Jackson Jambalaya

Gonna need that 600 for tires.

Stopping traffic on an interstate to spin wheels. What’s next, stopping traffic to rob people? Don’t laugh cause that’ll be coming soon.

I’ve lived in Northeast Jackson 15 years. I started the process last week of listing my house for sale. This makes me feel good about the decision to leave this place entirely.

this is blocking the flow of interstate commerce. the feds have jurisdiction here. all these POS need to be identified and indicted by the federal criminal authorities for obstructing interstate commerce. where is the office of the U S ATTORNEY ON THIS?

Pretty bad ass.

Terrible idea though...he will be arrested soon.

Where were the State Police? Don’t just blame Jackson Police!!

Where is the law??????

If only this was visible from Baby Chok's Real Time Crime Center.

This is more dangerous than police from outside Jackson pursuing criminals in car chases through the city - no objections from the mayor or Kennuf, of course

Looks like a retired police crown Vic with drivers side spotlight.

At least no shots fired.

I really miss my 04 Crown Vic!

And that’s one of the reason Jackson’s roads suck!

Someone said "Where is the law??????"

Probably afraid of being murdered. I wouldn't feel safe unless I was in a M1 Abrams.

Stupid kids! At least no gun violence- that’s something I guess!

3rd World Country

Within sight of Highway Patrol headquarters.

Reason #437 to not live here. What a crap city and state. Suprised this convoy didn't include a technical with a machine gun attached.Come to Texas. The grass is greener here.

Atleast they should get some real cars to do this and not a bunch of busted out ford crown victorias.

4TH WORLD COUNTRY

The lawless city.

Did this when I was young in Shreveport, polo came, we ran, and laughed for months, too bad we didn’t have cell phones back in the day.

To be expected. It will only get worse. These "kids" who are all really young adults, have cars, guns, and cell phones. They also have no respect whatsoever for anybody including themselves. The mayor wants to be their friend, big brother. He will need his bodyguards.

Anarchy not far behind

@11:30, yeah, this problem stems from them being “kids” and not any other reason

Yep; Both of them are former LEO Crown Vics with tear-drop spotlight. Police Interceptor Engine. Wonder if they still have the PoPo radio.

This is Jackson. Where Antar's Democrats run wild.

What about some poor innocent soul clinging to life in an ambulance trying to get to the hospital through this spectacle?
That’s the shame. Again, where is some form of law enforcement??
Wild West crime deserves Wild West justice.

Just saw the commercial on TV to come visit Jackson, the City with SOUL.
Jackson is totally gone and under mob rule. I don’t let anyone I care about go near that God forsaken, life threatening place.

Waiting on Jackson Free Press to report on this.......

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.

The worst crime of all, of course, is that no one appears to be wearing a mask.

I just passed that stretch of highway - fucking disgraceful. This city needs to be put in receivership. It's the state seat of government for God's sake, and has become a lawless hellhole.

The Mississippi National Guard has an Attack Reconnaissance Battalion with AH-64 Apache attack Helicopters.


These antics would be a perfect night training exercise for those pilots and gunners.

I'm not advocating killing anyone from the sky, (just shoot over their heads to get their attention in a very serious way).

I think they could do that without damaging I-55 as well.

Such a display would be more effective than anything JPD and MHP could do.

Year end celebration for making #2 on the murder rate for the year!

Lumumba is running this city into the ground. Elect someone who actually cares about preventing crime, rather than padding their political pedigree with pointless COVID orders.

I can only get the video to play for a second. Where is that?

Just copying what they see on TV.
Probably celebrating the MS State brawl.
Too dumb to creat anything positive.

They don't even know what day it is. Today is Saturday.

12:18 In the middle of an interstate highway in downtown Shreveport? C'mon.
Good try.

10;34, Good luck with that one.
"Where were the State Police? Don’t just blame Jackson Police!!" We don't have a State Police we have Highway Patrol. While they could intervene, JPD has jurisdiction due to that section of I-55 being within an Incorported Municipality. Most of the time I see MHP they are blowing ass through town.
"Someone said "Where is the law?" They can't keep cops in this town. Always ready to burn them for shit.
"Within sight of Highway Patrol headquarters." No one home even with lights on.
"Anarchy not far behind". Already here.

Local agencies could start by making sure all of their officers have tags on their sport bikes when they go riding on I55.

Is that a Miss State recruiting visit video? Must be filmed on Highway 82 outside Starkpatch.

When the hue and cry arrives from Jackson politicos and black power structure after they learn the city is losing representation during redistricting, look no further than this display to understand why the city is bleeding population.

This is where Jackson’s black leadership has gotten them. Good luck with that. Nobody is spending their tax dollars in your shit city anymore. You have driven out every last person with any sense.

Let me amplify on what 1:53 said - call in air strikes

Who gets to pay the medical bills if one of these fools is injured? I guess that "one call that's all" will sue the City for not making sure the interstte was safe for idiots.

Have had it.

Should arrest the ones standing & Yelling on theInterstate as it is Against the law to Walk on the Interstate!

No fear
No consequences
No responsibility
No shame
No worry
No one to cares

Don't worry if someone gets injured. It'll be good practice for medical students and surgery interns at UMMC. Some day the skills they learn today might be put to good use saving someone productive somewhere else.

I bet Chuckie and his merry band of agitators, errr community organizers, stay mum on this one. Also, that white chick on Facebook, Longmire, won’t say a thing. Her and her white guilt are too focused on an inanimate object like statues.

The city with soul.....as well as rampant crime, litter, murders, freeway blockades

Y'all have to admit that they're breaking the law in the county with the judicial system least likely to hold them accountable.

No consequences. That’s the root cause of this.

This is what you get when you have this many democrats, from top to bottom, in a City. You may hear some outcry from NE Jackson about things like this, but the rest of the City? Crickets. This kind of mayhem means nothing to 7/8ths of the population.

When you have things like this going on - an entire SIDE of an Interstate highway blocked, just so a bunch of democrats can act like fools.......and ZERO law enforcement shows up - this really tells you all you need to know about where this city is headed! It simply CAN'T get any better in its current state! Think about it, what can/will turn it around? Short of the State of MS taking it over, there is NO chance of rehabilitation. The majority of the population sees nothing wrong with it!

When he was announced as the new Mayor at campaign headquarters that election night? I think it went like this:

"FREE THE LAND!
FREE THE LAND!
FREE THE LAND!
By any means necessary."

Well there you have it folks. This is all part of the FREE THE LAND Marxist Lumumba movement and falls directly under the "By any means necessary" part. This is nothing less than "Urban Terrorism" and there's a reason it didn't happen on I-220 or I-55 South----there is nothing to gain there. The only "desirable" properties left in the City of Jackson are in Northeast Jackson, currently being sold at fire sale prices, and it's stunts like this that are dropping property values even further as the long time tax base is giving up and moving out. It's all a part of the FREE THE LAND movement.

So I guess the Mississippi State Police don't have time to patrol the interstate highways any more?

Have not heard ONE SINGLE WORD from the Mayor? Where is he? Where is the leadership of the Capitol City denouncing such behavior and holding these thugs accountable. Where are the trollers talking smack about the burbs? Oh wait I might be profiling ....

Where is the Clarion-Leger, Jackson Advocate, WLBT, WAPT, WJTV on this story? They like to cover the most tribal BS but can’t carve out 120 seconds to show this crime?

just wait 10 years...just going to get worse. at least the burbs are ok for now.

i’m counting the days until i can retire from my great job and get out of here. not a native. came here for work. kids moved away. going to move near them..

I dare them - no, make that double dare them - to try the same stunt on Lakeland Drive.

Lakeland Drive, within Flowood, that is.

Why didn't Baby Chok's Real Time Crime Center stop this?

Just need two semis coming abreast up the Interstate doing 70 mph and never check up.
Last time you would see this shit.

That's an ass that only a mommy elephant would be proud of.

Northside Drive every Sunday night. Law enforcement has been ignoring it forever.

At least now we have the halftime entertainment for the college football bowl game Antar wants to lure to Jackson

It was the lead story on WLBT at 6.

Thing is Lumumba can make all the statements he wants and posture as serious but the black community in Jackson knows the dude has nothing in the way of stones and is powerless to stop them.

This activity is wrong on so many levels. Thankfully, no innocent people ---folks simply trying to get from point A to point B, were physically harmed. I can only image the emotional trauma of sitting in traffic behind this absurdity ...waiting, wondering when and how it would end. Did law enforcement ever show up, or did the group simply decide to leave? If the latter, law enforcement should also be held accountable for allowing this to go on for the length of time it did! A STRONG legal response is critical. Otherwise, this kind of thing will become a common occurrence contributing to an ongoing downward spiral of the city. We don't need explanations that translate into excuses. We need to call wrong, WRONG regardless of who is involved.

Until recently this was a weekly event in Sacramento on I-5 and US50. The CHP took them to task by dispatching 25+ patrol cars, a helicopter, and multiple tow trucks. The violators were driving nice rides, not Jacktown hoopties.

People went to jail, including the spectators, and their rides were impounded. Big fines, big tow bills.

That shit stopped.

Hey 2:58, there’s a nice smooth and straight stretch between Hearne and Jewella, right in front the fairgrounds.

I think this is consistent with the city council's efforts to land a NASCAR race. Hell, they could just use the 20-55-220 loop that kids already use.

@6:51 Although I agree wholeheartedly, what are they gonna do? Put 'em in jail? They've all been there plenty of times, so that's no real deterrence. Plus, I'd bet a hundred bucks, if they DID put them in jail, there would be protests to get them released!Like 4:24 said, a vast majority of the population of Jackson doesn't see anything wrong with lawlessness. It's just their current way of life!

Thugs control Jackson at night. The Jackson police go hide at night.

Jus' wondering'...Is Metro One, the law's eye in the sky, still in use? I haven't seen or heard it flying around in a long time.

@7:43, nope, covered in dust in a hangar, no money to fly it

Next New Year the Jackson police needs to patrol hourly the the interstate because it will happen again. Just have 4 squad cars drive up & down I-55 till they reach Rankin & Madison County.

Unfortunately, the legal consequences (if any) will be minimal and insignificant given law enforcement resources and general administration crime philosophy. So what is required is a different approach. Instead of jail (which apparently has inadequate space to house those who deserve it); or fines (which will not be paid), require nonviolent offenders to pick up liter on the trash strewn streets and highways. That, to them, would likely be considered a worse punishment than jail, unbefitting their "bad boy" and "bad girl" images. Do Jackson city leaders have the chutzpah to think outside the box and attempt strategies that target consequences that would be undesirable to the offenders? Clearly, the threat of jail, or harm to themselves or others is not a deterrent.

I expected there would be racist comments on this thread.

I was right.

Am I right that MHP has no jurisdiction here? It’s all Jpd?

Yes 9:19...the racist comments are clearly the problem here.

If we could only stop those, all of this criminal behavior and murder would end.

^^^^^It’s not racist, if it’s fact.^^^^^Jackson has gone to shit for 20 years bc of who runs it. The black community reaps what it sows. They cannot see beyond skin color when it comes to just about anything, including electing and re-electing the same “do nothing” leaders who by the way have a stable income, benefits/health insurance while their constituents rob and kill each other to live in an unsafe shithole.

Nothing racist about calling out breaking the law and endangering innocent citizens. Take that tired old shit somewhere else, it ain’t working anymore.

The twerker's parents would be proud, if she knows who they are.

"Yes 9:19...the racist comments are clearly the problem here.

If we could only stop those, all of this criminal behavior and murder would end. "

Wait, wait - I thought our betters told us changing the state flag would end that.

I can't believe they were wrong, or, worse yet, lied to us about something.

"I expected there would be racist comments on this thread.

I was right. "

Calm yourself, Priscilla.

If a pack of braying, howling, Caucasian jackasses ever shut down an interstate so they can do something similar we will call for their scalps as well.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen however.

Gotham?

Antar probably off at some Summit telling other mayors how to be a better mayor.

This is nothing compared to what the Madison kids used to do in the Rite Aid Parking lot on Old Canton back in the day.

11:27 Come off it. Back then we stayed in the parking lot. It was risky business though and some fines had to be paid, but nobody shut down highways or major streets. Too much respect, and fear, back then. Find another story.

nice try, January 3, 2021 at 11:27 AM, but there's a big damn difference between a parking lot and an interstate. thank you for playing though.

As 11:27 and others often do...I will never understand why bad behavior cannot just be bad.

Why must it always devolve into “Well, Rankin did something similar in 1998!” or “Madison kids in a parking lot!”

I’d probably agree that all examples of youth committing crimes were just wrong.

Regardless of skin color or location.

See how that works?

“Well, Rankin did something similar in 1998!” or “Madison kids in a parking lot!”

But they never stopped traffic on a street. Much less a damn Interstate Highway.

Growing up in Northeast Jackson, we did the same crap at Maywood Mart, Mayes Lake, and at the end of Westbrook Road by the Pearl River. Drag racing on an undeveloped Lakeland Drive was also fun.

I would occasional hang out with my South Jackson cousins.
It was a different world down there. (Not bad . . . just different).

Hell, they "cruised Mcdowell" all night and would stop at Apple Ridge every 30 minutes.

No different than normal teens anywhere.

But I'll be damned if the kids stopped any traffic . . . in North or South Jackson.

BTW, we had fights as well.
We just didn't pull out guns or knives.
(Nor did the girls hop on the roof of a car and shake their butts).

However, after thinking back . . . I wish a few of them would have.

It wasn't that long ago when a group of "people". stopped traffic on another Jackson 4 lane highway. How quickly people forget. I never heard about any of them being punished and they stood on top of their cars with guns.
I thought that might be against the law. Maybe somewhere else. Jackson seems to have a different set of laws than other places.

It is really sad that the Capital City of a state has stuff like this going on. What is needed is real leadership at all levels because this will have an effect on the economic development of the entire metropolitan area and affect the real negative perceptions of our state. We can do better damn it.

I wonder how things are going at the zoo?

@january 3 11:37
Considering that the Rite Sid on Old Canton Road is in Jackson I’m not sure that Madison kids drove that far to hang out. I’m not remembering that we went there at all. Lost Rabbit was our beer drinking place.

Unfortunately this isn't new - St.Louis, Charlotte and Dallas have all reported the same activities since July 2020