Jackson Jambalaya

"WHEREAS I, BABY CHOK, don't have a friggin' clue how to be a mayor, but these resolutions provide the PERCEPTION that I am doing something."

He seriously thinks the skeletal JPD night crew has time to stop people and ask for papers? Move over Melton, there is a new worst Jackson mayor ever.

You can't enforce this type of mandate proactively, there isn't enough manpower in the police department. What needs to happen is for a few people to be made a public example. I'm sure in the normal process of law enforcement they will come across individuals violating the orders. Slap them with the absolute maximum punishment and publicize it as widely as possible.

Give a few people deliberately ignoring the orders a quick 30 days in jail and maybe others will wise up.

What an idiot!!!! Infected between midnight and 5am while walking or driving??????

Again, what do y'all want him to do? If he takes no action, y'all have an issue with it. If he takes action, y'all have an issue with it.

"Achtung! Papers? Papers? Ve need to zee your papers! Mach schnell!"

Give me Frank Melton over Antar any day!

Too bad the City of Jackson does not have the luxury of a wait-and-see approach to brown water, potholes and murders.

I think it's a good idea. It will hopefully keep those who would otherwise break the law home during the hours when murder and mayhem happen the most. Of course most probably won't even get the memo so it will be difficult to enforce on the front end and put more strain on law enforcement.

This is to try to stem the recent crime wave. He just doesn't want to say that word. So he uses Covid as cover.

9:28 am You are a pot calling the kettle black.

You just react without thinking. It's all about you. You don't need to know anything outside the bubble you created.

Bless your heart

"The Executive Order also requires essential businesses or operations located within the City of Jackson to provide essential employees – upon request - documentation or verification of their essential status and necessity for travel during the curfew hours."

WHEREAS, that being said, requiring Voter ID is still RACIST, right?

Ha! Our JPD can't even stop the "crotch-rockets" that race I-55 at 100+ mph after midnight.

Let's see if that changes now...should be fun!

This makes perfect sense because we all know that COVID-19 is a nocturnal virus...or something.

VO SIND DEINE PAPIEREN! Your papers, show them to me!!!

9:25, you don't even get thrown in jail for killing someone, and you think the popo is gonna lock you up for a curfew violation?

I have no faith that a curfew would be effective in curbing the crime spree as the low life criminals committing the crimes are going to do what they do 24 -7, 365 days a year.

Putting people in jail for 30 days who violate the curfew is not going to work here with the judges we have here. Put their butts to work, cleaning up the dilapidated properties all around Jackson and/or picking up trash so they will be too tired to be out at night.

It is not Antar's job to fix COVID. It is his job to not dump half a billion gallons of raw sewage into the Pearl River. It is his job to fix infrastructure, potholes, to not denigrate the police and to work to get good judges and work to abolish the catch and release program for felons.

Quite honestly, I'm glad it's him and not me trying to instill personal responsibility into the citizenry of Jackson. He's trying to address a decades old and now systemic problem that is going to be hard to correct with anything short of marshal law.

It will hopefully keep those who would otherwise break the law home during the hours when murder and mayhem happen the most.

DELUSIONAL to think this latest edict from Antard will give pause to any of Jackson's finest "who would otherwise break the law".

If the JPD are tasked to enforce this, making more car stops during the curfew may lead to more officer involved shootings. Why? Because those folks creeping around after midnight for the most part aren't heading to church.

"Now wait just a damned minute here! What do you mean that Tatertot's school mandate is among the most silly, inane, and useless COVID 'mandates' yet?! Lemmee show you what a real moron can do!"

Please, Tater, just let Chockstick win this one. PLEASE?! Look, everyone with any sense knows that neither of you don't know what in the fuck you are doing, but issuing a mandate to cut 3rd grade recess from 30 minutes to 29 in counties which have retail outlets that sell gelato really won't make the point even more clear.

About all most of can do at this point is hope that enough people are healthy enough in the next several elections to rid this state of these idiots, regardless of party or skin color.

All I can find on the books and is solely related to juveniles:
Sec. 86-51. - Short title to article.

This article shall be known and may be cited as the "City of Jackson Curfew Ordinance."

(Ord. No. 2007-25(7), § 1, 8-9-07; Ord. No. 2008-16(6), § 1, 5-20-08)
Sec. 86-52. - Purpose and findings of article.

The City Council of the City of Jackson has determined that juveniles have been congregating in the city causing general disturbances to residents, and contributing to an excessive number of incidents of drug and alcohol related crimes, thefts, homicides and assaults, including a high percentage of crimes committed by and against juveniles;

Not sure he can set limits and punishment without the Boards backing.

What else is new Kingfish?
Every August around the full moon & 95 degree temps killings spike & the mayor issue a curfew.
Remember, only lawful people obey the law.

9:46 - if your gonna wish for a former mayor, hell man, wish for a Republican.

On a good disease free day we don't enforce curfew in Canton. waste of time. parent shows up, makes a scene, then little Bubalink is seen on the street about an hour later. Youth Judge will not send the juvenile to Detention due to cost.

MS has plateaued. Hospitalizations and deaths will begin dropping soon. What's the over/under on Chokwe trying to take credit for saving lives?

WHEREAS, we know that staying home and turning off the TV news is a proven way to stop vomiting everytime Mayor Chokme Ladumba talks ...

Thank God 44% of the deaths were boomers. If we're lucky, we'll get that number up to 100%.

Sounds fucking stupid, doesn't it? Maybe we should stop downplaying the deaths of Mississippians, KF.

Wait, we can have a Charles Evers memorial with the first 500 admitted gets in the door according to WLBT? Street basketball with a permit is ok also?

"MS has plateaued."

Ah, yes, from the Nouvelle French, the English translation being, "rising daily, and with the openings of a few grades in a few schools pushed back almost an hour soon to be rising even more." Oh, wait - did you actually mean the OLD Burgundian French, "pleautoued," meaning, "Fucked up as goat-roping on a frozen pond?"

@2:03 pm - MS has most certainly plateaued. The next two weeks will look bad, but all the stats that matter(nope, cases don't count) will soon be diving just as FL has. Look at the decrease in the RATE of hospitalizations to cases. I'm sorry you can't do 5th grade level math to confirm.

"MS has most certainly plateaued. The next two weeks will look bad, but all the stats that matter(nope, cases don't count) will soon be diving just as FL has. Look at the decrease in the RATE of hospitalizations to cases. I'm sorry you can't do 5th grade level math to confirm."

Cases most certainly "count." Every metric "counts." There are myriad factors that go into knowledgeable projections - projections, not "predictions" - and modeling. It will be a range, not a specific number. That said, while Florida's "tested positive" numbers have come down, the deaths have gone up. Among the other factors affecting the Florida numbers were a large number of young people, reasonably free of at-risk co-morbidities, in general proximity with a large senior population with lots of at-risk issues. Florida also attempts to track resident and non-resident positive tests in the state, but since a large number of the people in Florida are transient, and that number tends to vary based on a number of factors, i.e., many people go to Florida for a short period and return home (like, ahem, MS), which tends to increase when school it out, it is difficult to get a truly accurate picture on the total transmission rate instant at immediate time periods.

Your reply makes it abundantly clear that you simply do not know how any of this works, so you might wish to be careful about comments about math skills. Or not. It doesn't and won't matter to me.

" I couldn't help but laugh out loud last night while watching the Channel 16 news at 6 p.m. First, they played the video of the Mayor as he issued his new mandate to close businesses and outlaw gatherings of 10 people or more. In the VERY next story, they reported on the passing of Charles Evers and the plans for a street party to celebrate his life and legacy. Geezz Mr. Mayor, could you please make up your mind what you want to do? "

I laughed out loud myself when I watched those segments.

This lil'Mayor is funnier than Kim Wade on his Friday afternoon show.

Machine gun fire on North State Street, doing the belt buckle crawl, and Kingfish's theme song . . .
"Mack the Knife" .

Laughing too hard right now !

The goal of the midnight to 5 a.m. curfew has absolutely nothing to do with coronavirus. It has to do with the unprecedented rate of murders during those hours. Don’t lie about it.

As somebody who came to Jackson 5 years ago, I had given Chokwe a pass because the city is in ruins and there isn't much he can do, but he's just part of the problem. He's clueless and Jackson is a city I am moving out of. Abandon hope all ye who enter here.