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A shocking attack on firefighters by an angry mob of street racers in Copiah County, Mississippi happened after a fatal car crash. Upset with what they believed to be an unreasonably slow response time, the group of 200 to 300 people assaulted the firefighters as they were trying to extricate crash victims from the cars.
Injured, the volunteer firefighters had to leave the scene. One of them was so badly hurt, he had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.
The area is a well-known spot for drag racing. It was after midnight on August 3 when someone called 911 to report the crash. Since the firefighters are volunteers, they had to wake up at their houses, grab their gear, then come together in the firetruck.
And since the accident wasn’t in the middle of a city, it took even longer to arrive.
But the street racers didn’t seem to care. Perhaps they were upset because 18-year-old Ken Zavion Brown had been killed. It’s not clear if the crowd knew that or not.
Now, the Copiah County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the assault on those first responders. The effort is focusing on identifying the suspects who attacked the firefighters, including body slamming one onto the road.
A WLBT report shows the stretch of road where the three-car crash took place. To the shock of nobody who knows underground street racing culture, it’s in the middle of nowhere with just trees, trees, and more trees visible.
However, it’s also at a T-intersection where one road terminates. Usually, in street races there are just two cars going head-to-head, although sometimes there are more if the road is wide enough.
But it’s possible an innocent bystander turned onto the road from the one that terminates there, not realizing they were coming upon a high-speed race.
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