Rodney King was shot twice with a taser gun and then beat over 56 times with their batons before being taken into custody. It was believed that Rodney King was the victim of police brutality because of his African-American race. This incident being caught on tape quickly surfaced the media and was being viewed all over the world.
Two days later, on April 28, a story by McAlary ran in The Daily News under the headline “Rape Hoax the Real Crime.” The article instantly conjured memories of the sensational, racially charged case of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager who, in 1987, falsely accused a gang of white men of raping her. (Jane Doe is African-American, and described her assailant as black. He was never caught.) In the ensuing uproar, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton apologized for police leaks that had cast doubt on the woman’s account, which was backed up by undisputed medical evidence, including severe bruising. Undeterred, McAlary, stubbornly recycling a good story — a copycat rape hoax made for a better story than the horror of a real rape — proceeded
Initially in May 1972, female hitchhikers began to disappear. To subdue public panic that was spreading like wildfire, the authorities tried linking these disappearances to Mullin so they could assure the community that the spate of murders was at an end, but in the end, but it soon turned out to be Edmund. As a child, Edmund Emil Kemper did not lead a normal childhood. He was raised by his mother, Clarnell, who was apparently suffering from
I did a little extra research over the movie just to get some of the other facts maybe they couldn’t put in the movie because of length. Clarence Brandley is an African-American who, in 1981, while a janitor at a high school in Conroe, Texas, was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Ferguson, a 16 year-old student. Brandley was held for nine years on death row. After lengthy legal proceedings that ended in the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Brandley was freed in 1990. Suspicion immediately fell on two of the custodians, Brandley and Henry (Icky) Peace, who had found the body.
The Ignoring of Black on Black Crime According to an article in the Sunday Montgomery Advertiser by Kala Kachmar, a professor at University of Alabama, Birmingham, John Sloan, says that Southern cities are prone to violence because of a “Southern subculture of violence.” Also he states that the fact that “violence was used to control slaves” also contributes to this subculture.” It has only been about 150 years since the emancipation proclamation! How long must the educators of this country camp out in this tired area of crime causation? It has been over a 100 years since anyone could actually truthfully testify to suffering violence as a slave. Most of the media will not, or is afraid, to bring up the obvious, that black on black crime accounts for far too much of our crime statistics. A 2007 special report released by the Bureau
Over the course of their 40-year feud, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in an ongoing cycle of violence that continues unabated. Neighborhoods are staked out, and rigid boundaries are drawn; crossing a street or taking a wrong turn can mean death. Nearly a quarter of the region’s young men who survive the violence will end up in jail or prison. Three former gang members—Ron, Bird and Kumasi—recount their experiences growing up in the neighborhood in the 1950s, when segregation kept blacks and whites strictly separated, both by police-enforced neighborhood boundaries and in public organizations like the Boy Scouts. Young black males began forming their own groups, clubs where they could find a sense of belonging.
The biggest trial in a long time came to Maycomb which is a small town for a man that was accused for rape. This man would be Tom Robinson, a black man and husband with a disabled left arm who is on trial for his life. Mayella Violet Ewell, daughter of Robert E. Lee Ewell is Tom’s accuser. People from all over the place came to observe this trial. Trial took place in the evening of November 21 1935 on Ewell’s property.
They were later convicted and sent to jail. Scenarios like this this happen all the time for example in 1988 two men named Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz were convicted of rape and first degree murder and later convicted. 11 years later they were found to be innocent but why were they convicted? B. Tie to the audience: According to the website researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm it is estimated 10,000 people each year are falsely convicted of crimes.
In Los Angeles alone, HUD received nearly 800 complaints of housing discrimination in 1987. The Fair Housing Congress reported an additional 700 cases of al leged racial discrimination. The problem is a persistent one, as more recent examples indicate. In a suburb south of Chicago, the owners and managers of Town and Country Villas Apartments were ordered to pay $308,200 in damages for refusing to rent apartments to blacks. In Toledo, Ohio a married couple sought to finalize a lease arrangement when the homeowners became flustered by the fact the couple was interracial.
He was wrongfully convicted when he was 16 years old and served 20 years in prison before proving his innocence. That mistake took two decades from him, but it took Carlos DeLuna's life. Proof of Carlos' innocence has only come out now, 29 years after the crime and two decades after he was executed, because of the painstaking work of professors and students at The Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Doubts always existed in Carlos' case, but it took 29 years and what some are calling the most comprehensive criminal investigation in U.S. Carlos DeLuna's case is proof that these kinds of cases are not isolated; they are the inevitable result of an imperfect system. As long as we have a death penalty, we risk executing innocent people like Carlos