Thursday, July 30, 2009

PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS: Sept. 21st Face-Off in Paris, Texas


With Final Call journalist, Jesse Muhammad and Jacqueline McCelland, mother of Brandon.




I started off trying to calm everyone down and ended up having to calm myself down.




Just as I was beginning to speak two Neo-Nazi skinheads appeared across the street taunting supporters of the McClelland family.



A Paris resident gives yet another testimony of her experience with racism in the small Texas town.

Pictured speaking is the cousin of Brandon McClelland who bravely viewed his body after it was found mangled in pieces on the side of a Lamar County Road last year.


Jim Blackwell of the Tarrant County Local Organizing Committee fires up the crowd gathered inside the Paris Town Square. Law Enforcement Officers designated protest zones for marchers to avoid any undue confrontation.

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