Here are a few quotes from city council members behind Nifong. (No bias here. /sarc.)
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/427038.html
"It's this preppy arrogance that they will never be held accountable for what they've done -- that their daddies will get them out of it," said Eugene Brown, a Durham city councilman who lives on Buchanan Boulevard, a block from the rental house.
"What do you do when you walk out and some guy is urinating on your house and you ask him to stop and he refuses?" Brown said. "We've been living with this for years, and the lacrosse players were the worst."
http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=117330
"There's a definitely a feeling in the Duke community that N.C. Central is the lesser institution, and I've heard Duke students make that statement," said Howard Clement, a Durham councilman for 23 years. "I don't think that's something we should ignore."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2401203
"I'm repelled and repulsed by those trying to equate her with Tawana Brawley of decades ago," said city council member Howard Clement III, referring to the 15-year-old black girl whose 1987 claims of being kidnapped and raped by police proved to be false. "That's awful. And, that just compounds the evil of this whole process."
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/428867.html
CLEMENT'S TWO CENTS: When asked whether he had heard Sharpton was coming, longtime Durham City Council member Howard Clement remembered that it would not be the first time the reverend had waded into a case of rape allegations.
Sharpton's credibility was severely hurt after a 1987 incident in upstate New York where he backed a black teenager, Tawana Brawley, who claimed to have been abducted and raped by six white police officers. The allegations turned out to be false, and Sharpton was sued.
"People told me he was coming, and I asked, 'What for?' I don't know what he'll do that will be positive," said Clement, an established civil rights crusader. "He's too connected to Tawana Brawley. In my opinion, we're well on the way to handling this on our own."
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=4059794
City council members also wondered about the amount of time it has taken to collect and process DNA samples of 46 players. Baker says investigators are waiting on the state to complete its analysis of the DNA.
City Councilman Howard Clement worried that there will not be a match.
"I'm convinced there were more than lacrosse players in that room," he said.
Baker also said that Durham County court officials unsealed warrants that unveiled a lacrosse player's startling e-mail vow to kill and skin strippers in his Duke University dorm room.
"Just for clarification, it was not the Durham P.D. which released the contents of that search warrant," Baker said.
http://www.nbc17.com/news/8515905/detail.html
The lack of answers from Baker frustrated Durham City Councilman Howard Clement, who did most of the questioning during the briefing.
"What I don't want to have happen is whitewash of this situation," Clement said. "That would be a sad day for justice."
Councilman Eugene Brown, who lives in the same neighborhood as the house where the party was held, called the house "a ticking time bomb" in recent years for the rowdy behavior that went on there.
Reference:
http://www.ci.durham.nc.us/council/