On the same day as the JSU demonstrations, Connie Slaughter, one of my attorneys, had taken Goon Jones’s deposition in regard to my case. She had the chance to cross-examine him. In many ways, the shooting probably seemed like payback for him. Having a black woman ask him all those questions and accuse him of lying—it was basically unthinkable at the time, and the shootings at JSU probably seemed like an opportunity for him to once again assert his dominance and place in society. Goon Jones retired from the state highway patrol to run for Simpson County sheriff, a position he held for nineteen
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