Two white men in Mississippi were arrested and charged after a Black man told police that they chased him down and shot at him while he was delivering packages for FedEx.

According to the Mississippi Free Press, on Jan 24, D’Monterrio Gibson, 24, said he was delivering packages in Brookhaven, Miss. when he saw a white pickup truck driving towards him. Gibson said as the truck approached he assumed the driver was leaving until it drove towards him and tried to block his delivery vehicle. He says as he tried to flee from the pick up truck a man standing in the road shot at him. The bullets missed him but were embedded in his delivery vehicle. 

“In my mind, I’m thinking (the driver) is leaving to go to the store or something like that, but then they get extremely close to me and start blowing their horn,” Gibson told the Mississippi Free Press. “I proceed to leave the driveway. As I’m leaving the driveway, he starts driving in the grass trying to cut me off. My instincts kick in, I swerve around him, and I start hitting the gas trying to get out of the neighborhood because I don’t know what his intentions are.”

“I drive down about two or three houses. There’s another guy standing in the middle of the street pointing a gun at my windows and signaling to me to stop with his hands, as well as mouthing the word, ‘Stop.’ I shake my head no, I hide behind the steering wheel, and I swerve around him as well. As I swerve around him, he starts firing shots into my vehicle.”

Gibson said he lost the duo when he reached the interstate highway.

He said the police did not take him seriously when he initially attempted to report the incident, telling him they had received a report of a “suspicious person” at the address he was at.

“I reached dispatch and let him know what was going on, and I only had a chance to get a little of the story out when he cut me off and he was like, ‘Were you at this address?’ I said ‘yes’.”

“He was like, well I just got a call of a suspicious person at this address. I was like, ‘Sir, I’m not a suspicious person, I work for FedEx. I was just doing my job.’”

According to the Clarion-Ledger, both men turned themselves in last week. Gregory Case was identified as the man who drove the truck and his son Brandon Case was identified as the shooter. They were arrested, charged and released on bond for the alleged attack. Gregory was charged with one count of conspiracy and released on $75,000 bond. Brandon was charged with shooting into a motor vehicle and released on $150,000 bond. 

Gibson’s attorney, Carlos Moore, says he wants both men charged with attempted murder, saying the men’s actions were reminiscent of those of Gregory and Travis McMichael, the father son duo who chased down and murdered Ahmaud Arbery.

“It’s just sad that it happens. It seems to be a copycat duo copying off the Ahmaud Arbery case,” Moore told The Mississippi Free Press. “They saw this man was a Black man, and they just hauled off and shot at him multiple times, at least the younger son did. The older guy tried to entrap him. They were working concertedly to try to entrap and kill this man. I mean, they shot at him several times. It’s amazing that he survived.”

Police Chief Kenny Collins, who is Black, does not want to blame racism for the actions of the Cases. He told The Daily Leader that “Brookhaven is not a racist, prejudiced town. You can’t judge a town by the actions of two individuals.”

A Black Lives Matter activist has been sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote after authorities told her she could. 

In 2015, Pamela Moses pleaded guilty to 10 counts, including evidence tampering, a crime that strips you of your right to vote forever in Tennessee. According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Moses stalked and harassed a Shelby County judge between February and March 2014 by pretending to be a lawyer and notary public, and trying to file a complaint against the judge. 

Although she denies committing the offenses, saying all she did was complain about elected officials, Moses accepted the plea after sitting in jail for five and a half months on a $500,000 bond. She said she saw the plea deal as her only way out. As part of the plea she was given an eight-year suspended sentence, and ordered to serve the time on probation.

“I maintain I did nothing but complain on public officials that were corrupt. That’s all I did,” she told WREG.“I complained about them and I put it in writing.”

Moses also said, when she accepted the plea deal, she was never told her voting rights would be revoked for life.

“They never mentioned anything about voting,” she told The Guardian last year. “They never mentioned anything about not voting, being able to vote … none of that.”

In 2019, both the corrections department and the county election commission signed off on Moses’ voter registration application, certifying that her probation had ended and granting her full voting privileges once again. 

The problems began after her application was approved. An official at the corrections department wrote an email to election officials saying the probation officer had made an “error” on Moses’ certificate. They wrote that Moses was still serving an active felony sentence and her voting rights had not been restored.

So when Moses submitted the certificate as part of her voter registration, she was charged with illegally registering to vote. 

She was convicted of the charge in November 2021, and sentenced last week to six years and one day in prison.

Moses said she had taken all the legal steps and believed her voting rights had been restored when she submitted the certificate. “I did not falsify anything,” she said in court.

“I relied on the election commission because those are the people who are supposed to know what you’re supposed to do,” she told WREG before her sentencing. “And I found out that they didn’t know.”

Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward told Moses in court that she intentionally deceived probation officials into restoring her voting rights.

“You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation,” Ward said in court.

Many believe there are racial elements to her sentence, as her penalty is much harsher than those in other recent voting fraud cases involving conservative White men. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund tweeted that the case captured how “there are two criminal justice systems in America.”

“Pamela Moses, a Black woman, has been sentenced to six years in prison because of a voting error. Meanwhile, white individuals who are known to have committed blatant voter fraud have only received probation,” the NAACP tweeted.

“They want to pick and control who the black leaders are in the south and they do it through voter suppression. They suppressed my right to vote,” Moses told WREG.

Moses’ attorney, Bede Anyanwu, said her client plans to appeal the case. “It’s all very, very disturbing,” the legal counsel said.