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Rally set to support defendant in racially charged Bootheel caseFriday, November 6, 2009KENNETT, Mo. -- A rally Nov. 16 in Kennett is in support of a woman accused in a racially charged case with assaulting two police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace. The now-24-year-old Heather Ellis has said she moved into a check-out lane at Walmart to join a cousin whose line was moving faster Jan. 6, 2007. Other customers said she cut ahead of them. Kennett police said they arrested Ellis after she wouldn't calm down or obey requests to leave the property. They have said in court filings that she kicked one officer and struck another trying to arrest her. Ellis, who is black, claims she was pushed by a white customer then called racial slurs by officers who physically mistreated her. Her trial is scheduled later this month in Dunklin County. Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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Sounds like she did cut in line. No cuts!
Video and audio will sort this out very quickly.
line-butter-inner
so basically is she saying that she can cut in line because she ain't white?
call the rainbow coalition!
Of course it was because she was black! It couldnt have been that she was resisting the police or the fact that she cut in front of people that were already in line. It amazes me how this crap has been turned into a racial issue.
Too bad they can all come together to spotlight this incident but never a peep when it's blacks killing each other. If they were to unite to clean up their own communities they would have more creditability in this instance.
The rent-a-mob crowd is really starting to get on my last nerve.
yy4me
Your post is so TRUE. I can not add anything more to your comments.
Rent-a-mob crowd. WOW..so true.
Black, white, or anything else, this incident is so childish. Anyone with reasonable intelligence knows that, just because your cousin lets you in line, its still butting in. This is nothing more than playing the race card to see what can be had for nothing. If she was kicking and hitting officers, she needs to pay the price.
Ridiculous behavior regardless of color!!
i wonder if a movie will be made of it. I seems like this gal thinks she is somebody special and no manners or respect for law enforcement or auhorityshe'll end in jail someday anyway over something else.
January 2007 is when the incident happened? Why 23 months after the fact are they protesting? If it was that bad shouldn't they have protested, oh I don't know, like in 2007 or so?
omg!! wont be long before they r called n****** again? r u serious? when has it ever ceased? all this conversation because someone butted in line? since when do the police get involved for someone butting in line at a freaking walmart? please tell me this is more than somebody buttin in line!!! Please say it aint so!!