Just A Reminder How Fast Things Can Go Ugly

Warning: The Above Video Contains Graphic Footage. 

This camera video shows Decatur Police Officers and a Macon County Sheriff's Deputy conducting a traffic stop just after midnight on October 12, 2022. 

Officers upon approaching the vehicle notice a weapon in the seat with Jamontey O. Neal. As Officers try to remove Neal from the vehicle he pulls the gun on them and fires the weapon striking one Officer several times and another officer twice. 

The videos released by the Decatur Police, 10 in all, show the 32-year-old Neal opening fire at close range range in the early morning traffic stop.

He had repeatedly refused commands to get out of the car and opened fire with one of two guns he had within his vehicle. 

The entire encounter lasts less and 90 seconds.

Decatur Sgt. Tim Wittmer's BWC shows him waiting letting his junior officer deal with the subject until he senses the threat level is too high. The video clip starts as he approaches the suspect vehicle. What he does next, likely saved the other officer's life.

Warning: The Above Video Contains Graphic Footage. 

Once again in slow motion provided by the Decatur Police Department:

Warning: The Above Video Contains Graphic Footage. 

Just a reminder from CP - Let's be careful out there.

More Than 100 Victims In Charlotte

100 in Charlotte alone, not even looking past the city limits. 

Add Gaston, Union, York, Cabarrus and Lancaster Counties (Meckburbia) and you have more than 150 in the past 12 months. 

The Murder of Ahylea Willard A Culture of Violence

The murder of Ahylea Willard showcases the casual manner in which kids and adults in Charlotte's African American Community view shootings.

Early Sunday morning Ahylea Willard was found by several people that lived at the Heritage Park Apartments. Video that has since been taken down shows multiple people on Facebook Live gathering around Ahylea's lifeless body. Oh my God a dead body shouts one bystander, another is laughing, then joking about her blood still being wet.

The screen grab from FaceBook live apparently shows the victim lying in grass behind her apartment.

The people (kids and adults) around her body were conspiring to steal the gold belt and gold jewelry she was wearing.  A bystander can be heard saying "I'm about to get gloves and take her jewelry and belt" as they dance laughing around her lifeless corpse.  

This is the audio only it starts after a short delay. Warning Graphic Content

To no surprise, when police arrived on scene, Ahylea's jewelry was gone.

A culture of violence, an accepted way of life in the hood. 

Ahylea Willard Murder - CMPD Needs Your Help

​Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Homicide Unit are requesting the public's assistance in locating the victim's vehicle taken during the recent homicide on Snow Lane.  

The Mercedes Benz C250, with North Carolina license plate number, TJV-4843 (pictured below), is believed to be connected to the murder of Ahylea Willard (DOB 09/02/1990) in the 7100 block of Snow Lane on Sunday October 23, 2022.    

The location and occupants are unknown at this time. The vehicle has been entered into the NCIC in connection to the murder.

Anyone who recognizes and/or locates this vehicle is asked to call 704-432-TIPS and speak directly to a Homicide Unit detective.  

Detective M. James is the lead detective assigned to this case.  

The public can also leave information anonymously by contacting Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600 or http://charlottecrimestoppers.com

For additional information about this case, please refer to the report: 20221023-1028-02.

Cedar's Take: The victim had connections in the Asheboro, North Carolina area. While the Mercedes is rather common in Charlotte it would really stand out in parts on Randolph County.

I'd also expect the plate has been swapped out by now but you never know.

Liberal "Soft On Crime" Agenda Allowed Thug's Crime Spree

Liberals in Raleigh like Senator Jeff Jackson who is now running to become Charlotte's voice in Washington voted along with Democrat Governor Roy Cooper to go easy on juvenile criminals.

According to Charlotte's Channel 9 - They uncovered warrants that revealed an 18-year-old is accused of robbing more than two dozen people across Charlotte while wearing an ankle monitor.

But Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said they couldn’t use the ankle monitor to find Kaivon Dashawn Belton’s location because it was being monitored by the North Carolina's Department of Juvenile Justice.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department refused an interview with Channel 9 Tuesday.

However, reporter Dan Matics learned that detectives were trying to work with the juvenile justice system to track his ankle monitor, but the police department said bureaucracy failed.

CMPD said they couldn’t access Belton’s electric monitor due to red tape while the accused criminal was terrorizing Charlotte’s Hispanic community by robbing multiple people at gunpoint.

Kaivon Dashawn Belton DOB 7/14/2004 Photo Courtesy MCSO

Jose Vasquez told Channel 9 on Monday that he was shot during an armed robbery attempt outside his house in late September.

“Then he hit me in the face, and I could no longer react,” Vasquez said. “He pushed me to the front of the house and then the other guy shot me twice.”

Detectives said Kaivon Belton and Cedius Tate, who are now adults, and two others went on a month-long crime spree preying on more than two dozen victims after they left ATMs and check-cashing stores.

Cedius Ahmari Tate DOB 3/11/2004 Photo Courtesy MCSO

Tate was arrested and released on an unsecured (cashless bail) Monday night.

Channel 9 learned from investigators on Tuesday that Belton, who recently turned 18, was on a GPS tracker that was ordered by the juvenile court system, while he committed the crimes.

“It’s a public safety crisis at this point,” said Marcus Philemon, a victim’s advocate with CharMeck Court Watch. “It could have totally been prevented.”

CMPD said it could only place his location from the device at the crimes after he was arrested.

Investigators had to wait on a search warrant because that information is protected within the juvenile justice system.

Philemon has worked with CMPD as a victim’s advocate and blames North Carolina’s decision in 2019 to send all suspects under the age of 18, no matter how violent the crime, to juvenile court.

“It tied the hands of law enforcement,” Philemon said. “It hid information from the public like juvenile record, juvenile activity.”

The system is broken everyone knew Belton was robbing and shooting people but liberal's like Jeff Jackson and Roy Cooper supported justice reforms in the name of George Floyd that prevented Law Enforcement from stopping them. 

Then in a major "Up Yours" to CMPD Officers, liberal appointed Mecklenburg County Magistrate's released Cedius Tate without bail even though he was charged with more than a dozen felonies.

Welcome to Meckburbia Let's Roll!

Its Time For a Change - Cedar Posts Signs Off

It all began in 2009 with a miles long expose' of then newly hired police chief Rodney Monroe. 

I had met the new chief at a charity event and was unimpressed. His first to the buffet move and inability to acknowledge the rank and file in attendance was problematic to say the least and would become the hallmark of his time in Charlotte.

In short he had the personality of a sand gnat. Small and super annoying. 

I watched Rodney up close interact with command staff at Hornet's games and each time was dismayed at his inability to connect. He'd walk past officers and sergeants with sleeves full of service stripes and not speak to them.

At some point he figured out his floor seats where next to mine at the Hornet's games. The highlight of my life was sitting next to Vilma Leake and Rodney Monroe. (Sarcasm) Actually the theft of his golf cart during the Wells Fargo Tournament would be the highlight.

Or the time command told him raiding my home with a search warrant to take my computer wouldn't be a good idea since the Editor of the Charlotte Observer was my next door neighbor.

I was told my Naval Officer background was expecting too much, that lead by example and  never passing someone without an appropriate greeting was beyond Monroe's scope of ability.

It is my firm belief that Rodney Monroe's tenure at CMPD is represented by the legacy of low morale and inability to recruit new officers today.

My apologies to the many of CMPD who over the years have been accused of either being CP or giving leds. 

Somewhere Cedar Posts took a dark turn. And while providing a venue for current and former CMPD Officers to let off some steam and take swipes at command it has also gathered the attention of liberal nutbirds and cop haters. 

The cop haters have tried doxing, tried to cancel the CP twitter account and on more than one occasion tried to shut down the CP Blog. 

Truth be told CP only took on this idea as crime in Charlotte has exploded. Not a day goes by without a shocking crime of violence and a local media that remains silent refusing to address the fact that our DA is incompetent and judicial system is broken. 

Our Mayor is as dysfunctional as Chicago's Lori Lightfoot.

The murder Sunday of 32-year-old Ahylea Willard will be Cedar Posts final contribution of that sort.

Going forward Meckburbia will cover this sort of madness. 

I'm not sure if it will morph into the same dark look and feel of Cedar Posts. We shall see. 

I'm open to suggestions.

I do want to acknowledge the dozen CMPD, CFD and media types who provide content anonymously y'all better than I am at this. 

And so as Paul Harvey used to say after a long pause ...... page two....