🚨 JUST IN: Maryland hanging death ruled a suicide.
A Black man found hanging from a tree in Upper Marlboro was officially ruled a suicide by the medical examiner.
The ruling came in by text LIVE during the press conference.
The lynching narrative collapsed
In 1946, World War II veterans in a small Tennessee town armed themselves, laid siege to the county jail, and forced a corrupt local government out of power. It is one of the only times in modern American history that citizens took up arms against their own officials and won.
Paul Cantrell's machine, tied to Memphis boss Ed Crump, had run McMinn County since 1936 on a fee system that paid deputies per arrest. Returning GIs got picked up and fined repeatedly. In May 1946 they formed the GI Non-Partisan League and ran their own slate.
On election day, Sheriff Pat Mansfield brought in some 200 out-of-county deputies at $50 a day. One shot a Black farmer, Tom Gillespie, in the back for trying to vote. When the polls closed, deputies carried the ballot boxes into the jail and barricaded themselves in.
The veterans broke into the National Guard armory, surrounded the jail, and fought a six-hour gun battle before using dynamite. The deputies surrendered around 3:30 a.m. Nobody died. The ballots were counted in public.
@EchoesofWarYT Antietam. Although I will say the feeling you get at Gettysburg and knowing what all took place there is unexplainable. I’ve been there 3 times and still have yet to see everything. Place is ginormous.
@NicholasWahbe@MarshallYates_@ItsYourGov I’ve said this before. There is a treasure trove of evidence there locked away. Sad thing is the university loves JB and sucks his ass every chance they get.
@izthisJudah The officers wouldn’t “hAvE tO dO aLl At” if he simply complied with the lawful orders. These stupid morons don’t realize they will have their day in court😭😭
@tha_black_doc@j_fishback You can’t be that stupid?? We had a black president ffs?? Some of the richest athletes in the world are black?? Incredibly ignorant take.