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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: kcvl

Sounds like the true purpose of this is that she can’t ‘practice’ in New York (as a nurse), and is hoping to get the charges dropped so her warrant is cancelled.


81 posted on 11/18/2007 9:49:31 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (- Attention all planets of the solar Federation--Secret plan codeword: Banana)
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To: RDTF

FWIW, rape of black women by white men is almost the least common crime in the book. Way under 100 per year, if I remember the numbers rightly.

Meanwhile, rape of white women by black men is up in the tens of thousands per year.


82 posted on 11/18/2007 9:53:59 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: RDTF

Did Guiliana have any roll in this? Was he the US Attorney at the time. How would they gain anything by doing this?


83 posted on 11/18/2007 9:57:15 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: trimom

MONEY..Always is


84 posted on 11/18/2007 9:58:25 AM PST by rod1
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To: maggief

85 posted on 11/18/2007 10:06:23 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: UCANSEE2

On November 28, 1987 Joyce Lloray happened to look out of her apartment’s sliding glass door in time to see a black girl climb into a big green plastic garbage bag and then lay still on the cold, muddy ground. Mrs. Lloray called the Duchess County Sheriff’s Department, setting into motion a chain of bizarre and tragic events that made the quiet little town of Wappingers Falls, New York — population 5,000 — the focus of national attention.

The girl in the trash bag on the grounds of the Pavillion Condominiums was 15-year-old Tawana Brawley. Four days earlier she had played hooky from school in order to visit a former boyfriend, Todd Buxton, who was incarcerated at the Orange County Jail in nearby Newburgh. That evening Tawana took a bus to the town of Wappingers, where she had lived with her mother in Apartment 19A at the Pavillion Condominiums prior to their moving to Wappingers Falls.

According to Tawana, she was abducted by several white men shortly after she got off the bus; the men, one of whom wore a badge, took her to a wooded area and sexually abused her over a period of several days.

When police and paramedics arrived at the Pavillion Condominiums in response to Joyce Lloray’s call, they found Tawana’s clothes torn, cut and partially burned. Her body and clothing were smeared with feces, and on her chest and torso the words “KKK,” “NIGGER” and “BITCH” had been written with what appeared to be charcoal. Since it seemed that Tawana’s civil rights had been violated, the FBI was called in. A rape kit was administered at St. Francis Hospital and sent under seal to an FBI lab for analysis. Interviewed at the hospital by a black officer from the Poughkeepsie Police Department, Tawana claimed she had been repeatedly raped by a group of white men but could provide no names or descriptions of her assailants. She later told others that there had been no rape, only other kinds of sexual abuse. Forensic tests found no evidence that a sexual assault of any kind had occurred. Nor was there any evidence of exposure to elements, which would be expected in a victim held for several days in the woods at a time when the temperature dropped below freezing at night.

“Tawana Brawley appears caught up in her own fiction,” said New York State Supreme Court Justice S. Barrett Hickman. Unfortunately, the rest of the country had to be caught up in it, too.


86 posted on 11/18/2007 10:17:34 AM PST by kcvl
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To: UCANSEE2
Ms. Brawley's accusations turned out not only to be a fabrication, but an obvious fabrication: At the time of her alleged abduction and rape, she was partying with classmates. And a witness reported seeing Ms. Brawley climb into the garbage bag herself. When the gig was up, Brawley (who now goes by the afro-Islamic name of Maryam Muhammad) skipped town, along with the US$300,000 "defence fund" that had been raised for her.
87 posted on 11/18/2007 10:19:36 AM PST by kcvl
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To: RDTF


88 posted on 11/18/2007 10:38:20 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

89 posted on 11/18/2007 10:43:40 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: RDTF

According to the article below in the Daily News, it says she goes by the name Tawana Thompson and is a nurse like her mother. From what I found, the mom is a nurses aide and Tawana Thompson is a Practical Nurse.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_20_years_later_tawana_brawley_has_turned.html

https://secure01.virginiainteractive.org/dhp/cgi-bin/search_publicdb.cgi

https://secure01.virginiainteractive.org/dhp/cgi-bin/search_publicdb.cgi


90 posted on 11/18/2007 10:54:01 AM PST by toldyou
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To: RDTF

Thank you, that is one of the best pictures I have seen posted on FR. And I hope no one dares try to put a caption on it, it needs none whatsoever.


91 posted on 11/18/2007 10:56:39 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: purpleraine

That’s the question (Rudy). If Rudy wins the nomination, he’ll want to talk about his good experiences in NYC, particulary the tough-on-crime stats. If the Brawley case is linked to Rudy, then the news can resurrect this case and frame it in a way to smear the NYC police and Rudy, benefitting Hillary. Remember the bad press the NYC police got when Rudy went against Hillary? It was on the national MSM and every day we had to hear about the “bad” cops. All those stories went away when he stopped his campaign for NY Senator.

Say I’m all wet on this, but this sets the stage for a conversation:
Rudy: Things were good
MSM: Remember the Brawley case (and probably others)
Hillary is clean and benefits from the contradition. Her fingerprints are probably all over this.


92 posted on 11/18/2007 11:00:04 AM PST by kdot
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To: RDTF

Oops! The last two only work if the info is supplied. I copied the URL with the info gathered, but it didn’t work. Sorry.


93 posted on 11/18/2007 11:00:40 AM PST by toldyou
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To: toldyou

Occupation: Licensed Practical Nurse
First Name: tawana
Last Name: thompson
TAWANA V THOMPSON Claremont, VA 23899 12/31/2007(license expiration date)

Previous Occupation:
Occupation: Nurse Aide
First Name: tawana
Last Name: thompson
TAWANA V THOMPSON RICHMOND, VA 23294 07/31/2006(license expiration date)

mother:
Occupation: Nurse Aide
First Name: Glenda
Last Name: Brawley

GLENDA D BRAWLEY CLAREMONT, VA 23899 06/30/2009 No

This serves as primary source verification of the credential issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia.


94 posted on 11/18/2007 11:11:29 AM PST by toldyou
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To: Bogtrotter52

did you disinfect yourself after DUmpster diving?


95 posted on 11/18/2007 11:11:37 AM PST by machogirl
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To: kdot

If the media would report objectively on Sharptounge and Jackson, they would disappear in a month.


96 posted on 11/18/2007 11:14:44 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: pepsionice
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.

What no one imagined was that it would turn into a racial lottery jackpot. The money was pouring and so all the players have kept their mouths shut even though they all know the truth. Why would anyone destroy the golden egg?

97 posted on 11/18/2007 11:14:58 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
The stepdad murdered his first wife.

You're right! I totally forgot about that.

98 posted on 11/18/2007 11:21:30 AM PST by nycgal
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To: RDTF

“Brawley - whose claims of being raped by a “white cop” shocked the city 20 years ago - has long since turned her back on New York. She changed her name, converted to Islam, moved south and got a bullmastiff “trained to bite” in case someone unwanted comes to visit.”

“Like her mother, she works as a nurse. Co-workers at the nursing home that employs her know her by the name listed on her nursing license, Tawana Thompson.”

“Brawley is not married, her parents say. And 20 years after camera flashes burned her eyes daily, family and friends still know not to take her photo.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_20_years_later_tawana_brawley_has_turned.html


99 posted on 11/18/2007 11:24:13 AM PST by toldyou
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To: kdot
That’s the question (Rudy). If Rudy wins the nomination, he’ll want to talk about his good experiences in NYC, particulary the tough-on-crime stats. If the Brawley case is linked to Rudy, then the news can resurrect this case and frame it in a way to smear the NYC police and Rudy, benefitting Hillary.Remember the bad press the NYC police got when Rudy went against Hillary? It was on the national MSM and every day we had to hear about the “bad” cops. All those stories went away when he stopped his campaign for NY Senator.

Ed Koch was mayor at the time followed by the infamous David Dinkins. Rudy took office in 1994.

100 posted on 11/18/2007 11:29:26 AM PST by nycgal
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