Blonde Privilege
Honey, it pays in more ways than one to be a big haired blonde.
Julia Shields is 45 years old and lives in a really nice neighborhood in Chattanooga. Neighbors and police says she took off in her car at 4:00 in the afternoon last Friday and created more havoc than you can imagine.
The cops first came upon a couple who say an unknown woman shot at random into their car, luckily hitting only the radiator. Then reports started coming in that she was firing at other vehicles and even shot at people in their yards.
Police finally located her in the parking lot of Stuart Heights Baptist Church. When she saw the police, she took off.
She led officers on a high speed chase as she continued shooting at vehicles.
Eventually, officers stopped and arrested Shields at Cloverdale Drive and Koblan Drive, near the spot where the shootings occurred and just blocks from her house. She pointed her firearm at an officer, but was taken into custody without incident or injury, the release stated.
Without incident or injury.
I’m telling ya – big blonde hair is magical.
Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.
That poor woman is seriously off some much needed meds.
1But I suppose my brother could put her on the hood of his car and NEVER get stopped again for driving while black.
angela, wish it were true that your brother and others would be safe from the po pos. However, they’ve had their little fee fees hurt and are worse than a smacked hornet nest. Should old Julia jump on the hood and take aim through the windshield, the charge would be kidnapping and yes, she wouldn’t be the one arrested.
Past time to light up some police departments with lie detectors and psychological evaluations. They have nothing to hide, thus nothing to fear. Right? Well, that’s what they tell us, when we are supposed to obey any and all of their requests.
2Sounds to me like the holidays wiped her out. My solution for that feeling is to roll up the windows, drive around out in the country for about an hour and just scream. A lot.
3You point a firearm at an officer, you’d better be blonde.
A lot of the animosity against the police would be relieved if they would just say, whenever necessary, “Yeah, this one’s a jackwagon, and he’s being fired and charged with assault/rape/murder.” Same thing with the churches, same thing with doctors, same thing with the military, and so on. There are jackwagons in every profession, but closing ranks and protecting them is the worst thing these institutions can do.
4Maybe, just maybe this has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with good police training, tactics, judgement and respectable (a rarity these days) police officers?
5When “to protect and serve” has been replaced with “to mandate and subjugate” as the mantra of most police officers, those with some self control need to be recognized.
“without incident” I thought a high speed chase with gunfire was an incident.
At least she wasn’t carrying a toy gun. That could have gotten her killed.
6Honest to god, that woman looks like my long lost twin (although my eyebrows match my hair-color.) I had a rough day on Friday too, but all I did was kick my Christmas decorations to the curb.
7Another ross-eyed gun nut.
8Good thing she was not only blonde, but white!
9She continued to shoot at people while on the high speed chase. Actually, this is one case that the police could have been more aggressive. What if she had killed bystanders while on that chase?
10Shooting while blond works? JJ, make me an appointment in that there salon of yours. Make me a blond.
11Wait a minute…isn’t that Louie Gohmert wearing a blonde wig?
12Monty, good catch, except the one eyebrow acting independent of the other is the Marco Rubio mugshot. Maybe if the cops had water cannons, he would have stopped shooting for a drink.
13Looks like she has white out or sunscreen daubed on her cheeks and she in dire need of a good beautician! I wonder if someone from CO sent her a box of edibles for Christmas and she ate too much and just went nuts!! She looks a bit stupefied!!
14I wonder how many kids she has, and how many inlaws and outlaws were there for the holidays. And I know it’s not Gohmert in drag because her mouth isn’t open wide enough.
15note the gray hair in front of her ears. Honey, she’s got bad problems. She had a death wish if she drove around doing what she did. She looks like someone who just got off a big crying binge.
16Now, if anyone knows where I lost my one remaining hearing aid I’d sure ‘preshate it if you’d help me find it.
What this underscores is that for almost all of the people that live in my area, they almost *never* have situations where they need a gun, and much more frequently have situations where it is best that they *don’t*. I’m going out on a limb, and am extrapolating that reality to most of the rest of the country as well.
I’ve only had 2 circumstances where my life was threatened by someone with a weapon. Both times (once by police, the other by soldiers) would’ve been much worse (lethal) had I had a weapon, and both times the situation was a side effect of somebody else’s actions. In my 50+ years, I simply haven’t had a need for a firearm outside of target practice.
In my cynicism, I view the promotion of racism and ammosexualism during the current presidential administration as just being another effective ad campaign, not unlike those for cigarettes before the TV ban. Promote fear and take their money.
If no YouTube videos exist of non-Caucasians threatening police with weapons that survive their moment of insanity, I guess blonde is the new body armor.
17Damn! Just look at what bleach does to brain cells! My! My!
JJ, whats the rest of the story? Any reaction from her family? And did she have her very own bail money? Those charges are dead serious!
18This woman is pathetic and in desperate need of mental health treatment.
But take away her guns first.
19I think the white patches are vitiligo. (They are on her neck, too.) It’s an autoimmune skin disorder that takes out the pigment sites on your skin. I’ve got it, too, but most folks don’t notice because I work hard to keep from getting a tan. They don’t know what causes it, but stress can trigger it. Mine started in the last year of my marriage.
The extra-white patches in her hair could be dyed, but could also be caused by vitiligo.
20THAT is one scary … “blonde”.
21Maybe the police officer figure Big Haired Blondes can’t shoot straight. Seriously, anyone who looks at spaced out as this woman really shouldn’t have a loaded gun anywhere near. Scary.
22I think this highlights the big question for police departments nationwide. I think very few officers saddle looking for a black guy or gal to kill. I think the real question is how you can have white people in similar circumstances survive the incident. It is a difference in responses to crisis depending on race and/or gender.
23Is that picture some of Bubba Jr’s artwork? The face keeps changing. Today it appears to be Sean Hannity under the blond wig.
24Something about this story (the takedown) stinks to the high heavens
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