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Jackson councilman says his nephew is slinging dope. Evidence shows he’s slinging quesadillas.

Kenneth Stokes is preoccupied with the concept of “dope boys.”

It’s one of the longtime Jackson city councilman’s favorite insults, hurled toward people he blames for the city’s woes. “Dope boys are controlling this city,” he said during a December council meeting.

    He has recently zeroed in on the owner of a food truck that secured a business license with the city last year and operates on an empty lot near Stokes’ home in central Jackson’s Georgetown neighborhood.

    Daniel Cooper shows where his father’s name is etched into concrete behind his food truck location, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in central Jackson, Miss. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

    The mysterious Impala

    First, a man, unrelated to anyone in this saga, was driving down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive days before Thanksgiving when his car engine died. He wrote his phone number and a message saying he’d be back, and then left that piece of paper on the driver’s window after pushing the broken-down Chevy Impala into an empty lot.

    The lot belonged to Stokes. The councilman then hired a wrecker to tow the car blocks away, next to the food truck.

    Hours later, volunteers with a group called Organized Gentlemen arrived at the Cooper lot for a Thanksgiving food drive and encountered the Impala. 

    As the group of men, local law students and a judge dished plates of turkey, mac and cheese, and green beans, Stokes appeared. The councilman summoned the police to meet him and asked an officer to run the plates to see if the car was stolen. 

    The confrontation put a damper on what had been a joyous event and made the people there to receive food feel uneasy, said Perry Thomas, a member of Organized Gentlemen.

    “You could see their face change,” he said.

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