They reminisce about listening as children in wonderment to the familial, communal sing-along that seemed to instinctively take place among extended kin. The one where Mexican parents or grandparents crank up the rancheras -mournful, classic Mexican melodies – on an early Saturday morning or what seems to be an inappropriate, way-too-late weeknight. “Listening loudly in the face of anti-immigrant public sentiment,” Casillas tells us, “becomes a form of radical self-love, a sonic eff-you, and a means of taking up uninvited (white) space.” –Editor-in-Chief JSĬhicana and Chicano friends across the southwest share different renditions of a similar childhood memory. For Sounding Out! World Listening Day necessitates discussions of the politics of listening and listening, and, as Inés Casillas prescribes, a wider understanding of the power and meaning of volume as material sensation as well as listening practice, particularly in communities marginalized by U.S.
World Listening Day is a time to think about the impacts we have on our auditory environments and, in turn, their effects on us. His next court appearance is scheduled for May 11.This is the third post in Sounding Out!’s 4th annual July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2015. Smitty is currently held in the Freeborn County Jail on $250,000 bail with conditions, or $500,000 bail with no conditions. Investigators allegedly located two 9mm Luger Hornady casings in the Geneva Bar parking lot, and four more in the grass near Central Avenue and 1st Street NE, Geneva.įreeborn County put out a warrant for Smitty’s arrest May 1, which was served May 4. He faces two charges of 2nd-degree assault with a deadly weapon, one charge of reckless discharge of a firearm, and one charge of ineligible possession of a firearm - all felonies. They allege that as they drove away, one of the pair turned around and saw Smitty pull out a gun and fire at them, hitting the passenger side of the truck twice and flattening one tire.Īccording to court documents, Smitty is ineligible to possess firearms because of a juvenile conviction. The couple claimed they say Smitty cross the street in front of them as they drove away from the bar, and recognized him as the person who fired shots in the parking lot. (ABC 6 News) – A New Richland man faces assault and reckless discharge charges in Freeborn County Court after allegedly firing a gun at a couple driving away from a Geneva bar fight.Īccording to court records, Dustin Grey Smitty, 22, was involved in a fight at Geneva Bar just after midnight April 22.įreeborn County sheriff’s deputies allegedly received calls that a male suspect matching Smitty’s description fired a gun outside Geneva Bar, then fired multiple rounds at a car from the area of Central Avenue and 1st Street NE.Īccording to witnesses who spoke to the deputies and surveillance footage, a fight broke out in Geneva Bar, then moved out into the parking lot.Īccording to videos described in court documents, Smitty allegedly left the fight, went to a vehicle, and took out a firearm, then fired two shots into the air from 15-20 feet away from the fight.Ī couple told deputies they had disagreed with Smitty’s social group earlier in the evening, and decided to leave the area after the fight began and the shots were fired.
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