It appears that they were arrested on Monday and apparently not arraigned until two days later. Not exactly the revolving door justice the activists would like us to believe. Furthermore, NYS law says that a defendant can only be held for a short time without holding a preliminary hearing. Furthermore, the standard for bail is whether the accused is a flight risk, has ties to the community, etc.
Others said the community should focus its efforts on boycotting Pete's Grocery. When Signer reported store representatives said the video cameras on the property grounds were not working the day of attack, the crowd responded in uproar and disbelief.
This is the part that really frosts me. Simply because the attack occurred at this small mom and pop grocery store these race baiters want the store boycotted? Geeez.
By the way, anyone with more time than me today might want to "Google" the reporter who wrote this article. We've discussed her here at FR before, but she has a history as a major league race baiting activist (so, of course, the Ithaca "paper of record" assigns her to this racially charged story).
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
Nahhhh - it's because the video cameras "weren't working". How convenient. Obviously, Pete's Grocery is part of the Great White Conspiracy, doing their little part to hold people of color down, and oppress them. Even in the enlightened city of Ithaca.
Clearly these three accused are a cancer on the local body politic, and have to be excised like any other tumor. I'm surprised they're even bothering with the formality of a trial. Jest string 'em up, I says...
I still don't believe Ithaca Journal writer Kandea Mosley. And that's got less to do with my knowledge of journalists than my knowledge of Google. For Ms. Mosley... the first journalist to quote an actual U.S. soldier saying war crimes were committed... is simply not credible.
To save you the googlification: Kandea Mosley graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1993, making her, I'd guess, about 27 now. She then went to UCLA, where she became the chairwoman of the African Student Union in 1996-7, and then ran for student president as the Students First! candidate, which opposed Nike on campus and the ending of affirmative action in California (Proposition 209), and won. The protests in her year as president took various forms: she was quoted as saying:
Our opposition to Prop. 209 ... is not a result of a skewed perception of affirmative action as a cure-all for all of our communities and the racist, classist violence perpetuated on our people daily. Rather, the reasons behind raising a political struggle in this university is created out of our understanding that organized struggle ... is necessary on every level.
At the inauguration of the new UCLA chancellor that spring, a web report notes:
Inside USA president Kandea Mosley delivered a speech decrying the end of affirmative action and then sat down on the stage for several minutes, her fist raised in protest.
Graduating in 1998, Mosley then returned to New York, covering the Green Party for the Village Voice (!!) during the 2000 elections. And now for the last few months, she's been upstate, working as a beat reporter at the Ithaca Journal. I'm sorry, but I just can't believe someone with those credentials is going to come to the question of U.S. actions in Afghanistan capable of clear-headed judgment. So I don't believe her story.
Right up her alley!
She must have been pretty tough because she finally got up and sat down behind the bus driver.
This attack went on for several minutes and was caught on tape.
The most attention it merited was this "Caught on tape" show I was watching.
I haven't seen anything on the news about it......OH that's right....she was white and her assailants were black!
Sorry for the rant, I forgot white folks place in today's society.
At the same time, the paper reports, her codefendant is also likely to have most of the charges overturned on appeal.
So, over three years later, after the numerous "town meetings," after the promises from the police chief chosen by affirmative action, after the editorials by the local paper, after the political posturing, the convictions for "hate crimes" have all been dismissed, overturned on appeal or about to be overturned.
