Linden

The Beating of Billy Ray Johnson

Jan 20, 2013 — By Pamela Colloff

The short, slight, mentally disabled black man was found on the side of a road in Linden, huddled in a fetal position. He was bloody and unconscious—the victim of a violent crime. But another tragedy was how residents of the East Texas town reacted.

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