‘White trash’ remark sparks south Macon dispute

Dispatches: On the morning of May 11, a man who lives on Stanislaus Circle near the intersection of Macon’s Vineville and Pio Nono avenues reported that someone had stolen his 2002 GMC Yukon. A Bibb County sheriff’s report said the keys had been mistakenly left in the SUV and that the last time the Yukon was there for sure was sometime the night before while the man and his wife were out “chilling” by their pool. . . . One day last month there was a report of a “domestic disturbance” on Telfair Street. The April 19 incident near Tindall Heights on the southern edge of downtown Macon reportedly involved a woman tearing off the license plate, slashing the tires and heaving a brick into the windshield of her boyfriend’s 1973 Chevy Impala. The boyfriend said set her off when their young son began crying and fussing, a sheriff’s report noted, and the boyfriend told the woman, “He’s like that because you spoil him.” . . . On the city’s south side, threats were made, music blared and someone was drunk in a stir on a side street below Eisenhower Parkway the evening of May 15. When a sheriff’s deputy arrived, there on Jessamine Drive just east of the Krispy Kreme on Pio Nono, a woman explained that the commotion arose because one of her neighbors keeps “calling her family white trash.”

This story was originally published May 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "‘White trash’ remark sparks south Macon dispute."