Badges - Mississippi killing sparks Internet war of words; did case involve race? (video)
- From: CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:55:49 -0500
JACKSON, Mississippi ? Authorities call it a hate
crime by 2 white teens against a middle-aged
black man, "murder by physically assaulting and
purposefully using a 1998 Ford F-250 to run over James Craig Anderson."
Defense lawyers insist the incident had nothing
to do with race. One of the teen's attorneys said
the group was on a beer run that morning, not out
looking for a black man to assault, as prosecutors claim.
Regardless of whether race had anything to do
with the killing, that's how it's being seen by
many who live far away from Mississippi's
capital. Stoked in part by security camera
footage showing Anderson being run over, people
across the country have begun to sound off on
social media pages created for and against the
defendants, filling them with shrill, often hateful comments.
Pages have been set up to solicit prayers for the
victim and one of the suspects, but the posts
have become more heated since the surveillance
video was made public. Another Web page calls for
the executions of Deryl Dedmon and John Aaron
Rice, who were 18 when the 49-year-old Anderson
was run down on a Jackson street just before dawn on June 26.
Both were both initially charged with murder,
though the charge against Rice was reduced to
simple assault after a detective testified Rice
left the scene in a separate vehicle before Anderson was run down.
More: http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/08/mississippi_killing_sparks_int.html
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