No Crime Is Found in Teen’s Hanging
From Times Wire Reports
The Justice Department’s civil rights division concluded there was no criminal act in the hanging last summer of a black Mississippi teenager, which local authorities ruled a suicide.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the family of Raynard Johnson, 17, had argued that local authorities moved too quickly to rule out the possibility the youth was lynched by people who disapproved of his friendships with white girls in the rural community of Kokomo.
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