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| Quasimodo | Mar 2 2010, 10:04 AM Post #1 |
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(from the Ekstrand suit) : The Duke-Durham Vigilante Poster On March 28, 2006, a hundred copies of a “Wanted” poster were distributed on campus and in the Trinity Park neighborhood, and hung on campus kiosks and bulletin boards. Under District Two Commander Jeff Lamb’s direction, Durham Police and Duke University personnel created the “Wanted” poster using the Plaintiffs’ photographs, which were provided to the City of Durham at the direction of Duke University Police Department and University officials with final policymaking authority with respect to the public dissemination of Plaintiffs’ personal information and likeness. The poster was then mass-produced at publishing facilities in the John Hope Franklin Center for Human Rights, which was owned and operated by Duke University, with the assistance and express permission of Duke University officials who had the authority to prohibit the mass production of those posters in Duke University facilities. [Sounds like something out of Orwell, or East Germany... and I wonder where those "Castrate!" banners were made up? ] The poster was then widely disseminated across Duke University’s campus by Duke University personnel at the direction of Duke University officials, and across the City of Durham at the direction of City of Durham officials by City of Durham personnel. City of Durham and Duke University officials with final policymaking authority directed their subordinates to participate in the creation, mass-production, and dissemination of the posters. (snip) Each official knew the poster would further stigmatize the Plaintiffs in the eyes of the local and national community in violation of Plaintiffs’ federally protected rights; yet, they were all deliberately indifferent to it. Officials with the authority to correct the conduct made an official decision on behalf of the City of Durham and Duke University not to address the conduct at all. They simply ‘turned a blind eye’ to it and did nothing to prevent the ongoing violations of Plaintiffs’ federally protected rights occurring in plain view. (snip) [And nobody in the law faculty has uttered a peep...] Pursuant to the established Duke-CrimeStoppers’ policy, custom or protocol, written in a document circulated within the Duke Police Department, when a felony was reported in Duke Police Department’s jurisdiction: The Duke Police investigator assigned to the case would schedule a meeting with Addison; A “poster” would be developed in a collaborative effort by CrimeStoppers and Duke Police; The “poster” would be distributed widely on and off campus; An email alert would be written in by Duke Police in collaboration with CrimeStoppers, for mass distribution to an email list maintained by the City of Durham, which included media contacts; Subsequently, all “tips” reported to the 24-hour CrimeStoppers center in response to the posters and/or email, would be delivered to Duke Police Liaison to CrimeStoppers; and The Duke Police Liaison would then transmit valid tips and information to the investigator assigned to the case. [What a perfect set up if the DPD ever wanted to frame someone; all they had to do was push the button to start the process. And the media would ask no questions. And if they are not held to account, there is nothing to stop them from doing it again. In fact, I will almost guarantee that it will happen again. If someone had stopped Mangum after her first false claim of rape, she would not have made the false claim about the Buchanan house. But because she knew from experience she could get out of trouble with a false rape claim, she made one again. If someone had held the prosecutor in the Gell case to account, Nifong might never have thought he could get away with saying he had not read the evidence, had not talked to the complaintant; and he might not even have tried to continue his false prosecution. If the DPD can go to the extremes it did in the lax case, and not suffer any consequences, then this will only encourage them (and other departments) in the knowledge that such tactics, even if questionable, will never bring rebuke.] Edited by Quasimodo, Mar 2 2010, 10:05 AM.
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