In the aftermath of a social disaster

News & Observer ^ | 1/5/06 | Cathy Davidson

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

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[Ready4Freddy]

Thought I'd found it several times. It should have been / was 468.htm on the NCCU media site.

I did find this, tho - perhaps this is what the lads should have ordered that night? ;>)

http://www.chocolatefountainsdelite.com/

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Thought Maurice rang a bell. Will look after I pick up son.

[JoanOfArk]

Have you checked out the audio files at NPR? There's some good stuff. In one audio, Nifong,on March 29, described himself as the chief law enforcement officer. He also makes his comments about the racist nature of the rape. Nifong's part is about 2:30 into the clip. The rest of it is worth a listen also. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5310104

[maggief]

That's about the same time Chalmers took leave.

[Ohioan from Florida]

It is possibly random, but seeing as she was engaged to a Greensboro police officer, I would start looking to see if anyone he hauled in might be connected to this.

[Jezebelle]

"This appears to be a random crime. We haven't had any other incidents out at the apartment complex during this year or last year that we can remember," said Cpl. David Addison of the Durham Police Dept.

I think what the idiot meant was "isolated", not "random". If it was "random", his frame of reference would be recent, similar crimes occurring elsewhere in the city. Even if it was the first of what is to become a series of "random" crimes throughout the city, it would take much longer to determine that than one day because they would have to investigate her life and determine that nobody had any motive to kill HER in particular. Until then, it should be considered a motivated killing and investigated as such. To not do so is just downright sloppy and lazy. Rarely is a shooting a "random" or "serial" killing. We see it in sniper shootings such as the Beltway snipers and the Freeway sniper in IN, but those are rare when counted in the universe of all killings by gunshot. Drive-by shootings by gangs are not considered "random", even though the victims may be random, because a specific neighborhood is targeted.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Let's see if this link will work better. The previous one took me to an error page.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1574810,00.html

[Ohioan from Florida]

"I am positive I am not the only professor who was and continues to be adamant about the necessity for fair and impartial legal proceedings for David, Collin and Reade." -- [Davidson] N&O, today

Methinks she protesteth too much.

[Jezebelle]

All true, except if a body is moved a short distance immediately after being shot, and is carried rather than dragged, the forensics may not be conclusive.

But, as always, Occam's Razor. It sounds like someone was waiting for her to come out of her apartment, so they knew her schedule. They popped her and hit the gas pedal.

She was shot in the morning around 8am, right? If her door was locked and she had her purse or whatever all she takes with her for the day, that makes it even more likely someone knew her schedule and was waiting for her.

[Ken H]

http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-cathy-davidson-in-her-own-words.html

"Some people write out of real misery for their children, Duke students who are distraught that their friends may have been falsely accused and unfairly treated. They believe professors have sided against the lacrosse players, and they are outraged. If we had written what they suppose, we would deserve their anger. But we didn't."
-- [Davidson] N&O, yesterday

[photo of potbangers outside 610 Buchanan St. on March 26]

"To the students speaking individually and to the protesters making collective noise, thank you for not waiting and for making yourselves heard."
 --Group of 88 statement, April 6

[maggief]

He's ba-ack:

http://wilmingtonjournal.blackpressusa.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=75240&sID=4

[maggief]

Criticism from across the country of the case, and particularly Nifong’s handling of it, has been brutal. But a lot of the online barbs have specifically targeted Durham, its Black community, and elected leadership like Mayor Bell. Critics, mostly from anywhere but Durham, have alleged that a huge coverup was underway, that Durham government was corrupt, and that Black leaders like Bell and the NAACP supported the prosecution and “persecution” of the three white defendants.

Bell, who stands behind the Durham police Dept.’s investigation of the case, says not only are the wild allegations baseless, but he urged observers to “consider the source,” namely critics who are miles away who truly know nothing about Durham, or its people.

“I don’t let stuff like that bother me,” the mayor said, recalling the extreme name-calling he endured over a decade ago when, as chair of the Durham County Commissioners, he engineered the merging of the Durham city and Durham county public school systems.

“That issue got to be personal. I’m not involved in this. It’s not like it’s my case. I’ve been through much worse,” he assured. “It doesn’t bother me.”


Somebody feeling a little heat?

[abb]

this just in...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16497900/site/newsweek/
By Susannah Meadows
Newsweek

Jan. 15, 2007 issue - Last April, Duke lacrosse star Reade Seligmann huddled with his dad at a Durham, N.C., law firm. A stripper hired to perform at a team party on March 13 claimed several players raped her. In a lineup, she'd identified three of them as her alleged assailants. Seligmann now awaited a call from the prosecutor that would tell him if he was one of the players she'd singled out. He felt certain he would be cleared. The call came. Reade, 20, was being indicted for first-degree rape, kidnapping and sexual offense. He had a strong alibi—cell-phone records would show he was busy calling his girlfriend at the time the alleged crime was taking place—but the D.A. declined to hear it. As he heard the news, Reade looked at his dad. It was the first time he'd ever seen his father cry. Then it hit him: how was he going to tell his mom? Kathy Seligmann was home in New Jersey with her three other boys. He dialed her number. "Mom," he said, "she picked me."

[maggief]

"I always believed that the truth will trump everything," he says. "I have to believe that." He'd already planned to go to law school, but now, he says, it's gotten personal: he wants to become a criminal defense lawyer.

[abb]

link to new thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1763549/posts?page=1

[JLS]

To me a big part of the Time article is in the last paragraph:

Dowd's younger brother Craig was expected to enroll at Duke last fall on a lacrosse scholarship, but he turned it down and will enroll at Georgetown University this spring. "We didn't feel like we could send him to Duke with everything that was going on," Tricia Dowd, his mother, told a local newspaper. "We love Duke ... but we didn't know what the professors would do."

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

From the article:

Now that rape charges have been dropped one of their peers has been sued, some faculty members are expressing regret over what some saw as bias against their own students the biased, anti-lacrosse hate speech rolling off of their tongues.

Fixed it (always wanted to do that)

[Alia]

From article: Until now, no faculty member at Duke had come out to support the players.

I don't think this is quite true. I do recall a Duke Faculty Member (econ, business, legal (?)) coming out in favor of fairness (innocent until proven guilty) and to halt the "rush" to judging the Duke Players. If memory serves me, it was before the NBP did their hoopla.

[Alia]

She most certainly was caught with her monologues showing.

Amazing, she's now calling these "rapists" by their first names, implying a "humanessity" and "intimatocrisy" with each of the former "rapist members of the oppressor class."