Word: supremacist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since taking office, Giuliani has crippled the Civilian Review Board and supported the New York Police Department (NYPD) in all actions, at best ignoring and oftentimes supporting white supremacist officers in their destruction of civil rights. When the New York Civil Liberties Union found that the number of police brutality claims had risen 32 percent in one year during his tenure, Mayor Giuliani did not rush to scrutinize his army in blue, but blasted the report...
...most troubling aspect of this rampant violence is the attitude of white New Yorkers. Most continue to support the police department and Giuliani in spite of the Mayor's racially polarizing politics and supremacist actions...
...look very good for McVeigh. But Jones has a plan. First, he will sow suspicion in the jury about the possibility that someone else committed the crime. Jones points out that in 1983 a white supremacist named Richard Snell killed a pawnbroker whom he mistakenly believed to be Jewish and was executed on April 19, 1995. "Snell had threatened to blow up the Murrah building back in the 1980s," Jones says. "One of the hypotheses is, Did a group of people decide to give the old man a going-away gift...
...blast that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building. Since that day, he has collected what he believes are leads abandoned by government investigators, hoping a grand jury will be impaneled to probe further. "All roads to Oklahoma City lead to Elohim City," says Wilburn, referring to a white-supremacist compound in the eastern part of the state. A telephone record he has collected (it was made public by the government) shows McVeigh calling Elohim City two weeks before the bombing. Although he offers no hard evidence, Wilburn contends that McVeigh had visited the camp between June 1993 and the bombing...
Nelson claims that Trent Lott aided the Sovereignty Commission during the 1960s and is probably classified in the lawsuit as a state actor, a member or informant who served as a source of information. If these allegations are true. Trent Lott is a white supremacist--or at least he used to be. The Times article states that as late as 1983, Lott opposed the creation of a national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr." The Daily News editorial says that Lott "praises--as [he] is warmly praised by--the Council of Conservative Citizens, widely regarded as the successor...