WTVD(RALIEGH, N.C.) — In 1952, two deputies in Wake County, North Carolina, hung Lynn Council, an African American man, from a tree when he wouldn’t confess to a robbery, according to ABC Raleigh station WTVD. On Thursday, the current Wake County sheriff, Gerald Baker, apologized to Council in person and took down a photograph of …
Jun 14
‘I cannot change what they did’: North Carolina sheriff apologizes for attempted lynching by deputies in 1952
