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National Guard Arrives in Memphis Monday… How Did We Get Here?

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“MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the National Guard and 300 additional troopers will be in Memphis as early as Monday, dozens are protesting their arrival.

More than 100 people took to the streets Saturday to say they don’t want the National Guard in Memphis during the Free 901 Protest.

The sounds of protests were heard outside of Juvenile Court and all the way to Memphis City Hall as Free the 901 protesters opposed next week’s arrival of the National Guard.” (Courtesy Yahoo.com)

Gosh. A whole 100 people. Memphis is a big city and polls show that the overwhelming majority of people welcome the arrival of not only the national guard. They are also glad that federal agencies like the FBI and the DEA are also supposed to be coming tomorrow.

As thehill.com reported, there is a reason for that…

“Memphis, the second-biggest city in the red state of Tennessee, tops the list with 2,501 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to data from the FBI.

The city has recorded 145 murder victims in the first eight months of the year. Last year, it experienced 40.6 homicides per 100,000, placing it fourth among cities with at least 100,000 residents.”

The rampant crime in the former City of Good Abode has taken its toll on the once beautiful and proud Bluff City.

“Memphis has a 2025 population of 607,581. It is also the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis is currently declining at a rate of -0.9% annually and its population has decreased by -4.35% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 635,225 in 2020.”

What has happened to this city?

Well, as someone who was born and raised in Memphis, attending the public schools there and graduating from the University of Memphis, I can tell you that it has been incompetency and corruption in the municipal government and all of the supposedly non-profit organizations which have sprung out from it over the years plus the cutting of budgets and benefits for both the police and fire departments which have all added up to its citizens fleeing for the suburbs and beyond that has led to this moment.

And yet, those who are in charge of the city, the county, and the combined school system are  against doing something about the rampant crime and corruption that Memphis and Shelby County face.

If you wonder why this is, and you haven’t figured it out yet, please watch this video of an interview with Judge Joe Brown who has been around Memphis for decades and “knows were all the bodies are buried.”

Just as it happens with all municipalities, it takes decades for corruption and out of control crime to get as bad as it is in Memphis, Tennessee.

It will only get better if changes are made in every area responsible for the crime, including the parents of the teenagers who are committing it.

If the Faith of Our Fathers, that once played such an important part in the everyday life of Memphians, is not restored and the basic family unit is not brought back to lead these children in the way in which they should go, some form of what we are seeing in Memphis and other cities will continue despite the government’s best efforts.

However, we have to try to clean it up now.

Innocent lives are at stake.

And, whether people realize it or not, the future of our Sovereign Nation is as well.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Sunday Morning Thoughts- What Happened to My Memphis?

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I have some thoughts this morning about the National Guard coming to my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

I’m 66 years old.

I have seen a lot of turbulence and trouble in the Bluff City over those years.

I can remember being 9 years old watching the Lone Ranger on my parents’ blonde wood black and white console TV, wondering if the rollie pollies that I’d put in a pill bottle on the top of it were going to survive, when all of the sudden a Civil Defense sign came up and a voice told all National Guard members to come to the Armory immediately.

My mother was already at home in Midtown Memphis, having returned from work at Sears Crosstown, which was basically down the street, but my dad had to come about 15 miles to make it home.

Those were anxious hours.

As time marched on, I was part of the busing generation beginning in 9th grade as black and white students were bused to schools that they were reticent to attend with a lot of the white students leaving their homeschools to go to private schools that their parents placed them in out of fear.

Back in the day, those of us who were in school at that time learned that we weren’t so different from one another. We all had parents who expected us to behave and to achieve.

Over the years, I have watched Memphis, formerly known as the City of Good Abode, become anything but with violence growing, carjacking, assaults, robbery, and murders happening every night and even in broad daylight.

I left Memphis for DeSoto County Mississippi 25 years ago after the “yutes” on the block set up their basketball goal right at my driveway giving my former wife and I dirty looks as we came in from work, later breaking into our house and robbing us.

Since then, the crime in Memphis has gotten worse and worse with every succeeding city administration as individual criminals and gangs took over the former annual winner of the City Beautiful Competition as crime spread out to the suburbs. Been out

The current mayor even invited the gangs to City Hall for tea or something… probably to receive his payoffs.

President Trump has decided to send in the National Guard this week to try to help get the city back under control from all this chaos.

Good luck.

First, he’s going to have to overcome the corruption in both the county and city administrations and even the school board.

Y’know, Elvis Presley would not recognize the town that he used to ride through on his Harley with his girlfriend on the back.

The rest of us who grew up there don’t either.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Charlie Kirk and Memphis

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It has been a rough week for law-abiding Christian Americans.

A young man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps and went out on a mission to provide diversity of thought and the hope and love of a relationship with Jesus Christ on America’s college campuses in order to stop the brainwashing that he saw happening all around him was killed by an assassin’s bullet, the assassin himself being brought to that point by the violent rhetoric of the modern Democratic Party.

What did the Democrats believe was going to happen when Barack Hussein Obama began to purposely divide Americans by race and thought?

This is all on them.

The violence in our major cities can be directly linked to the dissolution of the family unit and the brainwashing of our children and grandchildren in our educational system to believe that men can be women, right is wrong, it’s cool if you go to a concert where they are praising Satan, and everybody must think the same way and worship the central government.

Speaking of our major cities, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, will soon be hosting the National Guard thanks to President Trump.

Violence and corruption have gotten out of control in the Bluff City, with Memphis climbing to the top of a poll ranking #1 as the city experiencing the most violent crimes in the United States of America.

The Memphis  City Mayor, the City Council, the Shelby County Mayor, and the Shelby County Sheriff all insist that crime is down 25%.

They have also resisted the bringing in of help from the Trump administration, shouting from the depths of City Hall that all they need is more money.

If that was the case, considering all the money that has been given to the former “City of Good Abode,” then Memphis would be Disney World with free lollipops for everybody.

Instead, Memphis citizens stay in their homes at night while politicians and FedEx executives come into town for meetings in bulletproof sedans.

Innocent citizens are being forced off of the interstates and assaulted by thugs with guns shooting into their cars. A young man I watched grow up was going to get his children in the middle of Memphis on Interstate 240 when somebody forced him off the road firing into his car and then shooting him in the shoulder through the car. He will be alright because the car slowed down the bullet.

The local CBS affiliate took a poll yesterday asking if the citizens wanted the National Guard there.

The last time I looked at it, 84% of the citizens of Memphis want the National Guard to come in and help clean up a once beautiful and safe city.

It says a lot that the citizens want the crime cleaned up, but the Democratic politicians, including Congressman Steve Cohen, do not.

It also speaks volumes that the Mayor of Memphis, Paul Young, invited gang leaders up to City Hall for a meeting while refusing help from the Trump Administration.

There is too much crime and violence in America that is the direct result of failed political strategy and the removal of the Faith of Our Fathers from our educational system.

America’s educational system has been purposely changed from an educational tool into a political weapon.

We must Make America Great Again.

Until He Comes,

Kj

Federal Judge Orders New Trial for Ex-MPD Officers Convicted in Tyre Nichols Case

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Just like every major city in the United States of America, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, has had its share of corruption. going back to the days of the notorious Boss Crump.

Within my lifetime, Memphians have borne witness to the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the infamous Ford family of municipal and state politicians whose  corruption carries on to this day.

I’m pretty sure that’s why Harold Ford Jr. got the heck out of Dodge and moved up to the Northeast.

In September 2018, Chamber of Commerce President Phil Trenary was on South Front Street near G.E. Patterson, coming home from running in a race held in Downtown Memphis when someone in a white truck drove up and shot him. The suspects then took off.

He had previously been CEO of Pinnacle Airlines and was a tireless advocate for Memphis.

Two men were later arrested and tried on lesser charges than murder, and given 25 and 35 years respectively, with time served, which knocked off 5 years.

Their story was that they were looking for somebody to rob. In the trial, the Defense argued that one of the men was mentally impaired because of alcohol and cocaine in his mother’s bloodstream.

The question remains to this day: What are the odds that they would choose the President and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce?

What started me thinking about the subject of corruption was the news that came out late this week concerning the former Memphis Police Officers found guilty of the murder of Tyree Nichols.

Per WashingtonExaminer.com,

“A federal judge on Thursday granted three former Memphis Police Department officers  convicted for their roles in the death of Tyre Nichols a new trial due to concerns about judicial bias.

Nichols’s death while in MPD custody in Tennessee sparked nationwide protests and calls for police reform in 2023 due to accusations that he was unfairly targeted and treated by law enforcement during a traffic stop.

The case took a new turn this week when Chief United States District Judge Sheryl Lipman granted Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith a new trial because of concerns that Judge Mark Norris, who oversaw the previous trial in which the three men were convicted last October, was biased against the officers and the MPD.

Norris recused himself from the case days before the officers’ sentencing, leading Lipman to take over proceedings in June.

Lipman said she believed Norris made rulings that were “sound, fair, and grounded firmly in the law.” However, “the appearance of judicial bias against the MPD created “an unconstitutional probability of bias” requiring a new trial, she wrote.

“Justice must not only be done but must manifestly be seen to be done,” she said in the ruling, arguing that the perception of bias could undermine public confidence in the verdict.

The concerns about the appearance of bias against the MPD stem from an incident involving one of Norris’s law clerks who had assisted the judge during the Nichols trial.

After the clerk was attacked in a separate shooting, Norris met with federal prosecutors and an FBI special agent about the incident, and alleged during that encounter that “at least one” of the MPD officers charged in the Nichols case was also involved in targeting his clerk.

During the May 2025 meeting, the judge also said that the MPD was “infiltrated to the top with gang members,” an assistant U.S. attorney present at the meeting said, according to court documents.”

Mark Norris is known as a very honest man and a very fair and smart judge.

Sheryl Lipman is a Chief US District Judge appointed by former President Barack Hussein Obama.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

If gangs have indeed infiltrated the Memphis Police Department from top to bottom and if the shooting of Judge Norris’s Clerk was done to intimidate the judge to drop the case or to recuse himself as he did, then this case screams for the FBI to look into it.

Given the crime rate in the outrageous number of homicides, carjacking, assaults, and robberies in Memphis, which are now moving like a crippling fog spreading to the suburbs including those across Mississippi State Line, I believe that Memphis needs a Clean Sweep Operation such as was just ordered by President Trump and carried out by the National Guard.

Just like other Democrat-run cities, the Memphis mayor and his administration have gotten in front of the cameras and said they would not cooperate with such an operation.

Perhaps, it’s not just the Memphis Police Department that the gangs have possibly infiltrated.

Just like every law-abiding average American, Memphians deserve to be able to enjoy the city that their tax money pays for without fear.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Memphis Police Officer Killed…America’s Crime Crisis Continues

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“MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Multiple sources confirmed to FOX13 that 18-year-old Jaylen Lobley is one of the teens in Friday morning’s deadly shootout involving Memphis Police in Whitehaven.

The shootout resulted in the death of one Memphis Police officer and injuries to two others.

In a news conference hours after the shooting interim Police Chief C.J. Davis told FOX13 two teens were in a “suspicious car” on Horn Lake Road and Charter Avenue after 2 a.m. Friday morning.

She said the 18-year-old was killed after he fired at officers and officers returned fire on the car. She added the teen was released on his own recognizance in connection to a similar crime last month.

FOX13 Investigates found records showing Jaylen Lobley was arrested in March, charged with theft of property, unlawful possession of a weapon, prohibited weapons, and vandalism.

But days later Lobley was released on his own recognizance, meaning without paying bail, by a General Sessions judge. The conditions of his release included random drug screenings, weekly call ins, and a curfew.

The affidavit from the March arrest shows officers found Lobley asleep in a stolen white Infiniti outside of a Whitehaven home. In that arrest, officers say he was found with two guns, including one with a Glock switch, converting it to a fully automatic gun.

Lobley allegedly admitted to stealing two cars: a red Dodge Charger as well as the white Infiniti.

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy issued the following statement regarding Lobley’s release:

“I’m deeply saddened by Officer Joseph McKinney’s passing and extend my heartfelt condolences to his family, loved ones, and colleagues at MPD. Upon learning of this tragic incident, I promptly called in TBI to investigate. Consequently, there are limitations on what I can say at this time to avoid compromising TBI’s investigation.

“What we do know is that at the time of this offense, one of the suspects, Jaylen Lobley, was released in March on ROR with various conditions including reporting and curfew. This bond was granted by a Shelby County Judicial Commissioner following a hearing where our office strongly argued against lowering the bond, citing the defendant’s danger to the community. Despite our arguments, the Commissioner approved the ROR bond.

“My office was actively prioritizing the Lobley case, identifying him as a high-risk offender and reviewing his file as part of our Project Safe Neighborhoods state-federal partnership. Even though Lobley was a first-time offender, his case had been accepted for Federal prosecution. This is consistent with my firm belief, made a part of our ‘V11’ violent crime initiative, that individuals found with stolen cars and guns, or found with Glock switches, can pose a danger and must be dealt with accordingly.

“We trust the TBI to conduct a thorough investigation. Once it’s concluded, we’ll review the findings to determine appropriate next steps.“ (Courtesy Fox13Memphis.com)

Reading about the attack on those law enforcement officers got me to wondering how the city I grew up in, my Hometown, the “City of Good Abode”, became a war-torn and ruined shell of a once wonderful city, following in the footsteps of  Chicago and Detroit.

I think I know.

One Christmas afternoon, I was sitting in my living room , beside my loving wife, step-son, daughter-in-law, and me then 10-year-old grandson, watching “Despicable Me 3,” which Santa had brought.

As we were watching the movie and dozing off from eating too much, I watched with pride as my grandson remained entranced by the movie as my “kid” had his arm around his son.

As I watched my grandson laying against his Dad, I thought about what a difference having a father makes in a boy’s life.

My father certainly made an everlasting difference in mine. He is the one who led me to Christ, counseling and supporting me, and loving me until he passed away after Christmas in 1997.

I think of him and thank God for him often.

What got me thinking about the role that fathers play in the lives of young men, is all of the gang-related violence, black-on-black homicides, and racial unrest that is happening in our American Cities, like my Hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

In today’s modern culture, the stigma of having a baby out of wedlock is quite frankly no longer a stigma. In our messed-up society, it is actually considered a sign of feminine independence.

Among a lot of the young black male population, it is a sign of prestige to be a player, or, as we used to call it, a “ladies’ man”.

This practice has become so popular that now 72 percent of America’s black population are being born out of wedlock and being raised without a father.

Grandfathers, uncles, clergy, school coaches, and principals try to fill in the gap and help these boys as they grow up, but a boy needs a man around every day of their life.

They need a consistent role model to teach them right from wrong, how to treat women, and how to be a man.

Regardless of what all of the Democrat Pundits say, a male father figure is essential in building a young man’s self- image.

So, what’s the answer?

A song that Elton John came out with during his comeback in the 1980s goes,

“Mama don’t want you
Daddy don’t want you
Give it up, baby, baby
Mama can’t buy you love. “

Far Left Democratic Municipal Governments, such as the one that runs Memphis, can continue to blame their troubles on reminders of a troubling time in American History as an excuse for the violent crime occurring in our major cities.

Or, they can blame the gun, which is an inanimate object that can not fire itself.

And, Municipal and Federal Governments can throw as much money at the problem of gang-related and individually-caused violence as they want to.

However, until this Cycle of Irresponsibility, i.e., irresponsible parents creating irresponsible kids, somehow gets broken, through prayer, education, and community/church involvement, crime will continue to escalate in America’s Cities.

If the parents do not want to love, care for, and raise their children in the way that they should go, the gangs and the other criminals in the “Hood”certainly will.

This is proven by the tremendous rise in “incidents” like the one that occurred in the Whitehaven neighborhood in Memphis on Thursday night.

America does not have a gun problem. We have an evil problem.

And Soros-funded District Attorneys, prosecutors, and judges giving out “cashless bail” is not helping the situation at all.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Cracker Barrel, Walmart, Other Businesses Closing in Dem Cities Because of Crime and Employee Issues

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“Cracker Barrel this week became the latest company to announce it is leaving the Portland, Oregon, area shortly after Walmart announced its departure following comments from the CEO that crime and theft were taking their toll.

Cracker Barrel, which has over 600 locations nationwide, blamed the COVID-19 pandemic for its decision to close its final eateries in the Portland metro area.

“As a standard course of business, we continually evaluate the performance of our stores, using various criteria to ensure we are meeting the needs of our guests and our business,” the company said in a statement.

“With that, we are saddened that we have been unable to overcome the impact the pandemic had on our business and have made the difficult decision to close the Beaverton, Tualatin, and Bend locations on March 20. The decision to close a store is never one we take lightly, and our focus right now is in assisting our impacted employees during this transition.”

In a statement to Fox Business asking for specifics on what aspects of the pandemic led to the closures, a Cracker Barrel spokesperson said, “Like so many other companies, the pandemic impacted our business, and we have struggled to staff and profitably run these stores. Despite the extra efforts made, we couldn’t viably continue to keep our doors open.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)

A report posted last November by the Heritage Foundation found that Democrats controlled 27 of the top 30 cities with the highest homicide rates in the country in 2022, due mostly to Democrat policies and soft-on-crime prosecutors.

“Starting in 2016, with the election of the first [George] Soros rogue prosecutor, Kim Foxx, in Chicago, cities with rogue prosecutors have imposed policies that all — each and every one of them — inure to the benefit of criminals, as we have detailed in our scholarship for the past two years,” the report said.

The top three cities with the highest murder rates were New Orleans, Louisiana, with 36.8 killings per 100,000 of population; Baltimore, Maryland, with 29.1 killings per 100,000 people; and Birmingham, Alabama, with 28 killings per 100,000 people, according to data compiled by the Datalytics research firm.

With the exceptions of Republican mayors in Lexington, Kentucky, Jacksonville, Florida, and an independent mayor in Las Vegas, Nevada, the other 27 top homicide rate cities are controlled by Democrats. Of those, 14 had Soros-backed, progressive district attorneys that have enacted policies that favor criminals, including cash bail reform, releasing convicted felons, refusing to prosecute thefts, drug possession, shoplifting, and several other misdemeanor offenses, according to the report.

Homicides in the 14 cities with Soros-backed district attorneys accounted for 1,752 of the total 2,554 killings in all 30 cities in 2022, the report said.

I live in a small town across the Mississippi state line from Memphis, Tennessee, where one of those Soros-backed prosecutors took office as a result of the last Municipal Elections.

Since then, an already out of control crime wave has gotten worse, with shootings on the expressway and robberies increasing in all of the towns located directly across the state line from Memphis.

In fact, a Walgreens just 10 minutes away from where I am writing this closed its doors yesterday at 3:00 p.m., joining the CVS Pharmacy across the street, which had to close a few months earlier.

They were located at the intersection of two state highways, which allowed shoplifters to drive down from Memphis, run in, snatch and grab, and get the heck out of Dodge.

Besides the fact that crime is out of control. restaurants and department stores are faced with a shortage of employees because thanks to the benevolence of Biden and the Democrats, there is still “free money” available to those who do not want to work.

Our cities must be made safe again, and the “free money” fountain must be turned off for the able-bodied who are refusing to get and keep a job.

Otherwise, America, as we know it, will become just another footnote in the history book.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Well, Memphis…What Now?

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As a 64-year-old resident of the Memphis Area, I have borne witness to the governmental mismanagement and resulting decay and degeneration of what was once one of the friendliest places in the country to live.

There are still friendly people in Memphis, but, chances are, they work in Memphis and are living in the suburbs.

The mass exodus of Memphis taxpayers started when Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, who occupied that office from 1991-2008, told taxpayers of a Caucasian persuasion, if they did not like the way he was running the city, they could leave.

So, they did.

Since then, violent crime in Memphis has steadily risen, to the point where some suburban husbands will not allow their families to enter Memphis during the day or night.

On February 6, 2013, the Majority-Black-Democrat Memphis City Council renamed three Confederate-themed parks to prevent some State legislators from blocking such name changes.

The council passed a resolution to immediately rename Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park in downtown Memphis and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, which lies just a few miles away. The vote was 9-0 with three members abstaining.

Later, in the middle of the night, all Confederate Statues were removed from City Parks as a result of a shady business deal and political shenanigans.

Meanwhile, the black-on-black homicidal genocide continues in what was once the “City of Good Abode”, keeping it constantly in the top echelon of the FBI’s Most Dangerous Cities List.

And, assault, auto theft, and carjacking have skyrocketed, as well.

So now, after the Black Majority City Council ran veteran police officers away by cutting their benefits, including their retirement plans. Five Black Memphis City Police Officers savagely beat a Black Memphian at a traffic stop, leading to his death.

It must be the fault of “Systematic Racism”.

It just HAS to be the fault of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife…maybe even his horse. Oh, wait. His statue was removed in the dead of night years ago, and he and his wife’s remains were dug up and moved in 2021.

It has to be. Otherwise, the people who have been responsible for the descent of “The City of Good Abode” into Detroit South, where black Americans are being murdered every night of the week, would have to be held responsible for their own actions.

And we can’t have that, now…

Can we?

Just asking.

But, by gosh, by golly, if all of the “Systematic Racism” was eliminated in Memphis, then the looting by thugs who busted out storefronts Friday night in East Memphis would have never happened.

…And, I’m actually a blonde 22-year old Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader named “Buffy”.

At this rate, those in charge in Memphis might as well leave their heads up the dark and lonely place where they are because they are certainly not using them to think.

Until He Comes.

KJ

Memphis Deja Vu: Protests Erupt as Videos of Tyre Nichols Released on Youtube

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I remember on April 4, 1968, as a 9 year old in Memphis, Tennessee, watching my parents’ black and white television as the National Guard was called into action on the night that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

I remember, after a Civil Defense Announcement came on ordering National Guard members to gather at the Armory, that President Lyndon Johnson came on National Television to make the announcement of Dr. King’s death.

I remember a feeling of helplessness and of fear, as a nine-year-old, that I had not felt before.

It wasn’t just the fact that we were living in Midtown Memphis, that made me afraid.

It wasn’t just the fact of the out-of-control violence itself that caused my consternation. It was watching my beloved Hometown on the verge of going up in flames.

As I am writing this, it is now January 27, 2023, and I am watching my hometown once again on the verge of bursting into flames.

As you may know, a young Black man named Tyre Nichols was recently savagely beaten by 5 Black Memphis Policemen after running from them during a traffic stop.

The young man died two days later as a result of that beating.

The incident quickly became a featured story on all of the television news channels.

After suspending, firing, indicting, and jailing the officers involved, the local authorities decided that tonight (Friday) would be appropriate to release the video taken from the body cams of the 5 police officers on youtube.com.

It’s almost as if they wanted a repeat of that awful night so many years ago.

Right now, protesters, paid and unpaid, have blocked off the I-55 Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River linking Tennessee and Arkansas.

These protesters are handing out professionally produced pamphlets.

Meanwhile, “protests” are being held in Democrat-run cities like Atlanta and Seattle.

I am experiencing a feeling of deja vu…and it’s not just from that awful night in 1968.

It’s also from the Antifa/BLM “Summer of Riots” in 2020.

If you don’t believe that these “protests” have all been organized by the same people for political purposes, you haven’t been paying attention.

I don’t believe that this was the “dream” that Dr. King spoke so eloquently about.

God protect us.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Rapper “Young Dolph” Killed in Front of Memphis Bakery as the Former “City of Good Abode” Continues to Earn its FBI Rank as the “Most Dangerous City in the U.S.”

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Young Dolph

https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1461123955834687491?s=20

FoxNews.com reports that

Rapper Young Dolph is dead after being shot and killed while visiting a bakery in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

A representative for the artist, whose real name is Adolph Robert Thornton, Jr., told Variety in a statement that they are “shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic loss of our dear friend and client, Young Dolph.”

“The world has lost an icon, a great man and beloved artist who has been taken too soon,” it adds. “His dedication, drive, hard work and loyalty to all those around him always came first and he will be deeply missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family at this most difficult time.”

The Memphis Police Department told Fox News Digital that officers responded to the scene of a shooting at Makeda’s Butter Cookies around 12:24 p.m. local time where they discovered a male victim who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said they have not yet identified a suspect at this time.

The department added in a statement posted to Twitter that Dolph’s purported murder is “another example of the senseless gun violence we are experiencing locally and nationwide. Our hearts go out to the Thornton family and all who are affected by this horrific act of violence.”

The prominent Memphis emcee, 36, was shot after he arrived at that popular bakery – which he frequented often and promoted on social media – when the alleged perpetrator drove up and then shot and killed him, the store’s owner, Maurice Hill, told FOX 13 in Memphis.

Young Dolph’s Lamborghini sat in the parking lot of the bakery when FOX 13 crews arrived to the scene located in a South Memphis strip mall.

A local man in the immediate area across the street from the scene told Fox News Digital he heard what was believed to be gunshots ring at the strip mall where the bakery is located.

The gentleman said he heard about 25 shots fired in rapid succession followed by a pause in gunfire. The man then says he heard about five or 10 more shots.

“He pulled his Lamborghini up to the shop and they got him, man. They got him,” the local said of the tragic shooting.

Another person was also with Dolph at the time of the shooting, FOX 13 reported, citing Memphis Police sources.

Despite Dolph being a huge presence in Tennessee, the independent performer and local philanthropist has been mired by potentially fatal run-ins in the past.

In September 2017, Dolph was shot in Los Angeles when he got into an altercation with three men outside the Loews Hollywood Hotel.

The broad daylight attack occurred in the heart of the tourist area around the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue.

In February of that year, Dolph was in an SUV in Charlotte, North Carolina, when the vehicle came under gunfire. Three people were later arrested in May in connection with the shooting.

Dolph released an album in April of that year, titled, “Bulletproof,” that referenced the shooting in Charlotte. It peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

FOX 13 reported a massive crowd gathering around the perimeter near the scene with some people lying on the ground in tears.

“The tragic shooting death of rap artist Young Dolph serves as another reminder of the pain that violent crime brings with it,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said in a statement to The Associated Press. “My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.”

Dolph was reportedly set to pass out turkeys at St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis this Friday.

I am not surprised.

According to the FBI’s 2020 Uniform Crime Report, as reported 2 days ago by 247wallst.com, 

The most dangerous city in the United States was Memphis. Here are the details:

Violent crime rate: 1,359 per 100,000 people (18,324 total crimes)
One-year change in violent crime rate: +21.3%
Homicide rate: 24.2 per 100,000 people (327 total homicides)
Poverty rate: 15.4%

The Memphis metro area ranks as the most dangerous in the United States. More than 18,000 violent crimes were reported in the metro area in 2020, or 1,359 for every 100,000 people. That is more than three times the U.S. violent crime rate. The number of homicides committed in Memphis climbed by 38%, from 237 in 2019 to 327 in 2020. At 24.2 per 100,000 people, the homicide rate in Memphis is the second-highest of any U.S. metro area.

Deadly violence continues to increase in Memphis. The city has reported more homicides so far in 2021 than it had over the comparable period the previous year. City leaders have plans to curtail criminal violence in the city but reportedly need hundreds of additional police officers to execute those plans. The department is reportedly offering a $15,000 signing bonus in order to aid in the recruitment effort.

As a 62-year-old resident of the Memphis Area, I have borne witness to the governmental mismanagement and resulting decay and degeneration of what was once one of the friendliest places in the country to live.

There are still friendly people in Memphis, but, chances are, they work in Memphis and are living in the suburbs, as I do.

The mass exodus of Memphis taxpayers started when Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, who occupied that office from 1991-2008, told taxpayers of a Caucasian persuasion, if they did not like the way he was running the city, they could leave.

So, they did.

Since then, violent crime in Memphis has steadily risen, to the point where some suburban husbands will not allow their families to enter Memphis during the day or night.

On February 6, 2013, the Majority-Black-Democrat Memphis City Council renamed three Confederate-themed parks to prevent some State Legislators from blocking such name changes.

The council passed a resolution to immediately rename Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park in downtown Memphis and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, which lies just a few miles away. The vote was 9-0 with three members abstaining.

And now, per the FBI, Memphis is the most dangerous city in the United States of America.

It must have been those Confederate Statues’ fault…it just HAS to have been the fault of the General and his wife…maybe even, his horse.

It has to have been.

Otherwise, the people who have been responsible for the descent of “The City of Good Abode” into Detroit South, where black Americans like “Little Dolph” are being murdered every day and night and citizens are being shot at on the expressways, would have to be held responsible for their own actions.

And we can’t have that, now…

Can we?

Until He Comes,

KJ

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Disgruntled Employee Shoots 13, Kills 1 Plus Himself at Kroger in Collierville, TN…What is Happening to Us?

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Kroger Collierville

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WREG.com reports that

Multiple people were injured Thursday in a shooting inside the Kroger on Byhalia and Poplar Avenue in Collierville, a Memphis suburb, after an active shooter incident officials are calling the “most horrific event” in the town’s history.

Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane confirmed 13 people were shot, and one person killed. The suspected shooter also is dead, possibly from a self-inflicted gunshot, Lane said.

A family member and a Collierville alderman has identified one of the victims as Olivia King.

The suspect’s vehicle is still parked and is being investigated. Sources say the suspect was a sub contractor who did work in the store’s deli department.

Lane said officers entered the store just after 1:30 and found multiple people shot, and employees in hiding. He could not comment on whether the shooter was an employee, saying it was under investigation.

Lane called it “the most horrific event that’s occurred in Collierville history.”

Multiple witnesses report hearing at least a dozen shots. Some customers made it out of the store. Employees had others take shelter in the cooler, witnesses said.

One employee named Brignetta Dickerson, who says she’s worked at the Kroger for 32 years, told WREG she hid with her coworkers and several customers when they heard the gunshots.

She said her only concern was her customers and coworkers.

“I’m still in shock right now,” said Dickerson. “But I was calm. I was calm and told the customers and my co-workers ‘Just sit down and relax. You’ll be okay.’”

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Jean Kurzawski said she worked in the back of the Kroger and heard noises toward the front entrance. She thought balloons were popping at first until she saw customers running. She escaped out a back exit and said she heard gunshots continuing behind her.

“I was just thinking, oh I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, he’s gonna shoot me,” she said.

Collierville High School was briefly sheltering in place.

Multiple ambulances were seen entering Regional One Hospital in Memphis. The hospital reported it saw nine patients, four in critical condition and five non-critical.

Kroger released a statement on the shooting:

We are deeply saddened by the incident that occurred at our Kroger store located on New Byhalia Rd. in Collierville, TN – a suburb of Memphis. The entire Kroger family offers our thoughts, prayers and support to the individuals and families of the victims during this difficult time. We are cooperating with local law enforcement, who have secured the store and parking lot. The store will remain closed while the police investigation continues, and we have initiated counseling services for our associates. To protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation, we are referring questions to the Collierville Police Department.

The Collierville store will remain closed until further notice, Kroger Delta Division spokeswoman Teresa Dickerson said.

“We are praying for our associates here in Collierville,” she said.

Collierville is a beautiful town right outside of Memphis, TN.

Having lived in the Memphis Area most of my life, I have high school friends who live in Collierville.

When the news came on in the break room where I work, my first thought was that one or more of them may have been in the Kroger Grocery Store when this horrible event occurred.

I immediately went to Facebook to check and, thank God, none of them were in the store at that time.

Since the shooting, word has come out and has been confirmed that a disgruntled employee was the shooter.

If gave me a horrible feeling of Deja Vu, as this was very similar to the Southaven, MS Walmart Shooting back in July of 2019 when a fired employee ambushed the Store Manager as he got out of his car as he arrived to work. The murderer set the baby area of the store on fire and then killed the grocery manager, who also had a part in his firing.

That piece of trash got burned but survived.

I am sure that over the next several days that the Powers-That-Be in Memphis will get their mugs in front of every Television News Camera that they can and holler for “Gun Control”, which will be an extremely hypocritical move being that Memphis is the Third Most Dangerous City in America.

As Democratically-controlled cities like Memphis, Chicago, and New York have found out the hard way, strict gun control laws do not work.

Outlaws will find a way to get guns. That is why they are called “outlaws”.

And the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

Guns can not pull their own trigger.

What happened yesterday was horribly tragic.

Unfortunately, we live in a different culture than a lot of us grew up in.

When God’s Word is replaced by man’s Political Expediencies, society begins to call good “evil” and evil “good”.

And, without having a Solid Rock to stand on, society crumbles.

Until He Comes,

KJ

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