Unfortunately this doesn’t qualify as a Body Cam Theater episode . . . not yet anyway . . . because without film there can be no BCT. Hopefully this footage will be released soon, but so far no luck. However, this story bothersome enough on a couple of levels that I want to write about it anyway.
In a nutshell, a no-good, rotten, semi-literate, gang-banging, armed thug, with horrible taste in “music,” named Touissant “Dime Sack” Sims was put down by a police officer in Moss Point, Mississippi on August 8th.
Now not only has the NAACP jumped in and begun crying, “Conspiracy!” but the officer involved and his family have received death threats, threats that are being taken very seriously by law enforcement.
The Sun Herald says, “The NAACP plans to question the authenticity of the Moss Point Police Department’s body camera footage of the death of Toussaint Diamon Sims if the eyewitness accounts don’t coincide with what is in the video footage.
”We made it known to the district attorney that the Moss Point Police Department broke the chain of custody of the (police) video cam evidence when they allowed (attorney) Calvin Taylor to review it prior to a grand jury,” Curley Clark, president of the Jackson County chapter of the NAACP said Thursday. “Therefore, we feel like there is an appearance of a possible cover up because our witnesses did not see a gun in Diamon Sims’ hands at the time of the shooting nor did they see a gun near his body after he was shot.”
Yeah, witnesses of events like this NEVER EVER lie about what happened. How many times in the past have we seen law enforcement officers wrongly condemned by alleged “eye witnesses” who’s testimony falls to pieces when video evidence is introduced?
The NAACP’s statement is just another helping of hypocrisy. Organizations like theirs love to celebrate the release of criminals wrongly convicted by eye-witness testimony when evidence comes out to overturn the convictions. But not in this case. Using their own stats against them, “According to the Innocence Project , 358 people who had been convicted and sentenced to death since 1989 have been exonerated through DNA evidence. Of these, 71% had been convicted through eyewitness misidentification.”
That’s 71% of eyewitnesses getting shit wrong. But that doesn’t matter in this case, right? An innocent, church-going, young black man was executed by a cop. End of story.
He dindu nuffin.
But for a dindu, he sure has a lot of unsavory friends crawling out from under various rocks on both coasts willing to avenge his death.
A cop had a justified shooting. Now his daughter sleeps surrounded by bulletproof vests.
A Mississippi officer who was involved in a fatal shooting of an armed suspect is now living in fear for his life and the safety of his family members. In the last few days, we’ve received reports that a hit is out on the officer who pulled the trigger.
Multiple officers in the Moss Point, Mississippi area may be targeted by associates of Touissant “Dime Sack” Sims following the officer involved shooting earlier this month that ended Sims’ life.
Intel reveals there may be a coordinated effort to kill officers involved in the shooting, leading the officer in question to do anything to protect his family.
The threat of violence has gotten so bad, the officer has had no choice but to setup kevlar vests around his daughter as she sleeps. As members of the police community… this is nothing short of heartbreaking.
Several of Sims’ associates have made threats to cause harm to members of law enforcement agencies and may have found information on where local officers reside.
Sims’ associates are believed to be traveling to the Moss Point area from California and Florida.
How odd that a dindu would have “associates” spread out over such a wide area. Using two large cities in each state as a starting point, it’s 1,979 miles from Los Angeles to Moss Point and merely 759 miles from Miami. That’s a hell of a long way from either direction. Can you say organized crime?
All departments in the area were warned to stay on high alert due to the threats, as they could easily end up being targets themselves.
Officers have been strongly encouraged to demonstrate extraordinary situational awareness.
According to reports, Sims’ own mother filed charges on him just a short time prior to the incident for allegedly breaking into her home and stealing his step-sister’s vehicle. It was noted that Sims’ mother was upset with the Moss Point department for failing to catch Sims prior to the shooting. Sims also reportedly had several active felony warrants in multiple cities, including one for severely beating his girlfriend with a pistol, knocking her teeth out.
Well, I guess at least Sims’ mom won’t be upset with the cops now. They definitely caught his sorry ass this time. Hopefully his girlfriend was able to get her teefs replaced.
Sims has additionally fled from officers during high-speed vehicle pursuits. In one of those chases, the vehicle apparently reached dangerous speeds and the chase was called off when police realized Sims had a child with him in the vehicle. During that same pursuit, officers reportedly saw Sims throw an assault rifle from the vehicle, which was recovered.
And then there’s this.
A recent video from Snapchat shows what appears to be a pistol with an extended magazine sticking out of Sims’ waistband — the exact same place that he allegedly had the gun on the day of the shooting. The officer’s attorney additionally described the pistol that was recovered at the scene similarly — a handgun with the same type of extended magazine.
Thugs do love their extended magazines, don’t they? They’re essential to their spray and pray shooting technique.
Yeah, no. That’s not his ding-a-ling sticking out of his pants. It’s a gangsta approved extended magazine. Possibly the Tupac Shakur autograph model.
And yes, he seems to think that you can communicate with someone by talking (if you can call it that) into a plastic bottle. I can’t really tell what’s in his other hand for sure, but it sure looks like drugs of some form to me, probably crack, and he appears to be eyeballing it to see if the quantity he’s probably about to sell is correct.
So when the public comes out and frames Sims as an innocent man who was brutally gunned down and ‘assassinated’ by police, we can see that those claims are completely false.
By that, they mean narratives like this coming from “Dime Sack’s” dad who as far as I know wasn’t present when this happened but sure speaks like he was. He also seems to have a strange obsession with meat.
The shooting resulted after Sims, who was wanted on several felony warrants, fled from police in a vehicle resulting in a chase in early August.
Sims crashed the vehicle he was operating and continued on foot. Officers pursued hoping to use a taser to subdue to him, however, when Sims reached for a gun in his waistband, one of the officers responded with gunfire.
Members of the local community claim that the officer was racist and intentionally murdered the 27-year-old. Some even claimed that he planted the gun that Sims was found with.
WXXV’s Kristen Anzuini reports that Sims’ great aunt Lakeisha Hardmon says of the deceased:
“He had a good heart. He had his flaws. I mean, we all do, no one is perfect. You show me a perfect person, I show you a lie. He had a lot of growing to do, but he still did not deserve to be done the way he was done.”
Auntie, there’s imperfection and then there’s outright lawlessness. He absolutely deserved to be “done the way he was.” He’s lucky it took as long as it did considering his record. As for his heart, unless a bullet hit it, it’s probably still OK. It’s just resting. So stop worrying so much.
Meanwhile, other members of the deceased family staged a sit-in at Moss Point City Hall and demanded that a meeting be held to address their demands, which include the termination of the officer who shot Sims, as well as the police chief.
However, Moss Point Mayor Mario King made it clear that City Hall had no authority over the employment of the officer and calls for a meeting would not be entertained.
And as for those eye witnesses? After seeing the body cam, according to the officer’s attorney, “The video makes it clear there were no witnesses,” Taylor said. “That’s why the video is so important . There are people that are providing information that may not be what they thought they saw.”
Imagine that. So people, presumably black, who weren’t even there are attempting to perpetuate the myth of black genocide via police? Say it isn’t so. Should any harm come to this cop or his family, the blame rests firmly on all of your heads.
