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Minnesota pardons black man in century-old lynching case

by Associated Press/Report for America
| June 12, 2020 9:03 AM

A black man imprisoned in Minnesota a century ago in a case that included the infamous lynchings of three other black man for the alleged rape of a white woman received a posthumous pardon Friday, with Gov. Tim Walz connecting the historic injustice to the death of George Floyd.

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