Posted on 07/28/2006 4:52:22 AM PDT by abb
I also just emailed my congressman about this hate crime,
and the re-emergence of racially biased attitudes
among southern police, and the need for our society
not to tolerate this in the 21st century; and calling
upon him to ask the FBI to investigate this as a hate crime.
(Maybe the FBI won't respond to me, but maybe they will if a congressman forwards my inquiry.)
The more noise the better.
Does anybody think this is the ONLY time the Durham PD has harassed blacks? Or that this is the FIRST time?
Or that they won't do it AGAIN if they get away with it now?
The more congressmen asked to ask the FBI to look into this, to prevent a return to attitudes which existed in the 1950s but which have no place in the 21st century, the better.
I live in Metro Atlanta.
No way, no how.
I would not live to make that one phone call.
Trial strategy :
“There's been a feeling in the past that Duke students are treated differently by the court system,” Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong says.
“There was a feeling that Duke students' daddies could buy them expensive lawyers and that they knew the right people."
Someone needs to tell nc-cathy at CTV
1. Cops usually find a watering hole outside their county of business in a smaller urban area.
2. All but one of the named cops live outside Durham County.
3. 3 of the cops live in Wake County
Because they are DPD officers, Durham is involved.
ADA Stormy Ellis used to work In Wake County--those offices do have connections to one another.
None of that in and of itself proves anything, of course. None of it is a bad thing.
It only illustrates each county IS NOT an isolated island.
“There's been a feeling in the past that Duke students are treated differently by the court system,” Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong says."
So somebody else got a break and now we'll take it out on somebody else?
That's typical of Nifong. Remember the white guy charged with rape, who got off when Hardin (Nifong was his deputy then, AFAIK) accused an innocent black guy instead?
Ya' think? ;-)
"All but one of the named cops live outside Durham County."
Subpoena their home addresses, they are potential witnesses and we need to make sure they show up for the trial.
Coffee is finally kicking in, abb.
Nifong's presser is today:
http://www.wral.com/news/9589993/detail.html
"Subpoena their home addresses, they are potential witnesses and we need to make sure they show up for the trial."
I also want their credit card info to see what they were buying and how much they were spending at sports bars.
Subpoena their police logs for the 24 hours before and after the incident.
mark
(note: the BALD guy is referred to as the initial perpetrator in this article)
"F—- you, nig——-!" Thomas said the initial perpetrator responded (to his WOO-HOO)
"F—- you, cracker!'' Thomas said he replied.
The car stopped, he said, and the man who allegedly screamed the epithet got out. Thomas said the man walked over to him, POKED him on the shoulder with his finger, and said, "You don't know what you're getting into, BOY."
We are supposed to believe that these white cops, in front of their fellow cops who are african-american, suddenly threw out the n-word at the cook?
Sorry, but that's not how these things go down. Just as in the case of the Duke lacrosse party, where we are supposed to believe that these white college students, in front of their african-american teammate who has stated he has never detected any racism in his teammates, suddenly starting calling the two strippers the n-word?
What is more believable is that both the strippers and the cook fully realize that by claiming that whites started the altercations by using the n-word, they can shift the ground of defense and shield their own words and actions from scrutiny.
I have no problem believing the Durham cops could easily have initiated the PHYSICAL aspect of the altercation, and the ones who did should be hit with assault & battery charges.
"My son has asked why I no longer watch "Law and Order" and "CSI,"
I can't watch them either. I used to like them; but they
are just, as you said, fairy tales; (and painful ones at that); for better fairy tales I can go to Disney.
Rut Roh Raggy!
Nothing new from Nifong, unless the asked him some questions (a more detailed account is necessary)
http://www.wral.com/news/9589993/detail.html
Friday morning Nifong admitted there's some justification to criticism about how he handled the media with the Duke case."Could I have done things differently? Certainly, but would it have made a difference -- I don't know," Nifong said.'
(snip)
Nifong also said there was evidence he hoped to have in the case, such as DNA, but that it didn't pan out."There were things we hoped to have in terms of evidence that we ended up not having," Nifong said.
But Nifong said that he stands behind the case."I have not backed down from my initial assessments of this case," Nifong said.Nifong said that no case has been ignored because of the attention to the Duke lacrosse rape case.
Any word on Nifong's press conference? Was it cancelled?
I guess Mike doesn't think the lying hooker is to blame for that.........
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