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...longer. Today everyone sees everyone else's intelligence. U.S. Attorney Donald Stern gets a copy of each report on a gun charge from the Boston police department. Stern in turn uses federal indictments to help take down Boston's most dangerous youths. All data are fed into the computers of the Youth Violence Task Force, an elite 65-person unit that tracks and targets gang activity. "We made threats directly to gang members and then delivered on it," says Police Commissioner Paul Evans. A case in point is the Intervale Posse, for years one of the most vicious gangs...
...crimes go, this one could have simply been folded into the sordid caseload of juvenile violence in America. Youth are killed on urban streets every day. Yet this crime, cloaked sensationally in black-on-white, is quickly escalating into a small-town version of the O.J. Simpson case. During a preliminary hearing last week, as Nicole testified against a row of handcuffed suspects, one of her supporters yelled, "Hang 'em!" Meanwhile, the defendants' families are murmuring about conspiracies against their boys. Flint Mayor Woodrow Stanley is struggling to manage a crisis that threatens to further damage the city's image...
...bemoaning violence, others railing against coverage that liberally gives ink to white victims while overlooking black ones. Neighborhood groups have hit the streets to raise money for the victims, while politicians are using the incident to push their pet social agendas, from tougher police enforcement to more funding for youth programs. Even ministers have found themselves in the dustup, grappling for gospel truths to soothe confused, outraged flocks. On the Sunday morning following the arrests, the Rev. Denzil Green, the 69-year-old white pastor of Flint's Galileeon Baptist Church, declared to his predominantly black congregation, "The name...
Sept. 15, 1963, was Youth Day at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Four African-American girls in white dresses and shoes had left Bible class early and were about to go upstairs to help run the adult service. But before they got there, a timed-explosive device planted under the church steps ripped massive holes in the side of the building, sending stone, glass and metal flying in every direction. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Robertson--ages 11 to 14--died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South...
...announcement came a day after the release of Four Little Girls, a Spike Lee documentary that is generating renewed interest in the crime. Investigators say the timing is coincidental. The bombing holds a special place in civil rights history not only because of its brutality and the youth of its victims, but also because it so bitterly dashed the hopes for nonviolent progress that had been raised only weeks before, when Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Lewis says it is important that investigators continue to pursue the case until...