Alabama grand jury indictment in 1965 issues of citizens’ rights massacre protest
A retiree 73 years, the Alabama state trooper was indicted Wednesday in the 1965 Shooting death of a black man - that the massacre in progress, the history of civil rights USA the protest movement.
District Attorney Michael Jackson said a grand jury returned in the case of an indictment. It would not be the person or Offense in the indictment is served, could last a few days. But a lawyer for former Trooper James Bonard Fowler said he had been informed that the retired lawman had been charged.
It took the Grand Jury only two hours after the return to kill in the indictment of 26 years, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was shot by citizens while Fowler rights movement to protest that in a club swinging melee damage.
The case was little known as the movement for civil rights era cold case has had major historical consequences.
Fowler, he set fire to self-defence for Jackson seizing his weapon on his Holster. Requests that his country was not immediately returned Wednesday.
“I think someone is trying to rewrite history and I do not think it’s fair, the cavalry soldier,” said Fowler’s attorney, George Beck. Beck said he would not say this that Fowler was charged, but he said that prosecutors had spoken to a charge of murder, so I assume that what too.
The indictment is the latest in a series of civil rights era in the case of the southern USA, were again to prosecution under dormant for decades. In recent years, prosecutors have won convictions in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, that the Church bomb attack killed four black girls in 1964 and the killing of three volunteers of citizens’ rights in the vicinity of Philadelphia , Mississippi.
Given these events, people in Alabama began to call for a new investigation of Jackson’s death. Michael Jackson, was elected in 2004 as the first black state attorney in Selma and Marion district and is no relation to Jimmie Lee Jackson, said he acted on these calls.
Jimmie Lee Jackson’s daughter Cordelia Heard Billingsley of Marion, 4, was at the time of the killing, said: “We’ll finally know what happened. My little son asked me questions and I could not give them answers. ”
She said if not for the prosecutor of the election, “it would still hinweggefegt were under the carpet”.
Some of those who were in Marion on the night of the shooting are dead, two FBI agents, originally studied Jackson’s death. News journalists were also beaten and cameras destroyed during the melee, without the image of the left, what happened. The Crown, but said he had “strong witnesses.
Willie Martin, 74, the event was that 1965 ended in violence and the Grand Jury, said he was happy to see any action after 42 years. “She has maintained suffocating. We are not represented at the time, nobody us,” he said.
Fowler was in a group of officers right to Marion on the night of February 18, 1965. According to witnesses, more than 500 people were walking towards a church in the city jail to protest the detention of workers’ rights, when the street lights. Troopers, the crowd refused orders to dispel. Soon, officers began swinging the right leg, with marchers fleeing.
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