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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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To: wtc911
I wonder why that wasn’t mentioned in the article...
21 posted on 11/18/2007 7:49:37 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: RDTF

“How could we make this up and take down the state of New York? We’re just regular people,” Glenda Brawley said to her husband. “We should be millionaires.”

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Brawley, now 35, rarely emerges from her self-imposed exile these days, returning to New York only as a guest of the United African Movement, established by Sharpton and her lawyers to lend her name to civil rights cases. She accepts free flights and limousine rides from the group to merely appear at its events.

Brawley’s family said she does not wear a hijab, or head scarf, but is a devout Muslim, a conversion that began during the trial when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan gave her the name Maryam Muhammad.

Her parents, who are Christians, said she can call any mosque in the world and will be provided with security, if her advisers from New York or her specially trained dog cannot protect her.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_20_years_later_tawana_brawley_has_turned.html?page=1


22 posted on 11/18/2007 7:49:38 AM PST by maggief
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To: RDTF

Two things. First, the involved parties must be in need of cash.

Second, if Brawley is now a muzzl’em, she should be stoned to death or lashed to death for being raped. Whoever raped her should be told not to do that again for a while.


23 posted on 11/18/2007 7:49:53 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: RDTF
ROVE YOU MAGNIFICIENT BASTARD

24 posted on 11/18/2007 7:50:00 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: maggief

major barf!!


25 posted on 11/18/2007 7:51:04 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: RDTF
"New York state owes my daughter. They owe her the truth,"

Truth measured in $$$$$

26 posted on 11/18/2007 7:52:00 AM PST by OSHA (Liberals will lick the boot on their necks if they think the other boot is on yours and mine.)
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To: RDTF
Mama's mad: They had their big lottery chance and lost!

She wants a "do-over"!

Does this remind anyone else of AlphaGore's attempt to FORCE the presidency?

...fish rots from the head down...and all that...

27 posted on 11/18/2007 7:53:29 AM PST by bannie
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To: RDTF

Good luck reopening that can of worms. Any prosecutor that would touch that case has rocks in his head the size of Gibraltar. A bunch of people wound up under the wheels of the bus on that one. Sharpton and an couple of his buddies lost a defamation case on that little caper.


28 posted on 11/18/2007 7:53:55 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: trimom

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


29 posted on 11/18/2007 7:54:20 AM PST by FES0844 (FES0844)
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To: trimom
Someone have an idea what the point of this would be?

Probably too many bills to pay and not enough cash coming into the ole homestead.

30 posted on 11/18/2007 7:55:09 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: RDTF

Yeah, 20 years later we’re going to get the truth alright. Jes. If you can’t convince a grand jury, it’s done, for good.


32 posted on 11/18/2007 7:56:24 AM PST by enough_idiocy (www.daypo.net/test-iraq-war.html)
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To: maggief

” her specially trained dog cannot protect her”.

She’s got a mistreated Pit Bull chained up in the front yard.


33 posted on 11/18/2007 7:57:09 AM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: trimom

She’s out of the spotlight?


34 posted on 11/18/2007 7:57:44 AM PST by Shimmer
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To: trimom
Someone have an idea what the point of this would be?

Addressing that 'insufficient funds' notice from the "Justice for Tawana" fund?

35 posted on 11/18/2007 7:58:08 AM PST by ArmstedFragg
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To: RDTF

So does that mean Brawley & Sharpton could actually be prosecuted this time?


36 posted on 11/18/2007 7:58:45 AM PST by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Two things. First, the involved parties must be in need of cash.

Follow the money. It was pouring into coffers of Sharpton and the Brawleys back in the days. Even Bill Cosby gave to the cause. But Andrew Cuomo is AG now and since his dad was the governor who eventually closed down the extortionists, I doubt this will get much traction.

37 posted on 11/18/2007 8:01:28 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: bannie

Sounds like it. Scum of a feather flock together.


38 posted on 11/18/2007 8:02:05 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: RDTF

Hopefully Spitzer will accomodate these nuts.


39 posted on 11/18/2007 8:04:21 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: wtc911

Buckwheat turned muslum as well now he is kareem o wheat


40 posted on 11/18/2007 8:04:27 AM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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