Infamous Mississippi District Attorney Doug Evans automatically won reelection on Tuesday for the state’s 5th District. He has been in the job since 1991 and has faced allegations of racial bias. Evans, who is white, came into the national spotlight for his handling of Curtis Flowers, a Black man who…
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Justice Clarence Thomas Doesn’t Seem to Mind That a Prosecutor’s Actions Were Racist
Mississippi Prosecutor Doug Evans tried really hard to pin the murders of four people on a Black man named Curtis Flowers in Mississippi in 1996. The case was blatantly racist and even Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh could see it. “In 1996, Curtis Flowers allegedly murdered four people in Winona,…