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Racial tensions run high in Paris (TX) after charges dropped in murder case
KXII - TV 12, Sherman, TX ^ | 6/8/09 | KXII-TV Staff

Posted on 06/08/2009 12:51:25 PM PDT by smokinleroy

PARIS, TX -- Racial tensions are running high in Paris after two white men were released and all charges were dropped against them for the murder of 24-year-old Brandon McClelland.

The New Black Panther Party is holding a press conference and a community rally at the lamar County Courthouse Monday at noon for what they say is unjust.

Initially, McClelland’s murder was being prosecuted as a hate crime.

This all sparked again late last week when Shannon Findlay and Charles Crostley were released from jail. The case against them had been unraveling due to lack of eye witnesses and physical evidence.

At one point, a gravel truck driver even gave a sworn statement saying he may have accidently run over McClelland with his vehicle.

First News has a crew in Paris and will have more later in the day.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: exonerated; hatecrime; murder; racial
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The New Black Panther Party is holding a press conference and a community rally at the lamar County Courthouse Monday at noon for what they say is unjust.

Unjust, for sure. These two innocent men were held for months with no evidence.

1 posted on 06/08/2009 12:51:26 PM PDT by smokinleroy
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Black people appear to be the lynchers these days.
2 posted on 06/08/2009 12:52:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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The New Black Panther Party is holding a press conference ..."

Isn't that who AG Holder just pardoned?


3 posted on 06/08/2009 12:54:59 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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“Texas Black Panthers?” That makes about as much sense as the Illinois Nazis in the Blues Brothers. Remember what Jake said about those?


4 posted on 06/08/2009 12:58:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet ("The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." Machiavelli)
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OK OK. This is satire right? I mean, the big blak half-O is Pres. I mean, I thought this sh!t was ova’, right? Everythin is cool now........


5 posted on 06/08/2009 12:58:44 PM PDT by prismsinc (A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
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These guys were friends and had just made a beer run to Oklahoma?

And then it becomes a “hate crime”?

Good Lord


6 posted on 06/08/2009 12:59:19 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Servant of the Cross

I wonder if Holder will pick up the case being a ‘hate crime’ and all?


7 posted on 06/08/2009 12:59:51 PM PDT by rvoitier (John Boehner--Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.)
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Unjust because they have evidence, can produce witnesses, etc.? Nah, COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS like the New Black Panther Party don’t need such things....


8 posted on 06/08/2009 12:59:54 PM PDT by Made In The USA (BO stinks.)
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“The next time you commit a crime against someone, you better make darn sure they’re the same race as you.” - South Park


9 posted on 06/08/2009 1:00:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Under the thugs in power now, they will be licensed and empowered and protected in their thuggery.


10 posted on 06/08/2009 1:01:44 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In the book, “Before The Mayflower” by African American author Lerone Bennett, The great migration North by blacks began in earnest in 1879, with 187 lynchings just the year before. Look in our cities today. One wonders, who is lynching who? THE BPP should STFU, as they appear to be as innumerate as they are intemperate..


11 posted on 06/08/2009 1:02:43 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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I think a lot of 0bamites think this is just the beginning.

As the person pictured above stated - “you’re gonna be ruled by the black man, now, cracker”


12 posted on 06/08/2009 1:02:44 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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The New Black Panther Party is holding a press conference and a community rally at the lamar County Courthouse Monday at noon for what they say is unjust.

This ain't Philly ... ya'll Panther boys better be polite.

13 posted on 06/08/2009 1:03:26 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Out of gas become a pill box, Out of ammo become a bunker, Out of hope become a hero.)
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That’s funny right there...


14 posted on 06/08/2009 1:04:01 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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The BPP and their sycophants are filled with spite and pride. “Pride cometh before a fall.”


15 posted on 06/08/2009 1:04:42 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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Texas protesters...

16 posted on 06/08/2009 1:05:22 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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Obozo’ friends or not.

Paris TX is not a place to have the “Black Panthers” strut their stuff.

East Texas is a hostile environment for such stuff.

I am sorry he was killed, but suspect the grand jury came to a reasonable decision.

Past that, outsiders should not meddle there.


17 posted on 06/08/2009 1:06:38 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas)
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To: evets

. . . that someday I’ll be able to spell.


18 posted on 06/08/2009 1:08:18 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: smokinleroy

Wasn’t the dead man friends with the two men who were accused?


19 posted on 06/08/2009 1:13:00 PM PDT by Eddings
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““The next time you commit a crime against someone, you better make darn sure they’re the same race as you.” - South Park”

IF you’re white....

Here are some stats on who commits crimes against who. Blacks commit far more crimes against whites than the other way around, so what is all this nonsense whining anyway! Enough of it.

Take a look at the line for white on black crime at the bottom of the following chart.
Also, note the other charts at the link........during republican administrations, black crime
went down and went up under democrats!

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites


20 posted on 06/08/2009 1:14:49 PM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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