On October 6, 2012 in Dover Delaware this blogger was confronted with claims of a lynching, an attempted lynching and a cover up that were not immediately credible ... Here is my weblog as I struggle to place in some kind of order all the information coming in since then. Although the topics in this blog have grown beyond the original case, still ongoing and unsolved to the minds of many, the focus is the same. Equal protection under the law.
In the article above the police characterize a 911 call in the Fordham case as resident reporting a person in their yard behaving irrationally. Here is the 911 call in it's entirety as released by the Dover P.D.. https://m.soundcloud.com/douglas-beatty/fordham-911-call-mp3
Despite Dover and Kent County Delaware being predominantly white, and the CDC suicide statistics indicating that black men are up to five times less likely to commit suicide than whites, this writer was unable to find a report of a dead white person at Silver Lake park or any person except young men of color.
Please consider attending a community meeting in Dover Delaware at City Hall on March 28, 2019 at 6:30 p.m EST or 1830 military time EST. Thank you.
My name is Doug Beatty and I'm sorry you are reading this, I'm sorry to be writing it.
In the interval since my last post to this blog in 2017 three more men have been found dead in the waters of Silver Lake in Dover Delaware.
For those just tuning in, there are suspicions of and indications of lynching today, right now in Dover Delaware the capitol of Joe Biden's home state. A blue state, not in the deep south and not a place we think of when the think about backward social morals and prejudice against people of color.
In October 2010 an student Athlete named Charles Conley was found hanging in a tree in an alley off of Governor's Alley in Dover Delaware. His death was ruled a suicide and the Dover Police cited a vague social media post as proof that the man killed himself. Team mates and acquaintances remain skeptical. http://www.whetstone.wesley.edu/2010/10/27/campus-mourns-suicide/
In the spring of 2012 Johnny Clark was found in Silver Lake part about a quarter mile as the crow flies from where Charles Conley died. Both men were hanging by their own belts.
Johnny's death was ruled a suicide by the Dover Police department and much of the community suspects Dover PD in being involved with Johnny's death. https://www.doverpost.com/article/20121022/NEWS/121029930
In September of 2012 there was a man named Henry Fordham shown in the photo above with me in Dover who survived an attempt on his life in Silver Lake park, Henry had ligature marks on his neck and reported that his attackers tried to strangle him with his own belt. A resident heard the assault and called 911. In the article linked above you can read the police chief's statement on the 911 call. Jim Hosfelt is a liar and I hope he sues me for publishing that fact because the truth is an absolute defense. Here is the 911 call in it's entirety the way the Dover P.D. provided it completely unedited: https://m.soundcloud.com/douglas-beatty/fordham-911-call-mp3
The man in the black shirt speaking in Henry Fordham, the other in the white shirt is David Clark, brother of Johnny Clark. David is testifying that the last two people he saw his brother alive with were the same two Henry Fordham named as his attackers. This is testimony before the Dover Human Relations Commission. The result of the commission was to adopt language from the 2011 pro lynching flyer and 'clean up the streets'. of Dover. Mr. Clark was found dead of a gunshot wound in Downton Dover on APril 26, 2015 and no arrests have been made.
In 2016 a Mr. Harmon of the African American Historical Society wrote the Delaware Department of Justice demanding an investigation into the hanging deaths of Charles Conley and Johnny Clark. Mr. Harmon received a letter from the Kent County Deputy Attorney General Ken Holden stating that the FIVE black men found hanging in Kent County Delaware between 2010 and 2015 were all nothing but 'tragic suicides'.
Looking at the population and demographics of Kent County and CDC suicide statistics puts a high improbability on that 'finding'.
In 2017 two men from my neighborhood were found in the waters of Silver Lake in their street clothes when the water was too cold for swimming. In both cases police determined "No foul play". One man was a murder suspect on the run.
Just this past week, the frigid February waters of Silver Lake claimed another man of color, another Wesley College Student has died.
Now Dover PD again has amazingly found 'no signs of foul play' because track athletes often go swimming in the middle of February with water temps below 40 degrees right?
Some people ask if there really is an active KKK in Delaware?
Roy Sudler was the chairman of the Dover Human Rights commission that supposedly investigated the Fordham attack and Clark death. Nothing ever came out of the meetings except that the city adopted language from the lynching pamphlets that were around town in 2011 we forgot to mention resolving to 'clean up the streets'.
Now under fire from his constituents it looks like Roy wants to have his construction company sell some light and camera fixtures to the parks and rec of Dover which he chairs. Sounds legit ... https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/03/20/councilman-calls-close-silver-lake-after-college-students-death/3224939002/
