Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi apologizes for 1970 police killings amid student protest
by Associated Press in Jackson, Mississippi from US news | The Guardian on (#5HW18)
- Graduation ceremony held at Jackson State 51 years late
- Philip Lafayette Gibbs, 21, and James Earl Green, 17, were shot
The mayor of the Mississippi state capital and a state senator apologized on Saturday for shootings 51 years ago by police officers that killed two people and injured 12 on the campus of a historically Black college.
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