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Bowling Green, Kentucky, canceled its annual Christmas parade scheduled due to threats against protests related to the notorious lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955

The city announced the cancellation in tweet. In a video posted on Facebook, Police Chief Michael Delaney said at least three groups planned to protest at noon on Saturday at two locations. Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower said his office learned of threats late Friday evening “to shoot anyone who is protesting” or assisting protesters, Hightower said.

He was abducted, tortured, and lynched, in a case that drew national attention and helped galvanize attention on the civil rights movement. According to WKBO, Donham’s last known address is believed to be an apartment in Bowling Green. Donham was never arrested in connection with Till’s death, but a warrant for her arrest was found earlier this year in a Mississippi courthouse basement. A grand jury in Mississippi declined to indict Donham in August.

 

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Id think in Kentucky there would be a great number of good guys with guns protecting those expressing thier free speech in protest. Cuz you know..the 2nd protects the 1st?

We only have to go back less than 24 hours to find a POC let out of jail for some kind of assault, carjacking, killing a cop etc. Black privilege now.

Good...less blacks will kill each other at the parade.

Kellyanne will have to make up another massacre story for her alternative fact list

It’s 💔that ‘Apartheid’ is still present, not only in Israel but still in the USA 😞

What are we suppose to do now? 67 years later. Cancel everything? When will the 99% stop catering to the 1% that’s offended by everything?

Let's go!

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