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About Paris, TX

Race relations in Paris have a bloody history and have been deeply polarized, turbulent, and sometimes explosive. In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, several lynchings were staged at the Paris Fairgrounds as public spectacles, with thousands of white spectators cheering as the victims were tortured and then immolated, dismembered, or otherwise murdered. Among the victims was Henry Smith, a teenager lynched in 1893. About 115 years later, in 2008, an African-American man, Brandon McClelland, was killed in an accident involving an 18 wheeler truck. Two innocent men, Shannon Finley and Ryan Crostley, were charged with running over and dragging McClelland to death under Finley's vehicle.