Shreveport Mayoral Candidate Threatened With Lynching Image

Red River Radio | By Chuck Smith

Published August 16, 2018 at 11:53 AM EDT

RACIST THREAT - Photocopy of document Shreveport Mayoral candidate Steven Jackson said was left at his family home Wednesday morning, Aug. 15, 2018. (Racial slur blurred by Red River Radio)

MAYORAL CANDIDATE THREATENED - Caddo Parish Commissioner and Shreveport Mayoral Candidate Steven Jackson held a press conference late yesterday. The purpose was to reveal that he had received an anonymous threat in the form of a crudely made image of a lynching with his picture. Jackson described the document.

Jackson, who is African-American said someone placed an envelope containing a sheet of paper with a threatening message at the Jackson family home on Ashton Street in Shreveport. The paper with the image was referencing Jackson’s participation on a multi-member commission that held public meetings the past year focusing on the future of the confederate monument that sits on the Caddo Parish Courthouse grounds. After those meetings, Jackson, along with a majority Caddo Commission members voted in favor of removal of the monument and a recent Federal Judge’s court ruling allows the parish to do that.

NOT DROPPING OUT - Jackson says he will remain in the race for mayor of Shreveport despite the threats.

Jackson said he has received other threats by telephone but maintained he will not drop out of the Shreveport Mayor’s race.

MAYORAL CANDIDATE THREATENED - Caddo Parish Commissioner and Shreveport Mayoral Candidate Steven Jackson held a press conference late yesterday. The purpose was to reveal that he had received an anonymous threat in the form of a crudely made image of a lynching with his picture. Jackson described the document.