by Deputy Diva

Hats off to the school on this one.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (May 10) - School and law enforcement officials have told a St. Joseph man that he can’t attend his son’s eighth-grade graduation because he is a convicted sex offender and isn’t allowed on school property.

James Jones, 36, said he may go anyway although the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department has told him he would be arrested and face up to four years in prison.

“I’ve already been punished for this. This isn’t about me anymore. Now they’re punishing my kids, and that’s taking it a little too far,” said Jones, who served five years in prison after being convicted in 1990 of the forcible rape of a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. 

The School Superintendent disagrees and says…

“If I start deciding which offenders can and cannot be at school, then I become the judge. And it is not my position to judge a case. The courts have already done that,” said St. Joseph School District Superintendent Melody Smith. “My job is to provide the safekeeping of 11,632 students and the people who attend our events.”

Smith said she’s denied requests by five offenders, four of whom visited her office.

“Half of them have been extremely sad about the decision, and half of them have been rudely angry,” she said.  SOURCE

The Board of Education is also backing the School Superintendent.  In this day and age, you can never be too careful. Hopefully this man who supposedly takes education so seriously will educate his son about the lifelong stigma one faces as a sex offender after having sex with an underage female.  Click HERE for more details.

In another case of America fighting back, a Brooklyn mother is suing the NYPD because they actually refused to seek out her missing daughter. Anyone who thinks that blacks are not still catching all forms of mistreatment are in a fantasy world.

The mother of a brutally murdered college honors student who charged cops with racism for refusing to immediately search for her daughter will have her day in court.

Elle Carmichael’s claim that the NYPD used a double standard by not looking for her black daughter while aggressively pursuing the disappearance of white women deserves to be heard in court, Brooklyn Federal Judge Nina Gershon ruled.

“I feel like there’s finally going to be some kind of carriage of justice,” Carmichael said. “They denied everything because of my race. They need to learn they can’t continue doing this. That is my fight.”

I truly hope that this mother wins her case. Look at what happened to her daughter:

The 21-year-old was kidnapped, raped, slashed and strangled by two thugs who grabbed her as she went to a Burger King on April 24, 2003.

The shy Hunter Collge honors student was tortured for several days by Kayson Pearson and Troy Hendrix just blocks from her Flatbush home. Cops at Brooklyn’s 67th Precinct stationhouse rejected Carmichael’s pleas to look for her daughter, saying she was probably off with a boyfriend, the mom said.

Police closed the case two days later, while Moore was still alive. Her body was found two weeks later.

This case is absolutely horrific. Read remainder of story HERE

Hat tip to HickTowner, Andrea for lead

Ladies, more and more boys are either being killed or doing the killing—of the men whom women are bringing home or the men women are dealing with in general.

It is not a child’s place to deal with the no good mates that these women out here are picking up from the gutter and exposing their innocent children to.  Last month a young Maryland man was shot while protecting his mother from a creep and…here is the latest bad situation, from right here in Maryland.

Police in suburban Washington must decide whether to file charges against a 12-year-old boy for fatally stabbing a man who attacked his mother.

Law enforcement officials say the case is exceedingly unusual due to the age of the child and the circumstances surrounding it, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

In an interview with the newspaper, the boy said he had just finished his homework Tuesday when he heard his mother cry out from the kitchen of their boarding house in the Landover, Md., area.

He said he found his mother on the kitchen floor under a male resident whose hands were wrapped tightly around her neck.

The boy grabbed a carving knife and slashed Salomon Noubissie, 64, across the neck, severing an artery.

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Great news! John White has been released from jail, pending appeal, which could take two years.

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I covered the story of John White, a black man who was awakened one fateful morning to a gang of thugs who threatened his son and wife. A racist jury convicted this man for defending himself (he shot and killed one of the gang members in self defense). Recently, John White was sentenced to 2 to 4 years and he was immediately threatened by the family of the gang member who showed up at his door that night.

The underlying tensions that filled a Riverhead courtroom during John White’s eight-week trial ignited Wednesday when a Suffolk County Court judge sentenced the Miller Place man to 2 to 4 years in prison for fatally shooting a Selden teen in the face a year and a half ago.

Saying she believed that White was a “decent man” who was not the only one to blame for Daniel Cicciaro Jr.’s death, Judge Barbara Kahn imposed a sentence that was less than the one she offered White in a plea deal before the trial. He was found guilty in December of second-degree manslaughter for killing Cicciaro, 17, in a confrontation in the middle of the night at the foot of White’s Miller Place driveway in August 2006.

The sentence stunned a courtroom filled on one side with Cicciaro’s mostly white supporters and on the other with White’s mostly black ones, including members of the Fruit of Islam and other activist groups. Another 100 who sought to be spectators were turned away.

Although he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs, White is expected to be released Thursday after a Brooklyn appellate court ruled Wednesday that he could remain free on $200,000 cash bail while his appeal is pending. His attorney Paul Gianelli of Hauppauge, said one of the issues addressed in the appeal involves Kahn’s instructions to the jury. Defense attorneys have also said that Kahn pressured jurors by forcing them to deliberate the weekend before Christmas.

The sentence drove the victim’s relatives and supporters into a rage outside the Riverhead courtroom, which was kept under control by 20 armed security officers. Minutes later, Cicciaro angrily shouted above the sobs of supporters as he gave an expletive-laden public address that condemned Kahn and all of Suffolk County as “corrupt.”

“There’s no way in God’s creation she did that on her own. There was pressure behind that court door,” Cicciaro said. “John White murdered my son. He knows he did it, and obviously, the justice system is not going to punish him.”

Kahn acknowledged that she had received more than 100 letters asking for leniency for White, including one from Suffolk Executive Steve Levy’s African-American Advisory Board. Levy said he was not aware that the letter was sent, and Wednesday called the case “a very complex and emotional one.”

Before Kahn announced her sentence, she heard from Cicciaro’s parents, who spoke for about 45 minutes, emotionally calling for Kahn to impose the maximum sentence. They blasted White and his defense team as “racists” for making skin color the focus of the case.

“I believe John White is a time bomb that went off when he killed my son,” Joanne Cicciaro said as she read through a stack of pages she had prepared. “This man was waiting … ready to kill anyone who came to the edge of his property. And he taught his son the same thing.”

White stood erect when the Cicciaros began their statements, but his head slumped as they tore into him.

When he got an opportunity to speak, he did so in a near whisper. “I’ve always remained remorseful about this incident,” White said. “I regret taking his life. I didn’t mean to.”

Almost as soon as Kahn began explaining her sentence, the Cicciaros appeared to deflate. Cicciaro put his hand on his head and Joanne Cicciaro scowled.

Kahn said that despite their cries for the maximum, there was no room for vengeance in her sentence. She said she was struck by several witnesses’ “minimization of their own actions on the night in question.” Witnesses included the four teens who accompanied Cicciaro to White’s home, and the Sound Beach mother who hosted a party at which Cicciaro got drunk earlier that night. “These individuals did not hold the gun, but each had a part in this young man’s death,” Kahn said, calling them “moral accessories” to the crime.

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You will be flabbergasted to see the father of Daniel Cicciaro threatening John White’s son’s life. The son’s name is Aaron.  That family needs to get out of New York.

I am sooooo happy that people are starting to SUE for being wrongfully tasered. And the jerk “officer” refused to read the young man his rights. Please look at this video. I’d like to see more people sue.

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Like other YouTube tasings, waves of outrage over excessive force followed — fire the cop, ban Tasers — and the police started an investigation a week and a half later. But the initial results were discouraging for the critics: The cop was cleared of wrongdoing; Mr. Massey paid the speeding ticket that he protested before being shocked twice.

But a civil suit filed after has resulted in a settlement that will more than cover the ticket, and Mr. Massey’s lawyer suggested it covered everything else as well. They made what we consider to be a very fair offer of a significant amount of money,’ Bob Sykes told the Associated Press.

To be exact: he was awarded $40,000, including attorney’s fees.

The deal was announced a week after a Utah prosecutor ruled the Mr. Massey did not commit any crimes in the traffic stop, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

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I love it when people fight back. Check out this young man who fought a criminal:

A bat company will honor a 14-year-old Mesa boy on Tuesday who slugged a burglar inside his house with an aluminum bat last month, creating a nationwide media blitz.

Michael Six, 14, will receive his own custom Louisville Slugger baseball bat, along with other Louisville Slugger merchandise, from the Hillerich and Bradsby Co., in recognition of “his bravery and courage,” according to the Mesa police.

Michael’s actions Jan. 15 were recorded on a police 911 call that was played nationwide and was featured on the Today Show and CNN. Hillerich and Bradsby listened to the tape and decided to honor Michael, a ninth-grader at Kino Junior High School who was hiding in a closet inside a bedroom while talking to a dispatcher.

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The Baltimore city police have a long standing reputation for mistreating and abusing black youth. I understand that some of those young men and women have issues and many of them are engaged in activities that are not legal. But abusing them is not the way to help them.

Going after troubled youth is one thing. But Baltimore police are famous for attacking and harrassing any black male that they see, for any reason. Fortunately a family is finally fighting back:

A multi-million dollar lawsuit has been filed against a city police sergeant. It clams he broke the jaw of a teenager.

The police department tells Suzanne Collins internal affairs is investigating.

Tevin James says a city police sergeant punched him in the jaw for no reason. The 16-year-old has trouble explaining because after two weeks his jaw is still wired shut.

“Two fractures on one side of his mouth and one on the opposite side of his mouth. Due to these injuries he had to be in surgery almost eight hours,” said Menyonde Lewis, James’ mother.

James says he went to the driving school on Baltimore Street to pick up his class completion certificate. After walking a block toward home, he says a car pulled up to the curb and the policeman asked him what he was doing.

“He got out his car, walked around, and stood a couple feet in front of me,” said James.

James says he had not done anything wrong and he did not have anything illegal. So he says he told the officer ‘go ahead and search me.’

He says that’s when he felt the jaw-breaking blow.

James’ lawyer says the teen was not arrested. He later pointed out the task force officer and provided the tag number of his vehicle, which was in the parking lot of the Western District police station.

“A complaint was made by my client. A formal complaint. We are aware internal affairs with the police department is also involved. They arrived at the hospital while this young man was there,” said James Rhodes, the family’s lawyer.

Tevin’s mother and lawyer say the Patterson student has never been in any trouble. She says she always told her sons if they did nothing wrong they’d have nothing to worry about. Now she said she was wrong.

I pray that the family wins this law suite. Going after hardened criminals who are in the heat of a crime is one thing. Going after a young black male who happens to simply be walking down a street is quite different. Throw the book at that rogue! And fire him because he is a danger to black youth.

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A Washington state senator has an interesting idea regarding drunk drivers. I actually agree with the idea and believe it’s long overdue. Check this out:

Sen. Mike Carrell wants everyone on the road to know who’s been caught driving drunk.

He’s sponsoring a bill that would require people convicted of drunken driving to put fluorescent-yellow license plates on their cars for one year — once their driving privileges have been restored.

“I’ve talked to the law-enforcement agencies and they think it would be an awfully good idea to have a way of visibly telling sheep from goats out on the road,” said Carrell, R-Lakewood.

It also could help law-abiding drivers as a signal to give a wider berth to anyone behind the wheel of a car with bright-yellow plates, Carrell said.

But not everyone agrees that such a public designation is the best way to go after drunken drivers.

“The first thing it reminded me of was reading ‘The Scarlet Letter’ in high school,” said Sen. Brian Weinstein, D-Mercer Island, referring to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel in which the heroine must wear the letter “A” on her chest as punishment for adultery.

“Obviously I am opposed to drunken drivers. I think everyone is,” Weinstein said. “But I don’t think this is going to solve anything, and it will have the unintended consequence of embarrassing a lot of innocent people.”

Of course the naysayers will not agree. But you know what? Drunk drivers are killing innocent people on a daily basis and they must be stopped by any means necessary!

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Don’t sleep on this, everyone. We are getting closer and closer to a national ID. We’ve got to get this present administraton out of office ASAP, as they have done more damage against our human rights than any other administration in history.

Millions of air travelers may find going through airport security much more complicated this spring, as the Bush administration heads toward a showdown with state governments over post-Sept. 11 rules for new driver’s licenses. By May, the dispute could leave millions of people unable to use their licenses to board planes, but privacy advocates called that a hollow threat by federal officials.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who was unveiling final details of the REAL ID Act’s rules on Friday, said that if states want their licenses to remain valid for air travel after May 2008, those states must seek a waiver indicating they want more time to comply with the legislation.

The deadline is an effort to get states to begin phasing in the REAL ID program. Citizens born after Dec. 1, 1964, would have six years to get a new license; older Americans would have until 2017.

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