Maybe it was the pressure of being on live TV, maybe she just really needed to go. Either way, this moment is one for the books. Somewhere in Mississippi, in a town named Greenville, a news reporter probably thought she had gotten the best source for a story on a shooting – but what she got was a […]
Authorities have yet to confirm if a missing man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last week was killed or committed suicide, but the FBI is now consulting with the Behavioral Analysis Unit (or “profilers”) to break the case. Otis Byrd, 54, was found with a sheet around his neck near his Port Gibson […]
A black man, recently found hanging from a tree, doesn’t appear to have stepped off of anything before he died, according to a Mississippi sherriff. Previously reported as a possible suicide, the death of 54-year old Otis Byrd is now being investigated as a possible lynching. Last seen leaving a casino, Byrd was found last Thursday […]
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that preliminary results from an autopsy on the body of Otis Byrd, the man officials found hanging from a tree in Mississippi Thursday, suggests the cause of death was suicide. Investigators, however, have not yet released Byrd’s official cause of death. “Everybody wants answers and wants them quickly,” Special FBI […]
UPDATE 7:26 P.M. EST According to the LA Times, reporters spoke with Willy Shorter, who found out from authorities that the body identified was his son’s. He told the outlet: “They told me he was dangling in the tree, up in the tree hanging by his neck. This is a small town, everybody knows everybody.” Shorter also […]
A Republican Mississippi lawmaker who was caught on record saying black people “don’t work” is now claiming his racist comments were taken out of context. When explaining to The Clarion-Ledger why he was against increased funding for education, State Rep. Gene Alday said he comes “from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps […]
A Jackson, Miss. couple is outraged after they say police pointed a gun at their 6-year-old autistic son while serving a warrant at a family member’s home. The parents, Paul and Angela Thompson Roby, said they were visiting Angela’s mother when police arrived in an unmarked car looking for her brother, Carneigio Gray. According to The Clarion-Ledger, the […]
Three white men who viciously beat and ran over 47-year-old car plant worker James Craig Anderson in 2011 were sentenced to federal prison for what they admitted was the result of them “hunting black people to attack.” The young men, Deryl Paul Dedmon, John Aaron Rice, and Dylan Wade Butler, were sentenced to 50 years, […]
It’s been a sad week for many New Yorkers. On Tuesday, The Tunnel To Towers foundation said it will be paying the mortgages on the homes of the two NYPD officers that were shot and killed in Brooklyn this past Saturday. The decision comes after the foundation’s CEO and Governor Cuomo paid a visit to Wenjian […]
Tragic news is surfacing out of Mississippi, as a girl named Jessica Chambers was found dead after being burned alive on a rural road. According to reports, officials discovered the 19-year-old teen with 98% of her body covered in burns, as she was reported to have been doused in gasoline before being set on fire. While her […]
