Twenty-two years before the death of George Floyd, another brutal murder of a black man shocked the conscience of America and forced a racial reckoning.
WARNING THIS STORY CONTAINS DISTRESSING DESCRIPTIONS.
James Byrd Jr was killed by three white supremacists who drove him down a dark country road and beat him. Then they chained him alive to a pickup truck and dragged his body for three miles – until he was decapitated.
Two of the murderers…
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