America’s acknowledgment of the “Tulsa” racist crime after a century
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency quoted Al Jazeera, more than 104 years have passed since the biggest racist massacre in American history and the burning of the “Green neighborhood. Wood” in “Tulsa” in the state of “Oklahoma”, a report by the US Department of Justice on released Friday, revealed that some law enforcement officers were involved in the 1921 massacre; The massacre during which about 300 people, most of whom were blacks living in the Green Wood neighborhood, were killed. .
Despite the seriousness of the information in this field, the US Department of Justice announced that there is no way to prosecute the crimes and punish the perpetrators, and the youngest possible suspect of this The crime is now more than 115 years old.
The report revealed that law enforcement officers at the time, from both the Tulsa police and Whether the American National Guard disarmed the black residents of the Greenwood neighborhood and many Some of them were detained in temporary camps under armed guards. There are also reliable reports that some law enforcement officers arrested a large number of blacks and some of them participated in the burning of this neighborhood and the killings.
The report referred to the statements of some witnesses who accused a police officer of shooting all black people in Green Wood.
According to this report, the same American officer arrested six men in Green Wood arrested and tied them together with a rope and asked them to run on the back of the officer’s motorcycle to the detention center. An eyewitness also said that he saw officers searching black men under the pretext of finding weapons; But their main goal was to steal money from these men, and if they protested, they would shoot at them. Also, another officer was proud that he had killed four blacks.
Christine Clark, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice, said that the massacre in Tulsa, shows a racist massacre and legal crime on a large scale of brutality and injustice and attempts to destroy the black community.
In 2020, nearly a century after a white mob killed 300 people in Greenwood, a predominantly black neighborhood, authorities The city began excavating part of the Oklon cemetery in the east of the city, following the discovery of evidence of a possible mass grave.
The Tulsa massacre, like many crimes of racial violence, began with a false accusation. ; On May 31 1921, a white mob outside the courthouse where a young black man was being held, accused of assaulting a young white woman who had taken the elevator of a drugstore. managed, they gathered.
Finally, a group of white men met with a group of blacks in a police station, and a shooting and a fight began. The white mob ended up in Greenwood, a self-sufficient and wealthy neighborhood known as “Black Wall Street”, landed and, with the help of the National Guard, set it on fire.
The death toll of this massacre may have reached 300 people, making it one of the worst racial violence in American history; Hundreds more people were injured and about 8 thousand people or more were left homeless.
After this massacre, the authorities to erase it from the historical records of the city of Tulsa They tried a lot; Thus, the victims were buried in unmarked graves and the police records disappeared.
