> Gibson has said he was wearing a FedEx uniform when he dropped off a package at a house in Brookhaven on Jan. 24. As he was leaving, he said, a man in a white pickup truck began following him closely while honking his horn. Gibson said he drove past a couple of houses and encountered a man standing in the middle of the road with a gun pointed at him. The man was mouthing the word “stop,” Gibson said.
> Gibson said he swerved to get around the man, who started shooting toward the rear of the Hertz vehicle, damaging the van and the packages inside. He said that he called his manager, who told him to return to the FedEx station, and that the truck chased him to an interstate near Brookhaven before ending the pursuit. Gibson was not injured.
It could have been a tragedy if not for the driver's quick thinking.
*Of course* it involves a white pickup truck…
Not all white pickup owners are assholes, but a disproportionate amount of assholes seem to own white pickup trucks.
Good old commercial fleet vehicle sales - that's why there are so many white trucks. They're driven more and retired frequently to be sold off cheap. Companies like white because they can apply their own color scheme and branding without clashing.
I think about this often. Does the ram brand appeal to people who are likely to drive drunk? If so, why? Or is it something about being a ram driver (maybe exposure to the culture?) that leads someone who drives a ram to drive drunk? I find this really fascinating. Like, what drives people to become reprehensible pieces of shit?
It’s more that the ram is usually a little cheaper and easier to get financing for than a ford or a Chevy. Dodge is known to offer financing that is generally easier to get approved for than other manufacturers.
In hot states, we prefer white paint because it doesn’t absorb as much heat so it doesn’t get as hot as other colors. The helps with wear and keeps the overall look of the vehicle nicer longer. There’s a video where a guy puts a colored balloon inside a white balloon and the colored balloon pops first because it absorbs heat and then pops faster than the white one. It makes me think that all houses should have to paint their roofs white to reflect not absorb the sun rays and to never paint my house a dark color because the A/C is already overworked in Florida
Guy near me has one. Didn’t think anything of it - other than a weird pistol fetish sticker - until I saw him drive around a stopped school bus with the lights on. Total dick move.
Edited the school part in, apologies
They're not even in jail. Like to point that little part out. They tried to lynch that man and they're not even in jail. They chased him to the interstate like a posse in a shinedown town.
This country is *fucked*.
Edit: shit, it's "sundown" town. Not "shinedown". Predictive text fights me on the dumbest shit, then changes sundown to shinedown. Smh.
Worst thing, Brookhaven is not even a sundown town. It has a black majority. I have several family members that drive an hour to work in Brookhaven because it's the biggest city in the area.
Adding to this thread. I don’t know how common it is at other stations, judging by this story i imagine it’s pretty common. I work at FedEx and while i’m not a POC, me and a bunch of the other drivers have this exact fear when it comes to delivering out of the rental vehicles that most of the time are not clearly marked as a FedEx fleet vehicle. We often deliver out in the country (middle of nowhere) so driving onto some peoples property in what amounts to an unmarked van ( like in this article) can be pretty damn freaky depending on what the “vibe” of the property is.
Y'all need to get FedEx magnets for the rental vehicles, we USPS rural sub contractors use them all the time.
I've had similar scary interactions with the "hill folk" on my route, they're scary as fuck.
Couple a "strange vehicle" report (being driven by the regular FedEx guy who was picked up on multiple Ring cameras) with a single report of a break-in in the area on Nextdoor, and all the paranoid gun nuts are just itching to shoot someone.
We have them, they are on only one side of the vehicle and not clearly visible in low light like the sprinter vans are with the gigantic fedex logo plastered on it. And then there is the Penske and Budget trucks that aren’t marked at all. Luckily i haven’t had an encounter yet but it’s always in the back of mind when driving onto these properties.
Aah, see I put them on the back and both sides. I kept trying to put them on the front too, but they'd always blow off.
We just need a large back-lit bib on the truck and our chests, preferably one that automatically dispenses dog treats and projects "I'M DELIVERING THE SHIT YOU ORDERED, DON'T SHOOT ME K" over our heads 😅
And out of anyone to shoot if you think they’re “trash” or whatever why pick someone who clearly has a decent delivery job and is a contributing member of society? I don’t understand any of this.
I mean surely they should have been in jail for, like, any one of the crimes they committed? Standing in the middle of the road pointing a gun at someone in a vehicle? Literally shooting at the vehicle? Chasing it in with your vehicle?
Altogether it suggests lynching but even individually all those crimes are jail worthy. How are they not in jail?
They are still waiting to be tried and convicted, before being sent to prison. Jail is where you hold people while they wait, or you can let them out on bail. They paid the bail bond of $500,000 each so they were let free to wait for their trial. You can deny bail if you think they are likely to do something dangerous in the mean time, or if they are likely to run.
Seems like people accused of attempted lynching with shots fires definitely warrants denying bail.
I guess the court is just counting on no one dark skinned delivering another package before the trial.
FYI, Jail is where you go while waiting and you'll stay there for most a lot of offenses as well the entirety. They're not required to transfer you to a prison unless convicted with a sentence in excess of a time set by the state. For many states is 364 days maximum in jail(after conviction)
Which is crazy because they each have a $500k bond. So either they came up with a $1million or paid the $100k to get a bondsmen. It just surprises me that people who make the decisions they did, would have access to that kind of money.
This is like a scene from Lovecraft Country. Some of the scenes from that show were absolutely rage inducing.
Show me your papers.
Haven’t seen you around these parts before.
Fucking insane that it still happens in 2020/22!
>Haven’t seen you around these parts before.
Happens in the town I live in. Central Ohio reporting in. The cops say it to everyone, but for a town with literally 2 non white families living in it, sure is odd the statistics on their traffic stops of everyone that passes through the town. Hrmmm..
Ohio cops are fucking racist shitbags in small towns as well as cities.
If history has taught us anything, they might not even do it intentionally and instead end up shooting him accidentally when using his vehicle for cover in a shootout with the pursuers or if they confuse him for the target when he tries running to them for safety.
No, that's totally wrong and I can't believe you'd say something so overtly stupid. It's like you don't have any idea how Amazon works.
They'd fire him first, *then* charge him for the damage to the van.
He did call 911. Another article covers that. The dispatcher was less than helpful.
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/mississippi-father-and-son-charged-with-attempted-murder-for-allegedly-conspiring-to-ambush-and-shoot-at-black-fedex-driver/
Yet The punisher would have actually shot at the white people for being hillbilly rednecks because that's what actually The punisher does. The punisher punishes the criminals that would be the one shooting at an innocent black guy. Or have I read The punisher comic books all wrong. the punisher only kills people who hurt the innocent.
Nono, you got it right. Just that a fair amount of dumb people actually think, that they're doing what he'd do, whilst not getting that they're doing the opposite. They just think they're badasses, fighting crime, and being heroes.
Although a fairly high number, are also just racists, and looking for an excuse.
One would think after those three white guys went to prison this summer for life, that people would start to think twice before firing a gun randomly at people.
Or after finding out those three guys only went to jail after they uploaded the footage online, he felt he had good odds of killing a black guy then saying he was scared.
The after math of that video coming out was so strange. So many conservatives saying the video proved the deceased was attacking them with a hammer. Insanity.
Prettt much. And an alarming number of people think that’s cool. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m orettt sure the laws surrounding self defense articulate that you can’t present a threat or cause your victims to fear for their life and then use their retaliation as justification for murder.
>I’m orettt sure the laws surrounding self defense articulate that you can’t present a threat or cause your victims to fear for their life and then use their retaliation as justification for murder.
Kyle Rittenhouse ended that good-faith assumption.
Why would one think that? According to the article, the local cops basically refused to investigate, even after the FedEx driver showing them the bullet holes in his truck and packages. They refused to investigate despite, on multiple occasions, residents of the area saying that they had been threatened or shot at by these same people.
This is a small town in the deep South. The Good Ol' Boys club is absolutely a thing. Cops there are gonna be corrupt as hell.
Shit, my dad grew up and was a UPS driver for years in Arkansas. Now Dad hates racism…he thinks it’s beneath a person to even use it in jokes (his dad was a ‘measure the man by the sweat of his brow at the end of the day’ and instilled it in my dad and him to me). So he was especially rare in the 70’s and 80’s when Deep South KKK was still looked upon with familiarity like knowing family in it. But there were towns where Dad said he did ‘doubles’.
What are doubles? Well if the driver was black, you had a white driver with him. How come? Because the package would be carried up to the porches by the white guy due to the fact the first foot a black man would set on private property (especially hillbilly property), he was in danger of getting his ass shot off. No joke, those motherfuckers were looking for reasons and ‘tresspassin’ worked just as good as any.
Doubles were specific to places like Harrison, Arkansas….which is a shitbag little town full of racist redneck douchebags to this fucking day. You probably saw the billboard proclaiming it ‘Proudly White’ show up here….that’s fucking Harrison.
Dad told me once he was doing the double with one of his friends Ron who was an absolute salt of the earth guy who we grew up around…..and just happened to be of the darker tint. Big guy, built like a tank but had this great deep rumbling laugh. They were finishing up in Harrison and Dad took a box up to a hillbilly trailer with a fatassed old woman sitting there. As he walked up, woman decided to open her yap and crow “It’s a god damned shame that white boy here has to work while the N-word sits on his ass in the truck.”
Dad said it was all he could manage not to slap the shit outta that old bitch right there. He couldn’t believe this racist hick is sitting in front of her rusted out dump and acting like she is the better. He didn’t say anything but got her signature and walked back.
Said he felt ashamed and said sorry to Ron who obviously was supposed to hear that assholes statement. Ron shrugged and said something like ‘Bill, I know you haven’t got one racist bone in your body, so why should you apologize for some dogshit screaming and hoping for a reaction.’
He slapped Pop on the shoulder, waved goodbye with the biggest smile to her and they went and had a beer.
Ron and my Dad both retired about 25 years ago, were lifelong friends and fishing buddies. Ron passed away a few years back and my Pop misses him to this day.
Edit: Grammar adjustments.
> Dad took a box up to a hillbilly trailer with a fatassed old woman sitting there. As he walked up, woman decided to open her yap and crow “It’s a god damned shame that white boy here has to work while the N-word sits on his ass in the truck.”
Sounds like some /r/beholdthemasterrace material right there.
I grew up in Fayetteville in the 1960s, '70s, and early' 80s; graduated Fayetteville High in 1983. Fayetteville is a college town and pretty progressive for Arkansas. My parents raised me right and I gave little thought to race growing up there (maybe too little as I naively thought racism was in its dying days back then).
But my parents had been born and raised in Crossett, Arkansas which is about 11 miles north of the Louisiana border and has a population of 3,500. I spent my summers there with my grandparents there where I got to see a lot of old-achool racism in the streets, in the Piggly Wiggly and in the deer camps. One of the many things I'm grateful for from my parents is having gotten the hell out of there as soon as they were married. If they'd ended up working down to the paper mill I'd be a very different guy today.
Down in Crossett there was (and probably still is) quite literally a white side of the railroad tracks and a black side of the railroad tracks. Doen there I never saw a black person being treated as an equal, they were all considered "help" and were called tbe n-word as a matter of course in casual conversation; "That ****** is coming by today to drop off some cucumbers.", "Oh, good."
While I don't remember seeing UPS drivers doubled up in Fayetteville, I don't doubt that it was a thing. And in Crossett I'd be surprised if there was a single black driver back then.
My uncle and aunt moved to Harrison, AR, from Florida, and my parents followed them when Pop retired. This was in the mid-80's. It was an inexpensive place to live at the time, and I don't believe my relatives were aware of the racism when they moved there. That sign outside the town didn't exist then. Later, they found out about the racism - the signs went up, they witnessed some rude treatment of non-whites a few times when travelers were unlucky enough to stop to shop at the Walmart.
My parents moved away in the late 90's.
I've been back twice - my uncle died in 98 and my aunt last year. Imagine my surprise to see many brown folks living and working in that formerly all-white town. :-) Maybe there's some hope.
Harrison gets a bad rap, because those loud mouths all live out of town. There is a large contingent of white people who are appalled at the racism and racist reputation.
But you have to remember that most of them have almost no experience with POC and they have a long way to go in examining their assumptions, simply because they don't have to.
My dad grew up in segregated Arkansas, dirt poor, and doesn't really like to talk about it. His family migrated north to Michigan in the Great Migration. I ended up growing up in a part of Maryland where the Klan literally marched at our house to protest a Black family moving into town. Educational stuff. America things.
I conducted some of my graduate work in west Central Arkansas in the middle to late 1990s. The Clinton Administration imposed over all forest service lands a cap of forest service roads of 1km per km^2 (this is a long time ago so I may have some of the specifics wrong). The lead superintendent for the Forest Service district I did my work in was black. He held a public meeting describing this new nation-wide rule and how it applied to the district I worked in. Scores and scores of people showed up. And they were angry. If armed Forest Service law enforcement wasn’t there, I was certain things were going to get violent. One of many racist comments that stood out was, “Go back to where you come from.” I don’t know if they meant “back to the North” or “back to Africa”. Regardless, it was only said to the black superintendent. Within a couple few weeks they’d harassed him and his family out of the state.
That fatassed woman in front of a dump being racist is a perfect example of putting someone down to make herself feel better. Fair easier to do that than to make any improvement to her own life that she could genuinely feel proud of.
My own Dad hated racism as well. I'm from the UK, and when we were kids my sister and I used to love watching the Dukes of Hazard, mainly because they outran the police every episode, and couldn't be pursued beyond the state line. My Dad said it was very bad, because the car had the confederate flag on it and was called General Lee. Not having learned anything about the American civil war at that point, us kids didn't understand at the time, but of course I understand now and agree with him totally.
My Dad died just a couple of days before Trump got elected and I'm glad that he was spared that knowledge. He would have hated to see such a racist person (it's true, I'm not going to apologise for calling him a racist) in a position of power. It really rankled with me as well.
We lived in an area with a large Indian population and all our Indian friends were always welcome at our house. This was in the 70s and 80s, and sad to say, there were still white people who would not have welcomed them into their own homes. My Dad in particular (my Mum as well, but she wasn't so outspoken about it) hated racism or discrimination of any kind and those were the values they brought us up with, I'm happy to say.
Your Dad sounds like an awesome bloke, thank you for sharing his story with us. From the way you described his friend Ron, I can imagine him and almost hear his laughter! Great to know that they shared a strong friendship for all those years.
https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graft-and-corruption-in-local-government-and-in-state-and-local-police-departments
if only someone did their jobs....
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/prevalence-white-supremacists-law-enforcement-demands-drastic-change-2022-05-12/
Why? Those assholes damn near got away with it (and honestly might’ve if they weren’t morons). The lessons that assholes like that learned was “I can do this and get it covered up by local cops”
Honestly, they *did* fully get away with it. It was fully swept under the rug at one point.
And if it weren't for the one that decided to publish a video of the murder, there would have never been anything come of it.
That's really the scary part, for me. With this scenario, we got a very, very rare second look.
The third guys lawyer being the moron is how it came out.
In other words, people so stone stupid that even their lawyer was stupid enough to think that video would help them.
Honestly I'd be surprised if they even knew that happened.
Rightwing propaganda centers don't like sharing parts of the narrative that make them look bad.
I mean, if these assholes were going to figure it out, they would have figured it out before someone died. These are the people that need locked up forever for everyone's safety.
I know what you mean but I can’t help but to think damn. Is that all it would take to not do something so incredibly fucked up…that someone else got caught and went to jail.
This story has me at a loss for words.
It's like why do these crazies think black people have to stop for them at all times including when a crazy neighbor points a gun?
I'm glad they got charged with attempted murder. People like this need to realize that we're not living in the Jim Crow era anymore.
They’re not crazy, this is how conservatives behave. No critical thinking skills. They see black or brown skin and react with fear. Instant fight or flight.
What amazes me about shit like this is the mental gymnastics these peoples rotten brains go through to come to the “scary black guy” conclusion. Hmmm person driving around my neighborhood in a package van. He seems to be dropping things off. Oh he has a Fedex uniform on. He must have rented a van and got a FedEx uniform and drove from house to house dropping of packages in broad daylight so he could murder me later. Yeah that’s it.
Like [the guy](https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/z0j3vr/republican_politician_gordon_lawshe_calls_police/) that was stricken into a panic when he saw a little black girl putting soapy water on the trees to kill invasive lanternflies so he called the police to say that a little black *woman* was spraying stuff and it "scares" him.
What a shit stain of a human. True cowardice. And his lawyer goes on to say -*his client*- is a *victim* because the little girls mom won’t accept his apology and now people are calling him a racist.
The dumbass who decided lethal force was appropriate is probably going to try to argue he was afraid Gibson was going to run him over. While he was standing in the middle of the road. Pretending he had a right to stop Gibson in the first place.
Dipshits like these need to be crucified in court so their stories become warnings for everyone who decides to bring a firearm into the equation.
You know I honestly can't think of what their defense could be. Even if they try to go down the route of saying they thought he was a criminal it doesn't hold up as a defense for their actions. And him being seen doing his job in his work uniform also destroys that defense.
Honestly, it's the safest course of action. The lunatic with the gun has to get out of the way (or get run over, play stupid games...). That means he can't take careful aim at you. Plus it takes said lunatic a bit longer to gather himself after you've passed, giving you crucial time to GTFO of crazytown.
>There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees. I don’t know what the hell she’s doing; it scares me though
https://www.thedailybeast.com/local-republican-calls-caldwell-new-jersey-cops-on-9-year-old-black-girl-catching-lanternflies
If I saw a suspicious looking guy and convinced myself that he stole the official FedEx uniform and somehow got his hands on a FedEx truck just to steal some packages, I’d let him take the W on it just bc he worked so hard
Sometimes I think they don't even have or want a narrative...They just see a black guy(just about every other ethnicity or gender) and see it as an opportunity to commit a violent act.
There's a recurring idea where that wearing a uniform and carrying a clipboard will let get you access to plenty of places. This definitely does not apply to black people
Nope it's none of that in their head it's they're black they're a danger. That's all they're taught. Doesn't matter if he's/she a FedEx driver or the president of the United States they see people of color as beneath them. It's plain and simple hatred based on skin color prejudice and ignorance.
I guess I'm just used to the various random trucks that Amazon sends, especially when their in-house delivery operation was getting started. So I wouldn't even blink if a UPS dude showed up in a e.g. Hertz truck. I'd be like 'neat' and go see what got dropped off.
But then I must not be a racist, homicidal piece of shit subhuman fuckhead.
We’re supposed to be punishing them, not saving them an extremely unreasonable amount of time/money/stress
I think forcing them to use fedex for all future shipping needs would be more appropriate
Oh he made the smart move calling the company let's think about this a black man in a old redneck Town calling the police of that redneck town because a bunch of white Hillbillies shot at him I don't think the cops are going to give a sshit who the innocent person is because they're going to see oh a black man getting shot at I guess the black man must have done something wrong in their minds because that's how fucking sick racist they are. So in conclusion he saved his own ass by calling the company first and letting the company deal with the police.
For the charge of attempted murder, you are sentenced to 3 months probation.
For the charge of damage to corporate property, including 1 delivery van, 3 packages, and 1 driver, you are sentenced to 37 years in a maximum security prison.
If it's a lynchmob sort of town would you call the cops? Sometimes you wanna know where to escape to rather than wait for a bunch of folks as likely to shoot you as the guys threatening to lynch you.
The odds are that the cops would've joined the lynchers if the lynchers themselves weren't cops already. Granted, the fact the lynchers got arrested means they aren't cops.
The pessimist in me thinks that's why they waited till the next day to go to the police. Someone higher up was like "well we're going to need a police report to explain the damaged packages and rental truck"
I think getting shot at usually means contacting the police immediately during or right after the event itself, not waiting till the next business day.
Of course, this is FedEx, so delays are expected....
This is true, un-scanned packages are the only cardinal sin in delivery services.
They probably made him stay late and scan all the bullet-riddled packages as "address inaccessible" or some such.
>Gibson said he swerved to get around the man, who started shooting toward the rear of the Hertz vehicle, damaging the van and the packages inside. He said that he called his manager, who told him to return to the FedEx station, and that the truck chased him to an interstate near Brookhaven before ending the pursuit. Gibson was not injured.
>He went to the Brookhaven Police Department the next day with one of his managers to file a police report, a copy of which he previously provided to NBC News.
This part is depressing for a different reasons. Like he was being shot at but called his work first instead of the cops.
Considering that Amazon workers were told to stay at a warehouse during a tornado, I don't blame him for thinking a simple attempted murder might not be enough of an excuse.
When I was just out of high school delivering pizza in socal 3 people tried to rob me. They acted like they were working on their car with the hood up on the side of the road, and when I turned around at the dead end they had blocked the road with their car and were putting on ski masks. I said hell no and drive off the side of the road around them and they chased me for like a mile and a half with their hood still up. When I finally got away my first instinct was to call my boss because I assumed they had procedures for contacting the police and such, which he did.
Corporatized employee handbooks that are usually given to front-line workers typically have language that *highly encourage* the employee to always notify a manager *before* introducing the police to the situation.
This has its caveats; sometimes employees can act out of personal bias like [calling the police on a woman using a coupon](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/16/black-woman-cvs-manager-called-police-coupon/787389002/) and the opposite seen here where it was more than likely reinforced to employees to always call a manager first or you may be out of a job.
Well the cops would probably have just joined in on the shooting based on past stories. I don't know why any black person would ever call the police in the USA. He was smart to take his manager with him when he went to file the report.
The most bizarre part about this to me is the fact according to the previous article these guys live in a town where 70% of the population is black. If these idiots are so uncomfortable around black folks they open fire on them for simply being on their street then they shouldn’t live in a town where 2/3 people are black.
Hopefully they get the book thrown at them like in the Arbery case.
Honestly law enforcement is so incompetent nowadays that’s not really a surprise to me. Hell if anything it’s surprising they were even arrested at all
Gregory Case was originally arrested in February on investigation of conspiracy and Brandon Case on suspicion of aggravated assault. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department said that bond was set at $500,000 for each man
Must be nice to be able to bond out when you have a million dollar bail between the two of you.
Charged with attempted murder and walking the streets.
Meanwhile there’s people in jail for petty theft, minor drug offenses, that can’t afford to the $1000 they need to bond out.
The system is fucking rigged
[Reminder](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/demonterrio-gibson-black-fedex-driver-chased-shot-at-mississippi/) - Fedex told the driver that he had to do **the same fucking route the very next day**. Knowing that these shooters were still out there.
He did it for two days before the stress became too much. And the FedEx **put him on unpaid leave**. They reversed that after it blew up in their faces and started paying him again, but holy shit was FedEx all sorts of garbage here.
Hopefully the father/son duo's hour or so of hate filled lunacy is rewarded with the maximum sentence if convicted. However, if you can bond out of two $500,000 bail amounts you are going to have a good lawyer probably.
A father and son, Gregory Charles Case and Brandon Case, were arrested earlier this year after allegedly firing shots at 24-year-old D’Monterrio Gibson, who delivered a package on Junior Trail NE.
They haven’t been arraigned just yet; if the prosecution believes, and can demonstrate, that the defendants pose a higher probability of failure to comply with bail conditions, the prosecution can ask the court for more strict considerations to be imposed.
The caveat is that imprisonment without trial is typically contrary to the presumption of innocence; so it would allow the defense to formulate a legal strategy to get a mistrial declared should there be even the slightest degree of “impropriety”.
It’s better for the prosecution to focus their strategy on securing an airtight conviction that will hold no weight on appeal and that includes ensuring any potential variables be rendered moot.
Why have to attempted murderers been allowed to have bail? They are clearly a danger to the public and shouldn't be allowed to be in public. Have they had all their guns taken from them yet? If not why not? They clearly cannot be trusted with them.
And this happened in Mississippi where there's a fucking lot of black people. This particular town is nearly 60% black. Yet these 2 smooth brains went after this guy because he "didn't belong in their neighborhood". Like, what?
Don't forget sometimes depressing. It's literally exhausting getting hate from EVERY single nook, cranny, and corner of this country. Can't even enjoy a work of fiction because of anti black/alt right assholes rage bait bullshit.
Deserves huge recognition for swerving.
No matter how shitty a person, it would haunt me if I ended someone's life, but if someone is in front of my car waving a gun at me I am ducking and putting petal to metal.
The problem is that self defence is often for white people only. By not doing that he may have saved himself a length custodial sentence even if it was just awaiting trial.
> The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department said that bond was set at $500,000 for each man for the upgraded charges and that they both bonded out Friday.
Must be nice to have a million dollars laying around in the rainy-day fund jar.
> Gibson has said he was wearing a FedEx uniform when he dropped off a package at a house in Brookhaven on Jan. 24. As he was leaving, he said, a man in a white pickup truck began following him closely while honking his horn. Gibson said he drove past a couple of houses and encountered a man standing in the middle of the road with a gun pointed at him. The man was mouthing the word “stop,” Gibson said. > Gibson said he swerved to get around the man, who started shooting toward the rear of the Hertz vehicle, damaging the van and the packages inside. He said that he called his manager, who told him to return to the FedEx station, and that the truck chased him to an interstate near Brookhaven before ending the pursuit. Gibson was not injured. It could have been a tragedy if not for the driver's quick thinking.
*Of course* it involves a white pickup truck… Not all white pickup owners are assholes, but a disproportionate amount of assholes seem to own white pickup trucks.
Good old commercial fleet vehicle sales - that's why there are so many white trucks. They're driven more and retired frequently to be sold off cheap. Companies like white because they can apply their own color scheme and branding without clashing.
Whites also the cheapest color is what I was told when I used to drive the White Dodge Ram 2500 to pick up trash around campus for my college job
1/22 dodge ram 2500 owners have a DUI. The highest of any vehicle.
Why am I not surprised? 😮
I think about this often. Does the ram brand appeal to people who are likely to drive drunk? If so, why? Or is it something about being a ram driver (maybe exposure to the culture?) that leads someone who drives a ram to drive drunk? I find this really fascinating. Like, what drives people to become reprehensible pieces of shit?
No idea what drives them to be reprehensible people, but it’s pretty clear what they’re driving when they get there.
It’s more that the ram is usually a little cheaper and easier to get financing for than a ford or a Chevy. Dodge is known to offer financing that is generally easier to get approved for than other manufacturers.
They market to lower middle class folks. These tend to drink more.
Says so much
Oh my dad has one of these. Fitting knowing him
What kind of trash are we talking about here?
Also, people in the southwestern US drive a lot of white vehicles because they stay cooler in the summer.
In hot states, we prefer white paint because it doesn’t absorb as much heat so it doesn’t get as hot as other colors. The helps with wear and keeps the overall look of the vehicle nicer longer. There’s a video where a guy puts a colored balloon inside a white balloon and the colored balloon pops first because it absorbs heat and then pops faster than the white one. It makes me think that all houses should have to paint their roofs white to reflect not absorb the sun rays and to never paint my house a dark color because the A/C is already overworked in Florida
Knowing this, it is odd that so many roofs are dark colors.
Guy near me has one. Didn’t think anything of it - other than a weird pistol fetish sticker - until I saw him drive around a stopped school bus with the lights on. Total dick move. Edited the school part in, apologies
Its like the most common truck color by far. Pretty much every pickup used for work purposes is white.
They're not even in jail. Like to point that little part out. They tried to lynch that man and they're not even in jail. They chased him to the interstate like a posse in a shinedown town. This country is *fucked*. Edit: shit, it's "sundown" town. Not "shinedown". Predictive text fights me on the dumbest shit, then changes sundown to shinedown. Smh.
*sundown town Just trying to help.
Worst thing, Brookhaven is not even a sundown town. It has a black majority. I have several family members that drive an hour to work in Brookhaven because it's the biggest city in the area.
They were clearly just looking for a reason to shoot a black person. Racist scum.
Adding to this thread. I don’t know how common it is at other stations, judging by this story i imagine it’s pretty common. I work at FedEx and while i’m not a POC, me and a bunch of the other drivers have this exact fear when it comes to delivering out of the rental vehicles that most of the time are not clearly marked as a FedEx fleet vehicle. We often deliver out in the country (middle of nowhere) so driving onto some peoples property in what amounts to an unmarked van ( like in this article) can be pretty damn freaky depending on what the “vibe” of the property is.
Y'all need to get FedEx magnets for the rental vehicles, we USPS rural sub contractors use them all the time. I've had similar scary interactions with the "hill folk" on my route, they're scary as fuck. Couple a "strange vehicle" report (being driven by the regular FedEx guy who was picked up on multiple Ring cameras) with a single report of a break-in in the area on Nextdoor, and all the paranoid gun nuts are just itching to shoot someone.
We have them, they are on only one side of the vehicle and not clearly visible in low light like the sprinter vans are with the gigantic fedex logo plastered on it. And then there is the Penske and Budget trucks that aren’t marked at all. Luckily i haven’t had an encounter yet but it’s always in the back of mind when driving onto these properties.
Aah, see I put them on the back and both sides. I kept trying to put them on the front too, but they'd always blow off. We just need a large back-lit bib on the truck and our chests, preferably one that automatically dispenses dog treats and projects "I'M DELIVERING THE SHIT YOU ORDERED, DON'T SHOOT ME K" over our heads 😅
And out of anyone to shoot if you think they’re “trash” or whatever why pick someone who clearly has a decent delivery job and is a contributing member of society? I don’t understand any of this.
They don't want that. They want them to be slaves again.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, they are also idiots
With enough guns and Fox News, any town can be a sundown town.
Although I've never heard "shinedown," it wouldn't surprise me to find out it's used... smh
Somebody there is listening to shinedown rn
Taking "I'll Follow You" too seriously.
"These dirty, black.. boots are gonna look *amazing* by the time you fine folks leave our town!"
I mean, the driver was pretty much staring down the barrel of a .45, so I'm not sure if Shinedown town is completely wrong.
Goddamn it, this made me chortle.
I mean surely they should have been in jail for, like, any one of the crimes they committed? Standing in the middle of the road pointing a gun at someone in a vehicle? Literally shooting at the vehicle? Chasing it in with your vehicle? Altogether it suggests lynching but even individually all those crimes are jail worthy. How are they not in jail?
They are still waiting to be tried and convicted, before being sent to prison. Jail is where you hold people while they wait, or you can let them out on bail. They paid the bail bond of $500,000 each so they were let free to wait for their trial. You can deny bail if you think they are likely to do something dangerous in the mean time, or if they are likely to run.
Seems like people accused of attempted lynching with shots fires definitely warrants denying bail. I guess the court is just counting on no one dark skinned delivering another package before the trial.
FYI, Jail is where you go while waiting and you'll stay there for most a lot of offenses as well the entirety. They're not required to transfer you to a prison unless convicted with a sentence in excess of a time set by the state. For many states is 364 days maximum in jail(after conviction)
They paid their bonds.
Which is crazy because they each have a $500k bond. So either they came up with a $1million or paid the $100k to get a bondsmen. It just surprises me that people who make the decisions they did, would have access to that kind of money.
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Worse things have been done behind the near-total immunity of a badge…
This is like a scene from Lovecraft Country. Some of the scenes from that show were absolutely rage inducing. Show me your papers. Haven’t seen you around these parts before. Fucking insane that it still happens in 2020/22!
>Haven’t seen you around these parts before. Happens in the town I live in. Central Ohio reporting in. The cops say it to everyone, but for a town with literally 2 non white families living in it, sure is odd the statistics on their traffic stops of everyone that passes through the town. Hrmmm.. Ohio cops are fucking racist shitbags in small towns as well as cities.
Calls manager and not police. Smart move
As someone else said, he wanted to keep his job and his life.
police have an even higher chance of lynching him than the two white guys chasing him while shooting at him
If history has taught us anything, they might not even do it intentionally and instead end up shooting him accidentally when using his vehicle for cover in a shootout with the pursuers or if they confuse him for the target when he tries running to them for safety.
Not calling the police increases your odds of survival. This country is fucked.
His manager will definitely not shoot him because they misunderstood the call, cops however..
If it had been an Amazon driver, the manager would have fired him on the spot.
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No, that's totally wrong and I can't believe you'd say something so overtly stupid. It's like you don't have any idea how Amazon works. They'd fire him first, *then* charge him for the damage to the van.
He did call 911. Another article covers that. The dispatcher was less than helpful. https://lawandcrime.com/crime/mississippi-father-and-son-charged-with-attempted-murder-for-allegedly-conspiring-to-ambush-and-shoot-at-black-fedex-driver/
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And don’t fucking stop when some random white dude with a gun says stop. No thanks.
I wouldn't stop. I probably wouldn't swerve, either…
It was an extremely smart move, since I’m sure he prefers life over being shot by the police.
I've heard it said: "if you have a problem and call police, you now have two problems."
Man life is fucking crazy. Glad he's ok. I was expecting to read that he drove to the nearest police station but understand why he didn't
Lol are you fucking kidding me? Chases the man to the interstate? Who does he think he is? These people are pieces of shit.
The Punisher, probably.
I am sure he has at least one piece of punisher paraphernalia.
Yet The punisher would have actually shot at the white people for being hillbilly rednecks because that's what actually The punisher does. The punisher punishes the criminals that would be the one shooting at an innocent black guy. Or have I read The punisher comic books all wrong. the punisher only kills people who hurt the innocent.
Nono, you got it right. Just that a fair amount of dumb people actually think, that they're doing what he'd do, whilst not getting that they're doing the opposite. They just think they're badasses, fighting crime, and being heroes. Although a fairly high number, are also just racists, and looking for an excuse.
One would think after those three white guys went to prison this summer for life, that people would start to think twice before firing a gun randomly at people.
> that people would start to think Gotta stop ya right there.
That’s what happens when education is continually defunded. This country sucks ass.
Or after finding out those three guys only went to jail after they uploaded the footage online, he felt he had good odds of killing a black guy then saying he was scared.
The after math of that video coming out was so strange. So many conservatives saying the video proved the deceased was attacking them with a hammer. Insanity.
It wasn't a hammer.. but tbh I couldn't care if he **was** attacking them with a hammer. Reasonable response to racist good ole boys hunting you down.
Conservatives now believe you can attack/threaten people and if there’s any resistance you can self defend them.
So basically the old "he was coming right for me!" South Park defense
Prettt much. And an alarming number of people think that’s cool. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m orettt sure the laws surrounding self defense articulate that you can’t present a threat or cause your victims to fear for their life and then use their retaliation as justification for murder.
>I’m orettt sure the laws surrounding self defense articulate that you can’t present a threat or cause your victims to fear for their life and then use their retaliation as justification for murder. Kyle Rittenhouse ended that good-faith assumption.
Zimmerman started it tbh.
It worked for george zimmerman.
Worked for Kyle.
Why would one think that? According to the article, the local cops basically refused to investigate, even after the FedEx driver showing them the bullet holes in his truck and packages. They refused to investigate despite, on multiple occasions, residents of the area saying that they had been threatened or shot at by these same people. This is a small town in the deep South. The Good Ol' Boys club is absolutely a thing. Cops there are gonna be corrupt as hell.
Shit, my dad grew up and was a UPS driver for years in Arkansas. Now Dad hates racism…he thinks it’s beneath a person to even use it in jokes (his dad was a ‘measure the man by the sweat of his brow at the end of the day’ and instilled it in my dad and him to me). So he was especially rare in the 70’s and 80’s when Deep South KKK was still looked upon with familiarity like knowing family in it. But there were towns where Dad said he did ‘doubles’. What are doubles? Well if the driver was black, you had a white driver with him. How come? Because the package would be carried up to the porches by the white guy due to the fact the first foot a black man would set on private property (especially hillbilly property), he was in danger of getting his ass shot off. No joke, those motherfuckers were looking for reasons and ‘tresspassin’ worked just as good as any. Doubles were specific to places like Harrison, Arkansas….which is a shitbag little town full of racist redneck douchebags to this fucking day. You probably saw the billboard proclaiming it ‘Proudly White’ show up here….that’s fucking Harrison. Dad told me once he was doing the double with one of his friends Ron who was an absolute salt of the earth guy who we grew up around…..and just happened to be of the darker tint. Big guy, built like a tank but had this great deep rumbling laugh. They were finishing up in Harrison and Dad took a box up to a hillbilly trailer with a fatassed old woman sitting there. As he walked up, woman decided to open her yap and crow “It’s a god damned shame that white boy here has to work while the N-word sits on his ass in the truck.” Dad said it was all he could manage not to slap the shit outta that old bitch right there. He couldn’t believe this racist hick is sitting in front of her rusted out dump and acting like she is the better. He didn’t say anything but got her signature and walked back. Said he felt ashamed and said sorry to Ron who obviously was supposed to hear that assholes statement. Ron shrugged and said something like ‘Bill, I know you haven’t got one racist bone in your body, so why should you apologize for some dogshit screaming and hoping for a reaction.’ He slapped Pop on the shoulder, waved goodbye with the biggest smile to her and they went and had a beer. Ron and my Dad both retired about 25 years ago, were lifelong friends and fishing buddies. Ron passed away a few years back and my Pop misses him to this day. Edit: Grammar adjustments.
> Dad took a box up to a hillbilly trailer with a fatassed old woman sitting there. As he walked up, woman decided to open her yap and crow “It’s a god damned shame that white boy here has to work while the N-word sits on his ass in the truck.” Sounds like some /r/beholdthemasterrace material right there.
I grew up in Fayetteville in the 1960s, '70s, and early' 80s; graduated Fayetteville High in 1983. Fayetteville is a college town and pretty progressive for Arkansas. My parents raised me right and I gave little thought to race growing up there (maybe too little as I naively thought racism was in its dying days back then). But my parents had been born and raised in Crossett, Arkansas which is about 11 miles north of the Louisiana border and has a population of 3,500. I spent my summers there with my grandparents there where I got to see a lot of old-achool racism in the streets, in the Piggly Wiggly and in the deer camps. One of the many things I'm grateful for from my parents is having gotten the hell out of there as soon as they were married. If they'd ended up working down to the paper mill I'd be a very different guy today. Down in Crossett there was (and probably still is) quite literally a white side of the railroad tracks and a black side of the railroad tracks. Doen there I never saw a black person being treated as an equal, they were all considered "help" and were called tbe n-word as a matter of course in casual conversation; "That ****** is coming by today to drop off some cucumbers.", "Oh, good." While I don't remember seeing UPS drivers doubled up in Fayetteville, I don't doubt that it was a thing. And in Crossett I'd be surprised if there was a single black driver back then.
Why you gotta do me like that? Awesome story and thanks for sharing it. Signing off to go dream about these cool dudes.
Seriously, that had like a Shawshank Redemption vibe. That excellent storytelling reminded me of the narration in that film.
My uncle and aunt moved to Harrison, AR, from Florida, and my parents followed them when Pop retired. This was in the mid-80's. It was an inexpensive place to live at the time, and I don't believe my relatives were aware of the racism when they moved there. That sign outside the town didn't exist then. Later, they found out about the racism - the signs went up, they witnessed some rude treatment of non-whites a few times when travelers were unlucky enough to stop to shop at the Walmart. My parents moved away in the late 90's. I've been back twice - my uncle died in 98 and my aunt last year. Imagine my surprise to see many brown folks living and working in that formerly all-white town. :-) Maybe there's some hope.
Harrison gets a bad rap, because those loud mouths all live out of town. There is a large contingent of white people who are appalled at the racism and racist reputation. But you have to remember that most of them have almost no experience with POC and they have a long way to go in examining their assumptions, simply because they don't have to.
You write really well. :)
I loved reading this, thanks for sharing.
My dad grew up in segregated Arkansas, dirt poor, and doesn't really like to talk about it. His family migrated north to Michigan in the Great Migration. I ended up growing up in a part of Maryland where the Klan literally marched at our house to protest a Black family moving into town. Educational stuff. America things.
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I believe LBJ made a comment to that effect sixty some-odd years ago.
I conducted some of my graduate work in west Central Arkansas in the middle to late 1990s. The Clinton Administration imposed over all forest service lands a cap of forest service roads of 1km per km^2 (this is a long time ago so I may have some of the specifics wrong). The lead superintendent for the Forest Service district I did my work in was black. He held a public meeting describing this new nation-wide rule and how it applied to the district I worked in. Scores and scores of people showed up. And they were angry. If armed Forest Service law enforcement wasn’t there, I was certain things were going to get violent. One of many racist comments that stood out was, “Go back to where you come from.” I don’t know if they meant “back to the North” or “back to Africa”. Regardless, it was only said to the black superintendent. Within a couple few weeks they’d harassed him and his family out of the state.
That fatassed woman in front of a dump being racist is a perfect example of putting someone down to make herself feel better. Fair easier to do that than to make any improvement to her own life that she could genuinely feel proud of. My own Dad hated racism as well. I'm from the UK, and when we were kids my sister and I used to love watching the Dukes of Hazard, mainly because they outran the police every episode, and couldn't be pursued beyond the state line. My Dad said it was very bad, because the car had the confederate flag on it and was called General Lee. Not having learned anything about the American civil war at that point, us kids didn't understand at the time, but of course I understand now and agree with him totally. My Dad died just a couple of days before Trump got elected and I'm glad that he was spared that knowledge. He would have hated to see such a racist person (it's true, I'm not going to apologise for calling him a racist) in a position of power. It really rankled with me as well. We lived in an area with a large Indian population and all our Indian friends were always welcome at our house. This was in the 70s and 80s, and sad to say, there were still white people who would not have welcomed them into their own homes. My Dad in particular (my Mum as well, but she wasn't so outspoken about it) hated racism or discrimination of any kind and those were the values they brought us up with, I'm happy to say. Your Dad sounds like an awesome bloke, thank you for sharing his story with us. From the way you described his friend Ron, I can imagine him and almost hear his laughter! Great to know that they shared a strong friendship for all those years.
I hope he left that package as far away as he could while still counting as delivered
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https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graft-and-corruption-in-local-government-and-in-state-and-local-police-departments if only someone did their jobs.... https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/prevalence-white-supremacists-law-enforcement-demands-drastic-change-2022-05-12/
Why? Those assholes damn near got away with it (and honestly might’ve if they weren’t morons). The lessons that assholes like that learned was “I can do this and get it covered up by local cops”
Honestly, they *did* fully get away with it. It was fully swept under the rug at one point. And if it weren't for the one that decided to publish a video of the murder, there would have never been anything come of it. That's really the scary part, for me. With this scenario, we got a very, very rare second look.
The third guys lawyer being the moron is how it came out. In other words, people so stone stupid that even their lawyer was stupid enough to think that video would help them.
Was that prominently on Fox news for example? Otherwise it might as well not have happened for these people
Racists aren't known for being thorough thinkers.
Honestly I'd be surprised if they even knew that happened. Rightwing propaganda centers don't like sharing parts of the narrative that make them look bad.
Granted, this was ten months ago, but yeah, these aren't smart racists.
I mean, if these assholes were going to figure it out, they would have figured it out before someone died. These are the people that need locked up forever for everyone's safety.
IIRC, this happened around the same time that story of those 3 fuckheads became national news
I know what you mean but I can’t help but to think damn. Is that all it would take to not do something so incredibly fucked up…that someone else got caught and went to jail. This story has me at a loss for words.
It's like why do these crazies think black people have to stop for them at all times including when a crazy neighbor points a gun? I'm glad they got charged with attempted murder. People like this need to realize that we're not living in the Jim Crow era anymore.
They really think God left them in charge.
Because they want to make ‘America Great Again’ 🙄
Had to scroll too far to find this mentioned. That is exactly the America they want back.
They’re not crazy, this is how conservatives behave. No critical thinking skills. They see black or brown skin and react with fear. Instant fight or flight.
What amazes me about shit like this is the mental gymnastics these peoples rotten brains go through to come to the “scary black guy” conclusion. Hmmm person driving around my neighborhood in a package van. He seems to be dropping things off. Oh he has a Fedex uniform on. He must have rented a van and got a FedEx uniform and drove from house to house dropping of packages in broad daylight so he could murder me later. Yeah that’s it.
Like [the guy](https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/z0j3vr/republican_politician_gordon_lawshe_calls_police/) that was stricken into a panic when he saw a little black girl putting soapy water on the trees to kill invasive lanternflies so he called the police to say that a little black *woman* was spraying stuff and it "scares" him.
What a shit stain of a human. True cowardice. And his lawyer goes on to say -*his client*- is a *victim* because the little girls mom won’t accept his apology and now people are calling him a racist.
The dumbass who decided lethal force was appropriate is probably going to try to argue he was afraid Gibson was going to run him over. While he was standing in the middle of the road. Pretending he had a right to stop Gibson in the first place. Dipshits like these need to be crucified in court so their stories become warnings for everyone who decides to bring a firearm into the equation.
The guy shot at the back of the truck which should be enough to show the jury that this was attempted murder and not an act of self defense
You know I honestly can't think of what their defense could be. Even if they try to go down the route of saying they thought he was a criminal it doesn't hold up as a defense for their actions. And him being seen doing his job in his work uniform also destroys that defense.
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Honestly, it's the safest course of action. The lunatic with the gun has to get out of the way (or get run over, play stupid games...). That means he can't take careful aim at you. Plus it takes said lunatic a bit longer to gather himself after you've passed, giving you crucial time to GTFO of crazytown.
>There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees. I don’t know what the hell she’s doing; it scares me though https://www.thedailybeast.com/local-republican-calls-caldwell-new-jersey-cops-on-9-year-old-black-girl-catching-lanternflies
If I saw a suspicious looking guy and convinced myself that he stole the official FedEx uniform and somehow got his hands on a FedEx truck just to steal some packages, I’d let him take the W on it just bc he worked so hard
Sometimes I think they don't even have or want a narrative...They just see a black guy(just about every other ethnicity or gender) and see it as an opportunity to commit a violent act.
There's a recurring idea where that wearing a uniform and carrying a clipboard will let get you access to plenty of places. This definitely does not apply to black people
Nope it's none of that in their head it's they're black they're a danger. That's all they're taught. Doesn't matter if he's/she a FedEx driver or the president of the United States they see people of color as beneath them. It's plain and simple hatred based on skin color prejudice and ignorance.
“He might be tryin’ to scam me so the most appropriate thing to do is to shoot him!”
I guess I'm just used to the various random trucks that Amazon sends, especially when their in-house delivery operation was getting started. So I wouldn't even blink if a UPS dude showed up in a e.g. Hertz truck. I'd be like 'neat' and go see what got dropped off. But then I must not be a racist, homicidal piece of shit subhuman fuckhead.
Ban these guys from ever being able to use FedEx again. But yeah, also put them in jail.
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No way should this dude be allowed anywhere near distribution centers. Or the general public. Dude needs to be locked up.
and if he ever gets a care package they should just tape a "sorry we missed you" note to his cell
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We’re supposed to be punishing them, not saving them an extremely unreasonable amount of time/money/stress I think forcing them to use fedex for all future shipping needs would be more appropriate
He called work before calling the cops. Probably because his job values his life more than the cops would.
Considering how most companies treat their workers, this is really saying something
Oh he made the smart move calling the company let's think about this a black man in a old redneck Town calling the police of that redneck town because a bunch of white Hillbillies shot at him I don't think the cops are going to give a sshit who the innocent person is because they're going to see oh a black man getting shot at I guess the black man must have done something wrong in their minds because that's how fucking sick racist they are. So in conclusion he saved his own ass by calling the company first and letting the company deal with the police.
Ain't that the fuckin truth.
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These idiots also damaged the truck and packages inside which sadly meant FedEx gave a shit but for all the wrong reasons
https://i.imgur.com/4f1kYCN.jpg And they look exactly how you’d expect them to.
Colonel Klanders
*aggressive banjo noises*
What is the racist man’s obsession with long, unkempt beards?
They look like the Grand Wizard that had to make payments on his robes, couldn't afford to buy them outright.
For the charge of attempted murder, you are sentenced to 3 months probation. For the charge of damage to corporate property, including 1 delivery van, 3 packages, and 1 driver, you are sentenced to 37 years in a maximum security prison.
If it's a lynchmob sort of town would you call the cops? Sometimes you wanna know where to escape to rather than wait for a bunch of folks as likely to shoot you as the guys threatening to lynch you.
The odds are that the cops would've joined the lynchers if the lynchers themselves weren't cops already. Granted, the fact the lynchers got arrested means they aren't cops.
The pessimist in me thinks that's why they waited till the next day to go to the police. Someone higher up was like "well we're going to need a police report to explain the damaged packages and rental truck" I think getting shot at usually means contacting the police immediately during or right after the event itself, not waiting till the next business day. Of course, this is FedEx, so delays are expected....
This is true, un-scanned packages are the only cardinal sin in delivery services. They probably made him stay late and scan all the bullet-riddled packages as "address inaccessible" or some such.
That’s actually insane to think about.
I mean, he is Black. I don't blame him for not calling the cops immediately. It wouldn't be at all shocking if the cops finished the attempted murder.
Jesus this is scarily accurate
He called his immediate boss, he might have a good relationship with his boss. The cops would just shoot his ass for being black.
>Gibson said he swerved to get around the man, who started shooting toward the rear of the Hertz vehicle, damaging the van and the packages inside. He said that he called his manager, who told him to return to the FedEx station, and that the truck chased him to an interstate near Brookhaven before ending the pursuit. Gibson was not injured. >He went to the Brookhaven Police Department the next day with one of his managers to file a police report, a copy of which he previously provided to NBC News. This part is depressing for a different reasons. Like he was being shot at but called his work first instead of the cops.
Well, he probably wanted to keep his job AND not be killed. Smart guy!
Considering that Amazon workers were told to stay at a warehouse during a tornado, I don't blame him for thinking a simple attempted murder might not be enough of an excuse.
American dystopia. We're all gonna end up blowing our sick days on recovering from bullet wounds.
Fuck! You get sick days!?
This is actually the correct thing to do. You dont go outside during a tornado. Working, no. Stay inside, yes.
When I was just out of high school delivering pizza in socal 3 people tried to rob me. They acted like they were working on their car with the hood up on the side of the road, and when I turned around at the dead end they had blocked the road with their car and were putting on ski masks. I said hell no and drive off the side of the road around them and they chased me for like a mile and a half with their hood still up. When I finally got away my first instinct was to call my boss because I assumed they had procedures for contacting the police and such, which he did.
I though the depressing part was that he swerved around the man.
Corporatized employee handbooks that are usually given to front-line workers typically have language that *highly encourage* the employee to always notify a manager *before* introducing the police to the situation. This has its caveats; sometimes employees can act out of personal bias like [calling the police on a woman using a coupon](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/16/black-woman-cvs-manager-called-police-coupon/787389002/) and the opposite seen here where it was more than likely reinforced to employees to always call a manager first or you may be out of a job.
Well the cops would probably have just joined in on the shooting based on past stories. I don't know why any black person would ever call the police in the USA. He was smart to take his manager with him when he went to file the report.
The most bizarre part about this to me is the fact according to the previous article these guys live in a town where 70% of the population is black. If these idiots are so uncomfortable around black folks they open fire on them for simply being on their street then they shouldn’t live in a town where 2/3 people are black. Hopefully they get the book thrown at them like in the Arbery case.
What’s more bizarre is it took *10 months* to arrest them? Edit: the arrest was months ago, but the indictment is now.
Honestly law enforcement is so incompetent nowadays that’s not really a surprise to me. Hell if anything it’s surprising they were even arrested at all
Gregory Case was originally arrested in February on investigation of conspiracy and Brandon Case on suspicion of aggravated assault. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department said that bond was set at $500,000 for each man
Haven’t we seen this story before?
Yes it just took 10 months to charge them.
What the actual fuck? These idiots who think they can act as the community police baffle me.
Must be nice to be able to bond out when you have a million dollar bail between the two of you. Charged with attempted murder and walking the streets. Meanwhile there’s people in jail for petty theft, minor drug offenses, that can’t afford to the $1000 they need to bond out. The system is fucking rigged
Couldn't have said it better myself..
[Reminder](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/demonterrio-gibson-black-fedex-driver-chased-shot-at-mississippi/) - Fedex told the driver that he had to do **the same fucking route the very next day**. Knowing that these shooters were still out there.
That’s insane
He did it for two days before the stress became too much. And the FedEx **put him on unpaid leave**. They reversed that after it blew up in their faces and started paying him again, but holy shit was FedEx all sorts of garbage here.
Hopefully the father/son duo's hour or so of hate filled lunacy is rewarded with the maximum sentence if convicted. However, if you can bond out of two $500,000 bail amounts you are going to have a good lawyer probably.
After the Kyle Rittenhouse shamefulness, I feel like we can't expect that any asswipe racist shits will get what they deserve.
What are the names of the father and son that were indicted tho
A father and son, Gregory Charles Case and Brandon Case, were arrested earlier this year after allegedly firing shots at 24-year-old D’Monterrio Gibson, who delivered a package on Junior Trail NE.
How the fuck is bail so low for attempted murder that they can bail out? Those bitches should be in jail awaiting trial
I wouldn’t call 500,000 each low. Still, they shouldn’t be given the option of bail at all. They are a threat.
They haven’t been arraigned just yet; if the prosecution believes, and can demonstrate, that the defendants pose a higher probability of failure to comply with bail conditions, the prosecution can ask the court for more strict considerations to be imposed. The caveat is that imprisonment without trial is typically contrary to the presumption of innocence; so it would allow the defense to formulate a legal strategy to get a mistrial declared should there be even the slightest degree of “impropriety”. It’s better for the prosecution to focus their strategy on securing an airtight conviction that will hold no weight on appeal and that includes ensuring any potential variables be rendered moot.
Why have to attempted murderers been allowed to have bail? They are clearly a danger to the public and shouldn't be allowed to be in public. Have they had all their guns taken from them yet? If not why not? They clearly cannot be trusted with them.
Being black in America is scary.
And this happened in Mississippi where there's a fucking lot of black people. This particular town is nearly 60% black. Yet these 2 smooth brains went after this guy because he "didn't belong in their neighborhood". Like, what?
It’s because they only count 3/5ths of them.
Don't forget sometimes depressing. It's literally exhausting getting hate from EVERY single nook, cranny, and corner of this country. Can't even enjoy a work of fiction because of anti black/alt right assholes rage bait bullshit.
goddamn why does this keep happening it’s never ending
Glad he's OK. Just don't understand that today in 2022 brain power of such people is so low with all the free information to better themselves.
Why did it take *10 months* for police to ~~arrest~~ indict them?
They have well documented police connections in that town and have been terrorizing their neighbors for years with impunity.
Deserves huge recognition for swerving. No matter how shitty a person, it would haunt me if I ended someone's life, but if someone is in front of my car waving a gun at me I am ducking and putting petal to metal.
The problem is that self defence is often for white people only. By not doing that he may have saved himself a length custodial sentence even if it was just awaiting trial.
So was the goal to rob Fedex or kill the driver?
Jailtime for those racist pieces of shit
> The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department said that bond was set at $500,000 for each man for the upgraded charges and that they both bonded out Friday. Must be nice to have a million dollars laying around in the rainy-day fund jar.
I'm hoping there is a picture.. clicking now. Edit.. yep. About what I expected.