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Four white men abducted a college student at gunpoint from a car outside a dance in 1959 and assaulted her.
Then something happened that had never happened in Florida: an all-white jury convicted all four of them.
Betty Jean Owens. Tallahassee.
She was a student at Florida A&M. Her three friends escaped and went straight to the police. Officers found the car and arrested the men that night — which was itself unusual.
The men confessed. And Betty Jean Owens did the thing the entire system was built to prevent: she testified, in open court, in front of them, and did not waver.
Florida A&M students shut the campus down and packed the courthouse every day of the trial.
All four were convicted and sentenced to life.
It was the first time in Florida's history that white men received life sentences for raping a Black woman.
She was 18 years old and she changed what was possible in that state by refusing to stay silent in a room full of men who assumed she would.
Betty's case was historic—but it also exposes how rarely Black women received that kind of justice for crimes committed against them.
We documented stories of Black Americans who faced violence, injustice, and crimes that went unanswered. Take a look: https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF
Imagine looking at everything happening in the country today—everything people are struggling with, everything that actually deserves the fucking attention of the President of the United States—and thinking, “You know what desperately needs my attention? The branding department for artificial intelligence.”
For fuck’s sake. Read the goddamn fucking room.
Thank you for your attention to this!
A mother and her three young children were trapped inside an upside-down SUV that was filling with water in a Florida canal.
One of the little boys was banging on the door, screaming that his mom’s head was underwater.
That’s when Casey Curtis heard the cries and ran toward the canal. He reached the submerged SUV and started pulling the children out one by one, getting all three to safety.
But their mother was still inside.
Casey went back to the vehicle and found her unconscious, still buckled into her seat with her head underwater. He lifted her face above the water, realized she wasn’t breathing and gave her a breath right there in the canal.
She started breathing again.
The mother spent several days in intensive care, but she survived. All three of her children survived too.
Those kids watched a stranger pull them from a sinking SUV, then turn around and go back into the water for their mom when she couldn’t save herself. Casey Curtis is the kind of person people should know about.
HOWARD UNIVERISTY STUDENT MISSING: 22-year-old Howard University student Esube “Izzy” Wondwossen has been missing since Sept. 15. She was last seen leaving Pentagon Metro Station around 7:57 a.m. Her family says this is out of character and they’re worried something happened to her. Anyone with information is asked to contact Prince George’s County Police. https://t.co/qE9NLZZyPi #PGPD
Two janitors found a girl's body at a Texas high school.
One was Black, one was white. An officer looked at both of them and said: one of you two is going to hang for this.
Then he turned to the Black man and said, you're the one — you're elected.
Clarence Brandley. Conroe, Texas, 1980.
He was convicted and sentenced to death. He came within days of execution twice.
It fell apart slowly: witnesses recanted, saying they had been pressured. Evidence had gone missing. A judge who reviewed the case wrote that in his entire career he had never seen a more shocking disregard for fundamental rights.
He was released in 1990 after nearly a decade on death row.
Texas never paid him. He fought for compensation for years and got a fraction of what the law allowed, late.
He died in 2018.
The officer told him he was elected. He was right — that was exactly how it worked, and the man said it out loud at the start
Clarence Brandley spent nearly a decade on death row because someone had already decided what his fate would be.
How many other cases began the same way? We dug through the record and documented up to 150 in a book. Get yours https://t.co/V6OJtazidd
Alanah Poullard, a 16-year-old student from Jennings, Louisiana, made headlines for receiving acceptance letters from 60 colleges and over $1 million in scholarship offers.
Alanah Poullard
Jennings, Louisiana
Accepted into 60 colleges with more than $1 million in scholarship offers.
She planned to attend Louisiana State University to major in microbiology on her path to becoming a trauma surgeon.
She previously met President Barack Obama when she was younger.
Her tire blew out. She pulled into a gas station, locked the doors, and waited for her family to come help.
When police arrived she was unconscious in the driver's seat.
They broke the window and fired twenty-three shots into the car.
Tyisha Miller. Riverside, California, December 1998. She was 19.
She was hit twelve times. Four officers fired.
No one was charged with anything. A grand jury declined. The Justice Department reviewed it and closed it.
The four officers were eventually fired by the city — and the police union fought that, too.
A nineteen-year-old waiting for roadside assistance, asleep behind a locked door, in a car that was not going anywhere.
Twenty-three shots. Riverside changed its entire police department after this, under state supervision. That is what it cost.
You know what happened to Tyisha Miller. But what happened to the hundreds of other cases that never became national headlines?
We went looking. The result is 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For—a collection of cases that deserve more than a paragraph in an archive.
Start uncovering them here https://t.co/V6OJtayKnF
🚨🚨🚨 The parents of Brian Cole Junior the man arrested for planting the J6 pipe bombs says their son was framed by the federal government. We believe them.
He was framed