The lynching of Lent Shaw in America; accused of making a white woman feel uncomfortable (1936)

The lynching of Lent Shaw in America; accused of making a white woman feel uncomfortable (1936).

You want me to make it worse for you. It was common in US lynchings to take a piece of the lynched person home with you. Like a finger or toe, genitals, etc.

Historically they weren't dark of night events either, they were conducted in broad daylight and would turn into somewhat of a party. a-midnight-flight They'd also leave there mutilated corpse hanging there for days to act as a warning to others. Eventually family or friends of the victim would

retrieve their bodies when it was safe to do so or the white people got tired of seeing the body. These events were not that long ago. People want to make it feel like we have long since removed ourselves from the past, but we have not. Things have been sanitized and repurposed but still cruel, unjust and inhuman.

We should remember who did this: Lawrence Brewer - executed in 2011 (first ever white executed for killing a black in Texas history) John King - executed in 2019 Shawn Berry- life sentence but eligible for parole in 2038 These degenerate sub humans continued to drag Byrd for a mile and a half after his arm and head were cut off after hitting a culvert. They dumped the body in front of a black church then went to a barbecue.

I'm glad they saw justice. No mercy got this filth. The victims family fought to stop the exeuctions. Crazy how the tried to save the life of the people that took away their father.

Brewer even managed to Screw over

every other condemned inmate in

Texas. A last meal of the inmate's

choice had long been a tradition in

Texas, as in other places. It is one of

the few comforts offered to a person

about to be put to death, and is a

reflection of our humanity as much as

it is theirs. Lawrence Brewer ordered

an incredibly lavish spread for his

final meal, which the prison staff

accommodated.

Then the son of a bitch refused to touch any of it. He deliberately wasted the prison staff's time and money, just to be a dick. As a result, Texas ended the last meal. Now condemned inmates eat whatever crap the rest of the prison eats. Because of that asshole. It was definitely supported by the

community when they had to move the court hearings to a county on the opposite end of the state. In fairness moving the hearings isn't unusual. You can do that for the opposite reason, the community being biased against the defense. However, Il'd argue that the DA's actions and how the killers remained free till the video was uploaded to the internet months later constitute at least some significant degree of community support.

There was a lynching near me in California in the 40s, they hung a innocent black man in the playground of the schoolyard for all the

kids to see. There are people still alive that saw that dead man. It's part of why there's no black people in this town.

In 2019 a black trans woman ended up strung up in Rockey Butte Park in Portland with no suicide note and basically no investigation, and the medical examiner's office has refused all requests for releas documents.

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