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Round 1
First, the Shelby County DA's Office finally released body cam footage from the March 28th No Kings protest.
It shows what seems to be a typical march, with demonstrators chanting whatever it is they chant and walking down the street.
But then you see A man approach officers to report possible trouble at the rear of the protest— he seems to say protestors are pushing cars.
After some initial confusion due to noise, they figure out what the man is saying and rush to move in.
what follows is pretty chaotic.
Officers deploy pepper spray almost immediately on the group in orange vests,
called Protests Marshalls,
who seem to be bringing up the rear of the march, not pushing a car.
The officer wearing the camera appears to get overly aggressive, pushing a protestor to the ground almost immediately and then spraying another man who is trying to play peacekeeper.
And Eventually it appears both are taken into custody.
The DA says they've received dozens of requests for the footage and released this portion due to the time constraints on redaction.
While I usually like to give officers the benefit of the doubt this particular video leaves me unimpressed.
What do you think? Justified or outta line?
Round 2
Next, Nashville may finally be getting a Super Bowl?
That's right — today NFL owners are expected to vote on the host of the 2030 Super Bowl & Nashville is expected to take it.
You may be asking, why now? We've had a football team for almost thirty years.
Well a few years ago the Titans and Joe Taxpayer went halfsies on a stadium, and since the new one has a roof, now we qualify.
To be fair, taxpayers actually paid a little more than half, 1.2 of the 2.1 billion.
What did our money buy us?
The smallest stadium to ever host a Super Bowl at just sixty thousand seats.
And that means tickets are gonna be stupid expensive.
If six hundred thousand people packed downtown for the Draft in 2019Imagine what the crowd downtown will look like by twenty-thirty.
That's if any of the bars survive that long.
Im going to go ahead and predict that'll be the worst weekend for traffic in Nashville's history.
That's 2 stories down 1 left to go, do you think hosting a Super Bowl is worth the Taxpayer Money we funneled into the stadium
Round 3
Last, the Stewart County Sheriff's Office is always coming up with creative stuff for their jail.
This time it's gardening.
Yesterday they posted pictures of their inmate garden being planted.
It's a shared inmate garden and The way it works, is the male inmates till the ground and get it ready for planting, then the female inmates come through and do the planting.
The sheriff's office has had this garden for several years, but they say this year's is a little bit bigger.
The inmates will tend to it all summer and harvest the vegetables themselves.
If the birds and rabbits dont get to it first.
This sounds like a pretty solid program — keeps the inmates busy and gives them something better to eat than honey buns.
But I gotta ask… did y'all notice the inmate in the middle of the picture?
Are those teal boots with yellow soles standard issue or special order?
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