When was the last documented lynching in the US?

[bluestateguy]

Michael Donald in 1981? Or James Byrd Jr. in 1998 (maybe that doesn't count as a technical lynching, but it was a racially motivated brutal murder)?

[Liberty Belle]

1. Don't know, but we had a threat of one in Santee, CA a year or so ago;

students threatened a black staff member or administrator. No charges filed; the man was too afraid to come forward.

This is an area with white supremacist gangs; locals call it Klan-Tee.

[Creena]

4. Santee?

Ugh, that's definitely Klan! My second (Or third? Maybe even fourth.) cousin attended meetings and rallies in the area. My father put him in charge of me a few times and was forced to tag along. Even got to meet Tom Metzger once! Disgusting excuse for a human being.

Knowing the mindset of those I came in contact with, I find the sickening current event no suicide.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I am so glad Metzger is gone

but his ilk are not.

Didn't know you were from the neighborhood

:hi:

[Creena]

8. I'm actually in OC.

The third or fourth cousin is near Santee. That is, until he kicked the bucket.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Well if you are ever in the neighborhood, don't be shy

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Apparantly September 12, 2009

This lynching follows the same pattern of other lynchings. It was aimed at a federal workers in general and census workers specifically, because they are what cry baby conservatrives see as the tip of the socialist spear.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Yes, it's the 'classic' style. Stunning. nt

[misanthrope]

5. I'd say Byrd certainly qualifies**nm

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[scheming daemons]

6. I consider Matthew Shepherd to have been "lynched"

Tied to a post and left to die is not any less cruel than a literal hanging.