Black was punished for 'socializing' with white female......
Associated PressNovember 2, 2017
Nov. 1, 2017, a Georgia prosecutor said Timothy Coggins was killed because he had been "socializing with a white female." (Courtesy of Heather Coggins via AP)
GRIFFIN, Ga. (AP) — A black man slain in Georgia 34 years ago was killed because he had been "socializing with a white female," a prosecutor said as he asked a judge to deny bond for two suspects in the recently revived cold case.

Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney Ben Coker revealed new details at a court hearing Wednesday in the 1983 slaying of Timothy Coggins. Two white men were charged with murder last month after authorities reopened the cold case in Spalding County, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Atlanta.

The prosecutor said 23-year-old Coggins was dragged through the woods behind a pickup truck, news outlets reported. Arrest warrants say he died from being stabbed and cut, and suffered "seriously disfiguring" wounds. https://www.yahoo.com/news/prosecutor-reveals-details-1983-slaying-black-man-105650548.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/prosecutor-reveals-details-1983-slaying-black-man-105650548.html