Posted on 06/07/2020 1:31:34 PM PDT by Dacula
The Gwinnett County Police Department have arrested three people for allegedly damaging patrol cars this week, days after police used a TASER on, and arrested, one of the suspects during a protest in unincorporated Lawrenceville.
Police are also asking for help from the public to identify possible suspects involved in a separate incident.
Police said that sometime between 10 p.m. and midnight on Tuesday two patrol cars were targeted with Molotov cocktails at the homes of Gwinnett officers who live in Duluth and Lawrenceville.
In the first incident, a caller told the 911 Center that a Gwinnett patrol car was on fire at an officer’s residence in unincorporated Duluth.
BTW - The 3 suspects' names and ages are - 21-year-old Alvin Joseph of Lawrenceville. Joseph’s passenger, 20-year-old Lakaila Mack of Dacula, 21-year-old from Duluth, Ebuka Chike-Morah
The charges will be quietly dropped.
A couple of days ago four vandals were arrested for vandalizing a confederate monument in Montgomery AL. The district attorney, Daryl Bailey, quickly announced that “there was a mistake on the arrest warrant” and dropped all charges. The vandals were from the demographic you’d expect.
Folks in Gwinnett should button up.
There was a protest rally less than a mile from my house last week and it was peaceful, but there is a built-up tension and it is like a gas leak looking for a match.
sounds like at least one of them is deportable
I am in the Collins Hill area.
The “button up” comment was a pun on Button Gwinnett.
Most of my best stuff goes unappreciated.
Just ask my wife, she’ll tell you.
Button Gwinnett trivia. Of course, you know that he was one of the three signers from Georgia to sign the Declaration of Independence, but did you know that he failed at every business venture and pretty much everything else he did in life?
Never was impressed by him.
Rich british yankee who came south to try to make more money.
Same here. I get the image of him every time we go by the Mall of Georgia and his statue is resting on the very top.
I try to stay away from that area anyway.
I have read about those times, and I have never understood how he ended up being in the position to represent the state.
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I’ve always been more of a Lachlan McIntosh kind of guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_McIntosh.
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Duel with Button Gwinnett
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During the period of 1776 to 1777, Lachlan McIntosh became embroiled in a bitter political dispute with Button Gwinnett, the Speaker of the Georgia Provisional Congress and a radical Whig leader. Their bitter personal rivalry began when McIntosh succeeded Gwinnett as commander of Georgia’s Continental Battalion in early 1776. The two men represented opposing factions in a deeply divided Patriot movement in Georgia. Gwinnett had been forced to step aside after his election had been called into question by opposing forces within the independence movement. Gwinnett, thwarted in his military ambitions, became a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. He returned to Georgia after his allies gained control of the Provisional Congress and succeeded in electing him speaker. Shortly afterward, he was elected president and commander-in-chief of the Committee of Safety.
Gwinnett began purging the government and the military of his political rivals. One of his early targets was George McIntosh, Lachlan’s brother, who had opposed Gwinnett’s election. Gwinnett had George arrested and charged with treason against the revolution.
On May 1, 1777, Lachlan McIntosh, a staunch supporter of John Treutlen for Governor, addressed the Georgia assembly and denounced Gwinnett in the harshest terms, calling Gwinnett a “scoundrel and lying rascal.” Gwinnett sent a written challenge to McIntosh demanding an apology or satisfaction. McIntosh refused to apologize, and Gwinnett challenged him to a duel.
On May 16, in a field owned by James Wright a few miles east of Savannah, Gwinnett and McIntosh met to duel with pistols. At a distance of 12 paces, the two men leveled and fired virtually simultaneously. Gwinnett received a ball to the thigh and McIntosh was struck in the leg. McIntosh would recover from his wounds, but Gwinnett’s wound was mortal and he died three days later. Gwinnett’s allies had McIntosh charged with murder, but he was acquitted in the ensuing trial. George Washington, fearing Gwinnett’s allies would take revenge on McIntosh, ordered him to report to Continental Army headquarters on October 10. He spent the winter of 1777–1778 with the Continental Army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he commanded several regiments of North Carolina troops.
Thanks for the information. I enjoy local history.
James Oglethorpe’s story is a good read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oglethorpe
(stuff that was taught to young school kids back in the day)
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