‘An Era of Racial Terrorism’: Black Florida Man Killed by Jacksonville Police and Put on Display In 1925 Honored at Soil Collection Ceremony
A Black man put on display after being fatally shot by police in 1925 was honored during a virtual ceremony on Sunday. Willie Washington was 22 years old when he was shot to death in front of his family at their downtown Jacksonville home by a Jacksonville police detective. Police tear-gassed the chauffer’s attic to…