Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNLIKE, Howard Beach, when it was all too apparent a crime had been committed, the Brawley case is very likely a fraud...
This is a good idea, but the tactics of Sharpton, Mason and Maddox--refusing to cooperate with authorities while publicizing a non-crime to advance their political ends--will undermine not just their own credibility, but also the credibility of Black victims of racial crimes...
...actions. In a rather incongruous justification of the episode, Rowan argued that although he supports strict gun control laws, he will continue to protect himself and his family (presumably with the same unregistered gun he used on the stoned youth) as long as society continues to tolerate widespread violent crime and drug abuse...
...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...
...separating Tawana Brawley's misfortune into two distinct public matters. One, relating to what happened to the girl, is the Tawana Brawley case. The other, a creation of the lawyers and their sidekick preacher, is the Tawana Brawley cause. The aim of the cause is not to solve a crime but to fire up a political movement...