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Posted on 4/29/24 at 4:55 pm to TigerintheNO
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he is a rancher, not police
what do you think they charged those guys in 1964 who murdered the black guys in mississippi when the state refused to charge them?
the DOJ charged and prosecuted them for a state crime the state refused to prosecute
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The murder of the activists sparked national outrage and an extensive federal investigation, filed as Mississippi Burning (MIBURN), which later became the title of a 1988 film loosely based on the events. In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged 18 individuals with civil rights violations. Seven were convicted and another pleaded guilty, and received relatively minor sentences for their actions. Outrage over the activists' disappearances helped gain passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[5] Forty-one years after the murders took place, one perpetrator, Edgar Ray Killen, was charged by the state of Mississippi for his part in the crimes. In 2005 he was convicted of three counts of manslaughter and was given a 60-year sentence.[6] On June 20, 2016, federal and state authorities officially closed the case, ending the possibility of further prosecution. Killen died in prison in January 2018.
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This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 4:57 pm
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