Denver Post
A black Democratic lawmaker said Thursday that he has turned over an e-mail that supports his lynching to the State Patrol for investigation.
Democratic Rep. Terrance Carroll of Denver said the e-mail was sent to him in response to a joke he made suggesting the state build a wall around its borders to keep out the Minutemen, armed citizens who patrol the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
"You are SOOOO lucky lynching and firing squad for treason aren't available punishments, anymore," the e-mail read. "I'd vote you in, in a heartbeat."
Carroll said the e-mail, sent Wednesday, was "not acceptable political discourse."
"Knowing the history of African-Americans and lynching, this is very offensive to me and threatening," he said. "You have to be worried when people use language like that. Are they capable of taking the next step?"
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