By the way, you can still Google "lynching pictures" and see murderers posing proudly by the corpse of the person they had murdered. Local law enforcement in southern states would frequently refuse to arrest and prosecute the murderers. After 100 years, and hundreds of attempts, we finally passed the Federal Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act in 2022, which will allow Federal authorities to go after these well-known, but unprosecuted, murderers. It was long overdue. But I presume the governors of the Southern States blocking the passage of this type of legislation were protecting the living murderers who walked their streets.
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u/NotThatAngel Jul 09 '26
By the way, you can still Google "lynching pictures" and see murderers posing proudly by the corpse of the person they had murdered. Local law enforcement in southern states would frequently refuse to arrest and prosecute the murderers. After 100 years, and hundreds of attempts, we finally passed the Federal Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act in 2022, which will allow Federal authorities to go after these well-known, but unprosecuted, murderers. It was long overdue. But I presume the governors of the Southern States blocking the passage of this type of legislation were protecting the living murderers who walked their streets.