By Corey Friedman
Henry Louis Gates’ civil rights weren’t violated. His constitutional rights, however, were thrashed.
The prominent Harvard professor, an African-American who was confronted by a white police officer after forcing open the door to his own Cambridge, Mass., home, has called the incident — and his subsequent disorderly conduct arrest — racially motivated.
Police acted appropriately [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 23, 2009
Phantom follow-up
By William R. Toler
While posting “Paranormal Paranoia“, an old blog entry/column I wrote in 2007, I mentioned the article that accompanied it in the print edition of the Beaufort Observer. Well, here it is:
July 12, 2009
Upside down flag flap prompts ACLU action
By William R. Toler
Police in Wisconsin went against two constitutional amendments on our nation’s birthday, taking down and seizing an American Flag which was displayed upside down.
Vito Congine Jr. says police trespassed and stole his property before a Fourth of July parade in the village of Crivitz, according to the Associated Press. The flag was removed by [...]
July 10, 2009
The wrong man walks away
By William R. Toler
A recently arrested man is back on the streets thanks to an incompetent jailer in Craven County.
Newschannel 12’s Aisha Howard reports that while Sheriff Jerry Monette was holding a press conference lauding the arrest of Jonathan Staton and two other men in a drug bust…Staton was walking out.
According to Monette, Staton offered fellow [...]
