An angry white man is in jail awaiting arraignment on murder charges following the execution-style slayings of a Muslim couple and the wife’s sister in a North Carolina college town last night. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, turned himself in to police after allegedly shooting Deah Shaddy Barakat, [...]
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January 25th, 2015 - 8:56 pm § in Uncategorized
FBI investigates suspected lynching in North Carolina
The local police and coroner in the small town with a boarded-up KKK meeting hall quickly labeled a 17-year-old black youth’s strange death a suicide, and made no effort to investigate the possibility of foul play. First the NAACP stepped in, and now the FBI has opened an investigation. He had[...]
January 24th, 2015 - 12:07 am § in Uncategorized
Free at last
A 70-year-old North Carolina black man framed by police was freed from prison today after serving 38 years of a life sentence for a double murder he didn’t commit. Joseph Sledge was convicted by testimony of a jailhouse informant who was coached by cops about what to say, and promised leniency[...]