A3 + PLUS >> Eight more days for local shopping, Opinion/4A CHS HOOPS GATORS Boys still Mullen welcomes unbeaten Braun, 2 others See Page 5A See Page 5A TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM KEITH MOBLEY HAMILTON CO. 1961-2019 Wreaths Across America MOM SAYS: Trump hat got child beaten But Hamilton sheriff, COURTESY LCFD superintendent both Keith Mobley dispute her theory. By CARL MCKINNEY LCFD says
[email protected] A viral video of an altercation on a Hamilton County school bus ignited a firestorm in con- goodbye servative social media circles last week, after the vic- to one of tim’s mother, a Twitter user with hundreds their own of thousands of followers, alleged sev- 37-year veteran dies Reid eral students of heart attack at 58. ganged up on her teenage son for wearing a By TONY BRITT pro-Trump hat. But law enforce-
[email protected] ment and school officials say As a driver/engineer with there’s no evidence suggesting the Lake City Fire Department, a political motive. Keith Mobley answered count- On Thursday, Twitter user less emergency calls for more Melissa Griffin, who posts as @ than three decades. Not only AmericanDiaries, uploaded a did he drive to the fires, but video snippet of a Nov. 21 inci- once on scene it was his duty dent showing her 14-year-old to oversee the hydraulics and son, Tyler, being held down water on the fire truck. and pummeled on a bus seat. A stickler for safety and fire- Griffin’s update was the latest in fighter traditions, Mobley made a series of tweets that began the sure firefighters were wearing day of the altercation with a post all their proper protective equip- claiming Tyler had been hospi- Photos by MICHAEL PHILIPS/Lake City Reporter ment, including gloves, helmets talized for head contusions.