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 dont 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
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)for calling the cops when a family of (apparent) meth addicts try to dump trash on his property.
ret5hd
(20,433 posts)What were these yahoo hillbillies thinking? That fridge would have brought at least $2.83 at the local scrapyard!
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)AllyCat
(16,035 posts)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.
Mazeltov Cocktail
(569 posts)They sort of look like they are related to Kellyanne...
GoldenMezzoDiva
(79 posts)hmmm. That Farrah's sure one freak-kee dude, all right. Bet
KA's their meth mate.
GoldenMezzoDiva
(79 posts)at the view of these despicable meth addicted degenerates.
Plick-ee plick-plick-plick-plick-plunck-plunck plunck!
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Being white should not be enough
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)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....