[Video] Sure We Paid, But We’ve Got Nothing To Apoligize For at Greensboro’s Child

[Video] Sure We Paid, But We’ve Got Nothing To Apoligize For

Published by Andy Coon June 5th, 2006 in Obvious Reasons, 11/03/79 Tags: civil trial, excerpt, Greensboro, Greensboro Massacre, Jim Melvin, KKK, mayor, Nazi, verdict, video.

After the defendants in the shootings were twice acquitted in state and federal trials, a civil trial found that Klansmen, Nazis and members of the Greensboro Police Department were jointly liable for the wrongful death of one of the five CWP members killed.

Instead of appealing the decision, the city of Greensboro decided to to pick up the civil trial award tab — $395,000 — for all of the defendants.

Jim Melvin, Mayor of Greensboro from 1971 to 1981, provides context behind the decision: