This makes total sense to me. How do identical twins die at different times from “natural” causes if not for environmental variables? nothing to do with political corruption, but interesting.

Officers patrolling the Oceanside Inn on South Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach Shores heard a loud explosion early Friday morning. Several witnesses said the explosion came from the sun deck, located on the second floor of the hotel.When officers first arrived, they found three safety windows had been shattered, along with a metal light pole that had been destroyed. They also noticed metal and glass debris scattered across a 100-foot area.”The wife, she grabbed the kids and took ‘em to the bathroom and I hit the deck and looked out the window to see where it was coming from,” said vacationer Terry Morris.The Morris family, from Kansas, thought maybe someone was shooting at them as glass shattered inside their hotel room.”At this point, I had no clue what was going on,” said vacationer Dustin Morris.

Slideshow of Purps

Police said unreleased surveillance video from the hotel showed three hotel guests running from the scene. The guests, three college students, were identified as 21-year-old Timothy Bechtel of La Grange, Illinois, 21-year-old Christopher Romano of Dayton, Ohio, and 21-year-old Michael Bolt, also from La Grange. When officers contacted Bechtel, he was found to have a cut on his arm and he admitted to being involved in the incident.Bechtel told police Romano had detonated a partial stick of dynamite while he and Bolt acted as lookouts. A search of the room the three were staying in found no other explosives.”They’re really nice guys, they were just really drunk yesterday,” said spring breaker Dan McDonough. “We saw ‘em before dark and they were so wasted that I don’t think they remember doing that.”The three were charged with discharging a destructive device causing injury and property damage, a first-degree felony. Bond was set at $20,000.”A child could’ve been killed. People could’ve been injured, including the people who set this off,” said Daytona Beach Shores Police Chief Stephan Dembinsky.Damages to the hotel were estimated at $2,000 and guests from two hotel rooms had to be relocated as a result. Oceanside Inn told police it would not be able to rent the rooms for a month, resulting in a loss of $8,000 to $10,000 in revenue. The hotel also told Eyewitness News they’re getting calls from worried guests from across the country who have reservations and are now concerned about their safety.

WATCH THIS SHIT! These officers are going to arrest a man for holding a sign up that claims that the local Police Dept. is corrupt, and BIG surprise they arrest him. FOR WHAT????

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August 29, 2007

Index of Sanders’ Senate Sketches

Senate Sketches # 1056

12:02 am

NOTE: Sen. Hank Sanders has written a weekly column for papers in his legislative district for the past twenty years. These rural, weekly papers lack a web presence, and therefore a link to the publication is not available. The column below is provided by Sen. Sanders’ office for inclusion in the Daily News Digest.

Senate Sketches # 1056

By

Senator Hank Sanders

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I want to tell you a scary story. Once upon a time, a lawyer enters into a courtroom on another case. She sees a young Black man on trial. In her perception, it’s clearly a case where a lawyer should have been appointed because the defendant is indigent and already on probation. Any conviction will result in jail or prison time.

The lawyer asks the mother of the defendant if she can represent her son. The mother enthusiastically says “Please do.” Since the trial is already in progress, the lawyer approaches the chief Judge, explains the situation and asks permission to represent the defendant. The judge gives permission since the prosecutor has no objections.

When the prosecutor finishes examining the policeman that is testifying, the lawyer immediately cross examines the witness. When she finishes the cross examination, the prosecution rests. The judge immediately finds the defendant not guilty on one charge. The policeman expresses great disapproval through his body language. Seemingly in response, the judge rushes to pronounce the defendant guilty on two other charges.

The lawyer strongly objects, pointing out that the defendant did not have any opportunity to put on any defense - to testify himself, or call other witnesses. The judge announces that she has already ruled. The lawyer argues that even Sadaam Hussein of Iraq had a chance to testify and put on a defense.

The chief judge, in recognition that her position is untenable, pronounces, “I will give you five minutes to present your case.” The lawyer objects on the grounds that no five minute or any other time limitation was placed on the prosecutor.

Arguments about constitutional rights grow vigorous. The judge tells the lawyer to get out of her court. The lawyer, her client still standing before the judge, refuses. The judge does not cite the lawyer for contempt or anything else.

The judge is White. The attorney is Black. Two Black police officers are standing on either side of the attorney. Jim Crowe, a White policeman, without any directive from the judge, comes from out of nowhere and directs the attorney to leave the court. When she does not, he handcuffs her and takes her out of the courtroom. She goes peacefully.

The policeman charges the attorney with disorderly conduct allegedly for arguing the case too loudly and refusing to obey his order. The attorney asks to call her attorney, who is also her husband. She is told that she cannot call anyone. She is fingerprinted and booked.

Outside the presence of the attorney and the defendant, the judge imposes sentences in both cases. The probation hold immediately sends the defendant to jail. The attorney gets out of jail and tries desperately to get the defendant out of jail. She calls the Mayor. He, having appointed the chief judge, refuses saying, “You are my worst enemy.” The attorney tries to appeal the defendant’s convictions. The magistrate will not accept the appeal.

After great effort, the attorney finally gets the defendant out of jail. Seemingly under pressure, the poor defendant sends a typewritten certified letter firing the attorney.

When the cases against the attorney come up, the judge cannot hear them and the prosecutor cannot prosecute them because they are both witnesses. The Mayor, who had said to the attorney, “You are my worst enemy,” appoints a new judge and prosecutor. He hides the identity of the judge because she is the lawyer for the police department of a large city and had previously sentenced the attorney’s son, a young Black lawyer only months out of Harvard Law School, to four months in jail as a special judge in this same court. The police had beat him up but falsely charged that he beat them up.

The four month sentence of the attorney’s son was eventually set aside and a jury of 12 White and Black citizens renders a $310,000 verdict against the policemen. At the civil trial, a policeman testified that the written statement attributed to him that wrongly accused the son was forged by other policemen. The Mayor refuses to investigate the forgery.

After strong objections to this particular judge, she gets out of the case. Then the Mayor picks another judge and hides the identity. Key witnesses under subpoenas, including the defendant, his mother, and a policeman refuse to show up for the trial. The hand picked judge goes ahead with the trial anyway. Witness after witness testifies that the chief judge found the defendant guilty without a chance to put on his defense. The judge expresses how deeply troubled he is about how the chief judge’s court was conducted but finds the attorney guilty of disorderly conduct and failure to obey a police officer.

These arguments fall on deaf ears: a lawyer has a duty to vigorously represent a client; only a judge can order the arrest of an attorney standing before the court; and no policeman, on his own, can arrest a lawyer standing before the court with her client.

I wish this scary story was fiction, but it’s a real life story. The place is Selma, Alabama. The defendant is Roosevelt Cleveland. The judge is Valerie Chittom. The Mayor is James Perkins, Jr, the first African American Mayor of Selma. The lawyer is Faya Rose Toure’, my wife.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:53 PM CDT

Alleged beating victim talks about his ordeal

By Victor Inge

The Selma Times-Journal

A young man alleging to have been beaten by five police officers broke his silence Tuesday, speaking to the media for the first time since his March 2007 arrest.

Mayor James Perkins Jr. had asked Police Chief Jimmy Martin to contact the Alabama Bureau of Investigations to look into the incident. The ABI completed the investigation and turned the findings over to the District Attorney’s Office.

District Attorney Michael Jackson has forwarded the findings to the Alabama Attorney General Troy King’s office. The attorney general’s office does not comment on ongoing investigations.

“The attorney general has a couple options,” Jackson said. “They can further investigate, or present the findings to a Dallas County grand jury.”

Jackson declined to comment on the details of the report.

“It’s thick,” he said. “It’s two different versions of what happened.”

Kourtney Gordon, who has been absent from news conferences and several appearances family members made before the Selma City Council, told The Selma Times-Journal he was glad to hear something was being done.

Gordon, 20, said Selma police officers had harassed him prior to that night, stopping him several times in his Lincoln LS his father bought for him, asking if he was on cocaine or sold cocaine.

“One stopped me and asked me if it were my car. He asked me three times,” Gordon said. “He told me to get out and made me hold my head back, looking up my nose.”

According to police reports, Gordon and his 64-year-old grandfather Walter Hollman Jr., were both arrested outside Hollman’s 2307 West Dr. home just after 11 p.m. that Friday.

Gordon and Hollman were charged with assault third degree on a police officer, and resisting arrest. They were booked and released on $1,000 bond each, according to police reports. Their cases have not been scheduled for Municipal Court.

Police reportedly attempted to stop Gordon for a traffic violation while driving a family member’s Chevrolet Cobalt, but he continued to his grandparents’ residence.

“I told my dad what was happening, and he told me if it happened again to get to a safe place,” Gordon said. “That’s why I didn’t stop when the police tried to pull me over.”

Gordon, a former math major at Alabama State University, was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Family members said they are considering legal action against the officers and the city, and wanted the officers involved “off the streets” until the investigation was complete. There have been no officers reassigned due to the investigation.

In a letter to the family Perkins stated the ABI findings had been sent to the attorney general’s office, and should wrongdoing be found, appropriate disciplinary action would be taken.

The 21st Century Apostle is being assaulted twice and falsely arrested in Selma, Alabama for preaching and passing out free religious literature on public property by officer Jim Crowe, even though the city attorney issued the street preacher a letter permitting his activities. Now the Corrupt Town of Selma has put a warrant out for the 21st Century Apostle’s arrest for what took place on this video clip. Selma Alabama still does not honour the First Amendment which states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof; nor abridging the freedom of speech and press; nor the right of the people to peaceably assemble.

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