Word: brawley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Tawana Brawley was discovered climbing into a garbage bag last Nov. 28 in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., her hair was partly chopped away, her head smeared with excrement and her torso marked with the words NIGGER and KKK. The tale sketched by the girl and her mother told of a horrific crime -- the kidnaping, rape and abuse of a black 15-year-old by six white men, one wearing a badge. Last week, after six months of fitful investigations, a judge finally ordered someone to jail -- not a suspect, but the girl's mother Glenda Brawley...
...advice of lawyers, Tawana, now 16, and her mother Glenda, 33, have refused to help investigators. Through advisers, they charged that local authorities with racist motives were protecting the guilty. They demanded an outside investigation. When Governor Mario Cuomo obliged, appointing Attorney General Robert Abrams as special prosecutor, the Brawleys still refused to cooperate. Last week, after Glenda Brawley defied a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in Poughkeepsie, Judge Angelo Ingrassia fined her $250 and sentenced her to 30 days for contempt. The confrontation then revved up to a higher pitch when Mrs. Brawley took refuge...
...ludicrous," said her lawyer, C. Vernon Mason, "for the nation to see that the only person arrested in this case is the mother of a black rape victim. People should be outraged." First, however, they should be puzzled. When Mason delivered that line, Glenda Brawley had not been arrested. Moreover, Mason and two other radical Brawley advisers -- Attorney Alton Maddox Jr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton -- had contrived the events that turned her into a fugitive. Nothing could have made the trio happier than the spectacle of police charging into the Ebenezer Baptist Church to capture her. Sharpton...
...Wappingers Falls mystery in a human tapestry worthy of Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities. Comedian Bill Cosby and Edward Lewis, publisher of Essence magazine, teamed up to offer a $25,000 reward for information in the case. Boxing Champion Mike Tyson spent six hours with Brawley, during which, he said, they did not discuss what had happened; he did bestow his $30,000 diamond-studded Rolex watch upon her. Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan flew in from Chicago to address busloads of protesters transported upstate from New York City...
...publicity has been orchestrated by Brawley Lawyers Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason, veterans of New York City's race-drenched politics, and Pentecostal Minister Al Sharpton, a rabble-rouser from Brooklyn who calls New York Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and has likened State Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, to Hitler. Sharpton even contends that the assault is part of a racist plot linked to the Irish Republican Army...