'I cannot change what they did': North Carolina sheriff apologizes for attempted lynching by deputies in 1952.
In 1952, two deputies in Wake County, North Carolina, hung Lynn Council, an African American man, from a tree when he wouldn't confess to a robbery, according to ABC Raleigh station WTVD.
"They took me down to the woods to kill me," Council, who is now 86, told reporters as the two men sat together."That's what they took me down there for, but things didn't happen that way."Baker said,"On behalf of the Wake County Sheriff's Office, I want to apologize to you for what happened to you by members of this office."
Researchers estimate that between at least 100 people, and perhaps as many as 300, were lynched in North Carolina between 1882 and 1968, according to The News & Observer newspaper, which analyzed the state's history of lynchings along with other newspapers.
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