A white Mississippi woman accused of brandishing a handgun at an African American couple while telling them to leave a campground has been fined $250.
at an African American couple while telling them to leave a campground has been convicted of a misdemeanor charge.Local news outlets report 70-year-old Ruby Nell Howell of Starkville was found guilty Tuesday in Oktibbeha County Justice Court of threatening exhibition of a weapon. She was fined $250 and ordered to pay $182.50 in court fees. Howell will not be jailed.
The charge follows May's widely shared video of a woman in a Kampgrounds of America shirt holding a revolver as she tells the couple to leave because they had no reservation.Jessica and Franklin Richardson, the couple, said they didn't realize they needed a reservation and would have left if asked.
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