Amazingly, these families did not have names.
This thread is useless without photos. :)
Was one a them famblies name Hatfield?
amateurs...
everybody knows that tire irons ain’t no good for hurling...
“...The town’s police chief was
hit in the head with a crowbar
but was OK...”
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Dang
“The town’s police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK.”
Superchief! ;)
Marion, Alabama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion,_Alabama#Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,511 people, 1,184 households, and 819 families residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 62.46% Black or African American, 36.26% White, 0.26% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. 0.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Bufford called for assistance from nearby law enforcement agencies to help quell the mounting violence in the Perry County seat, which has a population of about 3,300, according to 2008 Census estimates. At least six departments — from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation to the Selma Police Department, which alone sent 10 units — responded.
'I was concerned about the safety of the people,' Bufford said. 'We had knives involved, we had guns involved.'
The chief said one person was hospitalized with a cut above the eye but no shots were fired during Monday's clash. However, someone opened fire on Sunday on Thompson Street but no one was injured, Bufford said.
Witnesses said Monday's fight was sparked by a Sunday altercation in a community locals call 'The Hill,' after a pickup basketball game between members of the Moore-Sawyer family and the Lewis-Moore family. The two families are not related.
Oh, why did this have to happen while Obama was on vacation?
It could have been beers at the White House for the Moores and the Sawyers, and the feud would have been settled.
I was only there for a few months, covering for the morning DJ who was called up for his three months of active duty with the Guard and was sent to Viet Nam for that period.
When he returned I moved to WXAK in Demopolis, AL, by contrast with Marion a thriving metropolis.
Those were the days of true radio. Real, live DJ’s, shorter broadcast days in the Winter, an AP or UPI teletype for news, no cart machines, one reel-to-reel tape machine, a Gates broadcast board and a part time secretary. Sounds pretty spartan by today's standards, but darned if I don't find myself on a lot of days wishing I could wake up in Marion again and be working for WJAM like it was then!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Cover me granny! I’m going in for groceries.
Proof once again that primative tribalism is not confined to the mountains of Afghanistan or the jungles of Africa.
I wonder how many of them even know what the original issue was that caused the disagreements. Hate just takes on it’s own life.
vaudine
Perry County officials say a long-running feud between the Moore and Sawyer families erupted into a fight Monday morning at a high school.One parent said it started when her son was jumped Sunday night after a basketball game. Cynthia Walter says he was threatened by a family in a gang. The windows were also shot out in another person’s car Sunday night. Marion Police say some of the people arrested for the riot Monday were responsible for shooting into that car. Walter says something more should have been done to protect the students at school. She says, “the school called us and told us not to let the kids come to school because some threats had been made on their lives. However, she says when they got to school the people who threatened her son carried out their threats.
For nearly an hour, people involved wielded knives, clubs and even a cantaloupe and a plate of food. The police chief was struck in the head with a tire iron before the fighting was quelled by state troopers and police from more than a half-dozen different agencies who answered the town's call for help.
4 sustain injuries
State trooper spokesman John Reese said four patrols will remain in the Marion area along with other outside law enforcement. Authorities targeted six people as the instigators of the disturbance, and the six were in custody Monday afternoon, Reese said.
"We are just trying to keep peace and order," he added.
Four persons, including Police Chief Tony Buford, were injured. None of the injuries was life-threatening.
Several weapons, including guns, were confiscated, Reese said, adding that things seemed to be under control Monday night.
Perry County Sheriff's Sgt. Carlton Hogue said one man, Joseph Moore, who came into town Monday morning from Fort Wayne, Ind., has been charged with felony assault. Moore struck a woman during the melee, Hogue said.
Earlier fighting
What triggered Monday's events was not entirely clear to area residents. But officials say the riot was the most violent fallout from a feud between two families named Moore and Sawyer, and some authorities said the feud goes back two or three years.
"There's been fighting between the families," Hogue said.
The table apparently was set for Monday's events with a Sunday night fight in a Marion neighborhood between a group from outside the city and some residents of that neighborhood, said County Commissioner Albert Turner Jr. Hogue said an auto window was shot out.
ping
WSFA link: This is the local Montgomery NBC affiliate.
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=10980705
Local Gannett newspaper in Montgomery: The Montgomery Advertiser.
As you can see, the coverage of local news is lacking in specificity, especially in terms of racial makup. In fact, this area hasn’t had any good news coverage in decades. Reason, PC! Oh yeah, it’s forbidden to state race in a news article. Even when a murder or robbery is committed, and the report states that the Police are asking citizens to help catch the criminal, there is no mention of race.