The Millers are idiotic racists. Aside from being complete pieces of trash, what did they get out of that? Nothing will ever erase this incident from them, their family, or their little shit hole town. And all for what? Because the sloppy hillbillies wanted to bully a man registering people to vote? Gross, ugly people with tiny rat brains.
None of that, even assuming you are correct, justifies criminalizing the First Amendment, which last time I checked applies even to assholes. Take your hyperbolic indignation (which borders on a hate crime under this standard) take a seat and calm down.
And just for clarity, the victim was not “registering people to vote. He was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure.
It’s been a bit since conlaw, but I’m pretty sure the First Amendment doesn’t protect people’s right to threaten to hang folks. I’ll double check though.
Stop being hyperbolic. If I mention a guillotine to a french man, is that that “threat” of beheading?
Unless he says “I am going to lynch you from the hanging tree” its not definitively, a threat. Nor is “mentioning” a hanging tree to a black man.
GTFOH
Can showing somebody a concealed gun at your waist be a threat? You know, the ol’ lifting up of your shirt. I’d say yes. There’s no overt statement that “I’m going to shoot you” but it can absolutely be implied from actions or statements.
Not saying it’s a slam dunk, but you can’t say the hanging tree statement wasn’t meant to intimidate.
The charge was “noise violation and breach of peace” with a race tag on. It looks like in fairness, equal justice, etc., In reading the RJ story, it appears that Johnson was equally guilty of “noise violation and breach of peace”, but was not charged. Is this not racial?
Watch the video, and Johnson is clearly as loud or louder and is also an instigator of the confrontation. No excuse for race to come into the discussion. But there is a reason that Johnson is not responding to media requests about the story.
I agree with 10:20. Mr. Johnson was the only clown I saw on the video making a scene acting like a jerk to get attention. While I don’t think the Millers are the best people on the video with the male’s comment (which was not caught on video but clearly triggered the filming of the aftermath, the incident got blown out of proportion but there needs to be some responsibility on the alleged victim here. Why is he allowed to disturb the peace of others?
I agree with everything that you just said. However “Miller’s wife, Janis Miller, who is seen on the video ushering Johnson into the street, faces one count of battery.” Battery because she ushered Johnson away from a confrontation on their property? Seems like an incident of overcharging to prove a point.
Battery because she kept touching him, despite his numerous requests for her to stop doing so. And it wasn’t her property – it was a public sidewalk. “Ushering” with unwanted physical touching = battery.
Watch the video. Not a battery as she puts her arms up and he backs up. He then says he will be on their property if he chooses. I have to be honest that I thought these were racist jerks from all of the media reports also. Having now seen the video, there is not a single good guy on any side in this video. All of these people (including Johnson) should be condemned.
After she puts her arms and he backs up, she says stay off my property. He threatens her and tells her that he wants to fight her and “Let’s go”. And I have little doubt that you beat a woman.
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August 9, 2024 10:44 am
Wow. Bunch of racist apologists on here. So the victim is just as bad because he protested the way he was being treated? Was he not a sympathetic enough victim for you?
Have not seen a single person excuse or justify the racist comments. Johnson repeatedly charging the other bystanders and telling them to f**k themselves does not make him a sympathetic victim. It is OK to condemn the Millers while also pointing out that Johnson is not a good guy in this story.
I am considered a libtard by some, but these racists assholes are allowed to say dumb racist shit in our country. I actually appreciate them saying it as it allows people to know who are the dumbasses much easier.
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August 9, 2024 11:18 am
When I first saw the mugshots I thought “Oh no what has Randy Quaid done now?”
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August 9, 2024 12:04 pm
What’s Uber?
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August 9, 2024 12:43 pm
Yall saying hillbilly is very racist same as white trash. However, I believe in FREE speech so say what you want but please don’t have a double standard.
The origin of the term “hillbilly” is not racist. The term became a derogatory insult later but once again was not race affiliated. “White trash” on the other hand is clearly racially related.
Outside of Joplin. There were plenty of black people there but no one I knew called them hillbillys and they did not refer to themselves that way. Admittedly my limited experience.
Like the Vance book shows, it is a pejorative term that those who are poor and rural embrace amongst themselves but do not like it hurled by those who are not in that category.
Oh FFS. The double standard here is untenable. Because it wasnt racist decades ago, it isnt now. Hmmm what other words did not used to be considered racist……?
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August 9, 2024 1:40 pm
Since we are having such a vigorous discussions regarding a certain ilk of yokel, I am surprised that the story about the Alexis Plunkett wannabe in Mississippi is not getting more discussion.
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August 9, 2024 3:12 pm
I came for the Telles is a genius playing the long game jokes but all I got was hanging black people isn’t racist
Ok I’ll help you out. Word on the street is Tellrs set this whole thing up so he could short the stock on the landscaping hat he allegedly wore that day as the stock will tumble once it becomes associated with his acts. With his new found money he will run for DA and buy the RJ only to gut the building for his campaign headquarters.
HH thrived on herd mentality and elusive status. It was always a terrible location, extremely inconvenient. Most of the attorneys had to cross the Strip to get to work every day. I once asked one of the partners about this, and I shit you not, he said, “It’s easier for our clients to come in from the airport.” Like they had 2-3 jetsetters coming in every day. GTFO. I’m glad I never worked down there. Plus, all the lunch options in that area are overpriced.
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August 9, 2024 3:36 pm
Guy tries to kill his girlfriend and then writes a song about putting her on a respirator.
Key and peele did a great sketch where guy raps exactly about a murder.
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August 10, 2024 8:48 am
It’s confirmed that Telles will take the stand. Which means the prosecutors are sweating bullets this weekend. They’ve never crossed someone as smart as Telles. He will run circles around them and humiliate them in front of the jury.
The Millers are idiotic racists. Aside from being complete pieces of trash, what did they get out of that? Nothing will ever erase this incident from them, their family, or their little shit hole town. And all for what? Because the sloppy hillbillies wanted to bully a man registering people to vote? Gross, ugly people with tiny rat brains.
None of that, even assuming you are correct, justifies criminalizing the First Amendment, which last time I checked applies even to assholes. Take your hyperbolic indignation (which borders on a hate crime under this standard) take a seat and calm down.
And just for clarity, the victim was not “registering people to vote. He was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure.
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It’s been a bit since conlaw, but I’m pretty sure the First Amendment doesn’t protect people’s right to threaten to hang folks. I’ll double check though.
Pretty sure there was no threat in there. But keep trying.
What is referencing a “hanging tree” if not a threat to lynch someone? Stop being obtuse.
Stop being hyperbolic. If I mention a guillotine to a french man, is that that “threat” of beheading?
Unless he says “I am going to lynch you from the hanging tree” its not definitively, a threat. Nor is “mentioning” a hanging tree to a black man.
GTFOH
Can showing somebody a concealed gun at your waist be a threat? You know, the ol’ lifting up of your shirt. I’d say yes. There’s no overt statement that “I’m going to shoot you” but it can absolutely be implied from actions or statements.
Not saying it’s a slam dunk, but you can’t say the hanging tree statement wasn’t meant to intimidate.
“Meant to Intimidate” does not even come close to equaling a “threaten to hang” as you stated at 849 and reiterated at 1020.
Just fold already. Admit you were being hyperbolic and move TF on.
I would fucking eat you alive in a courtroom and you would look even more foolish than you do now.
The charge was “noise violation and breach of peace” with a race tag on. It looks like in fairness, equal justice, etc., In reading the RJ story, it appears that Johnson was equally guilty of “noise violation and breach of peace”, but was not charged. Is this not racial?
Watch the video, and Johnson is clearly as loud or louder and is also an instigator of the confrontation. No excuse for race to come into the discussion. But there is a reason that Johnson is not responding to media requests about the story.
I agree with 10:20. Mr. Johnson was the only clown I saw on the video making a scene acting like a jerk to get attention. While I don’t think the Millers are the best people on the video with the male’s comment (which was not caught on video but clearly triggered the filming of the aftermath, the incident got blown out of proportion but there needs to be some responsibility on the alleged victim here. Why is he allowed to disturb the peace of others?
I agree with everything that you just said. However “Miller’s wife, Janis Miller, who is seen on the video ushering Johnson into the street, faces one count of battery.” Battery because she ushered Johnson away from a confrontation on their property? Seems like an incident of overcharging to prove a point.
Battery because she kept touching him, despite his numerous requests for her to stop doing so. And it wasn’t her property – it was a public sidewalk. “Ushering” with unwanted physical touching = battery.
Watch the video. Not a battery as she puts her arms up and he backs up. He then says he will be on their property if he chooses. I have to be honest that I thought these were racist jerks from all of the media reports also. Having now seen the video, there is not a single good guy on any side in this video. All of these people (including Johnson) should be condemned.
She put her hands on him. Some hillbilly pit their hands on me and I’d beat her ass. That absolutely is a battery. Harmful or offensive contact.
After she puts her arms and he backs up, she says stay off my property. He threatens her and tells her that he wants to fight her and “Let’s go”. And I have little doubt that you beat a woman.
Wow. Bunch of racist apologists on here. So the victim is just as bad because he protested the way he was being treated? Was he not a sympathetic enough victim for you?
Racist apologists ?? or mostly objective analyzers?
Unlike the simpleton vitriol spewed by the OP at 953am.
Have not seen a single person excuse or justify the racist comments. Johnson repeatedly charging the other bystanders and telling them to f**k themselves does not make him a sympathetic victim. It is OK to condemn the Millers while also pointing out that Johnson is not a good guy in this story.
I am considered a libtard by some, but these racists assholes are allowed to say dumb racist shit in our country. I actually appreciate them saying it as it allows people to know who are the dumbasses much easier.
So glad that you have this blog to vent your feelings.
Because how you FEEL is so g-damned important to us.
(In truth, nobody GAF)
There was no mention of any feelings.
Ahhhhh . . . but the vapid display of feelings was readily apparent.
How do you think Uber is going to feel about their paid petition signers being at the center of this brouhaha?
UBER doesn’t give a crap. All they care about is maximizing profits.
Unlike the NJA which is purely an altruistic organization, amirite?
Everybody hates plaintiff’s lawyers until they need one.
When I first saw the mugshots I thought “Oh no what has Randy Quaid done now?”
What’s Uber?
Yall saying hillbilly is very racist same as white trash. However, I believe in FREE speech so say what you want but please don’t have a double standard.
The origin of the term “hillbilly” is not racist. The term became a derogatory insult later but once again was not race affiliated. “White trash” on the other hand is clearly racially related.
I was inform by a Gen Z that “white trash” is offensive to non-whites as well as whites as it infers that all races that are non-white are “trash.”
Wow u really kamalazied that
Hahaha I grew up in southern Missouri. U ever seen a non-white hillbilly?
Ohhh me too, which part? And yes, plenty of them.
Outside of Joplin. There were plenty of black people there but no one I knew called them hillbillys and they did not refer to themselves that way. Admittedly my limited experience.
Further now that I think about it I didn’t personally see the racial divisions – we were just all poor haha
I grew up in Kentucky. The answer is absolutely that there are non-white hillbillies.
U got me beat with Kentucky. Seriously though did they refer to themselves that way?
Like the Vance book shows, it is a pejorative term that those who are poor and rural embrace amongst themselves but do not like it hurled by those who are not in that category.
Makes sense
Is that like the Ozarks scenes where the hillbillies take great exception to being referred to as rednecks?
Oh FFS. The double standard here is untenable. Because it wasnt racist decades ago, it isnt now. Hmmm what other words did not used to be considered racist……?
Since we are having such a vigorous discussions regarding a certain ilk of yokel, I am surprised that the story about the Alexis Plunkett wannabe in Mississippi is not getting more discussion.
https://www.wlbt.com/2024/08/08/hinds-co-sheriff-announces-jail-contraband-bust-tied-attorney/
That photo was scary as shit.
if you can see the white above *and* below the eyes, that is “crazy eyes” . Beware!
He needs a clean shirt, a new suit and a haircut.
Seriously! I couldn’t tell if he was hosed off or sweating like a whore in church. What an absolute clown!
Grady: I’m sorry about that delousing. Just standard procedure.
Farva: It’s powdered sugar.
Grady: The lice … hate the sugar. So anyway …
Farva: It’s delicious.
I came for the Telles is a genius playing the long game jokes but all I got was hanging black people isn’t racist
Ok I’ll help you out. Word on the street is Tellrs set this whole thing up so he could short the stock on the landscaping hat he allegedly wore that day as the stock will tumble once it becomes associated with his acts. With his new found money he will run for DA and buy the RJ only to gut the building for his campaign headquarters.
This take is so effing stupid.
I’m super looking forward to the Telles documentary in a year or so after the trial. I hope they get his good side
48 Hours already did an episode on him, I believe. And as to his “good side” somehow Telles has gained weight eating jailhouse bologna.
Is that what they call what he’s been eating now – bologna?
They have been calling what he dishes out bologna for while.
Snell & Wilmer also has bailed from Howard Hughes. Any of the big firms staying in HH?
HH is a joke. I bet they start turning the buildings into condos or apartments.
HH thrived on herd mentality and elusive status. It was always a terrible location, extremely inconvenient. Most of the attorneys had to cross the Strip to get to work every day. I once asked one of the partners about this, and I shit you not, he said, “It’s easier for our clients to come in from the airport.” Like they had 2-3 jetsetters coming in every day. GTFO. I’m glad I never worked down there. Plus, all the lunch options in that area are overpriced.
Guy tries to kill his girlfriend and then writes a song about putting her on a respirator.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/police-say-man-tried-to-kill-girlfriend-wrote-song-about-her-being-in-icu-3121272/?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=latest&utm_source=homepage&utm_term=Police%20say%20man%20tried%20to%20kill%20girlfriend%2C%20wrote%20song%20about%20her%20being%20in%20ICU
Key and peele did a great sketch where guy raps exactly about a murder.
It’s confirmed that Telles will take the stand. Which means the prosecutors are sweating bullets this weekend. They’ve never crossed someone as smart as Telles. He will run circles around them and humiliate them in front of the jury.