Florida pardons wrongly accused Groveland Four after 70 years

[ThrobbingHood]

Four black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white teenager in Florida 70 years ago have been pardoned.

Officials voted unanimously to issue the pardon at a meeting in the state capital of Tallahassee on Friday.

None of the men are still alive, but their family members were in attendance to plead their innocence.

Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Ernest Thomas are known as the Groveland Four and were accused of abducting and raping a girl in 1949.

Thomas was hunted down by a posse of more than 1,000 men shortly after the alleged incident and was shot hundreds of times.

The three others were beaten in custody before being convicted by all-white juries. Samuel Shepherd was later shot and killed by a sheriff while travelling to a retrial.

The case is seen as a historic racial injustice and was the subject of the book Devil in the Grove, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013.

Three of the men were convicted by all-white juries

Florida pardons wrongly accused Groveland Four after 70 years

 

[ORDER_66]

fukk this bullshyt ass country...

was the family EVER compensated????

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Jena 6, Central Park 5, Tulsa Race Riot... the year changes but the pattern remains the same.

 

[Strapped]

Just silly when modern day negroes are still being punished unfairly

 

[Afrodroid]

"pardon"

What a joke

May God save the black people in this doomed country and burn all those white devils to ashes

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

And that old cac bytch continued with the lie at the pardon
This is why I’m so disrespectful to them muthafukkas irl..
I stay with theanytime anyone of them attempts to talk to me..

 

[Pazzy]

Funny how they keep doing the same mistake over and over again and think that pardoning people for shyt 80 years ago when they are dead and gone is supposed to mean something. what exactly is the point?

 

[FishNGrits]

Funny how they keep doing the same mistake over and over again and think that pardoning people for shyt 80 years ago when they are dead and gone is supposed to mean something. what exactly is the point?

They prob trying to give the family some bull shyt moral victory over the cash the state owes those families.

 

[Hey_zeus]

shyt like this makes it hard for me to care about white metoo victims. Why should i ever believe them?

 

[invalid]

The case is seen as historic government sanctioned white domestic terrorism and was the subject of the book Devil in the Grove, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013.

Fixed.

Language is everything brehs. We need to stop letting these folks get away with soft coloring the crimes they’ve committed.

 

[OfTheCross]

Funny how they keep doing the same mistake over and over again and think that pardoning people for shyt 80 years ago when they are dead and gone is supposed to mean something. what exactly is the point?

they're pandering as they're pardoning

 

[Tom Foolery]

This symbolic exoneration popped up for me yesterday.

Anything but reparations.

 

[Pazzy]

This symbolic exoneration popped up for me yesterday.

Anything but reparations.

Yep. Pardoned after 70 years.... smh. Folks are sick

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Disgusting