Sheriff Morgan thought the burning of Kershown Stallworth's body was "funny."
Mr. Outzen's written presentation of what Sheriff Morgan said on the radio show reads: "This young man was involved in criminal activity, drugs. There was some marijuana measuring devices and scales in the car that were not incinerated. Here a young man, again, engaged in a very high-risk behavior and paid the price for that. As you well know, the drug trade is a very violent trade." HERE
But, that is not really an accurate representation of what Sheriff Morgan actually said.
Starting at the 3:45 mark and ending at the 4:25 mark here is what Sheriff Morgan actually stated (my own transcript with emphasis added):
"This young man [Mr. Keshown Stallworth] was, I will release this, he was involved in criminal activity, drugs. There was some marijuana measuring devices and scales in the car that were not incinerated. It's funny when you have a fire, what burns and what does not burn. I mean it was obvious that it was in the vehicle, it had been damaged obviously by the heat of the fire. But there were weights and measures for the distribution of marijuana. Of course, we want to interview some other folks who were around there. And so, here a young man was engaged in very high risk behavior and he paid the price for that. As you well know, the drug trade is a violent trade."
Not only was Mr. Stallworth's body burnt "beyond recognition" "funny," according to the Sheriff, but Sheriff Morgan opened the show with "demonizing" language characterizing Mr. Mr. Stallworth and all young Black males in Escambia County as "Super Predators" (see the accompanying CJ's Street Report).
Ms. Sheard told me that it was "not funny about his body burning. They are taking the last vision from me. There is nothing funny about that all. It is just shocking what the Sheriff said. Really shocking. It makes me feel that they are not really going to investigate his murder; that they really don't care about Keshwon and all the other young Black men who have been senselessly killed."
When told that Sheriff Morgan had described her son Keshown as a "Super Predator," her immediate reaction was, "bullshit." She said, "Keshown was not a super predator." She added, "They don't know Keshown. Just because he went to an alternative school for kids with disciplinary problems, they can't judge Keshown."
A "Super Predator," as explained in the accompanying article is an "urban legend" based upon "junk science" having "no evidence" and amounting to nothing more than "racist speculation."
The only evidence that Mr. Stallworth may have been associated with marijuana is the measuring devices in the car. But, the Sheriff did not state where the scales had been found in relationship to his body. The Sheriff presented no evidence that Mr. Stallworth had ever owned or used those particular measuring devices in question. Maybe someone else had put them in the car. And, the Sheriff presented no evidence that the measuring devices had anything to do with Mr. Keshown's murder. There is simply a correlation that measuring devices, that may or may not have been used to measure marijuana, were in the same car as Mr. Stallworth.
This Street Report compares who Keshwon Stallworth was, according to his family, with who Keshwon Stallworth was according to Sheriff Morgan.
READ WHOLE ARTICLE AT http://cjsstreetreport.blogspot.com/...