Georgia GOPer warns black attorney she may go missing if she tries to remove Confederate monument

[still_one]

A Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives issued a veiled threat of lynching to a black former colleague who expressed anti-Confederate memorial sentiments on his Facebook

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer (R) did exactly that on a Facebook post when former state representative LaDawn Jones expressed a distaste for a photo he took with a Confederate monument.
“This is Georgia’s history,” Spencer wrote on a post accompanied by a selfie he took with a South Georgia monument to Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
Jones, who formerly served in the state legislature until last year, questioned whether state tax dollars help pay for the upkeep of the memorial, which includes the house Davis fled to after the Civil War ended. A few comments in, Spencer began making threatening allusions.
“Continue your quixotic journey into South Georgia and it will not be pleasant,” Spencer replied. “The truth. Not a warning. Those folks won’t put up with it like they do in Atlanta.”

“I can guarantee you won’t be met with torches but something a lot more definitive,” he continued, responding to Jones’ comment about the store-bought tiki torches used by the white supremacists at the Charlottesville rally earlier this month.
After another person commented about the differences between Atlanta (a city who has a large African American population) and the rest of Georgia, Spencer agreed.
“They will go missing in the Okefenokee [swamp],” he wrote. “Too many necks they are red around here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you about ’em.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/georgia-goper-warns-black-attorney-she-may-go-missing-if-she-tries-to-remove-confederate-monument/

[brush]

1. Hope she filed a police report on him. No telling if they'd take action but at least it would be...

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on record if anything happens to her.

[struggle4progress]

2. That sounds like a terrorist threat

[gratuitous]

3. Threats of violence instead of an appeal to reason

Looks like Rep. Spencer's cause is once again lost. Pathetic little man.

[Docreed2003]

4. A pathetic little man threatening a woman of color...

What a sick twisted mind and he's brazen enough to flaunt this crap on Facebook.

[ProudLib72]

5. They were psuedo buddies

They have history.

Jones said in an interview that Spencer sat next to her for four years in the Georgia House and that they developed a friendly, if sometimes testy, relationship.

“If it were anybody other than Jason Spencer, then I would be alarmed. But we had a unique relationship in the Georgia Legislature,” said Jones, who served from 2012 to 2016. “If that had come from anybody else, I’d take it as a serious threat.”

Still, she added, she was “concerned” by his reaction.

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/08/29/georgia-republican-warns-democrat-she-could-go-missing-over-criticism-of-civil-war-monuments/

[still_one]

8. I don't care what kind of "history" they have had, he made a threat to someone in public.

[ProudLib72]

12. I just want to point out that I am in complete agreement with you

I only posted that because everyone was curious whether or not she had contacted the FBI or police.

[still_one]

13. There was no doubt in my mind about that ProudLib, I was responding to the quoted passage in the

comment about that "history"

[NastyRiffraff]

11. I hope for her sake she's right

about Jason Spencer. But I think she ought to take a hard look at him; it didn't seem like he was playing.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Lock the racist bastard up!

Lock them all up - these people have gotten out of control since Trump took office.

[oasis]

7. "The Civil War is over. The rebels lost. Get over it."

That should be the graffiti on Jeff Davis' monument.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. He threatened her life

Over a participation trophy for the losers.

Let that sink in.

[demmiblue]

10. .

[Persondem]

14. This needs to get more attention K & R

Will post on my social media.