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A black writer lambasts the recent rapes committed by white officials in health institutions.

John Oliver’s son Roscoe was killed by a gang of white boys with a shotgun.

A black man escapes prison after being sentenced to death, and the Governor is asked to "offer a reward for his capture, dead or alive."

A man shoots a black man, but later "looked into [his pistol] and accidentally discharged it," killing himself.

A white man assaults a black man, but the case is thrown out of court for lack of evidence.

A mob burns down a black household, and the black people get arrested and "treated in the most inhuman manner."

Mitchell speaks about how "there [is] no justice for the [black] people," and says that despite slavery being abolished, "to some extent this evil still exists in the Southern states."

Two white men are sentenced to die for the rape of a woman, and Mitchell is uplifted that "the law has had its course."

A man who was stabbed in the neck by “Jack, the Ripper” encounters a drunk who claims to be the stabber.

A member of the Louisiana State Senate is murdered by a mob, and Mitchell states multiple theories that have arisen around the death.