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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 11:29 PM
Subject: [justin-newletter] JUSTIN NEWS - The Diallou Case -- Some
thoughts - by G. Butler


> Below we are forwarding some comments by Greg Butler, a carpenter out of
> Local 608 in NYC.  Greg reports is here reporting n a letter to Louis
> Godena, Editor of our Justice International Bulletin, the recent acquittal
> of four police New York City Police Department officers charged with the
> crime of illegally shooting an unarmed West African immigrant.  This
> incident happened during a botched-up police raid in a predominantly black
> neighbourhood of NYC.
>
> In addition to his from the heart on-the-spot report of this event of
world
> wide repercussion, Mr.Butler also floats an interesting theory on a
> possible scenario surrounding the shooting which ought to be taken into
> account by serious journalists investigating the story.
>
> As a black person living in Guiliani's constituency, Greg has first hand
> experience of the kind of treatment meted out by the NYPD to people of Mr
> Diallou's social status and colour.  Here at Justice International we
think
> that Mr. Butler's report most certainly merits a hearing.
>
> The Editor
>
> Justice International Bulletin
>
> _______________________________________________________
>
>
>
> ....Incidentally, there was some bottle throwing by some of the kids in
this
> neighborhood, Harlem, late friday night. My boarder, and tech support guy,
> Kenny, saw it on the way home from his job at the Super Stud plant friday
> night @1 AM. It didn't make any press accounts.
>
> The real shame of it is all the "mainstream" Black leaders and the so
called
> "leftists" are calling for "calm" and "prayers".
>
> What we REALLY NEED is to take those Glock 9mms out of the hands of those
> Steroid and Cocaine addicted Long Island racists in blue who patrol our
> streets like an occupying army. In the city with the strictest gun laws in
> America, we need the police force to be unarmed also, except MAYBE for the
> DTs, Sergents and Lieutenants. And, we also need a workers militia [kind
of
> like the Black Panters, but open to all races of workers] to patrol
working
> class neighborhoods.
>
> But, nobody is calling for anything as radical as that, or even disbanding
> the STEET CRIMES UNIT, the 400 officer, 85% White elite unit the four
> killers belong to [unit slogan : "WE OWN THE NIGHT !!!'].
>
> SCU has a rep for going into Black or Hispanic neighborhoods and roughing
up
> random young minority men, [over 20,000 last year]. Incedentally, 80% of
the
> men were unarmed and had no drugs on them, and were released.
>
> They don't wear uniforms, their cars are unmarked.  Kind of like a death
> squad.
>
> As for the specific Diallo case, my theory is they were looking for the
East
> Side Rapist, a Black man suspected in about 40 rapes of wealthy White and
> Asian women on the Upper East Side, which happens to be the wealthyest
> neighborhood in the city, home to Donald Trump and many other
billionaires.
>
> But, due to randomly harrassing every Black man on the street in that
> neighborhood at night for about 2 years, the DTs had hoplessly botched the
> case, tainted the evidence and the witness pool. It didn't help that they
> had patrol officers and sergents doing DT work, and botching the case even
> further, as they had no investigative training. They also had a bunch of
> those "neighborhood watch" Block Warden types sticking their noses in the
> case, botching the investigation further.
>
> So, they had a suspect, [who may even have been the guy], but, due to
sloppy
> police work, there was no hope of convicting the guy.
>
> So, my theory is, they sent the SCU out to kill the guy, so, they could
tell
> the rich people on the Upper East Side that they got the guy, and they
> wouldn't be embarrassed by an aquittal.
>
> But, the 4 cops who caught that detail that night a year ago, Kenneth Boss
> et al, were too racist to know the difference between a heavy set light
> skinned Black man, and a slim dark skinned Black man.
>
> They just set out after the first Black man in a sweatshirt they saw, and
it
> happend to be Diallo.
>
> And, in my opinion, they executed the guy, and then, they figured out that
> THEY EXECUTED THE WRONG GUY ! Thats why one of them was crying after they
> stopped shooting [the cop who cried on the stand at the trial, I forget
the
> bastard's name at the moment]
>
> This is just my theory, but, someday, it may come out that this is exactly
> what happend.
>
> Well, that's what happens in the city with the strictest gun laws in
> America, at least if your a regular person, and the largest municipal
police
> force on the planet
>
> [ 40,000 NYPD officers, 60% of whom don't even live here, not including
the
> hundreds of officers with the Health and Hospitals Police , NY State
Police
> , NY State Parks Police , Port Authority of NY and NJ Police , City
> University Police , Metro North RailRoad Police, Long Island Rail Road
> Police , NJ Transit Raliroad Police , Amtrak Police, Conrail Police , NYC
> Sherrifs Deputies , US Marshalls, FBI agents , Secret Service Agents , ATF
> Agents , DEA agents, INS agents, US Customs Service, US Border Patrol ,
> State Department Diplomatic Security , United Nations Police ; and of
course
> there are 20,000 NYC Department of Corrections officers in our city prison
> system, which is also the largest municipal prison system on earth, 21,000
> men, women and children on Rikers Island alone, plus Manhattan House of
> Detention (AKA White Street Jail), Bronx House of D, Brooklyn House of D,
> Queens House of D, Arthur Kills Correctional Facility, Elmhurst Hospital
> Prison Ward, Bellvue Hospital Prison Ward, Manhattan State Psyciatric,
ect.
> And the Bureau of Probation, and the Bureau of Parole. In other words, we
> got lots of cops with lots of guns]
>
> Anyway, Louis, you get the idea. We live in an occupied city, and Rudolph
> Giuliani is our "fuehrer".
>
> GREG BUTLER
>
>
>
>
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