🚨BREAKING🚨
Petal Mississippi Mississippi Police Officer Aaron Jernigan, responsible for the murder of Marc Davis in 2017 has been awarded 2020 office of the year. (see thread)
Protests over George Floyd's death are reaching small towns in America. In Petal, Mississippi, people are calling for justice for Marc Davis, a black man who was killed in 2017 when Petal police officers responded to a car crash.
He must resign! It's unacceptable for an elected official to publicly state this as well as even think these kinds of things in the first place.
Mayor Hal Marx: Mayor Hal Marx of Petal, MS MUST RESIGN! https://t.co/Yi5SjY0rz6 via @Change#halmarx#ResignNow#wedeservebetter
The mayor of Petal, MS is such a❄️for deleting his @MayorHalMarx account. R/T & shame him anyway. #halmarx#TheResistance#BlackLivesMatter
https://t.co/aDokXtSApW
On June 2, 2017 my cousin Marc Davis was in a crash in Petal Ms. The responding officer shot 3x and killed him!! #HalMarx the mayor cleared the officer and refuse to release footage! #BlackLivesMatter#justiceformarcdavis
A white Mississippi mayor who caused an outrage with his tweets about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has apologized but says he won’t resign
#HalMarx
https://t.co/VcYzSQ98r8
The racist mayor of #Petal is a registered #Republican. He isn’t resigning because he needs one more year to get his ill-gotten pension. I hope someone sues #HalMarx for every penny he has. Start looking into his decisions over the years. Find bias and sue https://t.co/IsQJbXZByT
Interestingly, @ashtonpittman learned about Marc Davis' death after I asked him to do a short news piece on Mayor #HalMarx's remarks about #GeorgeFloyd. He discovered a little-known Petal police shooting of a black father after a car crash. And a key witness never interviewed.