A year before George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, he stood before a City Hall community forum with a grievance: Sanford cops are lazy, he told the then-mayor elect. The community college criminal justice major said he knew, because he went on ride-alongs with the Sanford police. “And what I saw was disgusting,” Zimmerman said, according [...]
Race Tears Apart Texas Town, 14 Years After Ugly Racist Murder
May 22, 2012 | Posted by
In 1998, three white supremacists in Jasper, Texas committed one of the most heinous hate crimes in recent American history. The three men hog-tied 49-year-old James Byrd Jr. to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death along a 3-mile stretch of bumpy asphalt, eventually dumping what remained of his body [...]
