Demont Forte Charlotte's Menace To Society Back in Court Today

This afternoon career thug and felon Demont Forte will make another court appearance. Forte was arrested on July 4th and is facing charges of Felony, Assault, Common Law Robbery  and Conspiracy.

Forte was released on bail of $3,000.00 / $300.00 cash on July 6th despite violation of his terms of release on the assault on a female, assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run and property damage charges that he's facing for a road rage incident in 2021.

Forte is on the September 28 docket for those charges.

Mecklenburg County DA Spencer Merriweather dismissed all charges resulting from a 2017 stand off with CMPD where SWAT Officers were required to take Forte into custody for outstanding warrants for felony breaking and entering, assault on a female, and communicating threats. 

During that stand-off local media reported that Forte had been arrested more than 40 times, including for numerous violent and drug-related offenses. He was also arrested on a murder charge in April 1992.

SO why use Forte as an example?

Forte is a repeat felon who has escaped consequences again and again. 50 arrests over the last dozen years yet no convictions? Why? 

Keep in mind these are only the crimes he's been arrested for, only the ones where he's been caught.

As the above chart shows nearly 80% of the violent crimes in Charlotte are committed by African Americans. Yet they are less than 1/3 of the population. That means that based on these CMPD number by a 10-1 ratio blacks are commuting more violent crimes in the Queen City. But because they are only 1/3 of the population the ratio is actually 30-1 and that's insane. Simply put you will encounter 30 violet black felons before you ever meet up with one.

Why?

CP Update: Meck DA Spencer Merriweather has kicked the can down the road once again. Mr. Forte is back on the calendar for the AM session on 28 September Courtroom 4310 on the Road Rage Attack. Mr. Forte is still on the 30 August Calendar for the Felony Robbery charges from this year.

Emily Wall Now Age 30 Arrested Again

Local "Meth Queen" Emily Wall is back in Mecklenburg County Jail. CP's guess is that this is her 27th arrest and 29th stay at the McFadden Hilton. 

Is there not someone who can get this girl some help? I know Black Lives Matter and all that but could someone make an exception? At 30 she's really got a lot of living to do. But it would be sad if she spent it living in crack houses and on the street. Isn't there a judge that would say no release until your clean and sober, employed and in some sort of re-hab program. Or is Charloot just going to join Portland and say oh well its OK if some people are drugies?

Myers Park Neighbor of the Year Gregory Abrams

This video has been out for about a week maybe longer, so here's that back story as CP understands it. 

Over in Myers Park on Brandon Drive lives Gregory Abrams and his wife Jessica. They are from New Jersey via Florida. They've been a thorn in Myer's Park since they started an endless renovation project in 2016. 

The home has swelled from 3,200 in 2013 to just shy of 8,000 in 2019 and the construction projects continue. 

Literally every square inch of the back 2/3rds of Abrams lot is paved over or built on, creating massive amount of run-off that cascades into the adjoining neighbor's yards. 

This run off has repeatedly flooded neighbors yards and in the case of  the guy who confronts Dr. Abrams his garage which happens to be home to his 80 year old mother. 

Apparently her son the guy in the yellow shit decided to "have a word" with Greg about the flooding and the recent rains. Seems the son a Charlotte Country Day student is the one doing the video taping and can be heard encouraging his Greg to "woop his ass". 

Bonus fun: Entry in the property tax records states "discovered improvements" opps, no permit? 

A quick look at the county aerials shots and you can see why the neighbors hate the guy and construction has gone on for five years. Look at the mud covered street in the 2018 photo. Finally in 2020 it is done but the run off floods the neighbors yard.

And you can't do that. You are responsible for your runoff as I understand Mecklenburg County code. 

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Cedar's Take:

Myers Park is or at least was until now home to Charlotte's "old money" and if you didn't live in Myers Park or Eastover you either hadn't "made it" or you never will. 

Those who didn't fit in moved to the Quail Hollow or the Carmel Road areas. As other neighborhoods developed they all tried to emulate Myers Park. And still Myers Park withstood the test of time, the people, the streets and tree canopy the entire area dripped Southerness like a fresh cut honey dew melon. 

And then there's the McMansions like Dr. Abrams', you see them in front of Freedom Park the neo classical style gone to hell. The bigger the better and more stuff the merrier to hell with the neighbors.

And here we are.

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Charlotte's Levine Museum of the New South Featured in the New York Times

New York Times reporter Edward Rothstein penned a well thought out story on Charlotte's Levine Museum of the New South. The piece ran in the February 12, 2010 Time but was completely over looked by the Charlotte Observer.

Meckburbia thought it noteworthy:

It is unlikely that anything resembling the impressive Levine Museum of the New South would exist anywhere else. A museum of the New North or the New East would be merely peculiar, but here the term “New South” has a venerable heritage, recalling unrealized hopes and great expectations. There is also much at stake in trying to understand just what the term really means.



It came into use in the aftermath of the Civil War, signifying the changes that had to take place in the Old South. A rural agricultural world dependent on slave labor had to remake itself under the tutelage and dominance of the industrial North. This imposition of liberal modernity and urban life incorporated a demand for social transformation, an urgent call for restructuring the economy and a conviction that the South’s deepest beliefs must be jettisoned. It called for a full-scale reinvention. But there was little follow-through, so in the decades that followed Reconstruction, the process was punctuated by reversions and rebellions. The New South was always contested terrain.

The rest of the story is here.

The Levine Museum of the New South is at 200 East Seventh Street, Charlotte, N.C.; (704) 333-1887, museumofthenewsouth.org.