Hey Police! This is how you do it right (and not just

[Sister to TxTowelie]

if the "perp" is white):

http://www.forsythnews.com/m/section/6/article/26918/

Suspect in armed northeast Forsyth standoff identified

Kelly Whitmire

NORTHEAST FORSYTH — An armed standoff ended peacefully Thursday afternoon in the area of Bethel Park near Lake Lanier with authorities taking a shotgun-wielding man into custody. 

According to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, deputies arrested Kenneth Mercer, 50, who at one point was believed to have shot at them while wandering around the front yard of his home in the 8300 block of Swiss Air Road off Bethel Road. 

Mercer has been charged with four counts of aggravated assault against an officer, with additional charges likely.

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Mercer ignored many commands from deputies to put his weapon down. No shots were exchanged, though Mercer had reportedly fired the weapon before deputies arrived. 

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The result was a heavy law enforcement presence, including the sheriff’s office SWAT and crisis negotiation teams and its armored “Bearcat” vehicle, in the area. 

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“We were in the process of talking to [the suspect] when we were able to get a SWAT team member close enough to him with a Taser,” Rainwater said. “He was Tased in his front yard with a shotgun still in his hand.” 

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Close friend of mine, drunk, fired gun shot into the air when cops were outside his home

after being called by neighbors.

He was arrested and tried for attempted murder then got off with discharging firearm misdemeanor.

Point of the story is I just talked to him on the phone

Know why?







one word

five letters





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[Sister to TxTowelie]

2. I haven't lived here long enough to know the current

attitudes of LEOs here. Maybe they'd have done it this way no matter what color his skin was. But somehow, I doubt it.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. when a white 'sovereign citizen' type

attacked the courthouse recently... they didn't mess around. he was DRT... dead right there.

but i do love how some people just assume that the sheriff's office deputies are just racist assholes even though they've never been here and don't know any of them.

sP

[Sister to TxTowelie]

6. Lots of Dixie stuff here.

Flags, stickers, plates. Don't know if the antebellum attitudes are pervasive in govt.

[Hoyt]

4. White folks get treated differently in Forsyth County.

[Sister to TxTowelie]

5. Are you from the area or are well-acquainted

with it? The place is still a mystery to me. At times, it seems progressive enough, then I'll see a line of cars and trucks with Dixie stuff (flags, stickers, plates) all over them.

[Hoyt]

7. When I was growing up there were no Blacks in that county, having all been run off,

with a few lynched. Thankfullyy, things have changed, but there are still a bunch of racist yahoos there, many who see george zimmerman and darren wilson as heroes.

It's just 40 miles or so outside Atlanta. Again, it's better nowadays.