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Internal emails obtained by Siskiyou Rising Tide and Information for Public Use show police treating even the most placid social justice activities as sites of criminal threat.
By Matt Witt | PREVIEW Columnist If you think that race is only an issue in the country’s biggest cities, consider a murder trial that recently concluded in the small town where I live, in the Rogue Valley of southern Oregon. The defendant in this criminal case was Robert Paul Keegan, a 50-year-old white man.
After a killing in rural Oregon of an unarmed Black 19-year-old, the 50-year-old white shooter was tried and convicted of manslaughter — a verdict Black protesters found painful and all too familiar.
Faced with overwhelming evidence that a white man had killed a young and unarmed Black man, lawyers crafted their case to appeal to the jury, which was composed only of white people.
If you think that race is only an issue in the country’s biggest cities, consider a murder trial that recently concluded in the small town where I live, in the Rogue Valley of southern Oregon....