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.
LOL! Okay that’s funny, no question.
According to our paper, the two couldn’t post bail so there they sat.
So the three guys were drunk and on their way back from a beer run.
They got into an argument over whether or not the driver was too drunk to drive. So the guy that was killed got out to walk home.
They later found him dead; hit by a vehicle.
So, where was the hate crime? Where was the evidence against these two guys? Or did they just lock them up because they were white and the Black community demanded it?
This is the kind of “justice” you get when the government starts with the preconception that all whites are guilty of “hate crimes” just by being white.
Paris Texas. Great movie! Because the music was from Ry Cooder. I could watch a sewage leak if it was accompanied by his music!
Did not see the movie.
Know people who are “from” there. And some of the local history.
Have no clue who Ry Cooder is.
Movie gives Texas a bad name it does not deserve.
Nicest people in the world live in Texas and Oklahoma. Kind gentle respectful people as a whole. Great neighbors.
The prevailing attitude has always been leave me alone to live may life and we will get along fine, if that is not satisfactory, we will deal with it.
Outsiders who try to stir thing up here are not wise.
It doesn’t matter whether or not they are innocent. The New Black Panther Party wants a lynching!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder
Lots of music on youtube also.
Thanks for the explanation.
I plead utter ignorance about “sports” and “entertainment”.
Things technical, I understand and am comfortable with. If it has wires and emits RF I am particularly comfortable with it. Plus computers, built my first in 1983.
I have been a History student since 1976. That year I read Anthony Brown’s “Bodyguard of Lies” and it blew me away. Spent almost 10 years studying WWII sig/intl history. After that a dozen unrelated history interests.
But above all else I truly love Texas. I am a native but Texas is a state of mind and heart, not where you were born.
Not going to happen.
Yeah. I wonder if Super Afro-Democrat there knows our brutal history and how we treat collectivist, elitist "rulers"?
Hints: Chaucescu, Mussolini, Hitler
I spent a few weeks each summer at my Uncle’s home in Midland.
Hey Mr Holder, how about you tell your "brothers" to take a hike.
"Illinois Nazis? I hate Illinois Nazis."
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