Wayne County Official Charged After Guns Come Out Over A Soda - The Truth

The director of Wayne County, Michigan’s parks division, Alicia Bradford, was suspended without pay after the Oakland County Prosecutor’s office charged her and her husband, Larry Bradford, with assault with a dangerous weapon and felony firearm. The charges stem from a gas station brawl involving Bradford’s husband just after midnight on New Year’s Day over a can of Mountain Dew.

Larry and Alicia Bradford kicked off 2025 with a visit to the BP gas station in Farmington Hills, Michigan, shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, proving that Times Square wasn’t the only place the ball would drop that evening. Surveillance video shows Larry Bradford at the counter inside the station’s convenience store trying to buy a can of Mountain Dew but protesting over being charged tax on groceries when, in fact, it was the state-mandated 10-cent bottle deposit fee the clerk was charging.

Overhearing Bradford’s argument with the clerk, the only other customer in the store, waiting in line behind him, decided to chime in, pointing out that the clerk was correct and that he had the “proof right there on the receipt.”

Bradford, however, having his feet firmly planted in the “no tax on groceries” argument, responds to the customer, “Quit saying that, man,” followed up with, “It ain’t none of your business.”

The customer, frustrated by Bradford’s lack of comprehension and likely wanting to pay for his items and move on with his evening, responded by telling him, “Well then, get the f**k out, man.”

The situation escalates as Bradford raises his voice, asking, “Who the f**k is you talking to?” prompting the customer to return an amplified “You!” With fists clenched at his side.

“Larry then engages towards and pushes (the customer) in his throat with his left hand twice … A physical struggle ensued. They are both seen pushing and pulling each other into merchandise racks, knocking various products onto the floor as they struggle,” wrote a Farmington Hills police officer in his report.

In the surveillance video, Bradford is seen using the can of Mountain Dew to strike the customer as he thrashes him back and forth, knocking over displays and merchandise in the store while stripping the customer of his shirt by pulling it over his head.

At this point, Larry heads to the door, saying, “Let me get my pistol,” and is shoved out by the customer, who turns back to the clerk, apologizing for the mess. That’s when Larry can be heard outside yelling three times, “Give me my pistol!” presumably speaking to his wife as the customer remained inside rummaging through the mess for his glasses, apologizing again to the clerk who was on the phone with authorities, and asking if he should wait there.

Several moments later, Larry returns to the convenience store, pointing a 9mm handgun at the customer while instructing him to get on his knees and apologize. The customer complies, getting down on his knees with his hands up. As he apologizes, Larry strikes him in the head while holding him at gunpoint. Understandably in fear, the customer remains apologetic while Larry tells him, “I should kill you. I should fg blow your fg brains out.”
Moments later, Alicia Bradford is seen entering the store and pointing her own 9mm handgun at the customer, demanding to know what happened. The customer responds by calmly telling her he is standing up as Alicia extends the pistol and tells him, “No, you gonna stay down there.”

In addition to the store clerk, Alicia Bradford called the Farmington Hills police. However, she found herself and her husband under arrest when authorities arrived on the scene. Apparently, initiating a physical confrontation followed by making the victim get on his knees and apologize at gunpoint is against the law. Who knew?

After the Oakland County prosecutor charged the couple with assault with a dangerous weapon and felony firearm, Wayne County Executive Warren Evans suspended Bradford from her $146,000 per year position without pay, prompting me to repeat that the incident unfolded over a 10-cent state-mandated bottle deposit fee.

Chair of the Wayne County Commission, Alisha Bell, seemed surprised to learn about the charges, even though Bradford was suspended for 15 days in 2019 for granting more than $10,000 in county contracts to her stepdaughter.

“This is very uncharacteristic of the Alicia I know … She’s always been very professional and a hard worker in our parks department,” said Bell.

Uh-huh. Sure…

You can’t make this up, ladies and gentlemen. The video in its entirety is online, and I anxiously await seeing what, if any, defense for their actions the Bradfords try to present. The unchecked feeling of entitlement displayed by these two is sickening and will only worsen if they are not properly convicted and sentenced. Of course, if they aren’t, the people of Michigan will know a little more about corruption in their state, and Larry will never learn how to properly do the dew. Among all that’s offensive in this story, I’d like to add that the can of Mountain Dew was $1.99 before the 10-cent bottle deposit fee. $1.99! That should be a crime as well.

So, to summarize :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: 'You can take the People outta da Hood, but cha cain’t take da HOOD outta da Peepol.
I’d just like to say here that some people should NOT HAVE GUNS!
Thank GOD it isn’t up to me to choose/Decide but these two fine examples of humanity should be thrown in Jail and the key thrown in a sh!t-filled trench (DEEP) and if they EVER want to get out they have to rummage around in the filth to find it. Absolute Power CORRUPTS Absolutely and these two Brain Sturgeons caught a unhealthy dose. How dare they cause a potentially LETHAL situation over a (10 cent) recycle charge or even a ridiculous $1.99 can of soda?

You can’t fix stoopid folk’s.
WWG1WGA

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You cant make some things up.

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What does a mittened hand reaching for a fish and a bird watching have anything to do with this incident I axe you?!?

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This reckless incompetence needs to be added to the Michigan tourism pamphlet

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Maybe she can run for .Gov in California when she gets out?
I hear there may be a Vacancy real soon.
Her Hasben can be the New CEO of BLM? She lost two of her
three Mansions she must be devastated , or Mayor?
That post may be vacant too!
or the ‘Water Authority’? (don’t you just love the Titles these folk’s have?)
If he’s a closet HOMO-sapien he could be Fire Chief?
He obviously knows how to get the best out of peepol…

what ? too harsh? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Newsom isn’t going anywhere, he’s dug in like a tick

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Don’t bet the house on it Brother
You have possibly 180,000+ ‘displaced’ folk’s who
absolutely KNOW who to blame for all this.

I think da Mayor was ‘House hunting’ in Ghana! Hope she found
a nice spot ‘Down by the river!’ (cue Chris Farley tape)

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THERE IT IS! (David and Christine trying not to crack up is Priceless.)

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Warn us dog-gone-it!
My eyes!
Are they bleeding!
Wide angle lens?

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Did you say ‘Joy’? :rofl:

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a couple of bears are standing next to each other in a grassy field .

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Dude, You can use that for Birth Control.

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I wonder what this woman’s position is on Michigan’s ban on firearms in State Parks? Actually I’m pretty sure what her position is.

This won’t be a popular point here but from the way the story is presented she might actually have a viable defense for her actions, assuming she legally possessed the firearm - which is not a safe assumption given how often public officials believe they are above the law. But from her perspective she could argue she was outside and her husband comes out and says “give me my pistol”. He then likely tells her he was attacked or something along those lines. I suspect he didn’t tell her to give me my pistol because I just attacked some guy who pissed me off because he pointed out what an idiot I was for arguing over a 10 cent bottle deposit and I want to make him beg for his life.

So she also grabs her gun to go in and back him up. Not a smart move since she should have just told her husband to get the heck out of there and call the cops if she thought he was just attacked. But not being inside at the start of the confrontation she could argue she thought she was responding to an assault on her husband. Though she did potentially hand her husband the weapon used to illegally threaten the other customer’s life and then actively assisted with the illegal detention of the victim. Is a lack of understanding of the situation you are responding to a viable defense? Yet another example of how responding to an altercation that you didn’t see the start of can get you in all sorts of trouble. Will be interesting to see how all that plays out in court for her.

The husband though appears to be clearly guilty of assault and battery, assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing and probably several other serious crimes.

There was enough stupid for a block party there.
Liberal privilege on full display.

Starting crap with someone bigger than with no fighting skills.

An absolute disregard for “common sense” gun laws .

And why didn’t he lock the damn door when he heard the a-hole calling for his gun?

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to much dumbness on the part of the two with firearms. when he went to get his gun the fight was over so he had no right to use a gun, and then he used the gun while making threats. so as i see it he should do at least 5 years for using the gun and the threats, as for her she should do a year.

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They were ‘THUGS’ to varying degrees they should have a really
FAT Law book thrown @ the both of them.
IF anyone of US did that?
See ya later House, Job, Chance of owning another Gun
Lawyer fee’s enough to put out So. Cal Fires!
THEY ARE TERRORISTS (Domestic)
Because of her ‘alleged’ POWER’ He got Cocky too!
They were both wrong from the get.
AND HE was Sh!t stoopid to start something over a ‘dime’.
(or $1.99 drink or a pack of rolling paper whatever)
Should the victim shut-up (prolly)
But sometimes you can’t resist seeing Stupid in front of you.
They should be CONVICTED, JAILED and SUED!

IGNORANCE IS COSTLY!

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I don’t think Mountain Dew was a good choice at all. Me thinks someone was already over caffeinated. :thinking:

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