In 1944 Black people in Alcolu, S.C. were afraid to come to little George Stinney’s defense.

New evidence, old wounds in SC execution case 

by Kimberly Johnson @Warbelle January 20, 2014 12:58PM ET 

"Seventy years after George Stinney was youngest person to die by electric chair in South Carolina, he gets a new trial 

ALCOLU, S.C. — Seven decades after the state of South Carolina executed a 14-year-old black teenager for the murder of two white girls, the prospect of new evidence that could exonerate him highlights long-held racial divisions and fear."

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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/20/new-evidence-oldwoundsinscexecutioncase.html 

There is a different kind of fear right now in Coatesville.

"A murder happens in front of eight people and no one saw it." Joe Carroll

Some black people here are afraid to testify in murder cases because they know that the minute they enter the Justice Center word will get back to criminals in Coatesville.

I think it’s just one way that corrupt public officials in Chester County used fear to keep Coatesville as the drug depot for Chester County.

The violence of Chester County’s drug business is kept in poor mostly black neighborhoods in the City of Coatesville. The drugs and the profits go to all of Chester County.

There are signs that the practice of pursuing justice in public while pursuing organized crime in private is now changing for the first time in Chester County.