At approximately 12:35 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5, Pensacola Police arrested a man after an argument led to an early morning shooting Sunday in downtown Pensacola.
Jeremy Andrew Brown, 31, was taken into custody several blocks away from the shooting. Brown is being held at the Escambia County Jail on a $110,000 bond for Attempted Homicide and possession of a firearm by a convicted Felon.
According to the county jail, Brown was homeless. Readers have shared that he hung out and slept in front of the old Dollarhide Music Store on South Palafox Street, which has been vacant for several years.
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Boy, you’re not that good at this, are you Steve? Surprised you didn’t just go all out with an LOL.
The only portion of the people in the local political realm who think my comments are based in either (1) innuendo or (2) personality politics are (1) the hopelessly deluded; and (2) those who resort to that claim when I’ve hit the mark, because they got nothin else.
I don’t know you well enough to say which category your response falls into (although I have my suspicions it’s some combination of the two). What *is* clear to me is that, having face-planted on trying to obtain relevancy through the Mayor’s race, you’ve now found your audience worship in social media groups thirsty for what you’re dishing up.
I’m confident that the majority of Rick’s readers who have read our back and forth will now have their antennae up on whether your cult brand of dangerous Facebook mongering is something that will have good results for the community. Thanks for playing.
Melissa: Ha! That is rich! Everyone knows that your posts are based on undocumented inuendo and personal attacks. By the way, it was one of the transients in the photo that committed the act of violence by shooting someone else. Have a great day!
I don’t have to expand, Steve, as you and plenty others know exactly what I’m talking about.
Your current efforts aren’t going unnoticed, either, and FYI plenty of people have the opinion that you are, intentionally or not, inciting violence towards homeless with your documentary efforts. Last night at a neighborhood watch meeting, someone mentioned that a “past officer who ran for mayor and lost” was getting busy documenting homeless Downtown.
Sure enough, there you were on the “Save Our History Pensacola Florida” Facebook group curating photographs of homeless outside businesses, eliciting this response:
“This just disgusted me and what’s bad is people will stand there and video it an not do a damn thing. I guess WE THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO HANDLE THESE PUNKS OUR SELVES. Who’s up for MASKED HEROES LOL”
I’ll be sending your post and that response along to the Sheriff’s Department and PPD warning them that your activities are resulting in an escalation of dangerous sentiment among the public. Yes, I’m aware that there’s a possibility you’d sic a crazy on us in retaliation. There are still a handful of us who won’t be frightened off from doing the right thing by cameras or guns.
Melissa, please expand on what you are trying to imply with this starement:
“the people who are well aware of your off-duty activities in the homeless camps aren’t surprised by your remarks.”
The plan proceeds right on target. A dozen or so years ago, the Russians saw their opening to bring this country to its knees by stoking culture wars and flooding the gun lobbyists, including the NRA, with money to loosen gun restrictions and incite a blood bath. Check.
Now we’re in the phase where the violence will continue to escalate unimpeded with the police forces increasingly holding the bag. They can’t police chaos, which is what these gun laws are meant to provoke by the forces trying to put this country in either a civil war or a bloodless coup.
The only question in this state is whether the next governor will take over DeSantis’s para-military militia, which will then use the argument that traditional police forces alone can’t control the violence. Enter the black boots.
This has all happened many times before in the course of history. We’ve just never gotten so close to losing democracy in this country before.
Steve, the people who are well aware of your off-duty activities in the homeless camps aren’t surprised by your remarks. I’ve yet to see a headline “Homed gunman unleashes on crowd.” Why wouldn’t a homeless man commit a shooting? This country has become a bloodbath in all directions. Wonder where you were for the comment on every young White Supremacist mass shooting has gone down the last few years. It’s all fun and games when it’s Black on Black crime in the hood, right? WOOPS–your party has unleashed it everywhere now. And it will only get worse, unless the Florida Sheriff’s Association and the PBA realize they’ve been set up and start to lobby for a roll-back of some of this absurd gun legislation.
Short of that, well, lock and load I guess, trained or not. And hope somebody else isn’t aiming when you’re not looking.
During my 30 plus years in public safety in our community, I had regular contact with transients as both a deputy sheriff and paramedic. Most of these individuals have chosen this lifestyle and make no real effort to make a change. Very few of the individuals you see on street corners and downtown sidewalks are not what most people consider “homeless”. Most of these individuals are not from this area and have no connection, (i.e., family or friends), to this area. They literally travel from place to place, (hence the term transients), and many get stuck here when they run out of money. I have heard personally from some that they came to Pensacola because it is known in their circles that Pensacola treats transients very well. Many have outstanding warrants from other jurisdictions. Many of them are regularly involved in criminal activity including theft, violent crimes, illegal narcotics, disorderly conduct, vandalism, and trespassing. The money they collect from well-meaning people is used for alcohol and drugs.
I do believe our community should assist the truly homeless such as the battered mom who had to flee her home to protect her family, or the family that lost everything because of a parent losing their job. But rarely are these the individuals you see hanging out on street corners and sidewalks downtown.
I do not believe we should be using tax dollars and limited community resources on transients that have no connection to our community, are not making any positive contributions,and are regularly involved in criminal and disorderly behavior.
To those that say we shouldn’t be concerned about transients setting up camp on downtown sidewalks outside businesses and residences, I would ask you the following question. Are you agreeable to have transients camping out in the right of away in front of your family’s house or small business? Are you agreeable to transients defecating, urinating, and strewing trash at your front door? I think not. So why should we allow it downtown.
Another Downtown Shooting: Florida’s default state law hours for the sale and on-site consumption of alcoholic beverages is from 7 a.m. to Midnight each day. If a municipality or county adopts these hours, the state’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives is responsible for enforcing the hours. The Pensacola City Council has not adopted the state’s hours. It extends them to 3 a.m. The city has to enforce the hours.
Escambia County’s hours are 30 minutes longer extending from 6 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. I’m always surprised when I drive by a bar on Sunday morning and see a dozen cars parked out front. What if Pensacola and Escambia County adopted the state hours? Would that reduce crime in downtown after midnight? It might reduce drunk driving. I have had PPD Officers tell me that they will not take their families downtown at night because there are so many drunks out driving on the roads. The city once had a DUI Squad but got rid of it perhaps to appease downtown bars. Mayor Reeves recommended and the Council has approved reducing the size of the PPD’s Traffic Unit from 15 Officers down to 6 Officers. If the city made an effort to reduce late night drinking maybe we’d have less crime too. Perhaps the city should contract with the Sheriff for a Downtown DUI Enforcement Unit.