Violence Incitement Quotes



The major police union in NYC. The Mayor had run on a campaign of police reform with Lynch one of his most virulent political enemies. The killer who came to New York was very disturbed over the spate of police killings of unarmed Black boys and young men for which there were no indictments or other actions of accountability. One of these was a homicide committed by a New York police officer who, against Police regulations used a choke hold on victim while 4 other officers were restraint him as he choked to death. There were no charges files, even after the coroner had declared the death a homicide. There were major demonstrations and protests in New York and elsewhere and the Mayor had defended the right of citizens to peacefully protest, Lynch’s “logic” was that the mayor’s softness against demonstrations against the police encouraged the Baltimore man to come to New York and murder the 2 police officers. The Mayors clear and unmistakable disapproval of the violence against police {642497} somehow was taken as the opposite by Lynch and other New York police officers.


In 1911 the citizens of Honea Path, SC, led by Joshua W. Ashleigh, the State Legislator representing the district and his son, the editor of the local newspaper, dismembered and lynched a Black man, Willis Jackson. Some South Carolinians were distressed and asked the Governor to initiate and investigation. See his later statement on lynching in 1930.