... and tried; is: "Who would WANT to have this happen to them?" You know, like "Nigerhead" lynchings or something.
All so often 'Poor White Trash' in the OLD, OLD South are 'fair game' when the unthinkable happens.
Hm?
Then again, maybe that horrible culture ain't so old after all.
All so often 'Poor White Trash' in the OLD, OLD South are 'fair game' when the unthinkable happens.
Hm?
Then again, maybe that horrible culture ain't so old after all.
Black man dragged to death 200 miles from site of Byrd murder 10 years ago. (click here)
Brandon McClelland, 24, was dragged to death beneath a truck driven by two white men in Paris, Texas last month. McClelland was black. The site of his death is about 200 miles from the location whereJames Byrd was murdered in a similar manner ten years ago. (Image at left: Jacqueline McClelland, Brandon's mother; photo courtesy Jesse Muhammad.)McClelland's murder took place on September 16, 2008. Parts of his mangled body were found strewn along the highway at great distance.
First responders treated the case as a hit and run. The county district attorney's office denied the possibility of racist motivations, and said comparisons to the Byrd lynching were "preposterous"....
"Ya'll can't seem to find some healthy recreation in Texas? For real? Or is it simply bad examples of people in authority! There ain't 'nutin' like Texas hubris.
I am sure the drought is just 'one of those things' caused by all the bad people in the world. I betcha it will clear up soon.
This must be one of those 'high tech' lynching this article refers to.
Two charged with murder after black man dragged to death
in troubled Paris, Texas (click here)
Pair also accused of tampering with witnesses, evidence, as prosecutor weighs hate crime charges
DALLAS—
A grand jury in the racially-troubled northeast Texas town of Paris returned first-degree murder indictments Thursday against two white men accused in the September dragging death of a black man, and the prosecutor in the case said he is investigating whether to add hate-crime charges.
Shannon Finley and Charles Ryan Crostley, both 27, face up to life in prison if convicted of charges that they murdered 24-year-old Brandon McClelland by running him over and dragging him beneath a pickup truck after the three went on a late-night beer run....
Shannon Finley and Charles Ryan Crostley, both 27, face up to life in prison if convicted of charges that they murdered 24-year-old Brandon McClelland by running him over and dragging him beneath a pickup truck after the three went on a late-night beer run....
Double Lynching Trial Begins in Texas, Again
...Supports of Jacquline McClelland, (click here) mother of Brandon McClelland, gather during a rally in front to the Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, Texas, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Supporters of McClelland whose 24-year-old son was run over and dragged beneath a pickup truck in East Texas in September, rallied with members of the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam in an organized event to speak out against a justice system they consider racist....
