Posted on 03/21/2008 3:31:17 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
GARY, Ind.—Veteran officer Thomas Houston didn't mince words when he took over as police chief in this violence-plagued city, promising to "implode" the department and make big changes, even if it went against public sentiment.
"I'm popular now," he said last May. "I will trade that for respect."
Less than a year later, Houston is out of a job. He and his top two deputies face federal civil rights charges accusing them of roughing up four people Houston suspected of breaking into his house last June.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
As General Honore says you are stuck on stupid!
Gary was in the news recently, when Louis Farrakhan’s son, little Nasir, was sued for $350,000., and he claimed that he only made money working for his daddy’s church, so he didn’t have to pay.
Farrakhan tries to stay out of court
BY JOE CARLSON
jcarlson@nwitimes.com
219.662.5339 | Monday, February 11, 2008
HAMMOND | Nation of Islam spiritual leader Louis Farrakhan is arguing he should not have to appear in a public courtroom to reveal his personal finances in a lawsuit stemming from his 49-year-old son’s traffic crash on the Indiana Toll Road.
Farrakhan states in Hammond federal court records that a Gary couple’s efforts to get him to pay the $350,000 jury verdict against his son, Nasir, is unsupported by the law, and any attempts to summon him to an Indiana court would constitute an abuse of the legal process.
Therefore, the leader of the Chicago-based religious organization is asking U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Rodovich to rescind his earlier order for Farrakhan to appear in court Feb. 25 and answer detailed questions about his personal finances and those of the Nation of Islam.
The legal dispute began in 2003, when Nasir Farrakhan rear-ended a couple on the Indiana Toll Road while driving from Chicago to the family compound in southwestern Michigan. Because of his drug-induced behavior and flight from the scene of the crash, Nasir Farrakhan was ordered to pay the couple $350,000 in punitive damages.
Nasir Farrakhan has said he cannot pay because he has never had a job or savings. The only money he receives comes in weekly cash “gifts” of $350 from his father, delivered in envelopes wherever he happens to be living at the time, the younger Farrakhan has argued.
Attorneys for the Gary couple successfully convinced Rodovich in December that Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam should be ordered into court to determine whether the gifts are actually income that could be garnished to pay the debt.
For example, the money could be income if Nasir Farrakhan received it through being an employee. Nasir Farrakhan has testified that he has done security work intermittently for his father and has performed medical tasks when the minister was ill.
Louis Farrakhan argued in court records that no evidence thus far has been shown to justify a public hearing regarding his assets, and he wants such questioning to be done in a private hearing or in sealed written records.
Michael Back, attorney for the Gary couple, said he believes the legal arguments supporting Louis Farrakhan’s requests are weak and that the hearing will go on as scheduled.
Gary, Indiana!
What a wonderful name,
Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame.
Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say,
Trips along softly on the tongue this way—
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
Let me say it once again.
Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
That’s the town that “knew me when.”
If you’d like to have a logical explanation
How I happened on this elegant syncopation,
I will say without a moment of hesitation
There is just one place
That can light my face.
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but—
Gary, Indiana,
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
My home sweet home.
Mayor “Clay insists city isn’t dangerous”. Not if you are Mayor. In Indiana if you say you’re from Gary folks start to wonder if it’s to escape a warrant.
I didn’t think ANY damage could be done to the image of Gary, Indiana. That it is a ghetto? Been that way since the steel mills closed and there was almost total white flight from the locality. That the place is a lawless hellhole, and any attempt to clean up the town would be met with massive resistance? No surprise there. Even when the steel mills WERE operating, the place was famous for non-compliance with polite standards, they just had more money to get into brawls. Union thugs were simply replaced with drug gangs, and as the white faces disappeared, the black faces took their place.
Closing the steel mills had one positive aspect. The air there is much cleaner.
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