Rep. Tyrone Brooks reiterated Thursday that the federal government’s criminal prosecution of him is retaliation for his work to bring attention to the unsolved lynching of two black couples in 1946.
Standing in front of the Moore’s Ford Bridge near Monroe, the site of the attacks, Brooks, D-Atlanta, said he sees no other answer.
“To bring personal attacks against me because of this work is uncalled for,” Brooks said. “It’s unethical. But I’m a big boy.”
Brooks was indicted two weeks ago on 30 charges of wire, mail and tax fraud. He is accused of taking money given to a pair of charities he runs and using it for personal expenses. He has pleaded not guilty and is free on bond.
One of those charities, the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, has made the Moore’s Ford Bridge case its priority and holds annual re-enactments at the site in rural Walton County. Brooks said he was in Monroe in April 1968 and was to meet the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. there the night King was assassinated in Memphis.
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