Jackson Jambalaya

"It's not his fault because he is addicted to drugs" or "It's not his fault because he has mental issues," or "It's not his fault because his mother didn't breast feed him," in 3, 2, 1...

people are complicated

Clown show.

He got served and protected for sure.

As for the address listed on his arrest report, Google Earth says there is no 183 Armstrong Road in Jackson, MS. The closest place is 183 Cliff Armstrong Road about 20 miles East of Sand Hill.

Glad Dr. Parkes was not hurt and that Red was taken into custody. I hope he gets the help he needs and is removed from our streets! I am seriously surprised Mr. Mayor reacted and sent JPD (though one officer seems to have been a little eager to make her traffic citation quota). I guess he didn't want his FREE labor to stop!

Bum or vagrant or tramp or residentially challenged or homeless or unhoused...

Which woke term is approved this week by highness the Grand Wokeness?

Ward needs to arrange for ol' Red to meet him on the 4000 block of Ridgewood for some trash collection. Let's see how that goes over.

What a clown show. Just play the organ music, eat the circus peanuts and enjoy the show.

Roger and Ward are good dudes, and I hope no harm comes to them.

@ 2:37 you are exactly correct. The more that Locke and his crew do to clean up the streets, the less the city will do. The mayor will soon be looking for citizens to fix potholes. One less thing for the incompetents to handle. The mayor/city can't handle water, sewer, police protection, roadside cleanup, schools, etc. I do wonder where all the money goes

Speaking of cleaning up Jackson, my goodness at the overgrowth of weeds and debris onto the "brand new" curbs and sidewalks on North State street from about North State animal hospital and south is just embarrassing. All that money spent(federal and local dollars) into that project and no plan to maintain keeping it nice by the Mayor and his incompetent departments. What is the point of all the "revitalization" projects if these worthless people aren't going to maintain it going forward?

Locke Ward for Mayor!!!!!!!!!!

@3:07 True, but the City was already spending the bare minimum on these areas anyway. As long as he is willing to deal with this sort of BS, I'll continue to donate directly to Locke Ward where I can see my money being used to improve the areas I actually frequent.

Sure hope Red stays locked up longer than a couple of days this time!

I read a couple of years ago that there is a civic-minded fellow who lives in NE Jackson who actually repairs the pot holes himself on his street. He has no illusions that the city will ever do anything.

I NEVER see any City of Jackson employees out cutting grass, weed eating, picking up trash etc.... Why is that? Do they just sit around and do nothing all day. EVERYDAY??????

Go to Madison, Clinton, Brandon, Ridgeland, Florence etc.... The city employees are working and they have convicts helping them.

Democrats make me sick

Anybody notice that JPD listed the guy as having brown hair......?

@325, true, so true. Add to your note the newly rebuilt and recently opened Riverside Drive. Beautiful new entrance into this neighborhood but the city has let it become overgrown within the first few weeks of taking over its maintenance from the contractor. Couldn't even mow the grass for Hizzonner's 'ribbon cutting' where he wanted to take credit for and brag about the city's accomplishmnets; newly planted sod had grown so high almost reached the Mayor's beard.

Also, this article is just another example of why Jackson needs to convert to a city manager form of government.

Sista Rukia is seething this YT is doing such

@3:25 PM - Contract steering, kickbacks, and palm greasing are what it all about. Right? Chowke, am I right?

@3:42 - Probably a lot of DIY folks in NE Jackson. I know someone did this in the CCJ (or maybe still does) - could always tell when it was homeowner filled because whatever he used was a light grey color instead of the normal black. But everyone was just thankful to have them filled!

According to the city, there is an effort to have those in city/county detention out picking up thrash. Jackson employees in both solid waste & parks are working hard to keep the city clean of thrash. Keep Jackson Beautiful also works hard to get organizations & volunteers organized to “keep Jackson beautiful” from thrash on streets. But rental properties & apartment complexes are a problem- renters just don’t have skin in the game.

3:25- why don’t you get a group together & clean up these areas you identified? It’s going to take all of us taking responsibility for our town!

Sounds like aggravated assault to me.

So the guys cleaning up the city for free called the mayor for help with an aggressive vagrant. The police showed up and wrote the guy who called a traffic ticket.

That's Lumumba's Jackson, in a nutshell.

@3:46 PM - Jackson has too many "no show" jobs to take care of these menial tasks. Right?

Has the mayor or phd moron Omari even recognized Locke ward ? April is clean up Jackson month. Not even the coward Virgi had the decency to ask for Locke to be recognized. Of course her district really is sick and has major buyers remorse. She’s a shadow of Chokwe. Totally sickening.

Keep Jackson Beautiful, that ship sailed away a long time ago.

We are all very perfect people!
Still, one tragedy,,, a mis-step.or two,,, and, who knows how we might end up.

Locke
You should’ve called the mayor to tell him about the ticket this idiot wrote you while volunteering and als ok helping them fight crime

I should have made it clear that she did not end up giving me a ticket--said she was going to let me off this time but if I had not basically laughed at her she was on her way--the mayor and police chief have 5 police officers to the location within minutes

@6:16
I live in the district represented by Virgi… I mistakenly voted for her and I won’t do it again. Nor will many of my neighbors. She lied to the voters and is a lock vote for the mayor. She’s on just about the wrong side of everything honestly. Ready for her to GO!!!

Filling the prisons with folks suffering from mental illness and substance abuse.

@4:36 you are living in a dream. If all of the people you mentioned were working so hard Jackson wouldn't look like Jackson looks. Of course, by the time you clean it up the honorable citizens fuck it right back up.

Keeping the grass and weeds cut should be easy and done on a regular basis. As soon as you finish, you start over.

I don't know of any "real"
job Virgi Lindsay has ever had.

@9:22 been feeling the same way after the garbage fiasco... who would be our alternative though?

Nothing but respect to Locke and Parks.

I do wonder if they looked more like the mayor, would they have a street already renamed in their honor?

Imagine how much better Jackson would be if leaders respected citizens of all skin tones equally. Working together instead of forced and constant racial lines from the Mayor. What a wonderful dream.

The manager of the Parham Bridges Tennis Facility testified in court he was tearing up the place and running off tennis players.

Question: Why did the prosecutor only charge him with simple assault instead of aggravated assault?

The defense tried to recuse the judge and the prosecutor started agreeing with the defense.

Don't think the city prosecutor is on your side. Not for one second, when it comes to keeping these bums from tearing up the city. Chief Davis used to tell me the city prosecutors' office kept his officers hamstrung from doing anything about them.

“As Jackson Turns….”

Wow he looks 50+ in his mugshot and he is in his 30s.

Parham Bridges, much like these men attempting to clean up the city have a daunting and thankless job.
Greenbrook Flowers heard the mayor loud and clear. "Next."

Most of us bolted when Little Lord Chucklepants made it clear he had no interest in assisting white business owners. Tennis courts don't have that luxury so sincere best of luck to them. I cannot imagine what they deal with.

And neighborhoods are going to hell in a handbasket, even if they have landlords with deep pockets because community improvement doesn’t appear to bother to come out and do anything. If they do come out, there’s no follow through. We had a neighbor cut down a tree and pile it all up in the space in between the rental house and his house and it’s been there for over a year and looks horrible. There are some things that the city could do that they wouldn’t have to pay for other than to send the salaried employee out to put a letter in the mailbox , but they don’t even seem to be able to get that done. Sad…

You can't deal rationally with an irrational person.

We have always had drunks and addicts and mentally ill people in the human population.

Sadly, we used to treat the treatable and keep those who couldn't be managed safely in our midst in residential, supervised care. While on their medications, many of them could help maintain the facility ...even in clerical or teaching positions.

Geraldo Rivera filmed at one facility for 20/20. All those who were doing well there at the time and appeared normal. So, there was a public outcry due to his shallow reporting. He didn't see their initial condition or the treatment efforts to stabilize them after they arrived. He didn't bother to learn the importance of a regular healthy diet, exercise, cleanliness and getting their meds on time each day.

Mental Health facilities all over the country have been closed after Congress bowed to public pressure with the impractical " danger to themselves or others law". The Supremes made that worse with and ill-informed judgement hamstrung the police and psychiatrists, so we have to wait until they do harm to themselves or others.

That law also made it impossible for families and loved ones to involuntarily commit the addicted to treatment. So, rather than allowing them to safely withdraw and become rational enough to cooperate with treatment and recover, they are on our streets and feeding the drug dealers.

I see this man as one of many in the chaotic end result when those who make our laws don't bother to learn anything about the problem they are attempting to solve.

When the subject is psychiatry and addiction or the female reproductive system and any other science, laws based on misinformation, emotion, myths or religious beliefs have brought us to the chaos we are seeing in society.

Most disturbing is when psychiatrists see former patients making decisions in government, teaching or preaching...especially when it's obvious that they stopped taking their meds!

Locke must be a great guy. I wondered about the cleaning of the area (I-55 area). I knew the city wasn't doing it. Locke is a better man than most. If the guy jumped the fence charging me with something threatening to kill me, I would have shot his ass.