Shannon Street Massacre

January 13, 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of the Shannon Street Massacre. It was 25 year ago that 8 men died in a house on Shannon Street in the North Memphis Hyde Park neighborhood. The eight deaths were include that of Memphis Police Officer Robert Hester; whose death is equally as tragic. However it was the senseless killing of those seven young men by the special tactics unit of the Memphis Police Department that deserves special attention on this anniversary.

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My uncle was chief of police during this time in Memphis. What you are not told is the blacks placed a bogus call for help and when they, the police, showed up they were taking hostage. During the time of their imprisonment by the blacks, they were castrated, had their hamstrings cut, had their penises cut off, had the muscle from their calfs pulled off the bone and out of their legs very slowly. The police tried in vane for several days to have the men released but the blacks refused. When the screaming of the officers stopped for 24hrs it was assumed they were dead but the blacks still would not surrender. Thats when the decision was made to bomb the place.
There is the story. The blacks who killed the cops deserve no honor.
This story was buried until now as back then, when it happened, there would have been a civil war in Memphis if the facts were released.