Killing of Joe Taylor in Louisiana in 1949
Incident
Joe Taylor, 26, a seaman with the Merchant Marine and WWII veteran, was shot to death in 1949 by a police officer in New Orleans, Louisiana. Claiming to be protesting Senator Russell Long’s filibuster of civil rights legislation in Congress, Taylor boarded a city bus and announced that he would “kill every white person on the bus.” He shot the driver and a police officer. Taylor was arrested and placed in a police car. As he was being removed from the patrol car, he was shot four times by an officer. He succumbed to his wounds.
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