alt.fan.soft-targets moderation
Har...@alt.fan.soft-targets
plaintiff, the co-captain of the Beverly Hills High School
* football team, asserted that he had been pulled over at least 20
* times in the last 18 months.
*
* The Mayor and Police Chief were named in the suit because they had
* ignored numerous written and oral complaints of mistreatment.
----
Think Rodney King was an isolated event?
* The New York Times, May 13, 1997, snipped
* "Police Chief Says Officers Violated Policy in Beating", by Kevin Sack
*
* Atlanta's police chief concedes the videotaped beating of an African-
* American shows it violated departmental rules.
*
* Timmie Sinclair, 27, is a black Atlantan. Five officers surrounded him
* and one Sergeant "repeatedly bludgeoned with a baton" Mr. Sinclair while
* he was being handcuffed, and at least once while the other officers held
* him down on the ground.
*
* Mr. Sinclair was trying to fill a prescription for his sick child,
* became confused by all the roadblocks the Atlanta police setup for
* the annual "Black College Spring Break" weekend, and was attacked
* by the police for trying to get back on the Interstate highway.
*
* Mr Sinclair's wife and two children were in his car with him.
Think that would have happened to a white family during this annual Black
College Spring Break 'Freaknick' police coverage?
The police also illegally ordered the videotaper to stop taping.
----
Recently on ABC Primetime live, they wired for video and sound a nice car
owned by the
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 9.6.5
SGFUeudhuERR09iU2KR+CQ+9oC3HeE0zoBI+t2Kl3/D9JEydaD/cq8JbdDPdB4Qs
0teiUa/+U572SBElETKL0KvTdsvkhk4vkGYMn3W4PugNbxgBsVqhhIeQcRRPlAe3
9yNFMkBw4DOnq9rG+FS6Vn+w2tjH1YImrTDfJR0tnEawSqc3JrSqgHI7c6VBK3Bc
yUoX3FBKlCojiY5DMS==
=JzDJ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----