Two White men decided he was suspicious, hunted him down and shot him point blank in the middle of the street at 1 p.m. Local law enforcement had video evidence of the crime.
Because an intrepid reporter from the New York Times investigated the story and made it public; the murder video was leaked to the public on the 72nd day after Ahmaud’s murder.
The Klan, embraced by and often made up of the White gentry of the South, often gathered at their churches to organize the public lynchings.
This reality is sustained by the silence of White elites, the silence of the White church, the silence of the evangelicals, the silence of the best minded citizens.
He suggested that the “great stumbling block” for African Americans seeking their freedom is “not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the White moderate “who is more devoted to order than to justice.”
