Choctaw vice chief calls account ‘malicious’
The vice chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has issued a statement to clarify the facts surrounding an altercation last month with a male student at a community college after going there to retrieve his minor-age daughter from a dorm room.
Assault charges were filed against Vice Chief Eddie Sam and subsequently dropped in the March 31 incident at East Mississippi Community College in Scooba, according to Kemper County authorities.
Sam contacted The Neshoba Democrat in an effort to set the record straight after reports he characterized as malicious attacks appeared in another publication.
A Tribal Council resolution earlier this month to remove Sam based on the allegations failed.
The Democrat article reports that when Sam made an appeal to the other publication, the upstart Philadelphian newspaper, he had to make his case not only before the editor of that paper, but also to the mayor of Philadelphia and the local economic development agency head.