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Georgia sheriff under scrutiny after heated clash with local police officer
A confrontation between a north Georgia sheriff and a local police officer has led a local district attorney to call for a special prosecutor to investigate Towns County Sheriff Kenneth Henderson.
Tensions erupted during a December 2024 incident between Henderson and Hiawassee, Georgia, Police Officer José Carvajal, a combat veteran who served in both the U.S. Navy and Army. Carvajal was responding to a shooting out of his jurisdiction to help Deputy Austin Bradburn, who had been shot in the leg.
According to body camera video obtained exclusively by Atlanta News First Investigates, Carvajal used his military training to direct the use of a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and called in a description of the suspect.
Sheriff confronts officer over evidence
The confrontation began when Henderson arrived at the scene and questioned Carvajal about handling the deputy’s gun.
In the chaos of providing aid, Carvajal accidentally picked up the deputy’s weapon instead of his own. Carvajal can be seen on video putting the gun back in the holster, but other emergency personnel on scene told him to take the gun.
Carvajal then secured it in his waistband once he realized it was evidence:
When Carvajal said he wouldn’t touch the gun again until the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrived, Henderson became increasingly agitated. The situation escalated when Carvajal walked away, telling the sheriff to “get away from me.”
Henderson followed Carvajal and put his hands on the officer, spinning him around:
Atlanta News First Investigates obtained Carvajal’s body camera footage, and that of three deputies on scene, through sources. The footage is evidence in two open investigations and is therefore not subject to release through open records.
Multiple deputies captured on body camera expressed shock and dismay at their sheriff’s actions. Some held their boss back during the altercation.
Strickland: “That’s f*****g ridiculous. That’s the most f*****g ridiculous g*****n s**t I’ve ever f*****g seen in my life.” (Strickland resigned within weeks to join the Georgia State Patrol.)
Strickland: “Y’all seen the sheriff put his hands on José first, right, didn’t you?”
Another deputy: “That’s what I saw.”
Strickland: “I’m not lying. When the GBI talks, that’s what it’s going to be.”
Strickland also criticized Henderson’s priorities: “He’s more f*****g concerned with the f*****g city of Hiawassee than the g*****n shot deputy. This isn’t the first, it isn’t the second time, this isn’t the third f*****g time.”
There’s more at the source; Atlanta News First
Chicago mayor quotes MLK to argue law enforcement is a ‘sickness that has not led to safe communities’
Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a fiery news conference where he condemned President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime. At one point, he said, “Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities.”
During the news conference Tuesday, Johnson was asked about Trump’s suggestion he might send the National Guard to Chicago. Trump’s model of using anti-crime crackdowns was touted as a success by Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had initially expressed concern.
“Is there any reason for the president to deploy National Guard troops or other armed military personnel to Chicago to focus on crime or violence?” the reporter asked.
Johnson responded by paraphrasing a quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., saying, “You know, Dr. King referred to militarism as a sickness. Unfortunately, this president is full of that sickness. There are no circumstances under which the deployment of American soldiers should be sent in cities across America.”
Later in the same news conference, Johnson noted there were 970 murders in Chicago in 1974, 828 murders there in 1995, 778 murders in 2016 and more recently 805 murders there in 2021. He said that while even one murder is too many, he is upset by the idea that more law enforcement is the answer that people propose.
“I get so sick and tired of people in this country and in this city that believe that the only thing that you can offer Black people and poor people is jails, incarceration and police officers,” he said. “Dr. King said this right here in Chicago, the National Conference on New Politics. What did he say? He said, ‘Militarism is a sickness.’ I am trying to eradicate the sickness from this city and from this country.”
He went on to argue that nobody in Chicago has asked him to use troops to bring down crime, arguing he is using other methods to do so, and that law enforcement is actually harmful to the community.
“The fact of the matter is we are driving violence down in this city, and we’re using every single resource that’s available to us. Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities.” he argued. “I’m going to work hard every single day to protect the people who are caught up in the violence in this city. Guess why? You want to know why? Because the vast majority of them look like me.”
He then asserted that the methods he is employing are working, and he refuses to let Trump’s administration take credit for it if they get involved.
Fox News Digital reached out to a White House spokesperson, who replied, “If these Democrats focused on fixing crime in their own cities instead of doing publicity stunts to criticize the president, their communities would be much safer.
“Cracking down on crime should not be a partisan issue, but Democrats suffering from TDS are trying to make it one. They should listen to fellow Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser, who recently celebrated the Trump administration’s success in driving down violent crime in Washington, D.C.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson’s office for additional comment.
Source; Fox News
Ashland County Fair board boots Ashland County Democratic Party booth for ‘offensive’ buttons
Ashland County Fair officials booted the Ashland County Democratic Party booth on Thursday following the political party’s sale of “offensive buttons” directed toward President Donald Trump.
The Ashland County Fair posted on Facebook around 8 p.m. on Thursday that it had been “made aware of offensive buttons in the Democrat booth.”
“We are a family friendly fair and do not condone this from any vendor/merchant. We apologize for those who saw the display. The democrat (sic) party has been asked to pack their booth up for this year so they not be here (for the remainder) of our fair week. This is not political, we just can’t have this at our county fair,” reads the post.
As of 11:45 p.m. the post had been shared 478 times with 967 comments on the Ashland County Fair’s Facebook page.
Heather Sample, chair of the Ashland County Democratic Party, declined to comment Thursday evening because she is waiting to speak with a lawyer.
The Ashland Fair Board did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday night.
A Facebook user took a photo of the buttons. They depict a red hat with words such as “Fascist” and “Resist.” Smaller text reads “Is he dead yet?” and “One day, we will wake up to his obituary.”
Some of them also contained “8647,” a political code interpreted by some as a call to violence against President Trump.
Ashland County Sheriff Kurt Schneider said he would contact the U.S. Secret Service on Friday to follow up, according to Fox 8 in Cleveland.
“Violence shouldn’t be tolerated in any way, in any venue in any jurisdiction in the United States and it certainly won’t be tolerated here in Ashland County,” he told Fox 8.
Political emotions have heightened in the United States over the past week in the wake of conservative activist and commentator Charlie Kirk‘s assassination in Utah on Sept. 10.
Since the murder, there have been mass disciplinary and retaliatory actions taken against various people for commentary or social media posts believed to celebrate, justify, or trivialize Kirk’s murder, encourage further political violence, denigrate Kirk, or tarnish his legacy.
On Sept. 17, late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show was suspended indefinitely after his comments about the Kirk case on the Sept. 16 episode.
Source; Richland Source
Don’t Believe the Kremlin’s Lies About Race in Russia
Francine Villa thought she’d found refuge. As a Black woman disillusioned with American racism and police violence, she moved to Russia in 2019 and began building a life she believed would be safer, freer and more humane.
She became a Russian citizen. She gave birth there. She even starred in an RT documentary called “Black in the U.S.S.R.”, praising Russia for offering the kind of racial peace she never found in the United States.
Then last week, her neighbors beat her in her own Moscow apartment block. They called her racial slurs. They blocked her entry. They punched her in the face. Her two-year-old child witnessed it all. And when she went to the police, they did what Russian police do best when it comes to racist violence: absolutely nothing.
As someone who’s Black and Russian myself, I wasn’t shocked. I was furious, but not surprised. Because I didn’t flee the West — I fled Russia. I left because racism there isn’t an aberration. It’s as common as the air.
I was born and raised in Russia. I didn’t go there seeking freedom. I came into the world in a country that taught me from childhood that my Blackness made me foreign, suspect or disposable. Every Black person in my family has been physically assaulted at least once. Not just insulted — assaulted. In parks, on public transport, in apartment blocks like Francine’s.
One time I was walking home after surgery, still dizzy from anasthesia. Neighbors I’d never seen before started shouting at me, accusing me of being drunk or on drugs. They demanded to know who my landlord was. I told them I owned the apartment. They laughed in my face. A Black person owning property? To them, that was unthinkable.
This is what Francine walked into. Not a sanctuary, but a pressure cooker. She believed in the lie that many Westerners, especially Black ones, want to believe: that if racism is so loud in the U.S., maybe it’s quiet somewhere else. Maybe you can leave it behind.
You can’t. And in Russia, racism isn’t quiet. It’s just unspoken. Or worse — it’s normalized.
In Russia, prejudice isn’t seen as a problem. It’s seen as common sense.
The N-word gets dropped like it’s nothing. It’s in jokes. Cartoons. Schools. State media. People say it casually in front of children, say it about children. It’s not rare. It’s an inescapable part of the culture.
The only difference between the U.S. and Russia is that in Russia, no one even pretends to care. There are no diversity statements, no public reckonings, no shallow corporate DEI committees. Just raw, untreated contempt.
And if you speak up, you’re too sensitive. If you get attacked, it’s just a misunderstanding. If your neighbors beat you and scream slurs, well, maybe you provoked it.
Francine didn’t know that. She believed the fantasy that the Kremlin loves to sell. The one where the United States is racist and broken, while Russia is morally pure. She starred in propaganda films perpetuating that myth. She gave interviews saying she felt free and safe.
Then reality hit.
When she was useful, she was praised. When she was beaten, she was abandoned.
Francine’s story only made news because of the irony. The woman who praised Russia for its racial harmony gets assaulted in her own stairwell. But if she hadn’t done that RT documentary, would we even know about her case? Would anyone be covering it?
I doubt it. Because this violence isn’t rare.
Ask any Black person who’s lived in Russia long enough.
It goes beyond Francine. The Kremlin likes to present itself as Africa’s friend — hosting summits, preaching anti-colonial solidarity, building “African villages” in Russia. Yet when it comes to real Black people within its borders, the welcome fades fast.
More at the source; The Moscow Times
Category: Crime, Police, Stupid Criminals
As my uncle used to say; “stupid people sure can be pretty stupid sometimes.”
My dad used to say, “Hard heads make sore asses.”
Small town/county politics at their finest. It seems the GA Sheriff needs a lesson on respecting his fellow LEOs. Reading the article, it’s not his first run-in with city police, and he chastised his own deputies for having lunch with the “enemy”. Virginia’s different, with independent cities and with Sheriff’s offices playing different roles depending on the jurisdiction (Richmond, Chesterfield, and Henrico all have police departments, with the Sheriff’s offices handling courts and jails; more rural counties like Amelia, Goochland, and Dinwiddie rely on the Sheriffs for LE). Down here, the Sheriff is the Chief LEO of the parish (or city/parish). I’m not 100% on jurisdiction, but in my parish, I’ve seen city cops pull over vehicles outside of city limits, and of course deputies have free reign throughout the parish. I’ll leave it at this: the cop was helping a fellow LEO, who happened to be an employee of the Sheriff at the time (the article states that the wounded deputy was later fired for lying, I guess he’d somehow shot himself and claimed it was a suspect). City of Hiawassee PD has a lot less area to cover than Towns County SO. It seems the city only has four officers including the Chief, so I can’t imagine it would be that hard for two agencies to make peace. If Sheriff Henderson finds himself in a bad situation right outside the city limits, Officer Carvajal might be the only backup he gets for a while.
Russia racist? Say it isn’t so. I heard they’re not only anti-racist, but also anti-woke. All of us red-blooded Americans should pack our things and move our families there. It worked out for that Texas family, didn’t it? Maybe Francine Villa can keep the Huffmans company while Derek’s off fighting another his adopted country’s war.
Stationed 6 years in Shitcago back in the 70’s on recruiting duty. Last 3 years as Guidance Counselor at AFEES/MEPS downtown. Warned not safe to travel more than 10 blocks south.
Daily a Chicago cop would walk through area and write expired meter parking tickets to all cars even if you just paid after he saw you park, get out and fed the meter. His excuse was he had to meet his quota. A common work around was to fill out ticket info, seal it like you paid fine, tear it open and drop it in mailbox. I switched to parking in the alley under the L train tracks a block away.
That’s a bunch of BS, but I suppose it would be your word against his if you tried to fight it. Not so much nowadays with everything being recorded. Most areas now use both digital payments and ticketing systems, so it should be fairly easy to prove that you paid when the timestamp on the machine/debit payment shows 12:00pm and that on the ticket shows 12:02pm.
DC parking enforcement has it down to a science. Officers on Segways swoop in, take pictures of cars illegally parked or with expired meters showing both the license plate and sign/meter, and print a ticket from a waist-worn printer. Meanwhile, tow trucks are just waiting to come in and tow anyone illegally parked when it gets close to rush hour. I’d usually just park on McNair and catch the Metro if I had business in the District.
Who (in power) is this Deputy Dawg related to, that he has and is (so far) able to keep this job?
The article clearly identifies the individual as the Sheriff, not a Deputy. As such he is elected, not appointed or hired.
Is a backwoods southern lawer involved?
What about the judge on the case?
Trying to wash the bloodstains from his hands.
This wasn’t the Sheriff’s first time in our SPOTW page. He visited a few years ago for a similar encounter.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/towns-county-sheriff-accusations-hiawassee/85-5d1b807a-a99f-4eeb-b769-a0d1f50c028b
Dr. King believed that militarism, specifically the US involvement in Vietnam was an example of militarism. He stated that lives and resources wasted there could have been better spent on domestic needs. That we should avoid foreign entanglements with the military. The mayor’s quotes are a gross distortion.
During MLKs second attempt at the Selma to Montgomery March LBJ did something really odd. He federalized the National Guard and sent them and nearly a hundred federal agents to protect MLK and the marchers. This was to prevent another attack from the State Police at the behest of white supremacist Governor George Wallace. This was the only reason the March was even possible.
If any of this sounds familiar it is because it is the same as Trump’s “America First” ideology. Really the only variance is that Trump is a big believer in Peace through Strength and MLK believed peace could be achieved with justice, love and reconciliation. I suppose MLKs way might be possible if everyone were Christian and didn’t have ambitions outside of their borders, but that isn’t the world we live in.
“Dr. King believed that militarism, specifically the US involvement in Vietnam was an example of militarism.”
Need coffee.
In the first article, who is Strickland? Another deppity? Even read the article, they don’t say, either.
I don’t drink coffee anymore, but some caffeine would have helped for sure. “Dr. King believed that sending our military on offensive missions overseas was militarism; specifically our involvement in Vietnam was an example of militarism.”
Most uses of the federalized Guard during King’s era were to protect civil rights.
The Detroit riots were a notable exception of clusterfuckery, racism and extreme violence with police snipers essentially murdering people. LBJ invoked the Insurrection Act and sent in active duty and Federal forces including the 83nd and the 101st. The federalized National Guard had some disastrous engagements as well.
That was it for Detroit though. The population that had peaked in 1950 at 1.85M would decline to just over 600K by 2020. Today the city is a broken shadow of itself.
If liberals couldn’t twist words and history to suit their own agenda, they’d have nothing. Let them speak and expose them for the liars they are.
After Charlie Kirk’s funeral, there may be many left/libtard posters contending: