Black Lives Matter Organizer Charged With ‘Felony Lynching’

FEATURING ANTHONY RATCLIFF – A Black Lives Matter organizer has just been convicted of the bizarre sounding charge of “felony lynching.” Twenty-eight year old Jasmine Richards, of Pasadena, California, is the first African American to ever be tried in a courtroom for this controversial “lynching” charge that is apparently only recently been renamed, as a charge of “Attempting to Unlawfully Remove a Suspect from Police Officers.”

The charge stemmed from her arrest in August 2015 over an altercation at a restaurant across the street from where Richards was organizing with other activists. Her supporters say she is being politically persecuted for her activism with Black Lives Matter. A sentencing hearing will be held next week. Richards faces a possible one-year sentence and has already been taken into custody.

Anthony Ratcliff, Professor of Pan African studies at California State University Los Angeles, organizer with Black Lives Matter.