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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI probes claim suspects in 1946 Georgia mass lynching may be alive
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/16/suspects-1946-moores-ford-bridge-georgia-mass-lynching-alive<snip>
US authorities are investigating whether some of those responsible for one of the American souths most notorious mass lynchings are still alive, in an attempt to finally bring prosecutions over the brutal unsolved killings.
FBI agents questioned a man in Georgia who was among several in their 80s and 90s newly named in connection with the Moores Ford Bridge lynching of 1946 on a list given to the US Department of Justice by civil rights activists, he told the Guardian.
Speaking at his home in Monroe, 10 miles west of the lynching site, Charlie Peppers denied taking part in the killings of four African Americans who were tied up and shot 60 times by a white mob.
Heck no, said Peppers, 86, when asked if he was involved. Back when all that happened, I didnt even know where Moores Ford was. Peppers, who was 18 at the time of the lynching, said: The blacks are blaming people that didnt even know what happened back then.
A report by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) published last week found at least 700 more lynchings than had previously been recorded in southern states, renewing calls from campaigners for any suspects still at large to be brought to justice before it is too late.
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FBI probes claim suspects in 1946 Georgia mass lynching may be alive (Original Post)
malaise
Feb 2015
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Greybnk48
(10,172 posts)1. It makes me livid that they were allowed to live their lives
after doing something like that, maybe more than once. Just like the Nazi monsters who escaped.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)2. Get 'em.
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)3. They have already infected the next two generations.
malaise
(269,157 posts)4. +1,000
That's the truth
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)5. Justice delayed is Justice denied. nt
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)6. If he took part, he needs to be tried. I don't care HOW old he is! n/t
malaise
(269,157 posts)7. Agreed
To many despicable folks walking among humanity
spanone
(135,861 posts)8. “The blacks are blaming people that didn’t even know what happened back then”...charlie peppers
Peppers was accused of being involved by his nephew, Wayne Watson. Video of Watson, 57, claiming in 2013 that Peppers and several other men from the area had spoken of their involvement in the killings was given to the US Department of Justice by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
dear mr peppers, it sound like your nephew, mr watson is blaming you.......not 'the blacks'.
malaise
(269,157 posts)9. Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Sick scum!