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  • July 21, 2008 - Monroe, Georgia: Activists stage the annual "lynching renenactment" of the 1946 murder of Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray. In this image a pregnant Dorothy Malcom is being forced out of a car to the murder site. The narrative of the reenactment is pieced together by paticpants from FBI files.The annual reenactment which brings many audience members and participants to tears aims to bring light to the unsolved murders and the history of racism in the United States.
    Lynching Reenactment
  • More than 200 people gathered Thursday morning for a vigil outside Standard Food & Spirits -- where, one day earlier, 27-year-old bartender John Henderson was murdered during an armed robbery. Friends and supporters, celebrated Henderson's life and discussed the tragedy at the popular bar and restaurant on Memorial Drive, near historic Oakland Cemetery in north Grant Park.
    January 8
  • More than 200 Atlantans, including Mayor-elect Kasim Reed, gathered on Monday night outside the Moreland Package liquor store where Kavader McKibben was killed to remember his life -- and urge each other to unite as a community to help end violent crime.
    Kavader McKibben Vigil
  • ATLANTA, GA-February 23, 2011: Police are investigating a shooting that took place off Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. Police on the scene wouldn't comment, but Carlton McCraty, who lives about 15 feet from where the deceased body lay, said he heard two large booms at around 12:30 this afternoon. "I just thought it was people working on their cars," he said. "I'm glad it didn't happen when the school was let out 'cause one of the children could have caught a bullet," added his wife Melissa McCraty. Three children live in the McCraty household.
    February 23
  • More than 200 Atlantans, including Mayor-elect Kasim Reed, gathered on Monday night outside the Moreland Package liquor store where Kavader McKibben was killed to remember his life -- and urge each other to unite as a community to help end violent crime.<br />
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On Friday night, police say, Kavader McKibben was gunned down by 19-year-old suspect Terrone Anthony after he demanded cash from the liquor store's register. <br />
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Shaun Yu, the owner of the liquor store, heard his employee's call for help and then opened fire on Anthony, shooting him in the arm and leg. Police apprehended Anthony one block away. No charges have been filed against Yu.
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  • Fort Benning, Georgia........
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  • CHICAGO, IL - September 4, 2000: Dick Cheney campaigning for the 2000 Bush/Cheney ticket at the The Taste of Polonia festival, a Polish festival in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Chicago, Labor Day weekend 2000.
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  • Paul Wolfowitz a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and President of the World Bank. As U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense he was one of the strongest advocates of the Iraq war and he was forced to resign from the World Bank over a controversy sparked by his awarding of a job to his companion and lover.
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  • Ernest (Shujaa) Graham points to his name on the list of 129 death row inmates who have been exonerated in the United States since 1973 at the May 17th, 2008 Troy Davis rally in front of the Georgia State Capitol. Graham was acquited of murder charges and freed from death row in 1981. <br />
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Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia; a murder he says he did not commit. There was no physical evidence against him ever found and the weapon used in the crime was also never found. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even at the time of the trial. <br />
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Since then, all but two of the state's non-police witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony. <br />
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Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis.<br />
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Troy Davis has come within 24 hours of being excuted three times in the last two years before he has been granted a stay of execution despite intense doubt of his guilt he remains on death row.
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  • Former California death row inmate Ernest (Shujaa) Graham breaks down in tears while speaking at a rally for death row inmate Troy Davis at the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta on May 17, 2008. <br />
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Graham spent 5 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. He was exonerated in 1981. <br />
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Troy Davis has been on death row since 1989 for the murder of a Savannah, Georgia police officer. Although there is no physical evidence linking Davis to the murder and seven of the nine witnesses who originally identified him as the killer have recanted their testimony Davis remains on death row.
    Ernest (Shujaa) Graham.jpg
  • Exonerated death row inmate Ernest (Shujaa) Graham breaks down in tears during his speech in which he talked about his experience on death row at the May 17th, 2008 rally for death row inmate Troy Davis in front of the Georgia State Capitol. Graham was acquited of murder charges and freed from death row in 1981. Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia; a murder he says he did not commit. There was no physical evidence against Davis ever found and the weapon used in the crime was also never found. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony. Since Davis' conviction over 17 years ago all but two of the state's nine witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony. Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis.
    March 15, 2014
  • A spirited group of demonstrators showed up at Woodruff Park on Oct. 22 to rally and march as part of the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality. Organizers cited seven deaths in Georgia at the hands of police officers since March 2009 as a sign of the "epidemic of police brutality in Georgia" according to their press release.<br />
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Following the rally at Woodruff Park more than 50 protesters marched to the Atlanta Detention Center briefly shutting down one side of Peachtree Street. Outside the Detention Center a "speakout" was held. Some of the topics referenced by speakers outside the jail included the Kathryn Johnston murder, the Atlanta Eagle Raid and the need for an independent citizen police review board. As protesters spoke, cheers could be heard from prisoners inside the Detention Center.
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