#allBLACKlivesMATTER
"After a day and a half of deliberations, jurors found [Lonnie] Franklin guilty of 10 counts of murder in the killings of nine women and a 15-year-old girl. Jurors also found Franklin guilty of one count of attempted murder.
The trial lasted nearly three months.
The victims were all young and black, with some leading troubled lives during the chaotic 1980s in South L.A. The dead were left along a corridor in the Manchester Square neighborhood. Their partially clothed or naked bodies — some decomposing — were found amid the filth and garbage of alleyways. All were left without identification, and each was initially labeled Jane Doe....
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-grim-sleeper-verdict-20160504-story.html
They found Franklin guilty of killing 9 to 10 women but he might have killed dozens or 100s of black women.
So DO YOU remember “The Grim Sleeper.”
Have you even heard of the “The Grim Sleeper” before?
Do you instantly recognize the name “Lonnie Franklin?"
I whizzed past “Tales Of The Grim Sleeper” in the TV schedule then came back to it because I'd seen a black woman’s face near the title.
When I saw the name of the documentary and the black woman's face together, it came back to me. “The Grim Sleeper” was the name given to a serial killer that murdered dozens if not 100s of black women over 25 years beginning in the 1980s.
Watching “The Grim Sleeper” documentary on HBO made me a little sick. I didn't want to watch it in the first place. I thought it would make my ears bleed to hear even one excuse for dozens of black women being murdered by a serial killer for 25 years without too many people noticing. This is especially galling since the police knew a serial killer was hunting black women in South Los Angeles by 1987 but didn't let the public know, didn't let black women in the South Los Angeles area know they were prey until 2008.
Read More:
http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2015/11/review-tales-of-grim-sleeper-part-1.html
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