The lynching of Lent Shaw in America; accused of making a white woman feel uncomfortable (1936).

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CronkinOn on January 26th, 2022 at 08:45 UTC »

Are we not going to talk about how twisted you'd have to be to want to be in this photo op?

Widespread enough that all these dudes wanted in on the photo and felt justified/invulnerable.

rossdrew on January 26th, 2022 at 10:02 UTC »

Actually the charge was assaulting with intent to rape.

That said he was taken from police custody shortly before a fair trial and lynched by these animals. There were no charges placed on the mob, no formal investigation into the killing and in fact the judge and sheriff deputised the mob to allow it. The policeman in charge of the jail made no attempt to stop the abduction and claimed he couldn’t identify any of the mob.

His family of 12 had to then move because of death threats. They never claimed his body through fear of death.

Three years before the world went to war with Nazi Germany. America!

billhyun on January 26th, 2022 at 10:08 UTC »

Has anyone who has ever been in one of those crowds ever come forward and acknowledge how fucked up it all was. What has always horrified me the most about lynchings in the U.S, more than the sheer brutality even, is how big the mobs are.