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After killing black Leesville man in crash, white 18-year-old called him racial slur, police say
http://www.nola.com ^ | 6/4/18

Posted on 06/04/2018 10:04:20 AM PDT by BBell

Sherell Lewis Jr. was never big into birthdays. His latest came Tuesday, and there were no plans to celebrate beyond a morning visit with family in Leesville, La.

He read birthday cards and carefully tucked them away; his gifts were unopened as he headed out for work.

His mother would see him later that afternoon, 31 years to the day he was born - bleeding onto the scorching asphalt.

Lewis was on foot, helping another driver clear debris from the road, when he was struck by a pickup, police said.

A passerby found his phone and called Lewis' father, relatives would later say.

Lewis' mother rushed frantically to the scene, but authorities kept her away; the last words she could hear her son say lingered after the ambulance roared away without her.

"Momma, momma, momma! I want my momma!" Lewis cried out, his sister told The Washington Post.

He was pronounced dead at Byrd Regional Hospital in Leesville, authorities said.

Soon thereafter, the family learned of a racist Snapchat discussion about Lewis that was circulating online, prompting outrage and calls for justice.

Local police said they were "pretty confident" the chat involved Matthew Martin, the white 18-year-old who, authorities said, killed Lewis with his truck.

In the Snapchat conversation, an image of which was published by ABC affiliate KBLC, a poster using the name Matthew Martin said he had hit "some n--r" on the highway.

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KEYWORDS: black; crash; leesville; racialslur; white
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Time to call the United States Commission on Civil Rights and charge this guy with a hate crime.

Anyone remember "white girl bleed a lot"?

1 posted on 06/04/2018 10:04:20 AM PDT by BBell
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He killed the guy. Whether he hated him is irrelevant. Lock him up.


2 posted on 06/04/2018 10:07:12 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: BBell

Must be a slow fake news day!


3 posted on 06/04/2018 10:07:42 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: BBell

Yep. A lot of people really don’t understand the first amendment. Nor do they understand the concept of “I don’t agree with what you are saying but defend your right to say it.”


4 posted on 06/04/2018 10:09:06 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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Time to call the United States Commission on Civil Rights and charge this guy with a hate crime.

You condoning his actions?

5 posted on 06/04/2018 10:09:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: AppyPappy

Though I suspect he was at fault, being someone that has hit a pedestrian myself, and it was completely the pedestrian’s fault, I need more information to form an opinion on whether the driver was at fault.


6 posted on 06/04/2018 10:10:57 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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So - no crime was committed. Just some politically incorrect discussion after the accident, and the snowflakes are screaming for blood.


7 posted on 06/04/2018 10:11:05 AM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: DoodleDawg

I think he’s being sarcastic. ;)


8 posted on 06/04/2018 10:11:33 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Spirochete

So - no crime was committed. Just some politically incorrect discussion after the accident, and the snowflakes are screaming for blood.


Based on what I’ve read so far, that about sums it up.


9 posted on 06/04/2018 10:12:30 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: AppyPappy

Yep.

They found no skid marks.


10 posted on 06/04/2018 10:13:03 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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To: AppyPappy

Exactly. Seems like if you randomly kill people for no particular reason it’s not as serious as killing them out of racial hatred. Never made sense to me. Murder is murder.


11 posted on 06/04/2018 10:13:38 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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Using a laughing icon, Martin said the man died on the way to the hospital.

Laughing about killing someone is far worse than whether he used a racial slur or not.

12 posted on 06/04/2018 10:13:49 AM PDT by Kazan
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I don’t know if there is a crime here or not unless being an insensitive piece of shit is illegal!!!


13 posted on 06/04/2018 10:14:01 AM PDT by ontap
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Based on what I’ve read so far, that about sums it up.

Unless the kid can be PROVEN to have directed his car to hit him based on his skin color, then no crime committed unless he was wreckless, negligent, or purposeful BEFORE striking the pedestrian.

14 posted on 06/04/2018 10:14:20 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progressives, or Democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!)
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So this Matthew Martin has established the fact that most criminals don’t value the lives of their victims. To him, he just killed “some n____r.” Fortunately, the law sees this victim as more than that and will punish Martin accordingly. I think its fitting that this statement be allowed into evidence because it shows Martin’s callousness just like statements or actions by other criminals show their callousness.


15 posted on 06/04/2018 10:14:23 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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This breaks my heart. Prayers for his grieving mom.


16 posted on 06/04/2018 10:14:54 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert (#FreeTommyRobinson)
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If the 18 yo who hit the black guy was black and not white trash, calling him a n***** would be considered a term of endearment...


17 posted on 06/04/2018 10:16:23 AM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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If the 18 yo who hit the black guy was black and not white trash, calling him a n***** would be considered a term of endearment...


18 posted on 06/04/2018 10:16:33 AM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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If the 18 yo who hit the black guy was black and not white trash, calling him a n***** would be considered a term of endearment...


19 posted on 06/04/2018 10:16:39 AM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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To: Kazan

But still certainly needs to be proven that the guy who hit him was the same guy who made the internet posting.


20 posted on 06/04/2018 10:17:35 AM PDT by babble-on
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