Tenn. official ‘threatened’ blacks with skin ‘trophy’ he saved from 1896 lynching

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29. Jesus H Christ. There is so much wrong with this story I don't where to begin

Mullins had filed a complaint claiming that his mother had died when the Algood’s deputy fire chief refused to perform CPR because she was black.

Jesus Christ.

“They hung him, and they started carving his skin out of his back,” Allen said. “It was like he got excited telling this story.”

“They lowered the body, and all the white men standing around took turns removing the skin from the black man’s back,” Mainord recalled Sewell saying.

Dear God.

Even after the death of Mullins’ mother and the intimidation that he suffered, Sewell argued that he was the true victim.

“I am the victim because I made a mistake,” Sewell observed.

There simply are no words.