| 词条 | Robert Charles |
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KillingsOn Monday, July 23, 1900, Charles sat on the front steps of a house in New Orleans talking with a friend, while waiting to rendezvous with his girlfriend, Virginia Banks, who lived on the block.[2] When he was approached by an officer Mora, who he shot with a .38-caliber Colt revolver . He then fled on foot to his house. There two officers, Officer Lamb and Captain Day arrived and attempted to arrest him but he brandished a rifle and shot and killed them both. [3] Charles then fled on foot. On Tuesday July 24th White individuals formed their own search parties and began searching for the fugitive double murderer and begin confronting black communities about his possible whereabouts, the African american communities who view Robert as a hero for drawing on the three unaware officers push back, and tensions start to build. Several injuries and racially motivated assaults. On Wednesday July 25th Racial tensions boil over, what was previously antagonism turns into hostility. Riots break out in the streets of New Orleans; with fifty total injured including 3 blacks that are murdered and 5 whites that are hospitalized. [4] On July 27th after being found, police arrived and attempted to arrest Robert, who instantly began shooting indiscriminately out of the building he was hiding in with a .38-caliber Winchester rifle. He killed the initial arresting police and then began killing anyone else that got near the house. Yet more rioters continued to arrive. Under constant fire, and with no chance of entry without being shot, the rioters decided to light the house on fire to get him to leave his cover. While continuing to shoot charles attempted to flee the house, but on opening the door he was instantly shot by a special policeman and afterwards riddled with the bullets of the untrained armed citizenry. By the time the gunfire ended robert had killed 7 and wounded 27 more in this event. Infuriated by the killing spree and loss of life, the citizenry mutilated the killers body.[5] Black NationalismAlthough Charles had murdered 9 total, and wounded 28 more. Journalist Ida Wells-Barnett praised the killing. In part of her study on lynchings; she wrote: "The white people of this country may charge that he was a desperado, but to the people of his own race Robert Charles will always be regarded as the 'Hero of New Orleans.'"[6] Effectively turning a murderer into a martyr for the sake of race. In recent years black nationalist organization and black history teachers have likened the spree killer to the character Django Freeman from Quentin Tarantinos 2011 film Django Unchained. Black nationalist groups claim Charles was a strong supporter of racial separation and was involved in the Liberian emigration movement. A movement to relocate African Americans back to Africa in order to remove themselves from the presence of whites. They also claim that in his thirties in 1900, Charles held no steady job and was a vocal black separatist. They claim that he supported black emigration to Africa as a response to Jim Crow laws in the South. They claim he became enamored with their beliefs after he started reading racial separatist literature and stockpiling weapons, yet still broke no laws. However the only evidence of this is an article that blames the shooting on literature passed out by a local black lutheran church, not from any account of roberts or evidence on the scene. See Also
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