NAACP President Arrested

The local NAACP president was arrested Saturday afternoon on misdemeanor charges after an altercation with deputies after she attempted to hand a flier to the driver of a car involved in a Black College Reunion traffic stop.

Cynthia Slater, president of the Volusia County-Daytona Beach Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the past six years, was charged with two counts of resisting an officer without violence, disorderly conduct and obstruction of a street. But Slater and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office have very different views on what occurred on North Atlantic Avenue during the second day of the annual gathering of black young adults.

Deputies acted appropriately under the circumstances, said Gary Davidson, Sheriff's Office spokesman.

"Miss Slater is entitled to her opinions, but she is not entitled to obstruct deputies when they are doing their job," Davidson said.

Slater, who was released without having to post bail, said she never obstructed the deputies from doing their job and plans to fight the charges with the help of the NAACP.

"If they can do it to me," she said by phone Saturday night, "they can do it to any one of these young kids."

Slater walked across the two southbound lanes of traffic on the 500 block of North Atlantic Avenue toward deputies conducting a traffic stop in the center turning lane about 2:30 p.m., according to a police report. The passenger was in custody, and the driver was to be in taken into custody as well when he began to back his vehicle up to move it out of the northbound traffic lane.

That is when Slater reached the center turning lane and handed the driver a flier with information on how to contact the NAACP if someone feels he or she has been the victim of discrimination. It is here that the stories diverge.

According to the police report, Slater yelled and flailed her arms, inciting a crowd that had gathered. Slater said she never said a word to deputies when she went to give the flier to the driver of the vehicle and only became irate after a deputy grabbed her.

According to the report, the deputy repeatedly told Slater to walk away from the traffic stop, but she refused. Fearing for his own safety because he had only one subject in custody, the deputy attempted to grab Slater's left arm. When he did this, she pulled away and walked away back across the two southbound lanes.

Deputies who observed the scene then took Slater into custody across the street. According to the report, Slater continued to yell, scream and resist the application of the handcuffs.

Slater said when she turned to walk back across the street after handing the driver the flier, the deputy pushed her out of the way.

"I told him to keep his hands off of me," she said, "but there was nothing said before he put his hands on me. I didn't open my mouth. I did not say a word."

"The crowd formed on the sidewalk became inflamed by her actions as she was yelling and flailing her arms, and the deputies had to gain control of the situation," he said.

Slater said she at no point impeded traffic and the only time she became angry was when the deputy tried to grab her. She said, after that, she complied with deputies, even walking back to the center turning lane when asked to by one of the deputies.

I lived in Daytona Beach, on the beachside, six houses from the A-1-A (the 900 block of South Atlantic)from October of 1977, until my wife and I moved to our present home in Ormond Beach (mainland 4 miles from the A-1-A), in June of 2005.

For those of you who think the "Cynthia McKinney Crowd" carries a chip on their shoulder against "whitey", you haven't seen ANYTHING until you've seen BCR in Daytona Beach.

48 hours of TOTAL GRIDLOCK on A-1-A, with the "attendees" doing things that normally would get you throw in jail durring ANY of the other annual events held here(ie, Rolex24 HR, Daytona 500, Bike Week, Biketoberfest,July 4 NASCAR Race, and the "regular" Spring Break), but are NOT ENFORCED as stringently durring BCR, because it would turn into a "Cynthia McKinney Moment" and an eventual ALL-OUT RIOT.....

.....and I still would like to see someone try for a "White College Reunion", and see what would happen....geezzzz...

As my one friend would say after witnessing something like BCR for the first time:

".....some people's kids......"

You are right but crying racist from Black morons that call themselves leaders of American Blacks does not cut the mustard any more, even for the majority of Black folk. Case in point, the overwhelming munbers of American voters do not give a hoot about Louisiana and New Orleans no matter what CNN or MSNBC says. After getting a close and personal look at Governor Blano's and NOLA Mayor Nagin's finest species of human "refugee" scum they sent to Houston, Dallas, etc., the average American could care less if NOLA floods and floats to the moon. The Democrat Party of LA and the CBC/NAACP have created a swampland of crime and welfare addicts in NOLA that "Katrina" unleashed on the rest of the USA. NOLA is going nowhere, no one with half a brain, especially Black folks, is coming back, There are/is no police, fire protection. no schools, no hospitals or medical care to speak of. Ray Nagin is a walking/talking moron, as is most of the "Black" leadership of NOLA. Blacks in NOLA need change real bad, and...it ain't the current Black leadership or the Democrat Party. If that does not happen NOLA is dead in the water!!!

Here's another article from the online version of "The Daytona Beach News Journal", (or as I call it;"The Daytona Beach Daily Discourager", one of the WORST LIBERAL DNC rags you will EVER read, although I have "trained" 5 dogs, and at least 8 birds with the "paper" version....)

April 02, 2006

No, thanks

'Not my scene'

By MARK HARPER
Education Writer
DAYTONA BEACH -- Ciera Sheffield went to Black College Reunion last year to party. She was planning to go this year, too.

But -- big difference -- this time she's been saved. Waiting for a psychology class to start Friday afternoon, Sheffield, 19, attempted to explain.

Dressed in a black Bob Marley T-shirt, jeans and flip-flops, the Bethune-Cookman College freshman said her attendance later that night would be limited to standing with a group from her church and asking questions of the revelers, such as: "Do you know Jesus?"

"You know they don't want to hear it, but that's what you gotta do," she said.

With Black Entertainment Television having taken its cameras and its top-flight hip-hop acts to Miami, this year's Black College Reunion was not expected to draw the crowds it had in the past. But lots of potential attendees did not go for lots of reasons.

Friday night, Tannia Johnson was helping her father, Leon Cox, load Moon Pies and canned vegetables into his SUV outside the Sav A Lot on Nova Road.

The 31-year-old Johnson considers herself "in the right age range" for BCR, and she sees nothing wrong with it. Just not her thing.

After working all day at a local bridal shop and helping her father, Tannia was looking forward to something that is her thing: "My cowboys."

Cowboys?

Yeah, Westerns. As in Clint Eastwood.

Danielle Berry, a Bethune-Cookman junior, spent Friday night at her part-time job, stocking books at a local retailer. She'd been to previous BCRs, particularly the BET "Spring Bling" concerts. But with those gone, she saw little reason to go.

She was planning to spend Saturday night at a dance recital at Daytona Beach Community College.

A pair of Bethune-Cookman big-city guys, Carlos Johnson and Jamal Andrews, said Friday they were on the fence. While both sensed an energy they missed from their hometowns, they also came up with compelling reasons not to go, too.

Andrews, a sophomore from "Nyla," or New York and Los Angeles, said he doesn't have a car and didn't really want to walk all the way from the B-CC campus to Atlantic Avenue beachside, where the action was to be had.

Johnson, a freshman from Indianapolis who's never been to BCR before, has heard stories about crime, particularly a fatal shooting victim at last year's event.

"I'd be kind of scared," he said. "I don't want what happened last year to happen to me. I don't want to be one of those (victims)."

Sheffield said it can especially be dangerous for single women.

"It is wild," she said. "Not my scene."

She described men there as "animals," who are seeking lots of drinking, smoking and sex.

"You feel violated," she said.

When she told people she had gone last year, their response was, essentially, by going she was asking for it.

"They said, 'Why you out here? If you don't want to be touched, you should've stayed home.' "

But even though Sheffield said the thought of BCR "disgusts me," she wasn't staying home. She hopes to steer others down a different path.

mark.harper@news-jrnl.com

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