The family didn't want him executed though.
They probably said they forgave him too smhThe family didn't want him executed though.
I was too little to digest seeing The LAPD beat Rodney King on camera...but I would say this and Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD shortly following Byrd's death really made me realize what black men had to face in America in terms with dealing with the reality of hatred, systemic discrimination, and prejudice as a teenager in high school.James Byrd death was my wake up moment in 98, they just found a random black man and decided, 'hey, lets drag him down a highway chained to our truck'
The family didn't want him executed though.
Yeah I remember being a young teenager when both crimes happened. With Diallo I think they stuck a plunger up his ass . If only we knew the kind of shyt that would be happening 20 years laterI was too little to digest seeing The LAPD beat Rodney King on camera...but I would say this and Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD shortly following Byrd's death really made me realize what black men had to face in America in terms with dealing with the reality of hatred, systemic discrimination, and prejudice as a teenager in high school.
won't miss this guy but we gotta get rid of the death penalty
Yeah I remember being a young teenager when both crimes happened. With Diallo I think they stuck a plunger up his ass . If only we knew the kind of shyt that would be happening 20 years later
Same. I was 14.James Byrd death was my wake up moment in 98, they just found a random black man and decided, 'hey, lets drag him down a highway chained to our truck'
He lived 20 years too long.
Punk ass bytch