MFP Contributor
“Thursday night at about 10:30 or 10 o’clock, I received a message … letting me know that there were dangerous people looking for me because they wanted to kill me,” the Meridian city councilman and candidate for mayor claimed in a video statement Monday. It’s a police officer who wants to kill him, he added.
“What you have in Neshoba County is what you see across our state and country—communities raising their voices and asking leaders to consider the iconography and memorials in front of our buildings.”
Despite death threats, Tiffon Moore is pushing to move the Confederate statue in front of the Neshoba County Courthouse. Her cousin Malek and her mother Tiffany, all descended from slaves, are helping.
Gov. Tate Reeves asked for federal help for three counties after horrific Easter tornados. Jasper County was left out, and residents need help.
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