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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:46 PM Jun 2020

Sheriff apologizes to black pastor in Virginia after arrest

Source: Associated Press


Updated 10:53 am CDT, Monday, June 15, 2020



Photo: AP

This combination of undated booking photos from the Shenandoah County (Virginia) Sheriff's Office shows from left to right, Donny Salyers, Dennis Salyers, Farrah Salyers, Christopher Sharp and Amanda Salyers. The group are being held without bond and face hate crime and assault charges after an altercation with a black pastor in Edinburg, Va., this month. Shenandoah County Sheriff Timothy Carter has apologized to Pastor Leon K. McCray Sr., who described being arrested after calling 911 on the group who threatened to kill him after trying to dump a refrigerator on his property. (Shenandoah County Sheriff's Office via AP)

WOODSTOCK, Va. (AP) — A sheriff has apologized to a black pastor who described being arrested when he called 911 on a group of white people who threatened to kill him after trying to dump a refrigerator on his property in Virginia.

He said he was visiting an apartment he owns in Edinburg on June 1 when he noticed a man and a woman dragging a refrigerator from another property into his dumpster, and they became irate when he asked them to leave.

McCray said they threatened him and returned with three more people, attacking him physically, saying “they don’t give a darn” about “my black life and the Black Lives Matter stuff,” and telling him they would “kill” him.


Shenandoah County Sheriff Timothy Carter made the apology to Leon K. McCray Sr. of Woodstock Friday, announcing hate crime and assault charges against the five people involved and saying a weapons charge against the pastor would be dropped.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Sheriff-apologizes-to-black-pastor-in-Virginia-15340262.php

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Sheriff apologizes to black pastor in Virginia after arrest (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2020 OP
So a black pastor gets arrested The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #1
Got meth? ret5hd Jun 2020 #2
Thinking that everybody 'knows blacks dump bed frames, kitchen appliances in their front yard' bobbieinok Jun 2020 #3
I'm glad the sheriff apologized, but what kind of failure has happened when AllyCat Jun 2020 #4
Is the one named "Farrah" a woman? Mazeltov Cocktail Jun 2020 #5
Um- GoldenMezzoDiva Jun 2020 #7
Impossible to drown out the strains of Deliverance GoldenMezzoDiva Jun 2020 #6
Why would the police trust the idiots in the mug shots? Gothmog Jun 2020 #8
I Have Personally Seen An Instance Where It Was, Sir The Magistrate Jun 2020 #9
Ah, more stellar examples of "The Master Race" catbyte Jun 2020 #10

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,276 posts)
1. So a black pastor gets arrested
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:49 PM
Jun 2020

for calling the cops when a family of (apparent) meth addicts try to dump trash on his property.

ret5hd

(20,433 posts)
2. Got meth?
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 05:53 PM
Jun 2020

What were these yahoo hillbillies thinking? That fridge would have brought at least $2.83 at the local scrapyard!

AllyCat

(16,035 posts)
4. I'm glad the sheriff apologized, but what kind of failure has happened when
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 06:07 PM
Jun 2020

the person who calls for protection gets arrested?? What on earth made the Sheriff's deputy decide "gee, I guess I'll arrest this black guy"? Oh wait. I guess I just answered my own question.

We have so far to go.

GoldenMezzoDiva

(79 posts)
6. Impossible to drown out the strains of Deliverance
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 06:50 PM
Jun 2020

at the view of these despicable meth addicted degenerates.
Plick-ee plick-plick-plick-plick-plunck-plunck plunck!

The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
9. I Have Personally Seen An Instance Where It Was, Sir
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 08:11 PM
Jun 2020

Too much of a story to go into now, but basically the guy who committed a crime ran and came back with police to accuse the fellow he had tried to rob. I leave the race of the parties to your alert mind....

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