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Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - GMDino - 08-06-2018 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/05/emmett-till-sign-vandalized-35-days-after-replaced/910681002/ Quote:Just 35 days after a bullet-riddled Emmett Till sign was replaced, it has been shot again. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Nebuchadnezzar - 08-07-2018 Rather than replace the shot up sign, they should leave it up but continue to put up a new sign. It will not only be a memorial to Emmett Till and all those murdered in the past, present and future but be a reminder that there is still a lot of hate and ignorance out there. Leave an empty post for when the sign was stolen. Leave the first sign that was shot up. Leave the second sign. And so on. After a while though, a hidden camera needs to be placed to catch the people vandalizing the signs. When caught, they need to pay for the old sign, new sign and forced to install the new sign then fined and jailed or whatever penalty for vandalism and discharging a firearm in public brings. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - michaelsean - 08-07-2018 Maybe the perps are the kind that like to video their crimes and post them online. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Nately120 - 08-07-2018 (08-07-2018, 12:07 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Rather than replace the shot up sign, they should leave it up but continue to put up a new sign. It will not only be a memorial to Emmett Till and all those murdered in the past, present and future but be a reminder that there is still a lot of hate and ignorance out there. Call me a pessimist, but I can't imagine a man who shoots that sign would be found guilty by a jury of his peers or any Mississippi judge who wants to keep his job. Put the sign in a state where people might not shoot it. It's time to give up on Mississippi. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Nebuchadnezzar - 08-07-2018 (08-07-2018, 10:09 AM)YNately120 Wrote: Call me a pessimist, but I can't imagine a man who shoots that sign would be found guilty by a jury of his peers or any Mississippi judge who wants to keep his job. Put the sign in a state where people might not shoot it. It's time to give up on Mississippi. turn it into federal property ran by the organization and try them in federal court might work. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Benton - 08-07-2018 (08-07-2018, 12:34 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: turn it into federal property ran by the organization and try them in federal court might work. Simple solution, but since it's along a river it would probably fall under U.S. Army Corps, which creates all sorts of headaches. Might be easier just to make the sign out of something more bullet resistant. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Belsnickel - 08-07-2018 (08-07-2018, 12:07 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Rather than replace the shot up sign, they should leave it up but continue to put up a new sign. It will not only be a memorial to Emmett Till and all those murdered in the past, present and future but be a reminder that there is still a lot of hate and ignorance out there. I like this idea. Leaving the damaged signs in place as a reminder that racism isn't dead in our society and that we still have a lot of work to do. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Millhouse - 08-07-2018 It is Mississippi after all, so nothing shocking here. It may take 3, 4, 5, maybe more generations for racism to eventually dwindle down to hardly nothing down south. I know racism can exist anywhere, but down there it is extra thick with it. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - michaelsean - 08-07-2018 (08-07-2018, 01:25 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I like this idea. Leaving the damaged signs in place as a reminder that racism isn't dead in our society and that we still have a lot of work to do. I think they said they are doing that. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Beaker - 08-07-2018 (08-07-2018, 01:36 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I think they said they are doing that. Wonder what they're gonna do when they have 23 shot up signs left up in the same place. Do they go for 24? RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - GMDino - 08-08-2018 (08-07-2018, 11:56 PM)Beaker Wrote: Wonder what they're gonna do when they have 23 shot up signs left up in the same place. Do they go for 24? Maybe they hope that someday the racist arses will die off and then can stop changing signs. RE: Just 35 days after being replaced, Emmett Till memorial sign hit with bullets - Au165 - 08-08-2018 ...They should probably install cameras while they are at it. |