Crime Ridden Memphis

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C-south said:
“Where you want to go eat?”
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There is no correct answer here if your wife or girlfriend asks you this. Any answer you give will be wrong. Also, If they ask you this you are expected to read their minds perfectly. If you are wrong on your guess then it is a bare minimum of 3 hours of cold shoulder. If you ask them this question then you will almost always get the answer "I don't care". I can tell you for sure....they do.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Hell of a standard..being in the wrong place at wrong time.

Demand better,
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Easier said than done. No offense but this city has been demanding “better” for a long time. Did you miss all the prayer vigils and community meetings and outrage after incidents like this? Those happen weekly. All of that talk never does squat to quell the problem. Until the culture of the inner city changes, “better” ain’t happening. Don’t misinterpret. Crime can visit you anytime, anywhere even in the burbs. But there are things one can do and be aware of to lessen the chances. In my case, I haven’t been downtown in about 5 years. Highland is about as far West as I go these days and that ain’t often. I don’t go to that area at night either.
 
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Delmar said:
That was harsh in terms of what happened to her. My apologies. She made an error in judgement. My point stands that this is a dangerous city and nobody should run by themselves at night. Especially a lone female. That’s all I’m saying. If you do, there can be consequences.
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I understand and my apology. The "common sense" is not the standard I want.
She was a billionaire heiress and it was her city ands she chose to live there...a ray of sunlight in the darkness.

Too common and these animals need to be off our streets.
 
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Court documents state he had “a good relationship with his family” but his “childhood was rough.” The documents go on to state Abston’s lengthy record that shows his first arrest was in 1995 for theft.

He was just 11 years old.

He was arrested again and again, every few months from there for burglary, theft, aggravated assault, violation of curfew, truancy, RAPE, evading arrest, and more.

The violent crimes including rape and aggravated assault resulted in time in the detention center but it’s unclear how much time he spent there.

His file also states at the time, he had no suicidal gestures, medical problems, or mental illness. He was listed, though, as 100% violent.

https://wreg.com/news/eliza-fletche...gthy-criminal-record-started-at-11-years-old/

Cleotha Abston, the Memphis, Tennessee, felon accused of kidnapping and murdering pre-kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher, wrote about getting out of prison on Facebook and posted photos of guns. He went by the nicknames “Wild” and “Pookie.”

According to a 2001 article in the Memphis Flyer, Abston also “has a long juvenile record of theft and aggravated assault.”

The Pookie Abston page doesn’t have much visible on it, except for the gun graphic and a couple of graphics with expletives. “Which part of f*** off do you not understand,” reads one.

Another post says: “Shhh…Dis weed. Is vewy vewy loud.”

On the second Facebook page, which is in the name of Cleo Real, he wrote, “Don’t loose your Queen Bee, chasing a butterfly, and end up with a roach. Let us spray!😄”

In 2019, he wrote, “I’m a prisoner in my own mind, I feel like these walls talking to me.”

Another post said: “Mfs always see my folks and be on some wats up with pookie wats up wit wild like they really f*** wit a n**** but don’t f*** wit no n**** I been gone all this time and have a FB page MF if u f*** with me u would’ve made sure I was straight fym get tf out of here with that bs been doin this shyt by my mfn self I’m screaming F*** u n**** and b****** keep the same energy wen they free me..”

Cleotha Abston Social Media & Criminal Record Revealed
 
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allvol123 said:
It sucks, but your feelings on it sucking are irrelevant in life.

Would you let your wife take a jog in Memphis at 4am? I wouldn’t. Do I think in a perfect world it should be ok? Yes. But it isn’t perfect. So make decisions based on that.
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I know that this question has caused a lot of arguments in this forum and I’ve seen people really get into it on Twitter, but it’s relevant. Me and my wife, who is from Memphis and around the same build and a few years older than the victim, just had a conversation about whether or not she would feel comfortable jogging at 4am around the University and she said she wouldn’t . I told her I just couldn’t allow her to do that, either in the small town we currently live in or definitely not Durham, NC, our former town, which is Memphis Lite. I don’t think this is victim shaming, it’s something that’s relevant to the case. It wasn’t 4pm, it wasn’t 4am in Mayberry, it was 4am in Memphis and IMO the chances of being put in a bad spot are much greater between 11pm and 5 or 6 am. I don’t think anyone thinks this is acceptable, but it’s a reality. A very sad reality.

I want to be clear that This post isn’t aimed at anyone in her family who is second guessing themselves. I’m sure she has done the same routine a thousand times and she gets home, showers, the husband gets the kids going and their day is off from there. I guess when you see something horrible happen to a good person and family you want to help or wonder how it could’ve been avoided . Part of the answer is probably not jogging at 4am. The biggest part is the monster who unfortunately cannot be publicly executed on the courthouse lawn.
 
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norrislakevol said:
There is no correct answer here if your wife or girlfriend asks you this. Any answer you give will be wrong. Also, If they ask you this you are expected to read their minds perfectly. If you are wrong on your guess then it is a bare minimum of 3 hours of cold shoulder. If you ask them this question then you will almost always get the answer "I don't care". I can tell you for sure....they do.
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This is absolute gospel.
 
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wmcovol said:
Tennessee has a lot invested in Memphis. And a lot of tax revenue. But Shelby County is a mess.

Chattanooga trying to be Little Memphis.
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Shelby County is a mess but they are absolutely given the short end of the stick by the state government....
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
Except that it’s complete nonsense. I went to law school in Memphis 20 years ago and it was poor and dangerous then. It’s a city of have and have nots
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What kind of parent lets their kid go to law school in Memphis? They must be horrible parents. A real man wouldn't have let this happen....
 
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My buddy's dad went to dental school in Memphis, he always carried a .38 snubnose wherever he went. He sold the gun when he graduated and a few years later got a call from the ATF because it had been used in a homicide. The guys I knew who went to med school there were constantly dealing with car breakins, house breakins, random threats of violence, etc. not to mention the constant stream of GSW's working ER rotations. There were a couple guys in the ER that had come home from Iraq and they said the ER on a Friday night was much worse than anything they'd seen over there. The consensus was the guys that were angry about being shot and plotting revenge survived at a much higher rate than the guys calling for their mommy.
 
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Vol Main said:
West Tenn, Biden is not a perpetual liar. You would be, if you had sense enough to know that the things you are forever saying aren't true. But you don't.
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About that...

Let's Face It: Joe Biden's Serial Lies and Embellishments About His Biography Are Shamelessly Weird

You want to take the classic "Well what about..." angle it's just a deflection. Only one of these statements can be true;

Biden is on record with multiple vetted falsehoods
or
Biden has few to no recorded false statements
 
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