All Blog Posts Tagged 'mississippi' (4)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Matthew Whitten Darby, a white teen, is scheduled to go on trial in February for the hit and run murder in July, 2012 of 61 year old John Butts, a Sunday school teacher, cancer survivor, and an African-American.  As it now stands, Whitten will not be hit with a hate crime charge in the murder. Panola County, Mississippi prosecuting attorney John Champion is adamant that Darby had absolutely no racial motive in running down…

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Monday, January 21 called on Panola County, Mississippi Prosecuting Attorney C. Gaines Baker to file hate crime charges against Matthew Whitten Darby, a white teen charged with the deliberate hit and run murder January 13 of 61 year old John Butts, an African-American Sunday school teacher and cancer survivor. They are also…

Civil Rights Leaders Demand Prosecution of White Teens in Mississippi Racially Motivated Mob Killing Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and a coalition of civil rights leaders on Monday, August 8 demanded that Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith prosecute the white teens that…

NAACP President Ben Jealous called Mississippi governor Haley Barbour “a shining example “of a governor following his approving the release of Jamie and Gladys Scott. The two sisters sentenced to life imprisonment and jailed since 1994 for an $11 armed robbery have been the focus of an intense and long term campaign by Jealous and the NAACP for their release. The…