That same year,three white men in Texas beat a black man, James Byrd Junior,and pulled him to his death behind a truck.

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The rioters beat many policemen to death.

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Russell Deane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, beat Phyliss Deane to death with a hammer in June 2007 when he was 25.

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Another neighbor, Ronda Wilbur, said Dykes beat her dog to death with a lead pipe and then bragged to her husband about it.

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Neighbors had described Dykes as an unstable menace who beat a dog to death and threatened to shoot trespassers while patrolling his property armed.

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