2 Police Fatally Shot In Mississippi, Suspects Arrested

Two police officers were fatally shot and a police cruiser stolen during a traffic stop in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Saturday night.

Authorities said they had arrested three suspects and charged two of them with capital murder, according to the New York Times.

NBC states that three suspects, including two brothers, were arrested in different locations after a manhunt that lasted into the early hours of Sunday morning, said spokesman Strain.

The Mississippi Department of Public Safety announced that Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, have each been charged with two counts of capital murder, and Mr. Banks’ brother, Curtis Banks, 26, has been charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder.

The suspects fled after the incident, according to The New York Times.  Marvin Banks reportedly drove off in a police car that was later found abandoned about a quarter mile from the shooting incident, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A spokesman for the Hattiesburg Police Department, Lt. Jon Traxler, said that both brothers are residents of Hattiesburg. The suspects are being held in a county jail until a court appearance scheduled for Monday.

The officers were taken to Forrest General Hospital, according to The Clarion-Ledger, a newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi.

The county coroner identified the slain men as Benjamin Deen, 34, a canine officer; and Liquori Tate, 25, a recent graduate of the police academy.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/two-mississippi-officers-fatally-shot-at-traffic-stop-in-hattiesburg-1431241151

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/us/two-police-officers-are-shot-and-killed-in-mississippi.html

http://www.dps.state.ms.us/three-charged-in-the-murders-of-two-hattiesburg-police-officers/

‘Vulgar’ Mississippi State Warmup Shirts

Starkville, Mississippi.  Few teams across the country – if any – are more connected with adidas than Mississippi State baseball, states the Clarion-Ledger newspaper.

The team uses adidas not just for apparel, but for gloves and bats too.

However, no one was more surprised by the warmup shirts that featured the phrase “F–K The School Up North” than Mississippi State baseball coach John Cohen.

“Somebody ran up and told me,” Cohen said. “It’s unfortunate, but I really don’t have anything (to say) in that area.”

Mississippi State will not wear the shirts again, the Clarion-Ledger reports.

Mississippi State Representative Says Blacks Don’t Work And Get ‘Crazy Welfare Checks’

A Mississippi state lawmaker is under scrutiny after making racially charged comments.

Representative Gene Alday made comments to the Clarion Ledger during an interview about education funding.

These are the quotes from Rep. Alday in Sunday’s Clarion Ledger that sparked the controversy:

“I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ‘welfare crazy checks.’ They don’t work,” Alday said to the paper.

And speaking of an emergency room visit, he was quoted as saying, “I liked to died. I laid in there for hours because they (blacks) were in there being treated for gunshots.”

WLOX.com called Rep. Alday to see what he would say about the quotes. He didn’t deny making the comments. Yet, he seemed offended by the accusations being thrown his way.

“I am definitely not a racist, at all,” Alday argued.

Mississippi Voters?

Apparently, this video is from the 3/9/12 episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher”.

Mississippi Voters