Fellow, KOSsacks, I am asking you to please do something. A man was killed a few weeks ago and because of his race, and the race of his killers, not enough is being said or done, and virtually nothing has been said in the MSM. They go nuts over a fake story about a white girl, and virtually ignore the death of a young black man. It doesn't get more wrong than this folks.
UPDATE 1:
Another blogger passed this along, from Oct 13th, in the local media.
http://theparisnews.com/...
Shannon Keith Finley, 27, a suspect in the death of 24-year-old Brandon D. McClelland has been returned from Wichita, Kan. and remains in Lamar County Jail on a $700,000 bond on a murder charge and $50,000 on tampering with evidence.
Finley arrived in Lamar County on Saturday.
McClelland’s body was found on a Lamar County road in the early morning hours of Sept. 16.
A second man, Charles Ryan Crostley, 27, also remains in Lamar County Jail on $500,000 and charged with murder.
Crostley was arrested in Paris shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 17. He also faces a $30,000 bond on charges of tampering with physical evidence with intent to impair the investigation.
U.S. Marshals, Texas Rangers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers handling the investigation have determined McClelland’s death likely was intentional.
Finley was arrested after a multi-state and multi-agency manhunt and a stakeout at the residence of relatives who live in Kansas.
He surrendered last week without incident to U.S. Marshals, who served him with a murder warrant.
From the Chicago Tribune:
When the mutilated and partially dismembered body of Brandon McClelland, a 24-year-old black man, turned up lying in the middle of a rural east Texas road one morning last month, the police immediately pronounced the case a hit-and-run by an unknown driver.
Within a few days, however, suspicions turned toward two white friends who had picked up McClelland in their truck a few hours before he was found dead early on Sept. 16. Despite signs that the truck had been washed, authorities discovered blood and other physical evidence on the undercarriage and arrested the two men, both with long criminal histories.
From the San Francisco Bay View:
"They tied my son to that truck and drugged him until his body parts were detached," said his mother Jacqueline McClelland to the Final Call. "His body was so destroyed that it could not even be embalmed by the funeral home."
"At the crime scene, it looked like these boys went back and poured beer on my son's body," said Jacqueline McClelland, Brandon's mother. "Two beer cans were lying out there, but the police didn't even pick them up, they just left evidence out there. They won't even consider the racial issues. That's the way it is in Paris."
Please, do what you can to get the word out. Email the press, and DIGG it up. Links below.
Media pressure is the only way to move this forward and keep the heat on the local police and DA. If this was your son, what would you do?
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