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Post by clusium on Feb 25, 2020 14:15:42 GMT
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Post by forca84 on Mar 25, 2020 0:41:12 GMT
I watched the movie "Jasper, Texas" about the case. Very sad...
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Post by amyghost on Mar 28, 2020 17:30:00 GMT
That case was genuinely horrendous. It invoked in me the not exactly pleasant reaction that I'd have rather liked seeing the perpetrators be given precisely the same punishment that they meted out to that poor man.
I don't favor that manner of serving the ends of justice in reality, but in the abstract a case like Byrd's makes it hard not to wish for it just a trifle.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 2, 2020 19:45:11 GMT
There was a similar controversy in 2013-2014 regarding the death of Alfred Wright; also from Jasper TX. Initially suspected as being an OD from a drug deal gone bad, as cocaine was found in his system, his body was found grotesquely mutilated and the police didn't conduct proper protocol for such cases like searching his vehicle or keep the family updated on information. The details were strange enough for the DoJ to get involved and the second autopsy determined something violent happened. But the local police bungled (or obstructed) things so badly that all that resulted was some drug dealer being sentenced for selling him the stuff. Wright was married to a white woman and there were apparently rumors he was carrying on with a white officer's spouse. Who the hell knows. It's Texas.
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