A man in Boston shot his pregnant wife and told police a Black man had done it.
The city believed him instantly — and then tore its own Black neighbourhood apart looking for someone who did not exist. October 1989.
Within hours, police flooded Mission Hill. Over the following weeks Black men were stopped, searched, and strip-searched in the street. Homes were entered. Teenagers were pulled off basketball courts.
A man named Willie Bennett was arrested and named publicly as the suspect. His family's home was raided. His name was in every newspaper in America.
Stuart picked Bennett out of a line-up.
Then Stuart's own brother went to the police and said he had helped dispose of the gun and the wife's belongings.
Stuart died before he could be charged.
Boston had spent nearly three months believing a story whose only evidence was that a white man had said a Black man did it.
Willie Bennett was released. His life did not recover.
In 2023 — thirty-four years later — the city of Boston formally apologised to Bennett, to his family, and to the Black residents of Mission Hill, and the police department acknowledged what it had done.
One sentence from one man was enough to put a whole neighbourhood under occupation. It took the city a third of a century to say sorry for believing it.
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"They sprayed something in the cell after putting us inside, and people started falling down" — Surviving miner recounts ordeal in NSCDC custody during Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo's visit to Niger state.
37 children, at least
Killed by suffocation
In one night
In NSCDC custody
They're already trying to cover it up by claiming it was a disease outbreak
The governor, instead of taking decisive action, skipped all that to suspend APC rally and declare 3 days of mourning.
A massacre has just been conducted by state actors and the state instead of delivering justice, is declaring a mourning period.
If we ignore this, it will all be forgotten in a week. As always.
My school fees is 459k, I’ve paid only 50k, and my Pre-Council exam starts Sept 22nd.
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BUSTED: “Professor” Soludo’s Ignorance And Cluelessness Exposed After Claiming Peter Obi Borrowed $123.7 Billion In 2013 As Anambra Governor While Nigeria’s Total Public Debt Since 1999 Stands At $111.7 Billion https://t.co/R16wcVeET9
At least three people have been killed in a late-night attack near the Barkin Ladi-Bokkos border in Plateau State, Nigeria, just hours before the Inspector General of Police is scheduled to visit Jos, the state capital, over persisting terror threats