The key to the lynchings leads to the Sheriff/Coroner
Pete Bennett reached a conclusion about a series of deaths of blacks, witnesses and suspects. In 1982 one of Bennett's employees shot dead in 1982 just days after hiring a black man in Pittsburg California
Sherrif Richard Rainey

Sherrif Warren Ruph

The Lynching of Timothy Lee
Mr. Lee fell asleep on BART which in 1984 ended at the Concord BART Station.
Like flyer says "Protest Racist, Sexits and Anti-Gay Attacks and STOP KKK Terror
Mr. Timoty Lee

There is a definite strain,” said Tahnjah Poe, a young black woman who moved out of Concord last because of the harassment she said she and her son suffered at the hands of some local whites
That assessment is shared by others, such as William Callison, a white man who told police he received an anonymous threatening telephone call after he went to the FBI and challenged the coroner’s conclusion that Lee had committed suicide
TanJah Poe

Largely overlooked is Ms. Poe was quoted in the LA Times article covering the Concord Human Comission. She met her fate after relocating out of Concord.
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