Last suspect in clubbing death of Rev. James Reeb has died. No one ever convicted.

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Last suspect in clubbing death of Rev. James Reeb has died. No one ever convicted.

https://twitter.com/JMitchellNews/status/771781251355127808


. . . Namon O'Neal Hoggle of Selma, Alabama, died Tuesday, according to an obituary released by the funeral handling arrangements for the family. He was 81. A service was scheduled for Thursday.

Hoggle was among three men acquitted in 1965 in the beating death of the Rev. James Reeb of Boston. Reeb's killing was investigated as recently as four years ago by federal authorities, but no one was charged after the initial trial.

Reeb was a Unitarian minister who went to Selma in response to a call for help by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. Reeb was white, and he was attacked by a group of white men after eating in a black-owned restaurant on March 9, 1965.

Reeb, 38, died in a hospital two days later, leaving behind a wife and four children. His death, coupled with other civil rights slayings and the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, is often credited with helping build momentum for passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
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Honorary pallbearers at Hoggle's funeral included the current Dallas County sheriff and a judge.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/09/final_suspect_in_1965_civil_ri.html

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1. ***holes for pallbearers.

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2. Gee, I wonder why no one was ever convicted.

Not.

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3. Or, maybe the people in Selma today are not guilty by association ?

Maybe this was intended as a gesture of regret and reconciliation ?

Maybe this was their way of saying "we disapprove of what our predecessors did" ?

Or, maybe it's OK to paint them all with the same broad brush, just because they're not "your" people ...