Wednesday, hundreds of angry New York City residents held a demonstration, in Union Square, to protest the suspicious death of Nolan Wells—and how his case was unjustly dismissed by a dim-witted district attorney in Mississippi. In videos of the protest, (the corporate media didn’t cover it) numerous New Yorkers expressed frustration that after 100 days there is no justice for the family of Nolan Wells. Some protesters, including mothers, expressed fears that a similar tragedy may happen to their children.
The New York demonstration is but one example of this fact: many Americans don’t believe the fork-tongue white authorities in Mississippi.
And why should we? The response of Mississippi authorities was fishy from the very beginning.
It was clear from the initial non-action of law enforcement officials, in Jackson, Mississippi that they didn’t give a damn about finding out what really happened.
In fact, did they know early on that Nolan may well have been murdered by one of their white sons of privilege?
On July 6, when Nolan’s body was found, after he had been missing since July 4, Jackson County sheriff John Ledbetter quickly stated he thought Nolan had drowned. But these melanin-deficient folk are so used to dehumanizing Blacks they can’t be bothered with doing a real investigation. And that’s assuming they aren’t the Klan-cop types who were often involved with lynching African-Americans.
So, let’s be clear: the only reason Jackson County officials pretended to seek answers is because Nolan Wells’ parents forced them to do so by their relentless pressure and calls for accountability.
But we all suspected, or knew, these vile folk were going to fix an outcome to exonerate these white boys, of the well-to-do, including one who is the stepson of Judge Ashlee Cole and another whose mom, Elizabeth Edmiston, works for Alabama Governor Tate Reeves.
Given that these are high-ranking white Mississippians, are we surprised by the decision not to indict in the death of Nolan Wells—especially when one of the suspects has a parent who is a current sitting judge, who obviously has influence within Mississippi’s legal system?
This leads us to the contemptible conduct of Jackson County Prosecutor Angel Myers McIlrath.
McIlrath—while announcing no one would be indicted for the killing of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, in a video recording—showed utter disrespect for the Wells family with her insensitive, tone-deaf, comments.
McIIrath performed as a defense attorney for the white “friends,” of Wells, who while returning without Wells, from the July 4 weekend trip to Horn Island, somehow managed to be in possession of his phone, and keys, back on mainland Mississippi.
We have no choice but to ask this question: did McIIrath sabotage any chance of an indictment, by using the secret nature of how grand juries operate to pervert justice?
The phrase “you can indict a ham sandwich” is well known to many. In 1985, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sol Wachtler coined this classic phrase. Judge Wachtler was basically telling us because of the way the grand jury process is controlled, by prosecutors, that prosecutors can basically get a prosecution, assuming they really want one, nearly every time.
In looking at the behavior of DA McIlrath, she surely didn’t act like a prosecutor trying to secure an indictment. In fact, she basically told us, in her own words, that she was not concerned about Nolan Wells, or his family, but was worried about the “friends” who are the children of prominent whites in Mississippi.
McIlrath took a page out of the crooked book of former St. Louis County DA Robert McCulloch, who protected trigger-happy killer-cop, Darren Wilson, who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown down dead, in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014.
McIlrath showed more wrath for those who wanted answers as to why a healthy teen athlete ended up dead on Horn Island. She also smeared Nolan Wells, in her bizarre attempt to blame him for his own death. She told us Nolan bought beer with a fake id. Weren’t these white teens, under the age of 21, also drinking beer?
Let’s examine some of the words that came out of McIlrath’s foul mouth—and the official grand jury report, which seems to have her fingerprints all over it. First, let’s scrutinize the weird and absurd things she said in her social media video, when she announced to America, and the world, that her grand jury wouldn’t indict anyone in Nolan’s death.
McIlrath: “The family, the Crump team, and anyone close to Nolan knew that his disappearance and death were not the result of racial hate or violence.”
This is a mindbogglingly bizarre statement. How in the hell would they know that? What evidence does McIlrath have for making such a definitive statement? Does she really think just because she says so we must accept it?
Of course, racism, for white people, is never ever racism—even when all the facts tell us it is.
McIlrath: “Nolan chose to stay on the island that day, and there is not a scintilla of evidence to contradict that.” Because the white “friends” say so? Did Nolan choose to stay on the island without his phone and keys too?
Of course, why these “friends” were in possession of Nolan’s phone, and keys, is the obvious question which should have been asked by law enforcement. Did these Mississippi cracker cops do that? Did DA McIlrath try to find the answer to this critical question?
McIlrath’s released grand jury report gives us some insight into this.
In that ludicrous report, it claims it is not “unusual for individuals to place their phones…on other boats they visit and socialize on.”
This is a pathetic transparent attempt to explain why an 18-year-old would let his phone travel back on a boat to mainland Mississippi, while he supposedly said he would remain on Horn Island. Even brain-dead idiots would reject this garbage.
And why didn’t McIlrath’s grand jury report mention that Nolan’s keys, along with said phone, was retrieved by Nolan’s father from one of these white “friends?”
So, the question we must ask ourselves is this: isn’t it obvious Jackson County Prosecutor Angel Myers McIlrath manipulated the evidence to get the outcome she and her white politically-connected Mississippi friends wanted to deny justice to the family of Nolan Wells?
