The Highway Chase

After a big voting-rights march, four men drove into the town where it began. One was secretly an informant for federal agents. Near a river bridge they spotted a car with out-of-state plates. A white woman was driving; a Black man sat beside her. The men chased the car at 80 to 90 miles an hour. When they drew level, the accused fired two shots through the window. A companion fired too. The woman, a marcher, was found dead. The accused says the charge, conspiring to deny her federal rights, does not fit.