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This chain of violence was used to maintain "sundown towns," entire cities and counties where Black people could be beaten or killed, just for being there after dark.

https://justice.tougaloo.edu/map/

Segregation was created and maintained by violence on an unimaginable scale. Here's just one county:

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/494063372/the-racial-cleansing-that-drove-1-100-black-residents-out-of-forsyth-county-ga

As in the time of slavery, and Black codes, and Jim crow, white men that kill Black people while acting as part of this chain of violence, are legally shielded from prosecution.