Thanks for that report and link.
Police recently arrested one suspect who apparently helped Mallard dump the corpse. Mallard has told police that for the three days Biggs was in her windshield in her garage and still alive, she "visited" him from time to time to say "Hi." On those occasions, Biggs allegedly pleaded frantically to Mallard, but she ignored his pleas and simply told him "sorry."Oh, no. Not cold at all. I hope if someone accidentally runs over me they are just like Chante. < /sarcasm >Mike Heiskell, Mallard's lawyer, says Mallard is "not the animal or monster the police are portraying her to be. Not this cold inhumane person that we've heard about."
In this case, the NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign have not said a word about a white man being "dragged to his death, all because he was white." In fact, it took longer for Mallard to kill Biggs, who was alive and begging for help for two days, than it took Bill King and Russell Brewer, Jr. to kill Byrd (three white men were tried and convicted of murder for the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd, Jr. in June of 1998. Two of the men, Bill King, 25, and Russell Brewer Jr., 32, who were the ones who actually killed Byrd, were sentenced to death.) . According to Mallard´s testimony in a March 7, 2002 affidavit after one of her friends alerted the police, the injured man was "sticking halfway into the passenger compartment through the windshield." She "went inside, had sex with her boyfriend, Terrance, went out to the garage and the man wasn´t dead yet, but he was dying. Shantae stated that the man was asking them to help him, but that they just walked back inside. Shantae advised that they waited until he died, which was a couple of days."
After he died, the affidavit says, "Terrance and his brother took the body and dumped it in Cobb Park" where it was found on October 27.."
In the Presidential election campaign of 2000, the Byrd murder became an issue used against Republican candidate George W. Bush. The National Voter Fund, (a project of the NAACP) and the Human Rights Campaign launched ad campaigns that inferred Bush was somehow responsible for the Byrd murder[George W. Bush's refusal to support hate crimes legislation.."arguing that all crimes are hate crimes and that no special protections are necessary for violence motivated by bias and discrimination." ].