34. The Sheriff Told the Posse To Find And Kill Those Involved In The Shoot-Out At The Church
He basically gave the mob the go-ahead to find and kill any and all African Americans in the area. And the hate-filled, fear-incited mob was all too happy to go along with his orders. They went to the African American part of town and burned down houses.
Innocent men, women, and children were shot down in cold blood. One eyewitness to the carnage claimed that the people in the mob “committed one murder after another with all the calm deliberation in the world, either too heartless to realize the enormity of their crimes, or too drunk on moonshine to give a continental darn.”
