Northside Columbus: We need more police presence to prevent gun violence in our community

Police: We do not care. We owe you no answers or explanation even though you pay our salaries and define our reasons for existence. We should let Lowndes County deputies patrol the city while we put our thumb in a pie in the corner and sit on it and spin.

The older people are blaming the young people. The much older people are blaming the parents. And the teenagers say it’s all they’ve ever known.

Shots rang out on 15th Avenue North, just down the road from Helen’s Kitchen, a Columbus, Miss. institution.

“Are they dead.!”

Solo got the call at 3:59 p.m.

Someone’s 8-year-old son has shot himself playing with a handgun.

“They not dead,” 40-year-old Solo reported to his cousin and friends.

With that, the party moved toward the scene of the shooting, a small White House on the corner.

Paramedics loaded young “Money” into an ambulance and transported him to Baptist. He was alive but hurt.

Bryan Moore and Chief Daughtry responded to the call, fashioned a tourniquet and likely saved the boy’s life by stopping the profuse bleeding.

Bryan Moore left the scene at about 4:09 asking neighbors and this writer to get out of the road, offering no news on the health of Money.

Chief Daughtry left the scene at the same time, offering no words of consolation to the neighbors and family standing by waiting for answers.

Sgt. Brooks was on scene and escorted this writer away from the mock perimeter out of “respect for the family.”

“Let’s just walk,” she said gently as she explained they were out of police tape and there was indeed a perimeter that everyone public and media should remain outside of.

Someone should probably order more police tape. Maybe Bryan Moore can be the design police-tape orderer. Perhaps he will be better at that than informing the public.

He is the public information officer for Chief Daughtry. A job description should define his duties. He should read it.

He does not know them.

Bryan Moore serves at the will of the police chief, City Council and thus, the city of Columbus residents.

Do you pay taxes in the city of Columbus?

Then you pay Bryan Moore’s salary.

And he answers to you.

He answers to me.

But according to Bryan Moore, he answers to no one.

And he would not answer this writer’s questions nor would he answer the call for more police presence.

He declined comment on behalf of Chief Daughtry.

He declined an interview on behalf of the women of the police department.

They have better things to do, he said, than to promote the police department in a feature article about black women in law enforcement.

He Wednesday claimed I had misquoted him. I offered to correct it should he send a correct quote.

He declined and instead texted that the city of Columbus supports him and knows his reputation.

Do you know Bryan Moore, Columbus?

He says you do.

He says you’re behind him.

I say, “Get thee behind me, Satan.”

I don’t know Bryan Moore.

And after finding out how pathetic an excuse of a police offer he is, I do not want to.

Please let me know if you are behind Bryan Moore. He says you are.

Look for screenshots on my Facebook and Instagram feeds later today.

I DO NOT know Bryan Moore.

I DO NOT know Chief Dandy Daughtry.

Go home, boys.

We have Rhonda Sanders, Lance Luckey, Deputies Freshour and Bushy.

I know THEM. I am behind THEM.

I know the sheriff. I am behind HIM.

WE don’t know Bryan Moore.

WE don’t know Chief Daughtry.

And we don’t want to.