The N&R reports:
The NAACP is requesting a federal investigation into allegations that investigative records of the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings were thrown out.
……”This request is urgent because we understand the Greensboro government says it cannot investigate this allegation without the identity of the whistle-blower,” reads the letter, written by the Rev. William J. Barber II, head of the state’s NAACP organization.
…..Barber linked the alleged file destructions to hate crimes and other high profile incidents across the state, including a recent attempted murder of an interracial couple at a Greenville Wal-Mart last month.
“We still treat hate-crimes in North Carolina like a parking ticket,” he said. The state has a pattern of ignoring the racially charged nature of some incidents, he said.
