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[theweaselking]

Two carloads of white men murder black man, on video, while yelling "White power!" and later brag about it.

Mississippi: One murder charge, one simple assault charge. Everyone else goes scot-free. Because joyously participating in murder doesn't qualify as "complicit liability" in Mississippi when you're white and the victim isn't.

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[skiriki.livejournal.com]

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Words... they fail me. ANGRY!

[jdarkwulf.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, the internet prevents things like this from being quietly swept under the rug, and they apparently haven't sufficiently felt the outrage of the masses yet.

[katballou.livejournal.com]

Every single person involved deserves to be charged, but I can see why they have not been yet. The video does not show the actual beating and it's difficult to identify anyone specifically. I'm guessing the other teen charged was the one driving the other vehicle and could be proven to have been there. I'm probably wrong but I'm really hoping that with additional investigation the other teens do get charged.

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[chrisrw109.livejournal.com]

What is exceedingly annoying is that I imagine, in part the DA's etc are trying to keep things from exploding and so aimed for what they considered a 'fair middle' ground. Where the ringleader is convicted and none of the other kid's have their lives ruined for a 'stupid mistake'.

That... is completely fucking wrong-headed, socially devastating, and infuriating to a level that I can't accurately quantify.

I'm one of those black folks who, sadly, feels that we have to let a little bit of the fucking stupid people pass unchallenged in the hopes of building a better future... but this?

This was a classic 1950s style lynching and every last one of them needs to be put against the wall and shot as a lesson to the next 10 generations that 'Let's go out and fuck-up (insert derogatory term for person who is different from us', is not an acceptable activity.