MSUBulldog2010 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 (edited) Former Meridian police officer pleads guilty to using excessive force | Local News | meridianstar.com Follow this link > https://lnkd.in/erSVg3bA For some reason, the national media has always refused to touch the area of the country known as central Mississippi and Meridian, MS specifically when an issue of either corruption or police brutality rears its ugly head. If this happened in Ferguson, or Charleston, or any number of other towns across the US, the national media would be eating the story alive and yet Meridian, MS is untouchable by the national media. This officer tased an African American man in the back of his head while the man was not putting up any fight and had been laying on his stomach in handcuffs for an extended period of time already. The man is kicked etc. The footage was brutal. Why on earth will the national media not touch Meridian, MS? Your guess is as good as mine! The officer is said to be facing ten years in prison. Where is ABC Tonight? Where is CBS This morning News and numerous others which can be named? Where?! Edited August 4, 2021 by MSUBulldog2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 For some reason, this situation doesn't fit their narrative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUBulldog2010 Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, pancho said: For some reason, this situation doesn't fit their narrative. I'm not sure what narrative that would be considering central, Mississippi doesn't strike me as an area that the national media is overly in love with. At times, one might ponder if someone within power/government in central, MS doesn't have dirt of some sort on various national media outlets due to the total lack of coverage regarding corruption and the like stemming from this area of the nation. One explanation for the lack of coverage is due to central, MS desire, ability and aim to cover up many of these situations by leaving body and dash camera video footage off, losing the footage or refusing to comply with FOIA request to release the footage. I believe that the national media simply never hears about many of these stories due to so many citizens in MS being too poor to hire a lawyer that would allow for release of more of these videos. The state of Alabama by comparison, has free legal aid to its citizens to over 3,000 lawyers linked to the referral program by the state while the state of Miss has no such service for its citizens. Miss only provides a service via Miss Legal Services whose scope is extremely limited to a small number of types of cases when compared with their Alabama counterparts. Edited August 4, 2021 by MSUBulldog2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s1nglewing Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Well it is Mississippi, in August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUBulldog2010 Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 3 hours ago, s1nglewing said: Well it is Mississippi, in August. Meaning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmilwaukee Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 here is a video https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-stun-gun-handcuffed-suspect-officer-fired-mississippi-20180727-story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Good visible video. Guys like that should not be in uniform but please quit being a law breaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUBulldog2010 Posted August 5, 2021 Author Share Posted August 5, 2021 15 hours ago, pancho said: Good visible video. Guys like that should not be in uniform but please quit being a law breaker. I have a 100% clean background check myself and agree that theft and violent crime is a problem especially in that area of the state but Daniel Starks (the officer) has been a bad egg since his childhood and comes from a brutal family who raised him with that mindset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msbbkcoach Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Meridian is a violent place... unfortunately extreme measures are needed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUBulldog2010 Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 13 hours ago, msbbkcoach said: Meridian is a violent place... unfortunately extreme measures are needed And yet I take it you're not defending former disgraced officer Starks who potentially now faces 10 years in federal prison? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msbbkcoach Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 On 8/20/2021 at 9:57 AM, MSUBulldog2010 said: And yet I take it you're not defending former disgraced officer Starks who potentially now faces 10 years in federal prison? I don't defend violent cops any more than I would violent criminals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMT95 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Why do you need the national news? He has been fired and charged with a crime. What more do you want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUBulldog2010 Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 14 hours ago, PMT95 said: Why do you need the national news? He has been fired and charged with a crime. What more do you want? I want Meridian, MS covered by the national media the same as other areas of the country are covered by the national media when this type of incident occurs. I would have thought that to be obvious provided the initial post in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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