NEW ORLEANS - The mayor of New Orleans plans an apology to Italian Americans for what’s considered the nation’s most deadly lynching — violence in which 11 Italian immigrants were killed after acquittals in a police chief’s murder. The lynching in 1891 and responses to it prompted Italy to close its embassy in the U.S., followed by a reciprocal U.S. Embassy closing in Italy, he said. The mayor of New Orleans plans an apology to Italian-Americans for what‚Äôs considered the nation‚Äôs largest lynching _ violence in which 11 Italian immigrants were killed after acquittals in a police chief‚Äôs murder. The lynching in 1891 and responses to it prompted Italy to close its U.S. embassy, followed by a reciprocal U.S. embassy closing, he said. About 30,000 Italian immigrants lived in New Orleans and hundreds were arrested during the investigation that followed, Stehle wrote.

Source: thestar March 30, 2019 13:36 UTC