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In a wide-ranging Facebook Live interview Tuesday with TV personality Rick “Don’t Go” Mason, Ward 4 Councilman Pierre Beard claimed he was being targeted by local law enforcement because of a grudge held by an ex-Columbus Police Department officer.
Columbus city councilman Pierre Beard has been arrested yet again this time for drug possession. According to Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins, Beard was taken into custody on Monday after deputies went to the Ward 4 councilman’s home to serve a warrant to a familiar face in Quavis Betts.