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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... NO11G1.DTL



It's unbelieveable that something like that could take so long. I bet

the investigators are exhausted.
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valerie;528455 wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... NO11G1.DTL



It's unbelieveable that something like that could take so long. I bet

the investigators are exhausted.
It took one female police officer twenty five years to get her superiors to do something about fred and rose west and for her trouble they sacked her aint life grand?
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valerie;528455 wrote: It's unbelieveable that something like that could take so long. I bet

the investigators are exhausted.I can go one better, from today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution:A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy was arrested Wednesday in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.

The former deputy, James Ford Seale, of Roxie, Miss., was named in a federal indictment charging him in connection with the teens' disappearance and deaths while they were hitchhiking in a rural area of the state east of Natchez.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared- ... amn012507e

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Val, two of these men live not far from me. The local paper is full of outrage from various spokespeople (self-appointed, it seems) who demand that the men be released! "They've been living respectable lives, they were good neighbors, they helped mow my lawn"....etc.

I wonder if there's a similar outcry in Mississippi?

Somehow, I think not.:rolleyes:
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While not passing any judgement on either of the specific instances reported, juxtaposing both cuttings does act as a reminder why a few extremist uppity citizens were incensed enough to shoot at men in uniform back then. It was not unknown for men in uniform to be considered repressive forces holding back social change. Does nobody else remember Sheriff Jim Clark in Selma, Alabama, for example? That wasn't policing, that was class warfare.
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