Weems

[weemz]

noun

1. Mason Locke Parson Weems, 1759–1825, U.S. clergyman and biographer.

Example Sentences

Though Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems admitted in a Wednesday interview that the meme contained no explicit threats and that investigators knew it referred to a past shooting in Iowa, he defended the arrest as necessary to calm fears in the community.

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“This has everything to do with a guy coming onto a Perry County page posting this picture leading people in our community to believe that there was a hypothetical Perry County High School shooting that caused fear in our community – and we done something about it,” Weems told News Channel5 investigations in Nashville in an interview.

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Weems acknowledged that the meme contained no explicit threats and that his department knew it referenced a real Iowa tragedy.

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Still, Weems argued, Bushart’s refusal to delete the post left authorities little choice.

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Since 2019, the Getty has staged six major exhibitions of Black photography, including one featuring the work of New York’s Kamoinge Workshop — a collective of Black photographers formed in 1963 — an exhibition with Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems in dialogue; and another spotlighting prominent Afro Cuban photographer Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.

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