911 Dispatcher Donna Reneau/Debra Stevens Drowning Incident On September 1 2019, the following meme appeared in the Facebook group “LIVE PD FANS NO BOUNDARIES” (archived here), purportedly detailing an exchange between the woman shown in the photograph (911 dispatcher Donna Reneau) and a victim of flash flooding (Debra Stevens): The text over her head in the photo read: HELLO, I’M DONNA RENEAU, […]
Did an Arkansas Republican Propose Cutting Free Lunches to Punish Students? On February 26 2019, the Facebook page “Occupy Democrats” shared the following meme (archived here), alleging that state legislator from Arkansas Alan Clark proposed cuts to school lunch programs for disadvantaged children: Text around a photograph of Clark read: Idiot Politician of the Day – February 26, 2019 America, meet Arkansas Republican State Representative Alan Clark. […]
Is Arkansas Law Enforcement Photographing Inmates in ‘Nike’ Gear? The Union County, Arkansas sheriff’s department has responded to widespread outrage in October 2018 about its policy of photographing inmates in shirts bearing the Nike slogan: The Sheriff in Union County, Arkansas is putting Nike t-shirts on people they arrest and making them wear them during mugshots. Source says it is to mock Nike and […]