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In a news interview with Mike Rogers of KXII, Sheriff Gary Dodd refers to an offender who escaped from the Johnston County Jail as a "Sorry piece of trash" (Video 1)
In a social media post published on the Johnston County Sheriff Official Facebook page (Video 2), Sheriff Dodd goes on to tell the pubic the escapee is a "Worthless piece of trash" and a "Menace to Society". He then declares "I am pissed off!" and tells the public he will "go to the ends of the earth" to capture escapee Shawn Michael Baumgardner. Dodd then proclaims "If he wants to go down the hard way - we can also play that game and are more than willing to do so". The following day, Sheriff Dodd, discharged his weapon through the windshield of his patrol car approximately 13-14 times into the back of baumgardner's vehicle as he was fleeing and UNARMED.
We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.
We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.
WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...
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