\r\n“My recommendation is to redo the investigation,” Anderson said\r\nWednesday morning. “Open it back up and find out what happened.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\nJordan Conn wrote for Grantland yesterday,\r\n\r\nA Death in Valdosta<\/a>,\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nI don’t always agree with Rev. Rose, but I still do on this one:\r\nthe number of people colluding to cover up a thing like this would\r\nbe most impressive.\r\n \r\nHowever, the GBI is involved, and after\r\n\r\nthe Quitman 10 are now several\r\nyears without a “speedy” trial<\/a>, GBI involvement taints the case.\r\nSo with the new evidence let’s see a new investigation.\r\n \r\nThe Grantland story is confused about several things, some minor\r\n(the Mary Turner site is not in Valdosta; that MLK story is bogus),\r\nand one major:\r\nthe problems around here are not just about race.\r\nBlack people get it worst because they’re the cheapest labor,\r\nand some of the powers that be want to keep it that way.\r\nYet it’s cheap labor that’s the root issue,\r\nand the old boy mentality that keeps it an issue.\r\nThere are those who think they profit by keeping people poor\r\nso they can hire them cheap, but they’d actually make just\r\nas much profit for themselves with a better-off workforce.\r\nBut it’s hard to see that when power is just as important as money:\r\npoor people are easier to boss around.\r\nEven poor people in elected office do it.\r\n \r\nAs long as the sheriff’s department profits from the\r\n\r\nfailed War on Drugs<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nAm I saying a lawsuit is equivalent to a death?\r\nNo way.\r\nI am saying the problems of race around here won’t go away\r\nwithout solving the even bigger problems of money and power.\r\n \r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I agree with the pathologist who did the second autopsy and found new evidence, Dr. William Anderson: “My recommendation is to redo the investigation,” Anderson said Wednesday morning. “Open it back up and find out what happened.” Jordan Conn wrote for Grantland yesterday, A Death in Valdosta, Multisport athlete Kendrick Johnson was found dead in […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,19,72,20],"tags":[6640,6929,2040,8701,8699,8709,8730,6927,8702,8710,12,7,2826,6928,839,1879,6,82,2770],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-history","category-incarceration","category-law","tag-accident","tag-autopsy","tag-coroner","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-history","tag-incarceration","tag-kendrick-johnson","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-murder","tag-pathologist","tag-poverty","tag-power","tag-valdosta","tag-war-on-drugs","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-1rJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5565,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n
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<\/a>\r\nMultisport athlete Kendrick Johnson was found dead in his Georgia\r\nhigh school’s gymnasium in January. Authorities ruled it an\r\naccident, but Johnson’s family believed something very different\r\n— and a second autopsy appears to support their suspicions.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n![](\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/archive\/x1940557947\/g0a00000000000000007c84f64b62c9545002bf0b79582e7ec1abf0365f.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\nthere will be too many excuses for searching, arresting, and locking\r\npeople up in the name of drug prohibition,\r\nplus excuses for\r\n\r\nbuying military equipment while defunding lunches for seniors<\/a>.\r\nJustice for KJ doesn’t end with locking somebody else up,\r\neven if it wasn’t an accident.\r\nJustice continues with ending the failed War on Drugs and ramping\r\ndown the number of lockups.\r\n![](\"http:\/\/eraarchitects.com\/images\/u7006.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\nAlso witness\r\n\r\nthe county suing Deep South Sanitation<\/a>,\r\nabout as unblack a company as you can get.\r\nThat’s about cheap labor, and it sure looks like\r\nit’s about punishing somebody who bucked the power structure,\r\nand it’s for sure no accident.\r\n