Posted on 01/20/2002 5:52:20 PM PST by beacon
Unconfirmed reports indicate another "Hate Crime" may have happened in Jasper County Texas.
But this time - it appears the victim is a white male.
Officials are investigating the death of a white male, who was reportedly picked up in a truck by four black males.
That white male is now dead. The circumstances behind this are unknown right now.
This is all unconfirmed - I am working getting more details.
Stand by.
They already have it in Texas. Maybe they killed him with his own gun. Like law enforcement, it's not 100% protection.
Isn't that something, I lived in Jasper, Tx, in 1963 and 64, and the Sheriff Dept and the Fire Hall was across the street fron Neches Chevy and Olds where I ran the Body Shop, and if memory serves me right, the sheriff's name was Maddox at that time also.
Jasper County was dry then too, and smuggling booze was a favorite past time.
I went back for a visit around 4 years ago, and it is still a beautiful little town in the Pineywoods area of east Texas, and the last place in the world you'd expect these things to be happening in. Well I swannnn, Lol JH
Don't believe everything you read!
Sounds like "drunk" crime to me.
Tillery promised he'd buy gas, and didn't, and the car was used a deadly weapon.
The question is, who was using drugs and who was drinking.
That whole hitchhiking thing I don't get.
I've never hitchhiked, and I wouldn't pick up anybody unless they were bleeding.
There is a new book out about the murder of James Byrd, Jr., and this is from the Houston Chronicle review:
Finally (the author) reports that, in the words of a local black minister, "James [Byrd]wasn't what you might call one of Jasper's upstanding citizens." He was a felon, a forger of checks, unemployed. He refused to support his former wife and children. He apparently was also drunk the night he was draggd to his death.
Shawn Berry, one of the murderers, the one who got "life" rather than the death penalty, grew up near a black community, playing with black kids all his life. Several testified on his behalf at his trial. A black woman told me she played with Shawn growing up, and "there wasn't a racist bone in his body." But he's in the pen for life for a "hate crime."
In Jasper, the weekend before the James Byrd murder, a black man beat a white man to death with a pipe. Beat his eyes out of their sockets; it wasn't a "hate crime." The black man had worked for the white man.
As the old saying goes: If you carry a weapon, be sure you'll use it when the time comes.
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