On Thursday evening, the fatal cruelties inflicted upon Mr. Austin Callaway — long obscured by time, fear, professional malfeasance and a reluctance to investigate the sins of the past — were acknowledged in this city of 31,000 people when LaGrange’s police chief, Louis M. Dekmar, who is white, issued a rare apology for a Southern lynching.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/lagrange-georgia-lynching-apology.html