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Report: Family wants Tawana Brawley case reopened
cnn.com ^ | Nov 18, 2007 | AP

Posted on 11/18/2007 7:36:42 AM PST by RDTF

Edited on 11/18/2007 1:18:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flash point, Tawana Brawley's mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident, which a state grand jury ultimately concluded was a hoax, the Daily News reported.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: boycriedwolf; brawley; hatecrimes; hoax; liar; moneymoneymoney; racebaiting; sharpton; tawana; tawanabrawley
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To: ken21
"no government official is going to reopen this case."

Don't forget one of the goobermint officials is named Spitzer who will do anything for a perp walk photo op.

I know there are some good people in NY and bless 'em but a state that puts the likes of Clinton, Scummer and Spitter in office, well, the good people of that state need to walk and let the rats gnaw on each other.

101 posted on 11/18/2007 11:29:53 AM PST by Proud_texan
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To: RDTF
Good time to revisit this case and others. The public has forgotten that Al Sharpton is a criminal.

http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2003/1205.asp

102 posted on 11/18/2007 11:52:40 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: RDTF

Sounds like somebody heard about all the money being showered on the “Jena 6”.


103 posted on 11/18/2007 11:56:51 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: garyhope
” her specially trained dog cannot protect her”.

The dog's a lover not a fighter.

Do they stone mooselimb women for bestiality?

104 posted on 11/18/2007 11:57:34 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: RDTF

>>>New York state owes my daughter<<<

Ah, yes, the distressed voice of endless entitlement. They “owe” her daughter. By “New York,” of course, the family means everyone with money.

You know, if there was slightest shred of real evidence that Tawana Brawley was raped and abused, I’d be in her corner fighting for justice. However, the real evidence points to the whole incident being lies, which means, ironically enough, that those who are lied about recieved the equivalent of rape and abuse from Tawana. I’d change my name, too. Scary to think that she’s a nurse somewhere, though.


105 posted on 11/18/2007 12:03:36 PM PST by redpoll
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To: trimom

“Someone have an idea what the point of this would be?”

....looks like she and Sharpton have a judgement slapped on their asses....maybe they hope to make it go away by being “vindicated”


106 posted on 11/18/2007 12:08:11 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: pepsionice; Shimmer; Squantos
leads me to the curious situation of thinking that someone in the NY cop circles...was involved in this...and it wasn’t as bogus as we always thought.

When I was a detective, a lot of bogus claims fell apart under investigation. Nice to know someone out there is ready to second-guess, though.

107 posted on 11/18/2007 12:20:22 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: CaptainK
As a woman I’ll explain what happened. Mommy married a man who killed his first wife. The 15 year old stays out late one night and has to come up with a tale that keeps murdering step-dad at bay. The 15 year old knows there is a man at home who is an abuser and a beating is inevitable. What better excuse than white guys raping her. So she hangs for a few days at an empty apartment where she hatches her plot.

I think you've got it.

From the New York Times, 29 February 1988:

On Miss Brawley's torso, above and below her breasts, racial slurs had been scrawled in charcoal or with a felt tip pen. These said "nigger," "KKK" and "nigger ete (expletive)" with the word "ete" obviously a misspelling of "eat." The writing was in block letters, not handwriting that might have been traceable.
How does a New York cop spell "eat"? How does a 15-year-old homie spell it?
108 posted on 11/18/2007 12:29:54 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: trimom
Someone have an idea what the point of this would be?

Money?

Votes?

Pathological Attention Seeking Syndrome?

109 posted on 11/18/2007 12:30:25 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (I'm not a Hyphenated-Americican; I'm a Gringo-Chinamexistani.)
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To: RDTF

Glenda Brawley Moves To a Brooklyn Church

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Published: June 11, 1988

LEAD: Glenda Brawley, who took refuge in a Queens church Wednesday to avoid arrest by Dutchess County authorities, moved to a Brooklyn church yesterday.

Glenda Brawley, who took refuge in a Queens church Wednesday to avoid arrest by Dutchess County authorities, moved to a Brooklyn church yesterday.

On Monday, Mrs. Brawley was found in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a special grand jury in Poughkeepsie that is investigating an assertion that her daughter, Tawana, was abducted and raped by a gang of white men last November. Mrs. Brawley was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $250, the maximum penalty. snip
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DD1530F932A25755C0A96E948260


110 posted on 11/18/2007 12:40:02 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: paltz

Perhaps you are correct. I believe some of the alleged facts of the Brawley case are similar to a kidnapping and rape of a young black woman recently in West Virginia. Reopening the Brawley case might piggyback on the WV case and give rise to more cries of racism - just before elections.


111 posted on 11/18/2007 12:46:44 PM PST by miele man (Continually voting against iodine deficient libs for 42 years)
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To: RDTF

I’m curious as to the underlying motive for reopening this case after 20 years and the lawsuits.


112 posted on 11/18/2007 12:48:12 PM PST by DakotaRed (Liberals don't rattle sabers, they wave white flags)
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To: RDTF
Sounds like a great idea, if Twana Muhammad or whatever her name is now is willing to waive her rights to dismiss a filing a false report and perjury charge due to the expiration of time under the Statute of Limitations.
113 posted on 11/18/2007 12:50:38 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in Vietnam meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: cynwoody
A Dutchess County Sheriff's detective said violent-sounding quarrels between Mr. King and Glenda Brawley had been reported by neighbors. Mr. King served seven years of a 6-to-20-year sentence for manslaughter in the fatal shooting of his wife, Wanda. He was in prison from 1970 to 1977. There was also Mr. King's persistent anger at his stepdaughter over her late night out the previous weekend. Neighbors said Mr. King had a bad temper

It seems the only black woman harmed in this whole charade was the departed Mrs. King. Yet 9 out 10 people don't even know that aspect of the story. The 1 out of 10 who do, try to suppress it.

114 posted on 11/18/2007 12:54:54 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Alberta's Child
If I recall correctly the feces smeared on her was analyzed and found to not only be dog feces, but was full of her own dog's fur.

The simple fact of the matter is that she went out and played party-girl for 4 days, and instead of owning up to her actions, she played the race/rape card to get out of it. And for the most part, she succeeded wildly...JFK

115 posted on 11/18/2007 12:57:09 PM PST by BADROTOFINGER (Life sucks. Get a helmet.)
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To: wtc911
Brawley has changed her name..... to Maryam Muhammed

Well there ya go.

116 posted on 11/18/2007 1:05:34 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren’t having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: pepsionice
"The strange thing today...is why bring this back up, unless they really truly believed in what she said."

They're bringing it back up, because they've seen a shift in the political and intellectual makeup of New York politics...

They obviously believe the assholes currently in positions of power are stupid or corrupt enough to want to whitewash this lying nappy headed ho... PARTICULARLY during an ELECTION CYCLE!
They may also regret their lost opportunity to literally blackmail the government into a payout...

20 Years from now, we can expect Crystal Gail Mangum the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax ho will bring her own appeal to get "the truth out"..

One should NEVER show compassion for those who attempted to ruin or destroy the lives of others -- for their own "gain".. Compassion for such, only encourages more of the same.... This is CLEARLY one of the reasons that skank who cry Hoax Rape - should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law...

117 posted on 11/18/2007 1:09:35 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: RDTF
Sound to me as if her “nursing” career isn’t working out too well.Either that or her local mosque is having a “special” funding drive.
118 posted on 11/18/2007 1:17:30 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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To: RDTF

Oh God! Not again! This is 20 years ago! I read that Tawana Brawley’s parents have an outstanding warrant for ignoring the subpoena.


119 posted on 11/18/2007 1:19:10 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Bunnies=Sodomites)
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To: nycgal

Thanks for clarifying.


120 posted on 11/18/2007 1:20:46 PM PST by kdot
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