Witnesses saw an armed group harassing Helene aid workers in a small Tennessee town, sheriff says

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Witnesses saw an armed group harassing Helene aid workers in a small Tennessee town, sheriff says

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and SARAH BRUMFIELD
Updated 5:26 PM EDT, October 16, 2024

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Witnesses reported seeing a group of armed people harassing hurricane relief workers in a remote Tennessee community last weekend, a sheriff said Wednesday as a man in North Carolina appeared in court for allegedly threatening aid workers in that state.

Although there is no indication that the incidents are related, they come with the Federal Emergency Management Agency facing rampant disinformation about its response to Hurricane Helene, which came ashore in Florida on Sept. 26 before heading north and leaving a trail of destruction across six states. Reports of threats to aid workers sparked a temporary shift in how FEMA was operating in western North Carolina.

In Tennessee, Carter County Sheriff Mike Farley said that witnesses reported Saturday that FEMA workers were being harassed by a small group of armed people in the remote community of Elk Mills, not far from the North Carolina border. No arrests were made, but Farley said that the people who showed up were looking to cause trouble.

“It was a little hairy situation, no guns were drawn, but they were armed,” Farley told The Associated Press.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/fema-north-carolina-disinformation-threats-militia-c1595fef596d0f78638ba4177bfa76af

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. My reaction is to say that FEMA can

just leave those residents to themselves. And good luck to them.

[slightlv]

2. I would go one step further than you, Poindexter...

Where possible, pair of Fema workers with National Guard troops or other trusted military/authority figures capable of and allowed to shoot guns. Whenever a Fema worker came under fire of any kind... word, deed, or ammo... shoot at and at least wound the militia members doing the threatening.

People, we are NOT going to get these people back to living in a society once again, unless it's their own society, alone. So, if you don't want to split up the country (TOO many problems in doing that, tho I think they could be worked out), and you dont want to deport them to Russia, Hungary, or Somalia and strip them of their U.S. citizenship, then the authorities are going to have to do more than hand slap and call them names.

They're gunning for us. Karma's a bitch....

[dalton99a]

3. +1