Man Ran Over By Police, Family Wants Justice

The family of a Brooklyn man struck and killed by a police car earlier this month will join Reverend Al Sharpton in calling for an investigation into the fatal incident.

Tamon Robinson, 27, was allegedly spotted by police at 5:30 AM on April 12th stealing cobblestones from the Bay View Houses, apublic housing complex in Canarsie.

When he saw police, Robinson bolted for his mother's building, which The New York Times reports was just a short 100 yards away. Two officers were chasing him on foot and another set were chasing him by car.

As Robinson neared the building, the cop car veered up onto the sidewalk.

"They hit him,” said 26-year-old Franchette Mowbray, who witnessed the episode, told The Times. “He flew up and he came down. They backed the car up, and they told him to get up. People were yelling out their windows screaming at the cops, ‘We saw what you did.’ ”

The official police account of the day's events differs from witnesses, however. Police say the car was stopped when Robinson ran into it. Friends of Robinson also say thathe had permission to take the cobblestones, as he had a business on the side selling such materials.

Robinson--a popular barista at a Brooklyn Connecticut Muffin --suffered a head injury was taken to the hospital where he was handcuffed to his bed, even after falling into a coma.

After his six days, he was declared brain dead and his family elected to take him off the respirator. He died on April 18th.

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Sanford Police Department Only Protect And Serve Whites .

The attorney for the parents of Trayvon Martin said the Sanford Police Department is blaming the victim in the case by leaking information beneficial to George Zimmerman and by "correcting" the testimony of witnesses whose stories diverged from the shooter's claims of self-defense.

A police report was released Monday stating that, according to Zimmerman, Martin had attacked and punched the neighborhood watch volunteer on February 26. The Associated Press also reported that Martin had been suspended from school after an empty plastic baggie containing traces of marijuana was found in his book bag. The AP also said Martin had no juvenile offender record.

Sanford city manager Norton Bonaparte said the information about Martin's school suspension should not have been released, and wants whoever leaked it fired.

Appearing on "CBS This Morning," Martin family lawyer Ben Crump said that the police are "trying to attack his reputation, blame the victim, and that has been the pattern of the Sanford Police Department.

"There is no relevance any of this has on what happened on February 26," Crump told Charlie Rose. "The only thing that matters on February 26 is George Zimmerman disobeyed the police and got out of his car and pursued and stalked Trayvon Martin to cause this fatal encounter.

"Charlie, all you need to do is listen to the tape," Crump continued. "Zimmerman did not know Trayvon Martin before this tape. He said why he was suspicious and he says why he ran after Trayvon Martin. And if the police want to leak information, why don't they leak the witnesses who say they saw him pursuing Trayvon?

"But they have only [done] things that are beneficial to Mr. Zimmerman's claim of self-defense, and the only reason we can think [why is] that, from day one, they made a decision they were not going to arrest George Zimmerman. And each day goes by, the whole world is saying, 'You at least got to arrest this guy.'"






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Newt Gingrich Playing the Race Card...Fear of a Black Planet.

Newt Gingrich finds this hysterical.

The New York Times editorial board has shocked the world again with this surprising nugget of analysis; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was playing to the latent racism of South Carolina voters when he answered honestly Juan Williams’s pointedly racial question at Monday night’s debate.

“For months, Mr. Gingrich has made racial resentment an integral part of his platform as a conservative challenger to Mitt Romney,” reads the Times editorial “Preaching Division in South Carolina.”  Who knew?

The exchange that the Times specifically takes issue with was when Williams asked Gingrich if calling President Obama a “food stamp president” (a phrase he has been using for months) was not belittling “black Americans” – a telling sentiment in itself. Gingrich responded “no,” and went on to say correctly that during Obama’s administration, the rate of recipients of nutritional assistance has increased dramatically.

“The fact is that Mr. Obama has “put” no one on food stamps,” the Times clarifies. “Mr. Obama eased the eligibility requirements as part of his stimulus program, a desperately needed measure that helped struggling families and the economy.” The Times is perfectly aware that the food stamp metric is a sad measure of the strength of the U.S. economy and the state of the nation – they also know how poorly it reflects on the Obama White House.

The Times also took issue with Gingrich’s proposal, also months old, that high school age children be allowed to perform basic janitorial duties as part-time work after school – the benefits would be to decrease public school funds spent on unionized janitorial labor and to decrease the rate of high school drop outs.

MSNBC anchors Chris Matthews and Alex Wagner echoed the Times’ sentiment yesterday – Matthews found particular animus in the way Gingrich addressed “Juan” by his name in answering his question. This dramatic flair by Gingrich was, no doubt, influenced by the animated crowd’s “boos” which followed William’s leading question.

This is the real issue with which the Times takes issue with; just how powerful Gingrich’s answer was with the crowd at the Myrtle Beach debate. The crowd leapt to its feet to give the former House Speaker a standing ovation that continued into the commercial break.

“For these divisive thoughts, Mr. Gingrich earned his ovation and Mr. Williams won a round of boos,” says the Times. Conservatives have long become used to being called racist for advocating self-reliance; indeed, conservative voters see the rate at which the left becomes self-righteously livid over imagined racial infringements as a measure of success.

That South Carolina recently elected a black, Republican Congressman to represent the district where Secession was born and where the first guns were fired on Fort Sumter in 1861 (Rep. Tim Scott), does nothing to alleviate the sins of our fathers for the luminaries in the 52-story New York Times building.

Liberals believe Gingrich to be a weaker Republican candidate than Romney – precisely because he articulates conservative beliefs and values combatively and unapologetically. They imagine that American would reject a candidate that lectures the president on revered national values like perseverance, self-determination and hard labor. They may be correct, but it would be the lecture and not the substance of the argument that American’s would reject.

The perennial, thinly-veiled critique of Republican candidates who advocate for work over handouts as racist is no substitute for substantial criticism – it is the last gasp of a defunct ideology that has no better rebuttal than to accuse its opponents of malice. The voters are savvy enough to recognize this, whether the New York Times or MSNBC know it or not.

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Republicans want to go back to the days of slavery

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Melissa Harris-Perry, an MSNBC contributor soon to host her own show, said that Republican presidential candidates in South Carolina are subtly appealing to a "segregationist past" that predates the Civil War. South Carolina's Democratic Party Chair took the more restrained position that Gov. Nikki Haley, R, and the Tea Party merely want to return to the "Jim Crow" policies from the period after slavery ended.

Harris-Perry accused Republican presidential candidates who campaign on the 10th Amendment of sly racism. "States' rights becomes a cover for talking about the ability to remove the rights of some American citizens," she said on MSNBC's Politics Nation. Al Sharpton had asked her why Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have praised the 10th Amendment, and compared this presidential election to the 1860 campaign.
"But I think they also like 1860 because -- remember that back then it was the Republican Party who were the champions of the union," she added. "If they go back to the 1860s, they can lay claim to the segregationist past, but claim that they were above the fray." Harris-Perry distinguished the party of Lincoln from "the new-fangled Republican Party" of the 1960s and 1980s.

Dick Harpootlian, chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, agreed, saying that Tea Partiers in his state were pushing Jim Crow policies. "This is Jim Crow -- we're going backwards in this state, and not forward, and that's because of [South Carolina Governor] Nikki Haley and the Tea Party folks that don't want to try to convince folks of color to vote for their candidates," he said, in criticism of voter ID laws.