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The gravity of the charges is clear, but the particulars that led to them have remained murky. Now, Pitchfork has obtained a 142-page transcript of testimony by XXXTentacion’s reported victim, delivered over two and a half hours in January at a public defender’s office in Miami. (XXXTentacion’s lawyer, his manager, and spokespeople for his label, Empire, have not responded to requests for comment.) In the deposition, the woman said she suffered a grim pattern of routine abuse and offered harrowing details about what she said happened in the final days before the charges.
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/xxxtentacions-reported-victim-details-grim-pattern-of-abuse-in-testimony/
That whole thing is horrifying. I would never want anything to do with XXXTentacion after reading this.
And just when you think it can't get any worse it does. And this guy is only 19. Yeah.
That story just didn't make the rounds nationally and apparently INTERNATIONALLY like the original post of this thread did.
What an evil shame.
I'm so glad you took the time to look it up and post it here. It's very timely, no doubt about it.
Now, to add an event which happened in Texas to a man at the hands of three Klansmen:
Wikipedia:
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Murder[edit]
On June 7, 1998, Byrd, age 49, accepted a ride from Shawn Berry (age 24), Lawrence Russell Brewer (age 31) and John King (age 23). Berry, who was driving, was acquainted with Byrd from around town. Instead of taking Byrd home, the three men took Byrd to a remote county road out of town, beat him severely, urinated on him and chained him by his ankles to their pickup truck before dragging him for approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km). Brewer later claimed that Byrd's throat had been slashed by Berry before he was dragged. However, forensic evidence suggests that Byrd had been attempting to keep his head up while being dragged, and an autopsy suggested that Byrd was alive during much of the dragging. Byrd died after his right arm and head were severed when his body hit a culvert.[11] Byrd's brain and skull were found intact, further suggesting he maintained consciousness while being dragged.[12]
Berry, Brewer and King dumped the mutilated remains of the body in front of an African-American church on Huff Creek Road, then drove off to a barbecue. Along the area where Byrd was dragged, police found a wrench with "Berry" written on it. They also found a lighter that was inscribed with "Possum", which was King's prison nickname.[13] The following morning, Byrd's limbs were found scattered across a seldom-used road. The police found 81 places that were littered with Byrd's remains. State law enforcement officials, along with Jasper's District Attorney, determined that since Brewer and King were well-known white supremacists, the murder was a hate crime. They decided to call upon the Federal Bureau of Investigation less than 24 hours after the discovery of Byrd's remains.[citation needed]
King had several racist tattoos: a black man hanging from a tree, Nazi symbols, the words "Aryan Pride," and the patch for a gang of white supremacist inmates known as the Confederate Knights of America.[14] In a jailhouse letter to Brewer that was intercepted by jail officials, King expressed pride in the crime and said that he realized while committing the murder that he might have to die. "Regardless of the outcome of this, we have made history. Death before dishonor. Sieg Heil!" King wrote.[11] An officer investigating the case also testified that witnesses said that King had referenced The Turner Diaries after beating Byrd.[15]
Berry, Brewer and King were tried and convicted for Byrd's murder. Brewer and King received the death penalty, while Berry was sentenced to life in prison. Brewer was executed by lethal injection on September 21, 2011[3] while King remains on Texas' death row.[4][5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.
John William King
Lawrence Russell Brewer
Shawn Allen Berry
James Byrd Jr., one year before these pieces of filth murdered him.
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Next, a copy-cat horizontal lynching, done in Texas TEN YEARS after the murder of James Byrd, Jr:
Black man dragged to death 200 miles from site of Byrd murder 10 years ago.
Brandon McClelland, 24, was dragged to death beneath a truck driven by two white men in Paris, Texas last month. McClelland was black. The site of his death is about 200 miles from the location where James Byrd was murdered in a similar manner ten years ago.
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McClelland's murder took place on September 16, 2008. Parts of his mangled body were found strewn along the highway at great distance.
First responders treated the case as a hit and run. The county district attorney's office denied the possibility of racist motivations, and said comparisons to the Byrd lynching were "preposterous."
More:
https://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/black-man-dragged-to.html
The Democratic Party is THE Party which brought the desperately needed Civil Rights legislation in this country, after which time, a lot of filthy Southern bigots lept away from the party of Southern Democrats and attached themselves to the Republican Party.
by the millions, 66 million plus at last count and charlottesville and charleston are just warm-up swings....
a whole barn full of bullshit. I know what I read. You can go linking, I don't need to. it's a done deal and what you call means NOTHING to me. And WTF would I have something like that? To constantly remind me of the history that blacks and white share in this country and to always be reminded that we are but one potus away from returning to the good ole boys 'good old days'......
Who do you think you are to question me about the history that was created and is being continually perpetuated by white racist hate.....you don't have that right, go bark up another tree. Wrong one here because you would want me to deny the truth of the present ameriKKKan culture and it's hateful, racist and bigoted history. No time for that in these dangerous days for POC....and that ain't "nonsense". bye
mean NOTHING to me....dangerous days in ameriKKKa for POC because of white racist hate and it is a fact that it has ALWAYS been dangerous to be a person of color in this country. I live it, the gentleman in his "artistic" expression lives it, Tamir Rice died because of that danger, you just read about it...that ain't "nonsense". You can have any opinion you please, means nothing to me.bye
