Growing list of Black #Indigenous #latino #whitepeople who were born executed or died on February 23 in any year
Peter Campbell would have been 64 today.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cross_house_fire
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old [Black Man], was [executed] during a racially motivated hate crime while jogging in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia. Three white men, who later claimed
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to [pigs] that they assumed he was a burglar, pursued Arbery in their trucks for several minutes, using the vehicles to block his path as he tried to run away. Two of the men, Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael, were armed in one vehicle. Their neighbor,
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William "Roddie" Bryan, was in another vehicle. After overtaking Arbery, Travis exited his truck, pointing his weapon at Arbery. Arbery approached Travis and a physical altercation [allegedly] ensued, resulting in Travis fatally [executing] Arbery. Bryan recorded this
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confrontation and Arbery's [execution] on his cell phone.
Members of the Glynn County [pig] Department (GCPD) arrived on the scene soon after the [executing]; due to Gregory McMichael's background in civil service, the responding [pig] referred to him on a first-name basis
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and no questions as to the legality of the [executing] nor the validity of self-defense claims were made. Arbery was still alive at the time [pigs] arrived on the scene. No arrests were made for more than two months. …At the behest of Gregory McMichael, a local attorney
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provided Bryan's video to local radio station WGIG, which published the video on May 5. The video went viral on YouTube and Twitter. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) arrested the McMichaels on May 7 and Bryan on May 21...
On January 7, 2022, the McMichaels were
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sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole plus 20 years, while Bryan was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery
Robert Francis Flemming Jr. (July 1839 – February 23, 1919) was an
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an American inventor and Union sailor in the American Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Flemming_Jr.
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and
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Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
