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Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1906, two innocent Black men named Horace Duncan and Fred Coker (aka Jim Copeland) were abducted from the county jail by a white mob of several thousand participants and lynched in Springfield, Missouri. Two days following the public lynchings of Mr. Duncan and Mr. Coker, a newspaper reported that “now the great state of Missouri faces the probable disgrace of letting two innocent men be hanged by a mob.”

The day before the lynching, a white woman reported that she had been assaulted by two African American men. Despite having “no evidence against them,” Mr. Duncan and Mr. Coker were “arrested on suspicion” by local police. The men were taken to the county jail to await trial, even though their employer had also provided an alibi for them to confirm that they had not been involved in the alleged assault.

During this era, race—rather than guilt—made African Americans vulnerable to indiscriminate suspicion and false accusation after a reported crime, even when there was no evidence tying them to the alleged offense. White people's allegations against African Americans were rarely subject to scrutiny, and the mere accusation that a Black man had been sexually inappropriate with a white woman often aroused violent reprisal before the judicial system could or would act. In the case of Mr. Duncan and Mr. Coker, one newspaper reported the lynch mob “was bent on vengeance and in no mood to discriminate between guilt and innocence.”

When the mob arrived at the county jail, local law enforcement did little to stop the mob from seizing Mr. Duncan and Mr. Coker, though the officers were armed and responsible for protecting the men in their custody. When the mob dragged Mr. Duncan and Mr. Coker outside, the gathered crowd of nearly 3,000 angry white men, women, and children began shouting, “Hang them!” and “Burn them!” At the public square, the mob hanged both men from the railing of the Gottfried Tower, then set a fire underneath and watched as both corpses were reduced to ashes in the flames.

Continuing their rampage, the mob returned to the jail and proceeded to lynch another African American man—Will Allen. Local police had abandoned the prisoners, and it was only when the state militia arrived that the mob was dispersed and prevented from seizing anyone else from the jail.

Two days after the lynching of these three men, the woman who reported being assaulted issued a statement that she was “positive" that [Mr. Coker and Mr. Duncan] "were not her assailants, and that she could identify her assailants if they were brought before her.” But the lynch mob's act of racial terror had made its mark, terrorizing the entire Black community. Many local Black residents had fled their jobs and homes to escape the mob attack.

Following the lynchings and mob violence, a grand jury was called to indict anyone who had participated in the mob. By April 19, four white men had been arrested and 25 warrants were issued. Only one white man was tried, however, and no one was ever convicted.

Horace Duncan, Fred Coker, and Will Allen were three of at least 60 African American victims of racial terror lynching in Missouri between 1877 and 1950.

wtop.com/maryland/2021/04/md-attorney-general-moves-to-dismiss-lawsuit-claiming-cover-up-of-anton-blacks-death/amp/

Another Black man killed. Same medical examiner. The Biden admin decided against the National Police oversight commission they promised Black voters.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from the family of Anton Black claiming the medical examiner tried to cover up his death in his autopsy report.

Black, 19, died while in police custody on the Eastern Shore in September 2018. Black’s family filed a lawsuit last December saying the office did not release its findings in Black’s death until Gov. Larry Hogan intervened.

In a new motion to dismiss filed in Maryland District Court, the Attorney General’s office defends the actions of Dr. Russell Alexander, who performed the autopsy, former chief medical examiner Dr. David Fowler and current chief medical examiner Dr. Victor Weedn.

The general attorney’s office is representing the medical examiner’s officer in the matter. Fowler is set to testify for the defense in the Minneapolis murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin on Wednesday, who is charged with killing George Floyd.

Black’s family claims excessive force and racial bias led to their son’s death by “positional asphyxiation,” and allege a cover-up involving the state medical examiner and police personnel from the Eastern Shore towns of Greensboro, Ridgley and Centreville.

For example, the family’s lawsuit claims the medical examiner failed to release its toxicology report showing Black did not have drugs in his system because it would have contradicted the police narrative that he did.

Keep at it. You’ve been consistent at many a thing. By many I mean being antagonistic to me. Glad to see you keep that same energy.

Didn’t want to start a separate thread but look at Brene Brown’s comments on Instagram.

What does that sound like to you?

Have you personally reached out to your local law enforcement and shared those concerns?

They function is the same. That system doesn’t leave room for good cops. And before anyone asks yes that includes Black police officers.

Being pulled over for tags in a pandemic where DMVs aren’t even open still causes no one to scratch their chin and think hmm maybe the problem is police in Black communities period.


How about this! For one month just don’t police Black communities. When I was a kid racist white people used to say “Just leave em they will all kill themselves anyway” haven’t heard that line of thought in a while.

Sounds perfect. No police for a month and they either sit home with no pay or go do the same type of traffic stops and work over on white communities.

No I don’t. You literally have to read the information to understand. We can not answer your line of questioning until we talk about those links.

Once you read them you might find you do not have those same questions.

Until then I don’t want to have a discussion with you. For my own sanity. For my own well being.

You don’t totally get what I am saying. I’m not going to play along. Have this conversation with other white people who think like you do. And the partial quote again. You guys do this to avoid talking about heavy topics, if you don’t want to discuss the topics I’ve brought up I’m definitely not about to entertain yours.

Black people are funding their own mistreatments. We pay taxes and then we are disproportionately fined.


I still donate to a fund that helps Black people pay for traffic tickets so they can get their licenses reinstated. If there was a State study on who gets their license suspended and the economic effects that has on Black families I would not be surprised at the data. It’s an issue.



That means your white community won’t have a police officer assigned to harass you as you leave the corner store.. They are overpolicing Black communities and throwing all the funding at white ones.


Until we are frank about the problem we won’t be able to stop Black people from needlessly being killed by police.

www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/7/7/12118868/traffic-stops-police-profit-incentive-black-lives

Routine police stops like the one by the unnamed officer who pulled Castile over are not uncommon and, in fact, are often incentivized in police forces, as Jack Hitt of Mother Jones wrote in September 2015.

That’s a huge part of the problem.

In fact, NBC’s Tom Winter reports Castile was pulled over 31 times over his driving life, and received multiple tickets for a range of non-violent misdemeanors including "driving without a muffler" and speeding.

Hitt reported on the fact that many police departments assist city budgets in raising revenue — even funding police officers' salaries — through fines, tickets, and the added fees that accompany them. This cycle of perpetual fees, leading to mounting debt, disproportionately hurts black and brown communities, whose members are more likely to be stopped by police officers and more likely to be impoverished than white Americans. Hitt adds:

There is still no comprehensive study to determine just how many cities pay their bills by indenturing the poor, but it is probably no coincidence that when you examine the recent rash of police killings, you find that the offenses they were initially stopped for were preposterously minor.





How can we know just what insidious racism and racial violence looks like yet still do nothing?

It doesn’t matter why he was pulled over.

m.startribune.com/black-drivers-make-up-majority-of-minneapolis-police-searches-during-routine-traffic-stops/572029792/

This really pisses me off:
www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/04/11/biden-police-oversight-commission-480931


Does anyone remember the article I posted ....not sure why I asked. I posted them again below

That it’s perfectly fine to kill Black citizens because no one really gives a damn.

We are having a trial to decide if 9 mins of Chauvin knee on another human beings neck is what really killed him.

Why should the MN police precinct still be standing again?

She was doing her job. Functioning just like she should. So are you guys.