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The state of Tennessee has fired a veteran investigator because officials believed that he attempted to use violent stories about how his relatives participated in a lynching to intimidate African-Americans who were trying to file claims against emergency responders.
“It was like he got excited telling this story.”
“They lowered the body, and all the white men standing around took turns removing the skin from the black man’s back."
In conclusion, Sewell said that he still owned a “strap” of the black man’s skin that had been given to him by his grandfather.
“They made a strap out of his skin, and they used that strap as a knife sharpener,” Allen remarked.
Mainord pointed out that the skin “was like a trophy to him, and that concerns me.”
“It was my impression he still had it at his house,” Mullins noted. “The way he enjoyed telling the story, I thought perhaps he was still using it.”
*How* did this man work 40 yrs in a job, hold that level of crazy in for that long, and then suddenly let it out? Or did he, and this was just the first time he had the poor judgement to say it in front of a rep from NAACP? I suspect the latter.
I have no way to relate to that type of thinking, or growing up hearing stories of such things from your own relatives. It turns the stomach.
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Sewell admitted that he had gotten the “back strap” from his grandfather, who was once the mayor of Baxter, but he said it was in “somebody’s landfill” now.
“I went downstairs in my storage, I went through entire boxes, but that strap is gone,” he said.
WTFV confirmed that a black man’s body was mutilated during a lynching in Baxter in 1896.
So he intended to keep it. I wonder if he has skin lampshades too. *shudder*
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Even after the death of Mullins’ mother and the intimidation that he suffered, Sewell argued that he was the true victim. “I am the victim because I made a mistake,” Sewell observed.
Mmkay, sociopath.
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