Posted on 07/13/2002 7:07:31 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ITHACA -- Outrage, frustration and a desire for justice united those at an emergency meeting held Friday, to discuss a racially charged assault reported earlier this week.
About 75 local residents gathered at the Southside Community Center to learn how they could support the victim and get their questions about the handling of the case addressed. Several city and county officials were in attendance.
(Excerpt) Read more at theithacajournal.com ...
Proving that things are never as clear cut as they seem, now evidence is coming out that the alleged victim is not exactly the clean handed pacifist they originally thought:
Before the juries entered the courtroom, Richard Nichol, an employee at Chuck's Self-Serve Mobil, 540 W. State St., was called to provide information about verbal altercations Morris [the victim] had been involved in since the July incident. Nichol said one incident began in September when a number of people were yelling in the parking lot. Ithaca Police officers were called to the scene."After I told her to leave the store, she threatened me about six times," Nichol said.
This January, Nichol said Morris entered the store again to make purchases when she began arguing with him. "After five minutes of arguing, I took the milk off the counter and told her to leave," Nichol said. "She told me, you're not coming out of here alive tonight."
The full article can be read here.
Trio found innocent of hate crime, All guilty of assault
But how can this be?
The Ithaca Journal has been telling us for months the three are guilty of "hate crimes".
Oh, now I get it. As the Journal reported in the first sentence of the story the jury "included only one non-white member."
Ah, that's the ticket. More institutional racism at fault.
(/Hypocrisy)
If this is a true version of the story, then it is a "hate" crime. There ARE some darn stupid whites out there. The reference to the pickup truck is suspicious, though. The redneck = pickup truck syndrome, I guess. The only thing missing is "residents of a local trailer park".
She must have been pretty tough because she finally got up and sat down behind the bus driver.
This attack went on for several minutes and was caught on tape.
The most attention it merited was this "Caught on tape" show I was watching.
I haven't seen anything on the news about it......OH that's right....she was white and her assailants were black!
Sorry for the rant, I forgot white folks place in today's society.
"We tried to point out that everyone did not see the same thing," Damm said. "It seemed like three different fights."
I watched this movie last night, I found Damm's comment to be funny.
Geez, good point!
Perhaps we should propose changing Ithaca's name to Diver City.
Which would also tie in well with the reportedly high percentage of lesbians.
Rimshot.
At the same time, the paper reports, her codefendant is also likely to have most of the charges overturned on appeal.
So, over three years later, after the numerous "town meetings," after the promises from the police chief chosen by affirmative action, after the editorials by the local paper, after the political posturing, the convictions for "hate crimes" have all been dismissed, overturned on appeal or about to be overturned.
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