(Relevant) A sheriff in Virginia has apologized to Pastor Leon K. McCray Sr. of Woodstock, Virginia for a horribly bungled incident that crystallizes many of the issues inflaming the country right now into a microcosm of racism and police injustice.
According to McCray and as reported by the Washington Post, it all started in the tiny town of Edinburg, situated between the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains. The 61-year-old pastor was visiting a rental property he owned when he saw a white couple attempting to dump a refrigerator on his property. He says they left and returned with three friends who surrounded him, jostling and threatening him, saying things like “my black life and the Black Lives Matter stuff, they don’t give a darn about that stuff in this county, and they could care less and ‘We would kill you.’ ”