The Bloody Shirt - Interesting Facts

"Waving the bloody shirt" is political slang for a Republican political tactic used after the Civil War for winning votes, particularly black votes. The shirt being, for example, the shirt of a black man, freed by the Civil War, thanks to the righteous Republicans, but whipped to death in the reconstruction of the South. Republicans often "waved the bloody shirt," both figuratively and literally. In 1868, Republican Representative Benjamin Butler took the floor of the House of Representatives to display the bloody shirt of an IRS tax collector who had been whipped by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.

A white, blood-stained blouse was found hanging in Michael Jackson’s wardrobe.

The women’s garment, still had its $3.99 price tag attached to it, but was not seized as evidence by police officers investigating Michael Jackson's death. Legal experts have speculated that it may have been used to mop up the singer’s blood.

Lawyer Craig Silverman has said: “It’s pretty extraordinary that a bloody shirt would not have been taken as evidence.”

A Los Angeles police spokesperson refused to say why the garment hadn’t been taken as possible evidence.

The spokesperson said: “I don’t know why it wasn’t taken. Our detectives aren’t speaking about the investigation so we won’t have an answer at the moment.”

The above song was written about Tom Sneddon, the District Attorney prosecuting Michael Jackson for molestation in 2005.  

Below is an accounting of the molestation trial by a woman named Aphrodite Jones.  She self published the same year I self published a book, both through IUniverse.  Some media channels don't feel "good" news sells, but I'll let her tell you her own story about what happened during that trial.

My summation of this information?  Just stating the facts.  Somewhere in the court systems of California, Michael Jackson was an obvious target.