In other news:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/10/sharpton.taxes.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
NEW YORK (AP)—Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor’s mansion.
The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation’s most prominent civil rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan’s major bridges and tunnels.
But he still carries baggage from his early days as a fire-breathing agitator: Government records obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.
Now the U.S. attorney is investigating his nonprofit group, a probe that an undeterred Sharpton brushes off as the kind of annoyance that civil rights figures have come to expect from the government.
“Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop,” he told the AP. “I think that that is why they try to intimidate us.”
No biggie - Obama gonna set a brutha up.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/09/dmx.dogs/index.html
Friday’s arrest is one of many brushes with the law DMX has had.
On Wednesday, he was arrested on charges of racing on a highway after speed cameras on a Phoenix-area freeway caught him going 114 mph, CNN affiliate KPHO reported. He was booked on charges of racing on a highway, reckless driving, two counts of endangerment and three counts of criminal speed and driving on a suspended license.
DMX faced a 1999 animal cruelty charge in Teaneck, New Jersey, that was dismissed after the performer agreed to accept responsibility and record public service announcements for an animal rights group.
The August raid came the same week that former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty to bankrolling and running a dogfighting ring in Virginia
Chill - Obama go’ make it go away.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/07/dc.sniper/
WASHINGTON (CNN)—John Allen Muhammad, who is on Virginia’s death row in connection with the 2002 Washington-area sniper spree, has written to Virginia prosecutors saying he wants to waive all rights to appeal.
In the letter dated April 23, Muhammad professes his innocence but says he wants to waive appeals so the state “can murder this innocent Black man.”
Just gotta stall until Obama is president
Cops Say, “Nothing to See Here,” Just Another Black Man Killed by Police
Thursday, May 08 2008
Contributed by: Oread Daily
God, I’m sick of reading stories like the one below where someone, usually a young African American man, is shot over and over by police who seem to want to make absolutely certain they are dead.
Well they can be sure Aaren Gwinn is...dead.
Witnesses say the police shot him eight times.
Police are, as always, looking into the matter.
COPS SAY, “NOTHING TO SEE HERE,” JUST ANOTHER BLACK MAN KILLED BY POLICE
God, I’m sick of reading stories like the one below where someone, usually a young African American man, is shot over and over by police who seem to want to make absolutely certain they are dead.
Well they can be sure Aaren Gwinn is...dead.
Witnesses say the police shot him eight times.
Police are, as always, looking into the matter.
To serve and protect, oh yeah, right.
The cops have a story, of course. They always do. The stories they come up with always sound pretty much the same.
These cops say they got an anonymous tip a car Gwinn was in contained drugs. So good cops that they were they pulled that car over in the 1500 block of Jackson Street in North Chicago. They point out Aaren Gwinn was a passenger in the car. They say as officers were speaking to the driver of the car, Demetrius Gibson, 30, of North Chicago, whom they had ordered out of the car, Gwinn jumped into the driver’s seat and began driving off. So they killed him dead.
Vote Obama! (If they don’t shoot us first.)
