By Jeff Mays on Jun 3rd 2010 6:25PM
Filed under: News, Race and Civil Rights
South Carolina authorities are investigating the death of a black man who was shot to death and whose body they say may then have been dragged for several miles by a white man as a hate crime.
The FBI is assisting in the investigation into the death of 30-year-old
Anthony Hill (pictured left), whose body was found at 4:30 a.m. on the side of a highway.
Sheriff's deputies say they followed a trail of blood to the home of
Gregory Collins, 19 (pictured below). Agents blasted tear gas into Collins' home after he engaged in a standoff for several hours.
The two men, neither of whom had serious criminal records, were co-workers at a chicken processing plant in Newberry County.
"We don't want to attribute something to Collins that isn't necessarily true," State Law Enforcement Division Director
Reggie Lloyd said. "But out of precaution, given the circumstances, we are investigating the racial angle."
According to authorities, the two men were at Collins' house early Wednesday morning, when Hill was shot in the head.
Collins then took a nylon rope and attached it to Hill's body and the back of his truck. He dragged the body for several miles until the rope snapped (see bloodied road below).
I'm not sure what the nature of the men's relationship was, but isn't it bad enough to shoot someone in the head? There must have been a lot of hate in the suspect's heart to go through the process of mutilating his alleged victim.
The dragging of Hill's body sheds light on how much the death and destruction perpetrated upon African Americans in this country hundreds of years ago still resides in this country's DNA.

The death of
James Byrd who was murdered in
Jasper, Texas, in 1998 by three white supremacists who chained his feet to a truck and dragged him until he was decapitated, comes to mind.
More recently, we've heard about former Chicago cop
Jon Burge, who is on trial for lying about the alleged tortured of more than 100 black men by committing acts such as mock lynchings and shocking their genitals.
These violent deaths all bear the legacy of the thousands of
lynchings that were performed on black men during and after slavery.
Authorities should prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law to show that hate crimes such as this will not be tolerated.
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By: Lola2010 on 6/03/2010 9:40PM
OMG!!! The boy was only 19?!?! How can u have that much hate in ur heart @ that age...and can someone pls tell me why these ignorant people are still committing such heinous crimes? Then they call blk people ignorant...how many stories have we heard of blks killing whites and then dragging their bodies....why would u hurt someone just bcus u don't like their skin color...that's the most IGNORANT behaviour there is...why,why,why? That's somebody's child! Being the mother of an African American boy who is just 2yrs old... hearing crap like this sacres me...I hope these aliens...cuz that's what they are...rot in hell, where they belong!
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By: Dianne on 6/05/2010 9:51AM
Lola, that's how they prove their manhood. This nation is just full of White Republican Men known as Politicans who have just come out of the woodwork to Talk Back to the President because of his skin color. Fine example they are to their constituents back home with their mumbling during the President's State of the Nation Address when they think that Supreme Court Justices have the right to publicly misbehave when they are not in judicial session. Of, when members of Congress can shout out, and interupt a speech, "You Lie!"
And then we have the goof-offs in Congress, some of whom are Democrats too, as well as Republicans who go "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" as they call it; or, instead of coming to the defense of the workers at Smithfield in Tar-Heel,North Carolina, are instead making sex-tapes of themselves propogating an extra child by somebody who isn't their wife who happens to have cancer.
Everyone of them,a White Man. (not that there aren't a few Crazy Ladies to that tribe as well! Tell me, exactly what position in U.S.government, Mrs.Palin fills now that she has overused more than her 15 minutes of fame? She has another buddy or two out there whose names have escaped me at the moment although their faces and voices and idiot minds are overly familiar with their idiot equal rights to men of their kind. The most obvious one recently is that disgraceful exaggerating Governor of Arizona who wants to underline laws against non-whites that can lead to more of this that we are responding to on this page.
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By: LINDA on 6/05/2010 9:37PM
I AM WITH YOU ON THAT EVEN THOW HE WAS 19 HE IS STILL CONSIDERD A AUDLT.AND HE WILL GET WHAT HE DESERVE THE SHOULD GIVE HIM LIFE WITH OUT PAROLE BECAUSE YOU KNOW IF HE GET'S LIFE HE WILL GET HIS ASS KICKED EVERY DAY WHEN THE INMATES FIND OUT WHAT HE DID HELL.THE PROBLEY WILL STRANGLE HIS ASS AND DRAG HIS ASS EVERY WERE.
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By: JC on 6/03/2010 9:49PM
FedEx DENIES employees time off to attend their FATHERS' funeral.
See how FedEx treats their employees.
Go to YouTube, search word: FedEx Inhumane Treatment.
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By: DLW on 6/03/2010 10:48PM
What about the young white couple who was tortured and mutilated over a period of several days then murdered in Nashville by five subhuman blacks? This crime never made the national news! Where was Jesse and Al? This guy is in the same category.
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By: mslalagirl on 6/04/2010 1:12AM
mmmm...I wonder why this story didnt reach nancy grace..
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By: faraboverubies43 on 6/04/2010 3:16AM
Are you saying Jesse and Al should have protested the alleged killing of this alleged white couple you speak of...or in support of the alleged "subhuman" black men you speak of?
I think the only subhuman here is you.
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By: Tina on 6/05/2010 3:57PM
to DLW:
The reason that story probably never made the headlines is because it was probably a lie on the behalf of the white folks. It is no secret in law enforcement and in the world for that matter. That white people are secret killers and will kill their own and blame it on others. Wake up face yourself!
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By: Robb on 6/05/2010 6:02PM
First off (DLW), no one should be murdered due to the pigmentation of their skin tone. So you are correct and I aplause you for that point alone! The deep seeded hatred that whites have for anyone of color, has been perpetrated for over five hundred years. You can't possibly compair the mass graves and killings that white people perpetrated against Afican Americans and any other race of people. Please read your history and ask the Lord for understanding. White folks has gone completely mad, and hate the fact that a black president has dominion other those who systematically stolen from the American people for decades. The President can't do anything right according to the repubilcans and their racist ass tea partiers who acted uncivilized and acted as if someone has taken America from them. So before you go pointing your finger at the African American race of people, please take the speck out of your own eye and read the continued mobe lynching of your own white race. An African American has been shot in the head and then draged for approimately 10 miles. The hate crime was in itself inhumane and animalistic behavior. I am not misrepresent the truth or being judgmental. I am a victim of pure hatred and racism. I encountered the white demon who cover themselves up with white sheets. Until you had walked in my shoes, please attempted to undo the slave mentality that's going on in America and in other parts of the world. I am a realist and love all people. But I will not ever bow down to any racism or those who represent Satan! Yes we can, change the degenertative thinking of those who hate due to the pigmentation of someone skin tone! If people dosn't change for the better..., we will become a thrid world country. May the Lord bless us all and not just America...
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By: lori on 6/18/2010 10:24AM
blacks are not subhuman. It is whites. You can't prove that statement! The crimes whites commit against blacks is 99 to 1 that can be proven. Look at the white albino ape that shot the black man in the back of the head{the coward} and dragged him ten miles before he would stop. He was so stupid-leaving a trail of blood-and you albino apes are suppose to be more intelligent-what a joke!!
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