Posted on 11/27/2005 8:07:51 AM PST by zaxxon
The members of the Muslim Group Nation of Islam are furious at the Oakland police department for what they say is racial profiling. They spoke out Saturday after hearing the way police describe a dozen men who vandalized two liquor stores in Oakland.
Minister Tony Muhammad, Nation of Islam: "That is racial, as well as religious profiling at its' worst."
Members of leader Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam are outraged. They say Oakland police jumped to conclusions when watching surveillance video showing 12 men in suits and ties walking into a liquor store in West Oakland and trashing it. It is one of two stores hit just minutes apart, the men smashing refrigerators and liquor bottles, telling store employees they shouldn't be selling alcohol to African-Americans.
Police confirmed the men who vandalized the stores are black Muslims and say it's a matter of time before they're identified.
Minister Tony Muhammad, Nation of Islam: "Well, if you know who they are, arrest them and bring them to justice. But don't cast a wide net of suspicion over those of us who try to live a righteous life. Just because men dress in suits and ties don't mean all the black men in suits and ties are gang members or thugs, nor do we go and vandalize store merchants."
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
Costs me $, but it really screws with their psychie...
Maybe these were just some NBA players (wearing the new dress code) out to clean up the neighborhood. You know how much they are against alcohol and drugs.
This racist cult....
Remembering The Zebra Killings
By James Lubinskas
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 30, 2001
MOST SERIAL KILLINGS in America take on a life of their own through movies, books and documentaries. The crimes of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and The Son of Sam are still well remembered years after they were committed. Yet there is one set of serial killings that has been almost completely forgotten and is rarely mentioned in popular culture.
The Zebra Killings occurred in the San Francisco bay area between 1972 and 1974 and left 71 people dead. They were dubbed the Zebra Killings because of the radio channel used by the police investigating the case (channel Z). The name would take on a more sinister meaning as it became apparent that a group of blacks was systematically stalking and killing whites simply because of the color of their skin.
Zebra (1979) was written by crime writer Clark Howard and remains the definitive book on the murders. Using court records, police reports, witnesses and interviews with the killers themselves, Howard was able to piece together the horrid details of the murders and the unrelenting hatred that inspired the killers.
The majority of the attacks were carried out by five members of a group within Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam called the "Death Angels." Jesse Lee Cooks, J.C. Simon, Larry Green, Manuel Moore and Anthony Harris were part of this group which believed that whites were created 3,000 years ago by a black mad scientist named Yacub who wanted a race of inferiors to rule over. Death Angels believed they could earn "points" towards going to heaven when they died if they killed whites. For them, whites were not human beings but "grafted snakes," "blue-eyed devils" and "white motherf-----s."
Howard describes the vicious and cowardly nature of the attacks, which were made at gunpoint and mostly carried out against women and weak or old men who could not fight back. The first victims in San Francisco were a couple named Richard and Quita Hague. The Hagues were out for an after dinner walk when they were abducted at gunpoint and forced into a van. They were bound and Richard was beaten over the head with a lug wrench and knocked unconscious. Quita was sexually molested and hacked with a machete. While begging for her life she was decapitated. Before leaving, the attackers hacked at the face of the still unconscious man. Miraculously, he survived and was able to give valuable information to the police.
Brutality and a lack of remorse on the part of the criminals mark the attacks. Vincent Wollin was shot in the back and killed on his 69th birthday. Mildred Hosler, an obese, older woman was shot while frantically trying to get away from her younger, faster attacker. Ilario Bertucci, a 135-pound, 81-year-old man, was killed while walking home from work. Marietta DiGirolamo, a 5’1" white woman was shot and killed on her way to a neighborhood bar. In none of these cases did the victims do anything to provoke the murderers. They simply had white skin and were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
There were even some high profile victims. Art Agnos, who would later go on to become mayor of San Francisco, was shot and almost killed by the Death Angels. A member of the California Commission on Aging, Agnos was attending a community meeting in a black neighborhood to discuss building a government funded health clinic in the area. In the same neighborhood the killers were hunting for whites. As the meeting let out, Agnos stopped to talk with two women. One of the killers came up behind him and shot him twice in the back. The bullets ripped apart his lungs, spleen and kidneys. Bystanders called an ambulance and Agnos barely survived.
Nope. The perps were wearing bowties.
Those were actors, hired by police who dressed them in tuxedos.
Nearly every newspaper article tells the age of each person mentioned. Is that profiling? Ageist?
I think it would be great if every media mention of everyone included not only their age, but also race and religion. Gender, too, if in doubt. As long as the information is given on everyone, then it wouldn't be discriminatory.
Yes, I know that the info is not always available, but neither is age info, and that doesn't stop the papers from printing it when it's known.
Because Farrakan just breaks me up!
What is a bean pie?
Sure looked like Buddhist extremists to me.
I saw that the previous thread on this story was also in the News/Activism forum, but you're right though. Oops.
By the way, the Pee Wee Herman line above was hilarious.
This shouldn't need stating
LOL!
Isn't inciting a riot a crime? If people cannot patronize their local liquor store they could become violent. Maybe they will be violent at those who took their bottle away?
Talk about shoving religion and morality down peoples throats. Where is the outrage against nation of islam?
It's way past time for RICO laws to be used against all thugs, be they gang or religious (and I use that work loosely) organization memebers.
Methinks they doth protest too much....
Agree....If it Quacks like a Duck etc etc
If they were wearing white socks in addition to the bow ties they might be physicists.
what is it they say....
The majority of muslims are not terrorists.....
But the Majority of Terrorists ARE muslims.
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