackson, where will people go to buy drugs?

For those Jacksonians who don't want the boycott, use your influence to isolate and neutralize the hogwash bafoon. If noone in the City supports him but his ward, eventually he will become ineffective as a politician and be voted out of office.

I don't boycott businesses per se, but I do shop online instead of driving to Ridgeland, Madison, and Flowood. There's a lot of traffic in those small towns. But to the benefit of my state, I am taxed online, so it's all good.

I live in Jackson, but I was born and raised in Calhoun County. I just came from there tonight. That's two hours away from Jackson. Generally people in north Mississippi shop in Tupelo and Memphis. How is the sheriff planning on boycotting stores that he probably only shops in once or twice a year anyway?

by not shopping there once or twice a year

I'm boycotting any black owned business in Jackson until he resigns

Did the blacks give two hoots when they boycotted white owned businesses int he 60's?? All that did was hurt honest hard working people that had nothing to do with their plight but they did it any way and it worked to some extent.

My family was directly affected by the boycotts of the 60's. Its turn about is fair play but the blacks wont see it that way.

Boycott is the only way the people have to stand up to racism and criminals. Maybe moving the state capital will help.