Community relations
The wife of an Arkansas jail administrator was arrested and charged with assault several days after police say she pulled a gun on four black teenagers who were going door to door to raise money for their high school football team.
Police in the eastern Arkansas city of Wynne, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) northeast of Little Rock, said the incident happened Aug. 7. Police responding to reports of “suspicious persons” found the four children on the ground, with Jerri Kelly, who is white, standing over them holding a gun, Memphis TV station WMC reported.
The officer let the children stand up, and they told him they had been selling discount cards to raise money for a school athletic program. The Wynne School District said two of the four children were wearing football jerseys.
Kelly was charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and endangering the welfare of a minor. Her husband is a jail administrator.
Bill Winkler, who said he has lived in the neighborhood where the incident took place for four decades, said children are typically out this time of year selling discount cards for the football team.
“Usually it’s right before football season, late summer or early fall,” Winkler said.
Wynne School District Superintendent Carl Easley said the district is considering stopping door-to-door fundraisers.
It’s not worth being shot.
Wouldn’t want to stop white assholes from brandishing firearms and terrorizing children. That would be un-American.
In the light of this incident, surely it is not too much to ask that every house in the USA be set behind a high security fence, with security cameras and all the lights and works, including at least one pair of guard dogs patrolling at all times. Also that kids going door to door on such fund-collection campaigns do so from inside pedal-powered armoured personnel carriers rigged up with armoured-glass teller windows such as those used by money-changers and that are also fitted with PA systems so that the said kids out on said collection campaign do not have to leave the vehicle, and can safely give instructions to donors as to when and how to transfer their donation, perhaps with a series of pre-recorded messages and responses, and tracked all the time using GPS satellite equipment and the resources of NASA..?
Surely…. Would that be too much to ask?
This one made me laugh too. You’re in witty vein at the moment.
Goes with the territory. ;-)