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Report: Family wants Tawana Brawley case reopened
cnn.com ^ | Nov 18, 2007 | AP

Posted on 11/18/2007 7:36:42 AM PST by RDTF

Edited on 11/18/2007 1:18:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flash point, Tawana Brawley's mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident, which a state grand jury ultimately concluded was a hoax, the Daily News reported.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: boycriedwolf; brawley; hatecrimes; hoax; liar; moneymoneymoney; racebaiting; sharpton; tawana; tawanabrawley
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1 posted on 11/18/2007 7:36:42 AM PST by RDTF
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To: RDTF

Duck and cover, Rev. Al.


2 posted on 11/18/2007 7:38:00 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: RDTF

Didn’t SHarpton lose a libel suit on this case?


3 posted on 11/18/2007 7:38:01 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: RDTF

—we still haven’t found Judge Crater , either——


4 posted on 11/18/2007 7:39:47 AM PST by rellimpank (--we need a special font for <b>SARCASM</b>--NRA benefactor)
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To: RDTF

Of course it has to be re-opened.

This time Al Sharpton will PROVE it was racism that resulted in the case being lost and him being acused of libel.......he has the lessons of Imus behind him now.


6 posted on 11/18/2007 7:41:31 AM PST by HD1200
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To: RDTF

You have to be kidding me. It even sounds like the girl has moved on and made a life. Someone have an idea what the point of this would be?


7 posted on 11/18/2007 7:42:10 AM PST by trimom
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To: BenLurkin

Sharpton and another party (attorney?), too. IIRC


8 posted on 11/18/2007 7:42:15 AM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: RDTF
Brawley has changed her name.....

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Yep, to Maryam Muhammed (anyone surprised?)

9 posted on 11/18/2007 7:42:31 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: RDTF

these people have no sense of shame.

no government official is going to reopen this case.

they destroyed to career and personal life of steven pagones.


10 posted on 11/18/2007 7:42:31 AM PST by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: RDTF

This is too random and contrived. The dems are doing this too activat their base to the polls. This “story” was deemed a lie 20 years ago.


11 posted on 11/18/2007 7:43:13 AM PST by paltz
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To: RDTF

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12 posted on 11/18/2007 7:43:20 AM PST by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense? Don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: RDTF

I wonder if Elliot Spitzer is crazy enough to reopen this flagrant fraud? And how crazy are these parents?

Sharpton lost a libel suit for his part in the hoax. For years he his all assets.


13 posted on 11/18/2007 7:43:40 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough.” –Milton Friedman)
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To: RDTF

I wonder if Elliot Spitzer is crazy enough to reopen this flagrant fraud? And how crazy are these parents?

Sharpton lost a libel suit for his part in the hoax. For years he hid his all assets.


14 posted on 11/18/2007 7:44:43 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough.” –Milton Friedman)
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To: RDTF

Well they have had 20 years to get their story straight this time around.


15 posted on 11/18/2007 7:44:50 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: HD1200
You go Al!!! I don't want to jar your memory.

DUKE, it out!!

16 posted on 11/18/2007 7:45:00 AM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: RDTF

Delusion springs eternal in the human breast.

I’ll bet even Tawana wants her mother to shut up about it. Tawana knows very well that she didn’t get molested, much less raped, but she told the lie to her parents for so long that now Mom and Stepdad believe it and can’t let go. What a tangled web we weave . . .


17 posted on 11/18/2007 7:45:16 AM PST by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: wtc911

hmmm


18 posted on 11/18/2007 7:45:28 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: trimom

There were two or three aspects of this case...which weren’t really answered. We still don’t know where she was for the four days, and she has yet to ever explain it...to her parents or the public. If it were all bogus...then at some point...you’d normally admit it and move on. In this case...she moved on...never admitting it. The fact that she hasn’t become a drugged out junkie...leads me to the curious situation of thinking that someone in the NY cop circles...was involved in this...and it wasn’t as bogus as we always thought. The strange thing today...is why bring this back up, unless they really truly believed in what she said.


19 posted on 11/18/2007 7:47:29 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: ken21

schumer wanted to reopen an old civil rights case in Mississippi-until he found out that all elected officials in Miss at the time were Dems-at that point it went away.
I say re-open it. This is nothing more than attempt to throw mud on Rudy-and just like the crap that the union firefighters are getting ready to pull it will back fire on them. I want to see Sharpton put on the stand and forced to testify as part of the case.


20 posted on 11/18/2007 7:49:12 AM PST by mrmargaritaville
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