White Mississippi Campground Supervisor Will get Zero Jail Time

Ruby Nell Howell, the 70-year-old white Mississippi lady videotaped waving a handgun at an African-American couple having a picnic throughout Memorial Day weekend, has been convicted of a misdemeanor cost.

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In accordance with the Clarion Leger, native information shops are reporting the previous Kampgrounds of America employee was discovered responsible by the Oktibbeha County Justice Courtroom of threatening exhibition of a weapon on Tuesday (Aug. 27). 

Howell was ordered to pay a $250 superb, together with $182.50 in court docket charges. Nevertheless, she is not going to spend a day in jail. 

Again in Might, the video went viral exhibiting the campground supervisor pulling a gun on a Black couple making an attempt to have a picnic by a lake.

“RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL,” Jessica Richardson on the video’s caption.

The couple, Jessica and Franklin Richardson, mentioned they’d no concept they wanted a reservation.

“It’s type of loopy,” Franklin Richardson, a Military Nationwide Guard Sergeant who had not too long ago returned from a nine-month deployment abroad, mentioned with WCBI. “You go over there and don’t have a gun pointed at you, and also you come again house and the very first thing that occurs is you’ve gotten a gun pointed at you.”

Kampgrounds of America spokesman Mike Gast launched a press release saying the corporate “doesn’t condone using a firearm in any method” on its properties or franchises.