Posted on 04/15/2007 8:54:45 AM PDT by SmithL
April 15, 2007 -- WHEN the three lacrosse players accused of sexu ally assaulting an exotic dancer were declared innocent Wednesday, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said the Duke University students were victims of a "rush to accuse" by a "rogue prosecutor."
But Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong was far from the only one pointing fingers at Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans.
The wild accusations of the lacrosse players' guilt began within weeks of police finding the dancer passed-out drunk in her car in the early hours of March 14, 2006.
Crystal Gail Mangum, then a 27-year-old single mother and escort-service worker who attended North Carolina Central University, told them she had been raped, sodomized and beaten while working a party at 610 North Buchanan Blvd., a house rented by the three captains of Duke's lacrosse team.
By March 24, although the victim had not been able to identify any of her accusers and it had been revealed that she'd made a false claim of rape as a teenager, Nifong ordered DNA swabs from the 46 white lacrosse players.
On April 10, it was revealed that no DNA matches had been made with the players. But then:
* On April 15, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition stepped in,...
* Al Sharpton told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly...
* On May 2, the New Black Panther Party came to town and marched...
A vigil was held to show solidarity with the accuser by some 200 Duke students and faculty members,
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If you're referring to Nifong then you just haven't been paying attention.
He was about to lose his career by being beaten in the Dem primary for the prosecutor position. He needed the minority vote and he wasn't expecting to get it.
His opponent was a former prosecutor that Nifong had fired from the office when Nifong was recently appointed to fill the position, so Nifong had a good guess what would happen to himself if and once he lost the election.
So he had all the motivation in the world -- it's called self-preservation.
Is there a thread talking about the 60 minutes interview?
I still think Nifong was being blackmailed or is as crazy as Crystal. Not even trying to keep his job would make most people sink so low-—and without a rational hope of succeeding.
Except for the pocket protector wearing old nerd, looking for anything approaching a doable muffin.
I sent this email to one of these professors one Kim Curtis:
Schadenfreude. I never really appreciated the nuances of this word until I beheld the burgeoning fallout from this imbroiglio. I LOVE to see liberals like you hoisted on the petard of Political Correctness, racial identity politics, gender determinint feminism and what I have coined as Tawana Brawley Syndrome.
TBS exists when one takes a historical reality such as the marginalization of innocent blacks within a once overtly racist criminal justice syndrome or the past subjagation of women or any number of other offenses and attempts to apply that to a contemporary situation wherein the objective facts dont apply; ala OJ Simpson, Rodney King, Anita Hill etc.
None of this would have happened to you if you had taken the time to sift thru the facts and objectively apply them rather than stuffing them into cliched dialectic meta-narratives of classist white male exploitation of an oppressed black woman with echoes of plantation sexual abuse.
Aside from the fact that petty tyrants like you have turned US college campuses into little ivy covered North Koreas, I suspect that you were seeking to appropriate PC bonus points and obtain instant moral authority by championing the cause of the other (marginalized black exotic dancer) against racist male chauvinist members of the privileged white elite. A case of cultural Marxist Class warfare that boomeranged. GOD how I love it so!!!!!
Even though I despise the racial identity politics that mindlessly multicultural cultural Marxists like you have fostered amongst my people to our ultimate detriment, I would like to state that I am a black man living in the heart of Chicagos South Side ghetto, who values the rule of law and truth as best as it can be objectively and humanly determined.
It would be fitting if they get a pretty penny from you.
it’s poetic,
these liberals and feminists with higher ideals,
kinda like ted from high-ideals-port, ma,
are like the kkk.
remember jesse’s nascar shakedown?
Feminist lynch mob = Eva-Braun-Jugend.
We can now expect the DBM to pretend none of this ever happened.
“He’s not sharp, nor civil, nor right.”
Hey, I like that!
I'm proud to be one of your fellow freepers.
Leni
Nifonf wanted his pension. He was 2-3 years away from qualifying for his pension. The likely winner of the DA race was a woman who had told Nifong, she would fire him.
I will have to look for the links for this.
Outstanding!
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