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Buried Truths

S4 E2 | The police come for James Brazier

Buried Truths

WABE

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On one April day, three generations of the Brazier family, including 10-year-old James Jr., were beaten by white Dawson police.

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The chain of events that led to James Brasier's bloody beating began when the police stopped

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his father, Odell, for weaving on Dawson's Main Street that Sunday afternoon, April 20,

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1958.

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Most of the Brasier family, James, his wife and children, his father, and other relatives

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attended not just one church that day, but two.

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Now the first service was at I Hope Baptist Church.

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And after that, the Brasier family drove out to the town of Sasser for services at Mount

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Mary Baptist Church.

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And after that, Odell and James and their separate cars began crisscrossing the area to drop

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