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2 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: An officer shot a 14-yr-old Black teen multiple times outside Hattiesburg High School, hitting his stomach, activists say.

Police have released few details about the victim after 5 days. They claim he had a weapon but won't even confirm he's a minor. mississippifreepress.org/8850/officer-s…
"It doesn’t even matter that he’s Black at this point. He’s a 14-year-old boy. … And then the news put out that he was a man, and we’re tired of our kids being adultified," said BLM Mississippi activist Anastassia Doctor.
mississippifreepress.org/8850/officer-s…
“There is no excuse to shoot a child multiple times leaving him in the ICU fighting for his life. There’s no excuse for the HPD and MBI to be vague...He is not a ‘man’ or just a ‘person’—he is a young 14-year-old boy," says #BlackLivesMatter MS president.
mississippifreepress.org/8850/officer-s…
I've heard that there may be additional circumstances that could alter how some view police conduct in this situation.

But with the city, HPD and MBI silent about the case, I can't trust or report rumors. This is why we need much greater transparency.mississippifreepress.org/8850/officer-s…

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3 Feb
Twice when I tried to ask Sen. Hyde-Smith questions during her 2018 campaign, she told me to walk over to her press secretary, Melissa, and tell her my question.

After I did, Melissa would walk over, whisper with Sen. Hyde-Smith, and then I could re-ask the senator my question.
Speaking of being "disrespectful" to members of the press, this is how Sen. Hyde-Smith's campaign celebrated her 2018 election night victory: By tagging me & other Mississippi reporters in the tweet below (I broke the story on her segregation academy).
This is how Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith answered four reporters the day after @LamarWhiteJr published her "public hanging" video.

"We put out a statement yesterday, and we stand by that statement."

"I put out a statement yesterday, and that's all I'm going to say about it." (cont)
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31 Jan
NEW: From emails revealing how Ole Miss officials coddled a donor who called Black students "African hookers," to the hunt for the #UMemails whistleblowers & @garrett_felber's firing, @MSFreePress now has an interactive timeline. See the emails yourself:
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With the #UMemails timeline, you can not only see the emails we examined for our initial report, but previously unreported ones.

After Ed Meek's offensive post, @garrett_felber & students pushed to rename the Meek School of Journalism for Ida B. Wells. 👇🏻mississippifreepress.org/8357/um-emails…
In a 2019 email, a UM fundraising official said Provost Noel Wilkin opposed renaming the Meek School for a recently deceased donor and that "we need to reserve the name for someone who will contribute multiple millions."

(Ida B. Wells would not qualify). mississippifreepress.org/8357/um-emails…
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31 Jan
For the first time since 2016, @SenatorWicker is tweeting concerns about "executive actions."

Trump signed EOs at a higher rate than Obama (55 per year vs 35), but Wicker tweeted about "executive actions" just once under Trump—praising him for a "religious liberty" order.
Similarly, @SenatorWicker has very different ideas about confirming Supreme Court justices in the fourth year of a president's term when the president is a Democrat vs. when a Republican is in office.
My bad, @SenatorWicker also tweeted twice about "executive orders" (not just "executive actions") in 2017.

March 6, 2017: "I strongly support @POTUS's rêvent executive order..."

March 28, 2017: "POTUS's executive order...is great news...!"
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31 Jan
I hate the that Jeff Zucker moved @CNN's broadcasts out of Atlanta and to NYC. Nothing against NYC, but the US needs national news outlets based in the Deep South.

If more were, we'd have seen less white people safaris to Ohio treating Trump voters like mysterious mutants.
Obvs, it'd depend on leadership at the top of such an outlet that was devoted to truth-telling journalism.

But when most in nat'l news outlets live in DC/NYC, it isn't a surprise that we get 1000 stories trying to figure out Trump voters but very few on Biden/Hillary ones.
If you live in NYC/DC and you're a journalist, you're around liberals/Democrats all the time. And you're probably more sensitive to accusations of liberal bias. Thus, all the endlessly condescending Ohio Trump voter diner safaris for sympathetic "economic anxiety" stories.
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10 Jan
"I grew up in Austria. I'm very aware of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a rampage against the Jews in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys.

Wednesday was the Day of Broken Glass Right here in the United States...in the windows of the U.S. Capitol."
"I grew up in the ruins of a country that suffered the loss of its democracy. I was surrounded by broken men drinking away guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history. Not all were rabid anti-Semites Nazis. Many just went along, step-by-step, down the road."
"My father would come home drunk once or twice a week and he would scream and hit us and scare my mother. I did not hold him responsible because our neighbor was doing the same to his family. And so was the next neighbor over. ... They were...in pain for what they saw and did."
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While insurrections were storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Mississippi State Rep. Dana Criswell posed with protesters at the MS Capitol.

They want a vote to bring back MS's old Confederate-themed state flag. This protester carried a full-blown Confederate flag to demonstrate.
While supporters of Mississippi's now defunct flag hope to get it on the ballot, that will almost certainly fail.

Mississippians voted 73%-27% to adopt the flag below on Nov. 3.

On Jan. 6, the MS House (incl Rep. Criswell) voted to adopt it 118-1; the Senate adopted it 43-7.
So while some (and I mean just a handful) of Mississippi Republicans will still post photos posing with Confederate flag supporters to boost cred with that constituency, only 8/174 members of the Legislature are now willing to oppose the majority 2-1 preference for a new flag.
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