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Thread #157576   Message #3727177
Posted By: Greg F.
30-Jul-15 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
Subject: RE: Why action to end Systemic Racism can't wait
And just in case anyone thinks Black folks are the only victims:

In Wyoming, Shooting Highlights Divide Between a City and a Reservation

By JACK HEALY, New York Times, JULY 29, 2015


RIVERTON, Wyo. — Roy Clyde was sick of the homeless people who linger in this city's parks, urinating in public and drinking bottles of vodka and mouthwash, he told the police. So on a recent afternoon, the police say, he grabbed his handgun, walked into an alcohol detox facility called the Center of Hope and shot two men as they lay on green floor mats, killing one and critically wounding the other.

Local officials called it a senseless attack on society's most vulnerable fringe. But Mr. Clyde, a city parks worker, was white, and the victims were American Indians, members of the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Tribal officials here on the edge of the two-million-acre Wind River Reservation saw the shooting as a hate crime that added another page to a long history of violence and mistrust here in Indian Country.

"There's a lot of animosity toward the Indian people," said Dean Goggles, the chairman of the Northern Arapaho Tribal Business Council. "It's always been there.".......

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/us/in-wyoming-shooting-highlights-divide-between-a-city-and-a-reservation.html?_r=0