Mississippi Still Burning With Racial Hatred.

SALLIS, MS (WLBT) – A small Attala County town is questioning whether a weekend chase and fatal shooting should be investigated as a Hate Crime. Sheriff’s department officials met with residents are asking for justice in the murder of Cedric Sharkey. More than 125 people crowded into New St. James Church of Christ to find out more about Saturday’s investigation in Sallis where 24 year old Cedric Sharkey was found shot in the woods following a chase on Attala Road 4106. "They had no business, no business, none chasing behind somebody taking the law into your own hands," said one woman sitting in the audience. Attala County’s Sheriff William Lee and Investigator Zeile Shaw answered questions from those in attendance. Law officers said 52 year old Frankie Barber and 42 year old Barry Ware of Sallis are charged with the fatal shooting. One weapon is being processed by the State Crime Lab. The two told investigators Sharkey fired at them first, but no other weapon has been found. "It is revealed up to this point in time we do not believe he had a weapon," said Investigator Shaw when asked if Sharkey had a gun. Residents voiced concerns about witnesses seeing four people in the truck chasing the shooting victim while only two were charged. Relatives said Barber accused Sharkey of stealing iron from his property then later chased his car causing it to crash. "Frankie his son, his son-in-law and his daughter they pulled up. The son jumped out and said ‘Yall been the ones taking our stuff."



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Blacks no longer even want on the Bus, forget the back.

What allegedly happened at a Houston bus stop is now being prosecuted as a hate crime. Four white men are accused of attacking a black man.

Late one night last August, Yondell Johnson was sitting at a bus stop waiting for the bus when he saw four men approach him, throw a few racial epithets around, and attacked.

"It was like I couldn't believe this was happening, and I thought I could be dying especially when they had me on the ground," said Johnson.

On Thursday, Johnson says justice is finally being served because the four suspects -- Charles Cannon, Michael McLaughlin, Brian Kerstetter and Joseph Staggs -- have been indicted on federal hate crime charges, meaning that the motive behind the attack was Johnson's race.





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