Month: September 2023

DUI = driving under the influence.

Multiple Shelby County corrections officers were indicted recently in terms of the case of Mr. Gershun Freeman. Shelby County Sheriff, Floyd Bonner, was said to have called the indictments as “political” or/and politically motivated.

Mr. Bonner doesn’t deserve too much of our precious time and energy, but the Times makes its comments about Mr. Bonner regarding such incident as short and concise as possible.

Mr. Bonner’s political rhetorics seemed to have been designed for political excuses for both himself and his accused employees, and/or for political justification in terms of their alleged crimes or misconducts.

The Mephian democracy is not perfect. It reached uppermost limit when the local voters elected such irresponsible government officials like Jim Strickland and Floyd Bonner.

However, the Memphian domocracy showed its possibility or full potential, too, when the local constituents elected such decent government official like Steve Mulroy.

Public office doesn’t contain alcohol, but it contains power. Mr. Bonner can find it very hard to admit that he has a power problem, not alcohol problem. DUI not by alcohol. But DUI by power.

The Memphians found Mr. Bonner in a drunken stupor. He seems to have been driving his political vehicle while under the influence of power. He is producing such political impression of staggering drunkenly to his feet. Figuratively speaking or metaphorically speaking, he is like a drunk stumbling in the dark, looking for the loo.

His car can be pulled over by the sheriff’s deputies. Or/and his vehicle of power should be pulled over by the local constituents. His political gesture is dropping some hints for the coming Memphis mayoral election.

Mr. Bonner can or is recommended to take a long shower with warm water when he goes home today after his work. And he can have a good sleep. And the next morning, he can or should pledge himself to be a good kid or at least a better kid.

His drunken dance is ugly, but funny. And such his drunken dance seems to be so-called “Political” or “Politically Motivated.”

The Editorial of the Memphis Times.
www.memphistimes.org

Published: September 25, 2023

<Background Information>

– DUI = driving under the influence. (DUI is called as the crime of driving a vehicle while drunk.)

– Floyd Bonner = Shelby County Sheriff. He is running for Memphis mayor.

– Steve Mulroy = Shelby County District Attorney. He is said to recuse himself from the case of the October death of Gershun Freeman in the Shelby County Jail, known as 201 Poplar.

– Glenn Funk = Davidson County District Attorney General.

– Van Turner = former Shelby County Commissioner. He is running for Memphis mayor, too.

– “Davidson County District Attorney General Glenn Funk has decided to charge nine employees of the Shelby County Jail with second-degree murder in the death at 201 Poplar last year of inmate Gershon Freeman, the Memphis Flyer has learned, though the indictments so far remain sealed.” (Memphis Flyer, September 20, 2023)

– According to media reports and court records,

“Two officers, Stevon Jones and Courtney Parham, were charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault while acting in concert with others. Jones was also charged with assault causing bodily harm. Jones also faces an additional count for assault.

Jeffrey Gibson, Anthony Howell, Damian Cooper, Ebonee Davis, Lareko Donwel Elliot and Chelsey Duckett were charged with aggravated assault resulting in the death of another.” (The Commercial Appeal, September 21, 2023)

– “Funk was chosen to handle the case by the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference, following standard procedure with a district attorney recused from a case.” (The Commercial Appeal, September 21, 2023)

– Shelby County Jail’s mortality rates have been rising in recent years: 52 deaths since 2016. (The Commercial Appeal, September 21, 2023)

[Related Content] Former inmate speaks out after indictment of two jailers also charged in Gershun Freeman death (ABC24 Memphis, September 22, 2023)

[Related Content] Shelby Co. DA ‘frustrated’ by sheriff’s allegations of political indictments in Freeman case (The Commercial Appeal, September 21, 2023)

[Related Content] Nashville DA Charges Shelby Jailers in Gershon Freeman Case (Memphis Flyer, September 20, 2023)

[Related Content ] Gershun Freeman dies in jail; Deputies charged in inmate’s death in Memphis (Fox17 Nashville, September 24, 2023)

[Related Content] More details revealed about Shelby County corrections deputies charged in Gershun Freeman’s death (ABC24 Memphis, September 21, 2023)

[Related Content] Mulroy, Bonner spar over indictments in Gershun Freeman death (WREG News Channel 3, September 21, 2023)

[Related Content] [Press Conference] SCSO Press Conference (WREG News Channel 3, September 21, 2023)

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