Another Black Man Dragged to Death: EmpowerMent NoW

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By Howard Witt | Tribune correspondent
October 5, 2008
PARIS, Texas - When the mutilated and partially dismembered body of Brandon McClelland, a 24-year-old black man, turned up lying in the middle of a rural east Texas road one morning last month, the police immediately pronounced the case a hit-and-run by an unknown driver.

Within a few days, however, suspicions turned toward two white friends who had picked up McClelland in their truck a few hours before he was found dead early on Sept. 16. Despite signs that the truck had been washed, authorities discovered blood and other physical evidence on the undercarriage and arrested the two men, both with long criminal histories, for murder.

Now this small, racially divided townalready seared with a racist label by civil rights groups last year over differences in how blacks and whites were treated by the local justice systemis on edge yet again, wondering if its got a horrific new hate crime on its hands.

The district attorney insists race had nothing to do with McClellands death and police investigators are portraying the case as an apparent falling-out among friends.

But McClellands relatives and Paris civil rights leaders are less certain. Citing the violence done to McClellands body and reports that one of the alleged assailants, Shannon Finley, had white supremacist ties, they are demanding that Paris authorities investigate the case as a possible hate crime akin to the infamous 1998 lynching of James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, Texas, 250 miles south of here.

Byrd was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck by three white supremacists who were later convicted of murder. McClelland was walking in front of the pickup when Finley, 27, and a friend, Charles Ryan Crostley, 27, who was also arrested, allegedly ran him down and then dragged him 40 feet along the road until his mutilated body popped out from beneath the chassis, according to a police affidavit accompanying the warrant for Finleys arrest.

If you take somebody out to the country like that in the middle of the night and do that to him in that way, thats how they do black people around here, said Brenda Cherry, a local activist working with McClellands family. To me, it smells like Jasper. .......................
Please Call, Write or Fax the Lamar County Sheriff Dept at 125 Brown Ave in Paris, Texas 75460, Tel# 903-737-2400, Fax# 903-737-2498 and tell them that Brandon McClelland's case must seriously and aggressively be investigated and the murders must be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!!!!

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http://www.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty/troy-davis-finality- over-fairness/page.do?id=1011343
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[IwontConform]

Whites and blacks need to be separated! The only way to eliminate the friction and animosity that leads to assaults or murders is to separate the races.We are not the same anyway.Thats why the schools are a disaster after 50+years of integration.And black failure rates are high without affirmative action,and high even with it if they are dark blacks with cornrows and small ears,like in the mug photos.Separation is the only way.

[IwontConform]

Blacks commit violent assaults and homicides on whites all the time.But the controlled media doesnt cover it,so we get the impression that mostly whites commit these crimes when government statistics show the opposite.If the victim is black,we get endless coverage for weeks,and they purposely exaggerate or distort facts about the crime or the perpetrator.There have actually been blacks who have dragged whites to death also.

[gangstaace69]

Fuck the kkk

[Cerebrus000]

Stop defending retarded criminals RT. You're fucking stupid, and just promoting your own race. Bitch

[dirtbikeben94]

well, if he would have kept his fucking mouth shut, they wouldnt have dragged his ass from town to town. fuck you, crazy black bitch.

[marckevincohen]

@foilseal go f*ck ur self fagot...

[StartTheRaceWar]

Niggers are finished, WHITE POWER!

[foilseal]

This idiotic hysterical sister needs to get her head out of her fat black ass. There are 10,000 blacks killing blacks for every 1 white guy killing a black. This is just a dumb ass video by a dumb ass babymamma. Thumbs DOWN!

[ricorob100]

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[ricorob100]

@CynicalSkeptic1 Right and people have the right to worship whom they feel, and God calls it Idolatry. With 150 religions whom is it that gives the relationship, how many came after Jesus ascended to heaven. The fact is God spoke all of this before time and he knew this would happen as man seeks many ways to his throne, and Jesus is the only was. So all religions can preach there way but is it the way? No! Why have a desire to seek something higher, you did & me. Jesus is the way.