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In 1927, Owen Flemming refused to follow an overseer's command, and the overseer pulled a gun. Mr. Flemming grabbed the gun and shot in self-defense. When a mob arrived, the local sheriff told them, "I'm busy, just go ahead and lynch him" — and they did. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 6, 2019 Hibernated

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Local law enforcement was often complicit in the lynching of Black people, as @eji_org has shown. https://t.co/sMTxHalRoY — PolitiTweet.org

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So, men in city police uniforms using a rope to parade a Black man down the street carries references to two historical themes: ◾️ The terror of vigilante violence against Black people ◾️ The use of state authority to enforce that terror — PolitiTweet.org

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