About 30 minutes ago, Ken Hodges kicked off his campaign for Attorney General at the Gold Dome (unless something came up that caused it to be postponed).
He is traveling the state today, making a number of stops with press conferences to kickoff his campaign. One of those stops is in Columbus at Noon. Immediately following Hodges’ conference, the Georgia and Columbus NAACP will hold a joint conference in Columbus with Edward DuBose. Why?
President Edward O. Dubose will be addressing the subject of Ken Hodges coming into the very community he failed and robbed of justice subsequent to the December 10, 2003 shooting and killing of an unarmed African American male with an Mp5 submachine gun by a Muscogee County Sheriff’s deputy while face down in the southbound lane of I-185. Kenneth Brian Walker was shot twice in the head … Ken Hodges on November 23, 2004 failed to secure a grand jury indictment, failed to recommend the grand jury return a True bill in the homicide death … and allowed former Deputy David Glisson to give unsworn testimony at grand jury … Subsequently Ken Hodges failed to convene a second grand jury in the Walker case when Attorney General Thurbert Baker made it perfectly clear the decision was Ken Hodges’ to make. Ken Hodges justified not convening a second grand jury claiming there had to be new evidence in the case. Hodges’ never produced any law, statue, or code supporting his claim or the requirement for new evidence. The shooter in the death of Kenneth Walker never faced a judge or jury in a criminal trial.
Ouch.
I have no doubt the Hodges’ folks will have a response and when I get it, I’ll post it here.
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