Mayor-Elect “Suicided” in Louisiana
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
So let me get this straight…
After three terms on the city council of your small town (Westlake, Louisiana; population 4,700 or so) you just won the office of mayor with 69% of the vote. You will be the town’s first new mayor in 24 years, and you will be the first black mayor in a town that is 80% white.
Most people would view this as a cause for celebration, not a reason to commit suicide, but officials in Calcasieu Parish want us to believe that Gerald Washington killed himself on Dec. 30 outside an old elementary school with a single self-inflicted gunshot to the chest.
What???
The family doesn’t buy it either.
“Calcasieu Parish is known to be racist,” Geroski Washington, Gerald Washington’s son, said in a telephone interview. “There were lots of folks who didn’t want my father to become the mayor.” (more…)
If you only watch American news one would think Iraqis were in the streets celebrating the execution of Saddam Hussein who was hanged for killing 148 Shia civilians. Detroit’s local news even trotted out photos of Iraqi children cheering.
