If America’s police want to improve their public image, they should immediately hire the social media person for the Clayton County Georgia Sheriff’s Department. This anonymous hero’s post, entitled “Ku Klux Klan Paraphernalia Found At Suspected Meth House Busted By The Elite COBRA Unit. SHERIFF VICTOR HILL,” is a tour de force. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll laugh so hard you cry and forget that we’re only halfway through the endless hell that is 2020.
It starts out slow.
When Sesame Street wrote the famous song “Who Are The People In Your Neighborhood”, it depicted the interesting people from all walks of life and professions that you could possibly meet in or near your subdivision. The song ends happily saying “they”re the people that you meet, when you’re walking down the street, their [sic] the people that you meet each day”. Sesame Street probably never imagine or thought about the type of people in the neighborhood that Sheriff’s Deputies removed from the Bonanza subdivision yesterday when they wrote this wonderful song.
“But what does Sesame Street have to do with Klan hoods and meth,” you are asking, as you hum the tune destined to haunt your every waking hour for a week at least.
Last night, members of Sheriff Victor Hill’s elite COBRA Unit executed a search warrant for a suspected meth house on Sanderling Ln in Jonesboro Ga. COBRA quickly surrounded the location and called out suspect Eric Spencer who realizing there was no where for him to escape, wisely came out surrendering with his hands up.
While searching Inside the house and backyard, approximately 6-7 ounces of Methamphetamine was located along with scales and baggies for sale purposes . A small amount of marijuana along with a hand gun was also located. Spencer who has no job was in possession of approximately 4-5 thousand dollars in drug money.
Presumably COBRA stands for “Chemical, Ordinance, Biological, and Radiological,” not the “Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985,” or the “Combined Old Boys Rugby Association,” or Karate Kid villain Cobra Kai. In any case, good job coming out with your hands up, Mr. Spencer!
Sheriff’s Deputies also found something else that was disturbing to say the least. Down the main hallway of the residence shadow boxed and encased within the wall for display was a original klansman suit approximately 60 to 70 years old.
Well, that took a turn. Helpfully the Sheriff’s Department included a photo.
Image via Clayton County Sheriff’s Office
Yikes! You have to be serious about your bigotry to have a whole glassed-in display of your terror robe and swords. Did the neighbors have any inkling that Mr. Spencer had more than a passing interest in racist oppression?
Turns out, they did!
Long time neighbors stated they found it a little extreme when on Halloween they would see nooses hanging in the front yard, but they never imagined where the idea probably originated from.
Yes, who could imagine that a person who hangs nooses in his front yard harbors racist sentiments? So very unexpected! But never fear, it all worked out in the end.
The person “in the neighborhood” is now facing the wall at Georgia’s toughest para-military jail better known to the world as “The Hill-ton”.
What exactly is a para-military jail? That’s not entirely clear. But if your kid gets suspended from school, you can sign him over to Sheriff Hill to “spend the days of suspension at the Sheriff’s Office instead of staying home unsupervised. This is a day of hard labor washing patrol vehicles, cleaning bathrooms, and eating punishment jail food.”
Sheriff Hill also appears to have some legal troubles of his own. But if anything should happen to him, the Office will be safe in the wise hands of whoever handles their social media.
They’re the people that you meet, when you’re walking down the street. They’re the people that you meet each day.
Ku Klux Klan Paraphernalia Found At Suspected Meth House Busted By The Elite COBRA Unit. SHERIFF VICTOR HILL [via Nixle]
Elizabeth Dye (@5DollarFeminist) lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.