re: Waterproof police chief terminated after participating in rap video

It is a speed trap for sure.

This is what happens when you elect or appoint someone based on a desire for diversity and not qualifications.

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This is what happens when you elect or appoint someone based on a desire for diversity and not qualifications.

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The town is 90% black. Who else are they going to get?

She arrested a drug dealer in the video. It could have been worse.

Poor decision to be in the video but what kind of person is lined up to replace her in Waterproof?

IIRC Claire Chennault and 1960s ABC newsman Howard K. Smith ate from Waterproof

Back in the day there was a newspaper headline that read "Waterproof negro drowns"

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I've lived in LA almost my entire life and I've never heard of Waterproof, LA

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Never heard about the Waterproof resident that drowned in Dry Lake?

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I'm more interested in learning how the town got named Waterproof.

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Back in the 1830s, one of the most popular spots for covered wagons crossing the Mississippi River was just north of present-day Natchez. As many as 50 wagons a day would cross, carrying settlers bound for Texas. Many of them tired of the journey, and simply stopped on the Louisiana side and made that spot home.
Often this area was under water, and on one such occasion, Abner Smalley, one of the early settlers, stood high dry on a small strip of land waiting for a steamboat to make its usual landing for a refill of cordwood. The captain cried out to Mr. Smalley, "Well Abner, I see you're waterproof," and that's how the name of this town was born.

NOT Dry Lake...it was Dry Prong !!