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Originally Posted by Baz
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From the linked article:
"McDonald’s mother told the Jackson Free Press that her son was beating on the windows of the car with the red flip-flops he had been wearing at the time."
Somewhere in the video I must have missed that part. Anybody else? But that's what you get with the Jackson Free Press "Snowflakes".
The local backstory goes kind of like this: The incident happened in Hinds County MS. The Hinds County DA, an African American, has been indicted, arrested, and gone to trial by the State AG for corruption of letting certain folks off the hook and not prosecuting them. The trial occurred over the recent holidays. A mistrial was handed down because after letting it go on for 2 and 1/2 weeks it was found that one of the jurors was an acquaintance of the DA.
Many feel the timing of the arrest is connected to the DA's trial and that Mr. Parish is a "political prisoner".
And as for the Jackson Free Press, it is a rebirth of what was once known throughout the civil rights era as the Mississippi Free Press.....the owners of such newspaper being none other than the family of the DA.