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JACKSON, Miss. --
The Rankin County sheriff said someone killed white supremacist Richard Barrett and then set a fire in an effort to cover up the crime.
A neighbor reported seeing smoke coming from inside Barrett's home on East Petros Road and Highway 469 at about 8 a.m., Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said. Firefighters entered the home and discovered Barrett's body near the back door, which was closed but unlocked, the sheriff said.
Pennington said the fire burned most of the clothes off Barrett's body, but the flames didn't kill him. An autopsy should confirm how he died, the sheriff said.
"Somebody killed him; we just have to figure out who," Pennington said.
Investigators with the Sheriff's Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations executed a search warrant three doors down from Barrett's home Thursday morning. Pennington said Barrett was last seen there before his death. Investigators took four items from the house, including a pair of shoes. Pennington wouldn't say what the other items were. No one was at home during the execution of the warrant, Pennington said.
Barrett, 67, was the founder and leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist organization based in Learned.
In 2004, Barrett organized a booth at the Mississippi State Fair for the public to sign a petition of support for Edgar Ray Killen, who was later convicted in 2005 of manslaughter in the 1964 Ku Klux Klan-led deaths of civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
More recently, in 2008, Barrett attended an anti-Martin Luther King Day demonstration held in Jena, La., where six African-American high school students were accused of beating a white schoolmate.
News of Barrett's death spread quickly across the Jackson Metro area Thursday.
Dan Hall is the chief strategic consultant to Mission Mississippi -- a Christian group that works to bring people together across racial and denominational lines.
"What (Barrett) stands for was hate and was wrong. That he was murdered is no more right than someone who would be against abortion murdering an abortionist. That is not something we should take into our own hands."
"We exist to be able to have conversations in times like this. This is a great opportunity for Mission Mississippi. We don't shy away from it. We don't take stands, as much as we create opportunity for Mississippi," Hall said.
Civil rights leader Charles Evers said he got to know Barrett over the years.
"I hate to know he was murdered, No. 1, and No. 2, when you got to know Richard, he was not that type of guy. I hated when he talked all that stuff," Evers said.
Evers is the brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
The Rankin County sheriff said someone killed white supremacist Richard Barrett and then set a fire in an effort to cover up the crime.
A neighbor reported seeing smoke coming from inside Barrett's home on East Petros Road and Highway 469 at about 8 a.m., Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said. Firefighters entered the home and discovered Barrett's body near the back door, which was closed but unlocked, the sheriff said.
Pennington said the fire burned most of the clothes off Barrett's body, but the flames didn't kill him. An autopsy should confirm how he died, the sheriff said.
"Somebody killed him; we just have to figure out who," Pennington said.
Investigators with the Sheriff's Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations executed a search warrant three doors down from Barrett's home Thursday morning. Pennington said Barrett was last seen there before his death. Investigators took four items from the house, including a pair of shoes. Pennington wouldn't say what the other items were. No one was at home during the execution of the warrant, Pennington said.
Barrett, 67, was the founder and leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist organization based in Learned.
In 2004, Barrett organized a booth at the Mississippi State Fair for the public to sign a petition of support for Edgar Ray Killen, who was later convicted in 2005 of manslaughter in the 1964 Ku Klux Klan-led deaths of civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
More recently, in 2008, Barrett attended an anti-Martin Luther King Day demonstration held in Jena, La., where six African-American high school students were accused of beating a white schoolmate.
News of Barrett's death spread quickly across the Jackson Metro area Thursday.
Dan Hall is the chief strategic consultant to Mission Mississippi -- a Christian group that works to bring people together across racial and denominational lines.
"What (Barrett) stands for was hate and was wrong. That he was murdered is no more right than someone who would be against abortion murdering an abortionist. That is not something we should take into our own hands."
"We exist to be able to have conversations in times like this. This is a great opportunity for Mission Mississippi. We don't shy away from it. We don't take stands, as much as we create opportunity for Mississippi," Hall said.
Civil rights leader Charles Evers said he got to know Barrett over the years.
"I hate to know he was murdered, No. 1, and No. 2, when you got to know Richard, he was not that type of guy. I hated when he talked all that stuff," Evers said.
Evers is the brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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July 30, 2011
Subject: Interesting...
Subject: Interesting...
Not that I knew the guy personally but, it "..sound's like..." he got what he deserved!
At the end of the video, or right up against the end, at about 1:41, is that Ron Paul!? I hope that's a comparison, or at least a hint of one!
Like Don Black, David Duke & Roy Frankhouser, Richard Barret probably contributed financially to Ron Paul's Congressional and Presidential campaign's.
At the end of the video, or right up against the end, at about 1:41, is that Ron Paul!? I hope that's a comparison, or at least a hint of one!
Like Don Black, David Duke & Roy Frankhouser, Richard Barret probably contributed financially to Ron Paul's Congressional and Presidential campaign's.
