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RACISM AND SLAVERY | See How Three Black Boys Were Drowned By White Policemen While Celebrating Freedom From Slavery
Aug 4, 2020
Thousands of residents at Mexia, Texas were on June 19, 1981, celebrating at a festival commemorating the freeing of slaves when a tragedy occurred. That night, three teenagers, who were arrested on suspicion of smoking marijuana at the Juneteenth festival, drowned while being transported in a boat with three law enforcement officials across a lake.
The teenagers, Carl Baker, 19; Steven Booker, 19, and Anthony Freeman, 18, were said to be handcuffed when the boat ferrying them capsized, even though authorities maintained that their handcuffs were removed before they were placed on the boat.
On the night of the arrest, the teenagers were at Comanche Crossing, which rests on the shore of Lake Mexia, for the Juneteenth celebration, marking the day in 1865 when Texas slaves heard they were free. 
Booker, Freeman and Baker were arrested that night by deputies Kenny Elliott and Kenneth Archie, a black man. Probation officer David Drummond accompanied them.
There was a two-lane bridge over Commanche Crossing at Lake Mexia but it was blocked by about 5,000 celebrants on the shore. Thus, the officers decided to use a small aluminum fishing boat to ferry the teenagers across Lake Mexia to patrol cars some 200 yards away on the other side of the lake, about 80 miles southeast of Dallas, according to reports.
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