The authorities claimed Walker backed over the men, then drove forward, grinding them into the ground a second time. And a white man, James Walker, had been arrested and charged with having intentionally run over the two men after Walker admitted to flooring his gas pedal. Another member of the tribe had been gravely injured as well. Jimmy Smith-Kramer, 20, and a member of the Quinault Indian Nation, had been crushed under the wheels of a pickup truck at a local campground. A Sioux woman in Winterset, Iowa, reported that she was called a “prairie nigger” on Facebook.Īn entry from late last May, though, was of another order: a news account of a killing in Grays Harbor County in Washington.
The submissions from Native Americans have come into ProPublica’s Documenting Hate database with regularity: In Reno, Nevada, a truck was driven into a group of Native people protesting Columbus Day, injuring one a Navajo woman in Flagstaff, Arizona, reported being told, “Go back to where you came from” by a driver who pulled up to her at a bus stop. This story was originally published by ProPublica.
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