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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Families in disbelief after hundreds of bodies found buried behind Mississippi jail

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Families in disbelief after hundreds of bodies found buried behind Mississippi jail

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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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The discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief. The families are angry they were never notified of the deaths and how their loved ones are buried in graves marked by just a metal rod and a number. Amna Nawaz discussed the disturbing details that have emerged with Bettersten Wade and attorney Ben Crump.
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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Taking bets on the racial distribution. Anyone have puts on 85% or greater black/POC victims?

    This should be the kind of thing that results in a nationwide scandal and life jail sentences for the entire department. This is 672 individual citizens of the country who were slaughtered without cause. That’s no oops, that’s an extermination program.

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      672 is not a graveyard, that’s a fucking mass grave. And yep I have no doubt what the majority of the dead’s racial makeup is.

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      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        215 identifiable graves so far. They were given serial numbers, the highest of which is 672…

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        Check the botton of the article, only 215 have been found

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    This is pretty profoundly fucked.

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      This is pretty Mississippi

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    I can’t understand why anybody is surprised by the malfeasance of the American incarceration industrial complex.

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