Nathan Forrest Would Be So Proud of You Guys

Now the pieces of the puzzle are coming together. When I was threatened by Officer Hobson the other week I really didn’t know where it was coming from, but after receiving several e-mails about his friendship/relationship with our city clerk, Stephanie Mullings, it’s becoming more and more evident why he approached me the way he did. He was channeling that same mentality that led to the death of Mack Charles Parker—the man that was murdered while in police custody when a white woman lied about what actually happened. Like I’ve stated before, the currents of bias and division that fueled the conundrums of the past have truthfully only cloaked themselves in subtler, more nuanced garbs, and as such, requires a far warier and sophisticated frame of mind to navigate them successfully. In other words, they’ve traded their hoods, swastikas, and shaved heads in and replaced them with badges. They no longer hold white power rallies, they hold political office. When Hobson approached me with his threat, I was confused for a moment. I thought to myself that he couldn’t possible be upset because I shared a link on my facebook page about something he did while he was an officer in Meridian. Before that day, I never had any interaction with Darren Dennis Hobson, but for some reason, he knew me. Then after posting about the incident, the e-mails started coming in, telling me about how Hobson and Stephanie were friends and detailing some of the conversations they had while at city hall. Now it started to make sense. Again, our city clerk is enlisting others to do her dirty work,(I hope Sue finally see where it’s gotten her—but I guess all the extra comp hours were worth it.) I wish she would stop pretending that she’s a victim. I tip my hat to her—Stephanie’s a bold female dog. That garden tool had the nerve to brag about getting rid of my job application in front of several witnesses. You talk all this ish while you’re at city hall, but want to act brand new when confronted about the things you say. I find it fascinating that you can remember everything I say on this blog, but can’t remember what was said at a board meeting. But this post was not supposed to be about you, it’s about your friend Hobson.
The first time I heard anything about Hobson was when I was at the gas station and I saw his name painted on the side of one of the patrol cars, and I asked why was this car personalized and did he think he was the chief? Lumberton is a small municipality and we don’t have personal cars for each officer. They do, however, have many more patrol vehicles in cities like Meridian. Tagging a car in a small municipality is tantamount to a dog cocking his leg and pissing on a tree to mark his territory. I know that this board is proud of Hobson’s actions and probably won’t do anything about Hobson’s threat against me, but when he goes off the deep end for the third time, there will be a paper trail, and the city of Lumberton will be held liable for their actions. Hobson has already been suspended once for conduct unbecoming of an officer—and that’s the clean version of what happened (strike one), then he threatened a citizen that he took an oath to serve and protect (strike two); now when this Nathan Forrest wannabe fall off the wagon again, and from the stories posted in the Meridian Star and wtok.com, he will strike again—that’s when the City of Lumberton will be on the hook for failing to address his behavior. If Hobson was planning to sue me for slander because I posted a link about his arrest for domestic violence, the first thing he should have done was contact the Chief of Police and let him handle the matter and then contact his lawyer. He was operating outside the realms of his duty as a law enforcement officer when he approached me in the parking lot of the library—especially since he was in the process of filing a slander suit against me. But that point is moot. The real issue is the fact that he lied on his job application. The first question on the Lumberton Police Department job application is “Have you ever been charged or convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony?” and Hobson stated on his application “No” but his application was dated after he was charged with domestic assault in 2008—compare that with the day he filed his application with the City of Lumberton. I’ll save the rest for court or my next blog post. But just a reminder, whenever a person testifies in court all prior bad acts can be used to attack a person’s character or lack thereof.