Sentences with phrase «who lynched»

The Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency, Emmanuel Agyarko, is of the view that the persons who lynched the late military officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, might have acted under the influence of alcohol or Indian hemp.

Meanwhile, scores of armed military personnel have been deployed to Denkyira - Obuasi in the Central Region as they mount a search for the residents who lynched the Captain.

Not exact matches

«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

«He couldn't have been more supportive of making sure we got convicted the murderers of the last black man who was lynched by the Klan,» said former Justice Department attorney Barry Kowalski, who worked with Sessions.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

John Parker, who helped organize the lynch mob, later went on to be governor of Louisiana.

willing to team up with the same people who would be happy to lynch them because they think they have a common enemy....

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

CNN: America's «angriest» theologian faces lynching tree James Cone, who once called himself «the angriest theologian in America,» is still angry.

If my grandparents had been beaten or lynched for the colour of their skin, if my parents had suffered under oppressive segregation, if I had a friend or relative who had been shot down in cold blood by a police department because that is just way more likely if you're Black in America, I'd have been angry, too.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Imagine the power, serenity and spaciousness of someone who, because he is not driven by fear of death, is able to undergo an absolutely typical lynch death at human hands and to do so deliberately — and by doing so show that rather than death being definitive and powerful, it is no more than a frightening mirage.

A lot of those things haning under bridges are black people who were lynched by bigoted holy rollers who used their version of the «holy bible» to justify slavery.

To those who exchanged the cross of Christ for a lynching tree or police brutality, Jesus says get out.

The point is that the One who is supremely revealed as a forsaken, impotent and abandoned lynch - law victim simply can not be reconciled with the catalogue of divine attributes listed in most forms of theism.

To strenghten all this Mr. Wenger brought to Arsenal Petit and Viera, who became the lynch pin for many years to come.

Just three years before Trice arrived, a white mob in Duluth, 175 miles north of Minneapolis, lynched three black men who had come to town with the traveling circus, accused of raping a white woman.

We do nt need Moyes or the whoring Dutchman, give him a bit of time our present manager will sort things out and move us forward, you can moan all you like but his record thus far is OK.Anyway look on the bright side we've started a trend look at the amount of former players who are «interim» managers at premier league clubs, Welcome Giggsy, I doubt you; ll get the same level of abuse as Tim, but you» better start winning quick or the Manu lynch mob will be in full cry.COYS

Former President John Mahama has consoled the family of the late army Captain Maxwell Mahama who was lynched and killed at Denkyira - Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West district in the Central region.

«I will repeat this statement again, Captain Mahama's death was orchestrated by the President Nana Addo, he ordered the assemblyman to incite the Denkyiraboase residents to lynch the soldier who was preventing the residents from engaging in galamsey, that's the truth, if you attempt, to tell the truth, you become a target of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), they almost killed me at Talensi, during the by - elections years ago,» she alleged.

He explained that any group of people who meted out instant justice by lynching suspected criminals should be dealt with according to the law irrespective of their political affiliation, saying «Ghana belongs to Ghanaians and not any political party.»

«The police are currently holding five persons who are said to be connected to the circumstances leading to the lynching of Capt. Maxwell Adam Mahama, whom they claimed they mistook for an armed robber,» the Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, said

He warned that all security personnel who will try to keep the peace in the region will be lynched.

In another development, the Invisible Forces of Nana Akuffo Addo nearly lynched on Aboagye a loyalist of Alan Kyeremanteng at the funeral grounds.Aboagye's crime is that he has been offered a contract by the new administration.The Invisible Forces acting upon the orders of one of Nana's henchmen who attended the funeral, pounced on Aboagye and gave him some slaps but was saved by the security operatives of Former President Kufour who rushed to the scene to intervene and whisked him away.

The State House, where the funeral took place has been filled with tears from family, friends, statesmen and even people who never met the late military officer who was lynched at Denkyira - Obuasi last week Monday.

«I've lost one of my fine officers who were detailed to come here on official duty protecting lives and properties, only to be lynched by the same community he is supposed to be protecting.

Details are emerging about how Denkyira - Obuase township and its surroundings have virtually turned into a ghost town following the killing of the army officer who was said to be jogging Monday morning before he was accosted and lynched because the townsfolk claimed he was on an armed - robbery operation.

However, attempts to carry out instant lynching of the suspect was said to have bee resisted by the traditional ruler of the city, Oba AbdulRasheed Adewale Akanbi, who insisted that the police must be allowed to do their job.

INSET: WIlliam Baah, the Assemblyman who is alleged to have instigated the lynching, at the police station.

Spotting the former Conservative MP Esther McVey over on the other side of the studio, he remembered that he had called her «a stain on humanity» who should be «lynched».

Is this genuine hate or someone who just wants to mindlessly be part of the lynch mob and fit in with the outraged social media crowd?

Somilarly, all defenders of people who were falsely accused in pedoplilia are pedophile mafia, those who are against lynching of suspected pedophiles are pedophiles themselves etc..

He added: «Such is the changing nature of the world that we need to readjust to reclaim the system, and thereby the streets, for the decent majority.This is not the argument of the lynch mob, or of people who are indifferent to convicting the innocent, but it is simply a rational and reasonable answer to the problem.»

Police picked up the suspect on suspicion of having a hand in the lynching of the 29 - year - old man, who later died at Aflao Hospital.

Major Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces who was on official duty, was lynched at Denkyira - Obuasi in the Central Region on May 29, 2017 when some residents mistook for an armed robber.

The wife of a Kentucky lawmaker who killed himself after a sexual assault allegation surfaced this week defended her husband and said she will run for his seat because «these high - tech lynchings based on lies and half - truths can't be allowed to win the day.»

«We are an open minded party who believes that ordinary hard working men and women who want to serve their communities should not be subject to a political lynch mob.»

The seven, including an assembly member who is said to be the mastermind of the lynching and subsequent burning of a part Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama's body arrived at the Court premises at about 8:10 am Thursday amidst tight security.

The lynching and murder of Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region in May, has also raised debates about the effectiveness of the country's security agencies especially the Police Service, who have the constitutional mandate of maintaining law and order in the country.

Ghana's Police investigators will this morning begin building a solid case against five residents of Denkyira - Obuasi who were arrested for allegedly lynching a military officer and setting a part of his body ablaze.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his regret over the death of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama who was lynched and burnt in the Central Region by some angry youth on Monday morning.

Captain Maxwell Mahama, who was lynched to death by a mob in Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, will be buried on Friday, the family spokespersons have said.

9 READ ALSO: Army officer killed at Denkyira - Obuasi Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched after the residents who had witnessed an armed robbery incident the night before raised an alarm.

The first was his own Officer Nanka Bruse who was attacked in the office of the President, the flagstaff house, this officer was nearly lynched by Npp invisible forces and the video evidence was widely circulated but the IGP has refused to even comment on it.

Capt. Mahama, who was deployed to the Denyira - Obuasi community in the Central Region region together with his colleague military officers to wage war on illegal mining, was lynched by residents of the area after they mistook him for an armed robber.

«At about 17:30 hours, the Police Patrol team returning from Sempoa area reported that, on reaching Hweehwee township, they encountered a rampaging youth numbering about 300 who were attempting to lynch two Fulani men, who were on motorbike returning from Sempoa heading towards Nkawkaw.»

Major Mahama, then a captain in the military, was lynched by some residents of Denkyira - Obuasi who mistook him for an armed robber, while on a routine morning fitness run.

A statement by the group copied to citifmonline.com strongly condemned the lynching of Captain Maxwell Mahama, a 5th Infantry Battalion officer who was lynched and burned by some youth of Denkyira - Obuasi in the Central Region on Monday.

The late Major Mahama, an Officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion at Burma Camp, was on duty at Dankyira - Obuasi, when on May 29, he was lynched by some residents, who allegedly mistook him for an armed robber because he had a pistol in his back pocket.

Captain Mahama, a member of the 5th Infantry of the Ghana Armed Forces, who was on official duty at Denkyira - Obuasi was lynched and a part of his body burnt Monday by some residents who suspected him to be an armed robber.