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NEWS & LETTERS, July 2002
Police child abuse
I attended the police board meeting held June 13, 2002
at police headquarters. After 435 days came and went the police board decided on
the 436th day to give a decision on the three white male Chicago police officers
who beat Timia Williams (who was 11 years old at the time). Fifteen days
suspension without pay! The Williams family did not accept the decision. A
police officer drinking a can of beer received 30 days suspension and three
police officers who beat an 11-year-old (African-American) girl received 15 days
each. What is wrong with this decision? The Chicago police officers (Mark
Lamberg, Chris Trusoukalas and Chris Nitintah) should have all been drunk! Maybe
they would have received more than 15 days suspension. Better yet, they would
have been fired. Of course, the officers would not spend one day or hour
in jail, let alone time in prison. At the thought of one sheriff's officer
shooting 22 times at the African-American couple in a moving vehicle for 12
miles, the not-honorable Judge Crane essentially said let the bullets rain down
on non-whites, for it is the law enforcement way in the United States. The
African-American community is going to boycott all the City of Chicago
festivals, including the Taste of Chicago! —George Wilfrid Smith Jr. |
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