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Episode 236: Lake Lanier

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The Coercion of a Black Deputy

After Sledi May's murder and the claim of another young boy, that two men raped her, white residents began just tormenting black residents in Forsyth County. So immediately the closest black residents to the crime scene were taken into custody. The sheriff Bill Reed had like beef with this deputy because they were running against each other in an upcoming election. Rob Edwards was another 24 year old black man and he had also been implicated in the crime. He was in one of the cells that was guarded by that single deputy. Patrick Phillips described what happened when the racist mob showed up at the jail that night. It involved a very large crowd gathering outside the jail, dragging him out of the jail

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