December 3, 2014
On Dec. 1, Jackson State University students staged a so-called die-in at Gibbs-Green Plaza, where local police opened fire on anti-war protesters in May 1970, killing two young black men, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, and wounding 12 others. The officers involved in the shooting never faced criminal penalties.
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