Posted on April 25, 2019

Kaepernick Doll Seen Chained to Truck in San Jose on Eve of Texas Execution

Mike Moffitt, SFGate, April 24, 2019

A doll-size effigy of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was seen chained to a truck’s trailer hitch at a Safeway gas station Tuesday night in San Jose.

The sighting came a day before an avowed Texas racist was to be executed for the 1998 truck-dragging murder of a black man in one of the most gruesome lynching cases in modern U.S. history.

NBC Bay Area reported that Joanna Acevedo took a photo of the small doll and posted it on Twitter. In a follow-up tweet, she wrote, “This is racist no matter the intention (ie. Raiders vs. niners rivalry).”

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John William King, one of the three men convicted in the 1998 killing of James Byrd, Jr., is scheduled to die Wednesday for his role in the murder. {snip}

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