Five shot at Hattiesburg restaurant, suspect in custody

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[TigerClaws]

Several people were injured after a shooting at a Hattiesburg restaurant along Hwy 49 on Monday.

A single man walked into Cuco's restaurant around 3 p.m. and shot five people. A suspect is in custody. The injured were transported to a local hospital where three are listed in critical condition.

[Yosemitest]

One more link, Campaign Shenanigans.

... Yesterday, someone identifying themselves as "Scott Tyner" circulated an email expressing his support for the proposed Personhood amendment and for Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree. Several individuals with the surname of Tyner are involved in local Democratic politics but as of press time this afternoon we couldn't verify the exact identity of the person who sent out the letter.

"Although I oppose the upcoming referendum making abortion illegal, I think I'm going to vote for it. I'm also going to vote for the black guy running for governor, even though his odds of winning are remote," the text of the email reads.

The emailer goes on to explain his rationale for supporting Initiative 26:
"If (Personhood) passes, it will go to the courts, and the courts will stop it, I think, because it contradicts our Constitution, the idea that government can tell you what to believe, how to think."

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[Yosemitest]

It looks like one of the wouynded is black.

[dragnet2]

A white Hispanic guy?

[Yosemitest]

Here's some more op/eds from Scott Tyner. Hattiesburg, MS.

From Reflections on Independence Day, July 5, 2011 at 11:49:52
... I'm not disputing that aircraft were flown into the Twin Towers by Saudi terrorists. But how powerful a faction it must take to coordinate the controlled demolition of three large buildings, four commercial aircraft hijackings and what appears to be a missile-sized hole in the Pentagon ?

For ten years we've been lied to. I had some hope that with the election of President Obama we'd have some relief, some reprieve. It ends up, he's part of that same faction. The faction that lies to us, spies on us and coerces us to kill innocent people for their oil.

Our military fights for the ownership class, but never for the people.

Happy Independence Day? Really?

Scott Tyner
Hattiesburg, MS

From A.G. Holder, Remember Ike Brown, March 12, 2009 at 20:38:35
Dear Attorney General Eric Holder:

Do you remember Ike Brown? Black man from Mississippi convicted in the first instance of voter intimidation by a minority against the majority? Since the Feb. 27th judgment against him in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he's all over the news again here in Mississippi.

Some might call this idea "conspiratorial," but presuming those federal attorneys were fired because they would not prosecute cases of minority voter fraud, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Brown's case was part of a larger agenda, specifically to bring about the voter i.d. law.

As columnist Sid Salter, the self-proclaimed "moderate of Mississippi," wrote recently: "Brown's loss of his appeal to the 5th Circuit gives brief new life to the man-bites-dog story that made national headlines about African-American Mississippians being accused by the federal government – then found guilty – of discriminating against white voters."

And, "For state officials supporting voter identification legislation, the federal appeals court's affirmation of Brown's guilt on racially based voter discrimination is the political gift that keeps on giving. Republicans have long made Brown the poster child for voter identification . . ."

Folks down here in the majority do not believe that massive voter disenfranchisement was perpetrated in the 2000 or 2004 elections. Investigations into both were rejected by the states of Florida and Ohio as well as the Department of Justice.

Fortunately, the investigative journalism of Mark Crispin Miller, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Greg Palast, Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis, amongst others, peeled back the curtain from these conspiracies, should you need a good place to start. Likewise, it should not be too difficult to get the facts from representatives in those states.

I appreciate that in the history of our nation, there has never been so much tasked of an entering Attorney General and, too, our new President. But until these other, greater crimes of voter disenfranchisement have been prosecuted, the Southern majority will not believe that it's true and maintain their prejudice that blacks are morally inferior and that they are morally superior. Which, in my opinion, is the true purpose behind voter i.d. legislation.

Sincerely,
Scott Tyner
Hattiesburg, MS

From Dems going to Novak Forum, I protest, September 8, 2008 at 22:19:45.
I don't think I can express how disappointed I have felt for the past month after receiving a pro forma invitation to the Evans-Novak Forum of Robert Novak infamy.

The Sept. 25th event at an "exclusive club" in Washington will be hosted by the "oil man," T. Boone Pickens, who made a fortune "drilling on Wall Street". Although few details are given, I think it can be presumed he'll be selling his plan to turn free wind energy into billions more so he can continue to swiftboat Democrats as he helped to fund the Swiftboat Veterans against John Kerry. As a progressive Democrat, his Plan is anathema to me.

From the neo-conservative side of the aisle, attendees listed are Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, George Tenet and John Bolton. I don't understand why the first three aren't in jail. What's so terribly disappointing is the list of Democrats listed to attend: Al Gore, Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer and Chuck Schumer, dining with the enemy.

Have those Democrats no shame? Considering the division our country has gone through at the hands of the Republican Party, anchoring the nation in debt, stealing two presidential elections, the Constitution disrespected like toilet paper, veterans intentionally misdiagnosed to save money, the press just recently beaten up in Minnesota, putting Alabama's governor in jail like some Soviet dissident, etc., ad nauseum, and they're going to a Republican soiree?

I'm proud to be a Democrat and have supported Barack Obama and will continue to do so. But after much consternation, since I'm in Mississippi, one of the reddest states, where Obama has little chance of winning, I'm casting my vote in November as a protest to their attendance of this forum and voting for Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party.

Gore, Reid, Hoyer and Schumer, thanks for nothing.

Scott Tyner is from Hattiesburg, MS

From Prosecution of black voter discrimination pales beside white discrimination, July 10, 2007 at 15:38:39, By Scott Tyner
The case the Department of Justice has made against Ike Brown and the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee definitively shows racism but it's quite unlike what has been reported by the Clarion-Ledger and Sid Salter (C-L's right-wing pundit).

In 2000, the Republican Party of Florida generated a list of felons to be purged from the voter rolls. But the criteria to be purged was based on skin color, not whether or not the person had been a felon. Thousands of African-Americans were denied the right to vote for being black. No investigation was made by the Dept. of Justice.

In 2004, operating under orders from the black, Republican Secy. of State of Ohio, Ken Blackwell, elections staffs reduced the number of computerized voting machines allocated to large black voting districts. The effect was that black people had to wait hours to vote and many left in frustration without voting. The Dept. of Justice did not investigate.

Another anamoly in Ohio were large, predominately Democratic districts where purportedly thousands of people voted for Bush. The culprit appears to be electonic vote switching which cannot be tracked without a paper trail, which Ohio did not mandate in their voting machines. Again, the Dept. of Justice did not investigate.

But down here in Mississippi in little Noxubee Cnty. with a population of 12,500, Mr. Brown's case has garnered national attention as the first case of black voter discrimination against whites.

Yes, there is prejudice involved in this matter. But the bias is that the Dept. of Justice has twiddled it's thumbs and whistled "Dixie" while larger, more onerous cases of voter discrimination have occurred.

Scott Tyner
Hattiesburg, MS

Summation of the case against Brown in an editorial from the Clarion-Ledger out of Jackson, MS, owned by Gannett. The pantheon of courageous black political leaders who paved the way for voting rights for all Mississippians includes names like Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Vernon Dahmer and three young men named Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.

Ike Brown's name won't appear on that list - because somewhere along the way, Brown forgot the examples of those heroic figures in the civil rights struggle.

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee ruled last week that the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee and its flamboyant chairman, Brown, are guilty of discriminating against white voters in the conduct of county elections in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Lee ruled that there was "intent" to discriminate as well.

In a recent letter to this newspaper, Brown bragged about his status on the state Democratic Executive Committee and threatened a number of prominent Democratic office holders with political retribution. He justified those broad political threats by pointing to Mississippi's history of discrimination by whites against "blacks and poor whites."

But despite acknowledging those past wrongs in the state's past, Lee's ruling made clear that Brown and his followers in Noxubee County are guilty of discriminatory acts against white voters that is as arbitrary and offensive as some of the old antics used by whites to impede black citizens from voting.

Lee's ruling addressed the following specific acts of manipulation, intimidation and fraud designed to disenfranchise Noxubee County white voters outlined by Justice Department investigators:

·That Brown and the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee operated in such a way as to discriminate against white voters and white voter-preferred candidates.

·That the alleged discriminatory operation of Noxubee County primary elections was conducted with the purpose of diluting the voting strength of white voters and reducing the opportunities for white voter-preferred candidates to be elected and that the alleged discrimination violates the anti-intimidation provisions of the Voting Rights Act.

·That the Noxubee County Election Commission has failed to purge the county's voter registration list of persons not entitled to vote in county elections and that the election commission knowingly allowed Brown and the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee to give improper instructions to poll managers in general elections.

·That Brown and his co-defendants have intentionally practiced racial discrimination, and that these actions have had the racially discriminatory result of reducing the electoral opportunities of white voters and white voter-preferred candidates.

The case illustrates what Mississippians already know from hard experience - that racism and discrimination are wrong in all hues. Regardless of race, color or creed, the right to vote is a precious one that must be protected at all costs from those who would subvert that right for their own purposes.

Brown should be held accountable.

[I don't disagree that Brown should be held accountable. But for the DoJ to pursue such a small fish in the face of gross voter theft in two presidential election by the Republican Party is out of scale, unjust and a partisan witch-hunt which El Presidente hypocritically claims is being committed against his corrupt staff. ]

Scott Tyner is from Hattiesburg, MS.

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[Yosemitest]

Here's an update.

Cucos shooting suspect's motive unclear

... Emergency responders arrived on scene about 3:31 p.m. Five victims with blood-spattered clothes were rushed out on stretchers and transported to Forrest General Hospital. One victim, a middle-aged white male, appeared to be spitting up blood.

Meanwhile, HPD officers apprehended Tyner attempting to escape on foot a short distance from the restaurant. Tyner lived close by on South 21st Avenue.

He was booked in the Forrest County Jail on five counts of aggravated assault Monday night. No bond has been set.

HPD did not release any other information on Tyner, other than to say Tyner was not a current employee of the restaurant.

According to the Hattiesburg American archives, Tyner was a member of the Forrest County Democratic Executive Committee as late as 2006, an Iraq War protester and an avid letter writer on political topics - usually with a decided leftist spin.

But while Tyner called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and decried tax policies that favored the rich, he also condemned amnesty policies for illegal immigrants.

One letter he wrote in 2010 questioned the reasoning behind celebrating Cinco de Mayo because of the large number of illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States.

"Mexico doesn't care for its people; it exports them," he wrote.

Onlookers at the Cucos crime scene expressed shock at the violence that seemed to come out of the blue.



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[RegulatorCountry]

It would be difficult for a crazed gunman in a public establishment who was really firing randomly not to hit a black person, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. What would be odd is if all the victims were of one race, while media claim randomness.

[Yosemitest]

The title should have been:

LIBERAL LUNATIC GOES BALLISTIC IN CUCOS

[Steely Tom]

I believe this case is going into the memory hole.

It looks like Tyner is a very motivated lefty. His motives and mental state may be problematic for The Narrative.

[RegulatorCountry]

He didn’t toe the liberal line completely. If there was a single hispanic among the injured, watch which angle the media run with.

[Ole Okie]

Hattiesburg is the site of the only undergound nuclear test east of the Mississippi River in the US.

Anything left of the town after this trivial test?

[Tijeras_Slim]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=355_1251338762

Pretty small stuff.