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

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/families-in-disbelief-after-hundreds-of-bodies-found-buried-behind-mississippi-jail

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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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.

Jessvj93@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

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.

Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y

215 identifiable graves so far. They were given serial numbers, the highest of which is 672...

cristo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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

BedInspector@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This is pretty profoundly fucked.

thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

This is pretty Mississippi

Etterra@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

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

fartington@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
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