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| Baldo | Sep 8 2008, 08:34 PM Post #1 |
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Ekstrand Lawsuit Pages 199-200 633. After the Joint Command meeting on March 29, 2006, the Chairman, the CMT Defendants, Duke Police Supervising Defendants, and the Durham Police Supervising Defendants all were aware of and willfully blind and/or deliberately indifferent to the repeated and ongoing violations of Plaintiffs’ constitutional rights by Nifong, Himan, the Himan Chain of Command, Addison, Michael, and the Addison/Michael Chain of Command, who, at the same time, willfully refused or failed to acknowledge, receive or seize the overwhelming evidence of innocence that had been amassed in the case. 634. Consistent with the Chairman’s Directive to force the trial and convictions—and a similar policy directive from Baker—the Joint Command directed Nifong, Himan, and the Himan Chain of Command to act swiftly to charge, prosecute, and convict Plaintiffs and/or their teammates. 635. The conduct of these Duke University and City of Durham officials with final policymaking authority with respect to the investigation of Mangum’s claims evinced their malicious and corrupt intent, and their deliberate indifference to the Plaintiffs’ constitutional rights. 636. Knowing that Plaintiffs were innocent and that the course the policymakers had set for the investigation in the Joint Command meeting would cause extraordinary and unconscionable harms if allowed to continue, the Defendants nevertheless proceeded on that course. As a direct result, Plaintiffs were further subjected to public humiliation and vilification and the universal condemnation of hundreds of millions of people around the world. 637. The public acts and statements of Duke University’s policymaking officials, faculty, administrators, and staff, in concert with or consciously parallel to the acts and statements of Nifong, Addison and Gottlieb, the City of Durham and Duke University had stirred up local racial animus to a degree that the City and the University openly admitted that they feared that the outrage they had fomented would be turned, and directed upon City and University officials if there were no charges, no trial, and no convictions. The Duke-Durham Joint Command officials predicted race riots would ensue and “Durham would surely burn” if lacrosse players were not charged. 638. From this point forward, the City’s purposes coincided completely with those fixed for the University by the Chairman; what was “best for Duke” was also best for the City. Shortly thereafter, the City, Duke, and NCCU launched a media campaign, called “A Community of One.” It was designed to promote the image of the City, Duke, and NCCU all standing in solidarity against the white, “racist-rapists” on the lacrosse team. The media campaign culminated on the day of the first indictments with a large “Community of One” ad placed strategically in various newspapers. A Community of One final document created 4/13/2006 For the past few weeks, Durham has been shaken by allegations arising from the incident of March 13. While feelings of pain, anger, and confusion are understandable in times like these, let us remember that justice is served in the courtroom, not in the media or at the hands of individuals. We are proud of the response of students at North Carolina Central University and Duke University who are organizing events to educate each other about sexual violence, racism, and why our system of law presumes innocence until guilt is established. We are grateful for the work of clergy and other leaders who are using this time to urge healing, peace, and truth. The three of us are engaged in regular dialogue with people throughout Durham. We are providing updates on our progress and seeking counsel, with the goal of overcoming the tensions that have arisen. Durham has so much more to offer than what recent events or simplistic national media portrayals of our community have shown. Our universities and our city have worked together over the years to build a community that is known for tolerance, education, business opportunity, and medical and technological excellence. We pledge to all of our fellow citizens that we will continue to work together to strengthen the bonds that unite us. We all must work to be a community of one. WILLIAM V. “BILL” BELL MAYOR CITY OF DURHAM JAMES. AMMONS CHANCELLOR NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY RICHARD H. BRODHEAD PRESIDENT DUKE UNIVERSITY http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/pdf/communityofone.pdf We are proud of the response of students at North Carolina Central University and Duke University who are organizing events to educate each other about sexual violence, racism, and why our system of law presumes innocence until guilt is established. . ![]() We are grateful for the work of clergy and other leaders who are using this time to urge healing, peace, and truth ![]() It must be remembered that the City of Durham and Duke University Knew the charges were not true yet they placed this in newspapers on the day of the first indictments |
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| Baldo | Sep 9 2008, 01:15 AM Post #2 |
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Mayor Bell & Brodhead knew the significance of putting this out on indictment day. It sounded so PC, so "coming together", but by April 13 when this document was finalized they knew there was NO DNA and Nifong and the PD had no case. They knew what was happening and they were participating in it. The phrase "Community of One" might have a significance by itself. I am still working on that. |
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| Jezebelle | Sep 9 2008, 03:50 AM Post #3 |
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They sure didn't urge "peace" and "healing" after Cooper declared the boys innocent. |
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| abb | Sep 9 2008, 04:24 AM Post #4 |
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A Community of One: Known in earlier times in American History as a Lynch Mob. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 9 2008, 04:31 AM Post #5 |
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Thanks Baldo, for a chilling but fantastic post...and thanks Abb, for saying everything I might have tried to say in three paragraphs...in one short perfect reply.
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| Bill Anderson | Sep 9 2008, 06:23 AM Post #6 |
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People have to understand that Bell and the others knew they would get away with lying -- and they have. Even if the families win the suits against Durham -- and that is not guarantee, given the state of justice in this country -- none of the criminals who put together this frame will be on the hook personally. Has anyone paid a real price for their actions? Nifong lost his law license and his job, but that is about it. Oh, Linwood Wilson lost his job, but he proudly sings in "performances" about his "relationship with Jesus," so I guess it was Jesus who told him to lie, strongarm witnesses, suborn perjury, and manufacture evidence. Now, I am not sure where in the Gospels Jesus tells people to do that, but given the mentality I am seeing with officials in Durham and at Duke, I am sure that they can find the chapter and verse for us. When these people declared a "community of one," they were not kidding: A Community of One Big Lie.
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| chatham | Sep 9 2008, 08:28 AM Post #7 |
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A community of one just means they all agreed to lie. That decision was made on March 29th. Being innocent would not stop any of the problems in Trinity Park. That ad was put out to cover their azz. It was a lie and it will be brought out in the civil trial that it was a lie. But the defendant brodhead will use it to try to cover his azz. |
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| MikeZPU | Sep 9 2008, 02:28 PM Post #8 |
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Excellent point -- where was the Community of One statement from the three figureheads on the day the AG declared the three LAX players innocent and stated that "a lot of people owe an apology" ??? |
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| Baldo | Sep 9 2008, 02:51 PM Post #9 |
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abb, I do think it does have that connetation. It also was used to describe the first black Alabama football player and his acceptance on the team which wasn't very good. I have also found some vague references to masculine studies. Honestly it could just be a solidarity usage. The point is the Community of One statement was a PR campaign issued by Bell, Ammons, and Brodhead. We are pretty sure Bell & Brodhead knew that the charges were baseless. We don't know what Ammons knew, but I doubt he was kept out of the loop totally. Bell had first called for the suspension of the team on March 26. I have always wondered why he would interject himself as Mayor to Brodhead when no arrests had been made? Wouldn't we love to have those phone records? Looking backing that was a "Community of One" using the" Lynch Law" method of Justice against the 2006 Duke Lacrosse Team Lynch Law n. The punishment of persons suspected of crime without due process of law. [After William Lynch (1742–1820).] WORD HISTORY In the late 18th century, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, was troubled by criminals who could not be dealt with by the courts, which were too distant. This led to an agreement to punish such criminals without due process of law. Both the practice and the punishment came to be called lynch law after Captain William Lynch, who drew up a compact on September 22, 1780, with a group of his neighbors. Arguing that Pittsylvania had “sustained great and intolerable losses by a set of lawless men … that … have hitherto escaped the civil power with impunity,” they agreed to respond to reports of criminality in their neighborhood by “repair[ing] immediately to the person or persons suspected … and if they will not desist from their evil practices, we will inflict such corporeal punishment on him or them, as to us shall seem adequate to the crime committed or the damage sustained.” Although lynch law and lynching are mainly associated with hanging, other, less severe punishments were used. William Lynch died in 1820, and the inscription on his grave notes that “he followed virtue as his truest guide.” But the good captain, who had tried to justify vigilante justice, was sentenced to the disgrace of having given his name to the terrible practice of lynching. http://www.answers.com/topic/lynch-law |
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