(AP) Pasedena, CA- A bridge built by early 20th century wealthy white entrepreneurs has claimed the life of English-African-American Sam Sarpong after failing to keep him suspended over 140 feet from the ground of Pasedena, a majority white town persisting in Southern California.

Local authorities eventually responded to the scene before the structure failed to prevent gravity resistance, to find Sarpong unable to resist forces of white male oppression pushing him closer to the bridge's edge over a dry river bed. Initial witnesses reported that the police failed to intercept the ground with either their own bodies nor any readily available inflatable trampoline.

Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton has joined with Black LIves Matter to call for a federal investigation into why there was a suspiciously large distance between the bridge and ground, and to find out how many other lives the bridge has claimed from people of color, excluding the color white, of course.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes announced on his show that evening that his studio was working on a documentary on various structures around the US that have exhibited race-based violence towards non-whites like prisons, low income housing units, and more recently, walls.

The documentary "KonKrete Killiers: The Southern Conservative Agenda for Black Genocide through Masonry" airs next Thursday at 8pm EST on MSNBC.


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