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NYTimes: "The Preacher and the Sheriff" feature about New Iberia
Posted on 2/9/17 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 2/9/17 at 2:16 pm
SIAP, did a search.
Long feature from the NYTimes published yesterday, really good read. Wanted to get y'all's thoughts.
The Preacher and the Sheriff
Long feature from the NYTimes published yesterday, really good read. Wanted to get y'all's thoughts.
The Preacher and the Sheriff
quote:
New Iberia, a small city surrounded by sugar cane 100 miles west of New Orleans, is bisected by railroad tracks. North of the tracks, where residents are predominantly white, most believed that Victor White III committed suicide. In the largely black neighborhoods south of the tracks, most residents shared the Whites’ conviction that their son was executed by the cops. In the months of heartbreak and rage that followed, New Iberians tended to believe the official account of the “Houdini suicide” to the extent that they approved of the performance of Louis Ackal, the sheriff of Iberia Parish.
Posted on 2/9/17 at 2:17 pm to omfgeauxtigers
Do they get into the haircuts?
Posted on 2/9/17 at 2:24 pm to omfgeauxtigers
knowing what I know now, stuff that has come out about the IPSO during these trials. I am pretty convinced someone murdered that dude.
Posted on 2/9/17 at 2:35 pm to Kracka
quote:
knowing what I know now, stuff that has come out about the IPSO during these trials. I am pretty convinced someone murdered that dude.
he shot himself
state police looked into it
feds looked into it
justice department looked into it
Look, ackal is an a-hole. I'm almost positive he orchestrated the jail house beatings
but this article is full of bs from the victor white's family
quote:
The state police also later claimed that Leonard White volunteered to investigators that his brother was carrying a .25-caliber pistol that night that matched the description of the weapon found next to Little Vic’s body in the back seat. (White’s family denies this.)
victor white's brother didnt just tell this to state police. he told it to other authorities. it wasnt until after he realized it didnt fit the family narrative that he and the whites started denying it
and this never happened either:
quote:
The coroner’s investigator approached White. “It was like he wanted to say something, without saying it,” White says. “He said: ‘I’m so sorry.’ ” White said the investigator mumbled this repeatedly for several minutes. “I can’t say anything,” the official said finally, “but you should look into your son’s death.” (A lawyer for the coroner’s office, citing litigation, declined to respond to questions for this article.)
Posted on 2/9/17 at 3:11 pm to Ash Williams
quote:
“I can’t say anything,” the official said finally, “but you should look into your son’s death.”
The fact that they printed that just tells me it's a hatchet job, portraying all rural cops as killer nazis and all blacks as helpless victims.
This post was edited on 2/9/17 at 3:12 pm
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