OK, THIS IS GOING TO LOOK BAD ON HER RESUME

by Bob Walsh

OK, so there are these four 10th grade boys, all Black, in Wynne, Arkansas. On August 7 they were out and about selling discount cards for local restaurants and businesses to raise money for their school football team.

They encountered Jerri Kelly, who is White, and who asserts that she is a former law enforcement officer and the wife of a current county jail administrator. Kelly called the cops, told them there were several male African Americans making a ruckus on the street in front of a house and that "I know this residence to be White." (She is in fact the wife of a Cross County Sheriff's employee.)

As they walked up her driveway towards her door she stepped out with her revolver and ordered them to hit the deck. They did. She held them for the cops, presumably for walking in a White neighborhood while Black. She did not seem them do anything illegal, not even remotely so. She never asserted they did. When they tried to explain themselves she accused them of lying.

Kelly, 46, was arrested for flagrant stupidity, four counts of aggravated assault and first degree false imprisonment and four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor on the second degree. The assault and false imprisonment charges are felonies. (I just made up the flagrant stupidity part.)

Her next court appearance is on Sept. 30. It is not known if she has yet entered a plea. It was not clear from the news story whether or not she is still in custody.

Wayne County Schools is reviewing their policy regarding door-to-door fundraising, out of safety for their students.

This woman is only 46. How much of a peckerwood dipshit do you have to be to pull that kind of crap now days. It isn't 1957 any more, even in Arkansas.