First of all, the title of this story...(emphasis mine of course):
Another dragging death in Texas raises tensions
PARIS, Texas – In a gruesome case with powerful echoes of the dragging death of James Byrd a decade ago, a black man was killed underneath a pickup truck in East Texas and two white men have been charged with murder.
Black activists and the victim's mother are calling last month's killing of 24-year-old Brandon McClelland a racist attack. But prosecutors cast strong doubt on that Friday.
McClelland died after going with two white friends on a late-night beer run across the state line to Oklahoma, investigators said. Authorities said he was run over and dragged as far as 70 feet beneath the truck. His torn-apart body was discovered along a bloodstained rural road on Sept. 16. His mother said pieces of his skull could still be found three days later.
C/o Womanist Musings where Renee also notes that James Byrd's murderers were ALSO cast as his "friends" in the media.
OMG! that's gotta be the worst thing i've heard in quite awhile. good lord!, it's terrible, just terrible! so sad...
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