The Mysterious Death Of Kendrick Johnson

Despite the new information about blunt force trauma that the second autopsy revealed, it also introduced shocking new evidence: All of Johnson's internal organs, from his midsection to his skull, had been removed and replaced with newspaper, reports Workers World. Baffled? So were Johnson's family and the rest of the Black community in Valdosta. The paper goes on to say that Johnson's organs were "discarded by the prosecutor before the body was sent back to Valdosta." That's just not normal procedure in a case like this.

Things got even messier in 2015 when, per CBS News, Johnson's parents filed a $100 million lawsuit against 38 people, including local officials, and two classmates they allege their son had violent altercations with, as well as the classmates' father, an FBI agent, alleging a coverup of his sons' involvement. A court later dismissed the suit in its entirety. Per the Chicago Tribune, the FBI agent, Richard Bell, also sued Johnson Publishing (publishers of Ebony and Jet) for defamation. Ultimately, the publisher settled for $500,000 but went bankrupt in the process. In 2017, a court ordered that Johnson's family must pay back $300,000 in legal fees stemming from their previous wrongful death suit, says AJC.

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