{"id":397,"date":"2012-04-09T20:19:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-04-09T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:19:32","slug":"white-men-from-tulsa-oklahoma-kills-three-african-american-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"WHITE MEN FROM TULSA OKLAHOMA KILLS THREE AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Could Tulsa shooting be a hate crime?\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gCwjg6SKfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Police, officials and residents are horrified by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/08\/us\/oklahoma-shootings\/index.html\">shooting deaths of three African-American men, allegedly by two white men, in a predominantly black area in Tulsa, Oklahoma<\/a>. But authorities will not say whether they believe the shootings were a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 33, are charged with three counts of murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill in connection with last week&#8217;s shootings, which also wounded two people.<\/p>\n<p>A day before the shootings, a post on England&#8217;s Facebook page said it was the second anniversary of his father&#8217;s death &#8220;at the hands of a f**king n****r.&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Jason Carroll reported that officials are looking into the posting, which may indicate that he never got over the fact that his father was killed by a black man.<\/p>\n<p>A post in which England said it was time to get ready for another funeral is also under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>But Tulsa City Councilor Jack Henderson said that if the shootings are shown to be racially motivated and the suspects are not charged with a hate crime, the community will be upset.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re going to be shocked, surprised,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson said he has dealt with civil rights issues for a long time. And Tulsa has a history with racial tensions, which is perhaps why residents were so afraid after the killings. The city of about 400,000 was the scene of a 1921 race riot &#8211; considered one of the worst in the nation &#8211; that destroyed the famed Greenwood District, a wealthy enclave known as the black Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(For seven years, I was) NAACP president in this town, and I think I know pretty much a hate crime when I see it,&#8221; Henderson said, adding that he thought this was a clear hate crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police, officials and residents are horrified by the\u00a0shooting deaths of three African-American men, allegedly by two white men, in a predominantly black area in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But authorities will not say whether they believe the shootings were a hate crime. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 33, are charged with three counts of murder and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-racist-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}