Posted on 12/20/2005 12:05:40 PM PST by TFFKAMM
About 2,000 people turn out to view the body of the killer and writer executed last week despite a high-profile campaign to save his life.
For many of the mourners filing past the casket Monday, the gray-bearded gentleman in the tailored gray suit and silk tie bore little resemblance to the man they remembered as the muscle-bound, fearsome Crips co-founder, Stanley Tookie Williams.
"When I was a kid, Tookie was the most dangerous man in South-Central Los Angeles," recalled Najee Ali, 42, director of Project Islamic Hope, a Los Angeles-based civil rights group. "Looking at him today, I'm reminded that my childhood has long since passed.
"Many of the people who lined up today for a last look at the man didn't know him; never met him," Ali said. "But they came to pay their respects because they have a Tookie in their family, or identify with his struggle."
Ali was among more than 2,000 people of all ages -- many of them clad in Crips blue -- who gathered at the House of Winston Mortuary on South Vermont Avenue at 95th Street where Williams' body reposed.
Williams, 51, was put to death by lethal injection Dec. 13. He was convicted of murdering four people, but supporters said he deserved clemency because he had spent his last years trying to steer children away from gang violence.
The public viewing of his body attracted a sometimes rowdy crowd that spilled into the street, backing up traffic. Marijuana smoke wafted through the air as sport utility vehicles with 20-inch rims cruised past, rap music blaring at full volume...
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What body? I thought that bastard was cremated.
Tookie who?
Others handed out posters of Williams behind bars. One boasted out loud to no one in particular: "Tookie my friend. I got a booger with a eyeball in it! Tookie my friend. Just last week, Tookie saw me on the street and gave me a eight-ball. Tookie was good for that. Lemme park your car for five dollars. Gimme five dollars or I'll throw up on your tie".
Throwing bottles at cars. That's one strange viewing.
Testiment to Tookie's lack of effectiveness in getting youth to denounce gang membership
(if he tried at all).
You're right. Najee Ali is part of the Nation of Islam. He is one of the outspoken "civil rights" activists in Los Angeles. He is the son-in-law of Imam W. Deem Mohammed (son of Elijah Mohammed, founder of the Black Muslim sect), previously with the Chicago-based American Society of Muslims.
Tookie, tookie lend me your comb.
Not only are they evil, but apparently SUV's smoke joints as well, and like to deck themselves out in the "bling bling".
We already had it:
I just wonder how many people showed up for this monster's victims funeral? Justice was served in my eyes! as for the pot smoke...........well, that's why they call it dope folks!
cya Tookie, say hello to that bastard Jefry Dalmer and his buddies that are smokin in hell!!!!!!!!!!
buh-bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's no wonder why the Culture that Lionizes this guy never progresses.
Be prepared for a loooong goodbye...and then an elevation of this criminal to martyrdom...kinda like what the left has done for the monster Ernesto Guevara.
"I'm also reminded that Death is the great equalizer. The Tookster looks no more threatening lying there like a dreadlocked log than my puppy Buster did after he'd been hit by a cement truck."
When will this story die? Haven't even the liberal media had enough of this nonsense? Only a complete idiot can make a martyr of a mass murdering thug who is responsible for bringing gangs and crack to central LA, creating misery for thousands.
And exactly who is "relating to his struggle?" Scott Peterson and the other 600+ death row inmates who claim to be innocent?
Only the schoolteacher got it: Look at Tookie, if you follow the path of evil, this is how you will end.
The Left's embarrassing hero worship will do more to disgrace Tookster than even he himself managed.
MLK, Gandhi, Tookie. Three men of peace.
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