Jjo rtlan b (Dhscruer Page B6 August 31. 2005 EMBRACING DIVERSITY L aw & J ustice Racist Remark Made to Club Being Investigated s ta te liq u o r in s p e c to r o n c e w arned him not to seek black cus tom ers because they do n ’t be long in dow ntow n Portland. Rami Makboul, manager of The Vue. disclosed the alleged com (A P) — The O regon D epart ment in an Aug. 10 e-m ail to the ment o f Justice will investigate a O regon Liquor License C om m is nightclub m anager’s claim that a sion. M akboul sent the message Liquor agency cooperates in allegation case after his business received nega tive publicity follow ing a fatal shooting near the club. "O ne time, an OLC'C inspector told me in private that blacks be longed in northeast Portland, not dow ntow n,’’ according to the e- mail sent toO L C C director Teresa Kaiser. “ I was furious with his statem ent and I thought he was racist. A fter seeing the violence o f last Sunday night, I owe an apology to that inspector.” M akboul did not disclose the name o f the inspector and the com m ent in question took place eight years ago. The OLCC received many com Black Prosecutor Leads Till Slaying Probe New investigation examines notorious, decades-old killing (AP) — Staring into the casket, Joyce Chiles instantly recognized the face she had seen in a magazine photo decades earlier. The picture, shown to her back then by a classm ate at her all-black middle school, showed the m utilated, alm ost mummy-like face o f Emmett Till — the 14-year-old black boy tortured and killed for w histling at a white woman. Today, C hiles is the prosecutor in Money, Miss, overseeing a revived investigation into the case that shocked the nation and helped fuel the nascent civil rights m ove ment. W hen T ill’s body was exhum ed from a suburban Chicago cemetery earlier this year, she stood beside his relatives as the back- hoe scraped away the earth and removed the m ud-caked concrete vault. In the autopsy room, looking upon that face, now shrunken and discolored with the passage o f time, her reaction was the same as when she was 13: “God, how could any body do this to another human being?" No one was ever punished for T ill’s m ur der. Now, 50 years later, it is Chiles who will decide w hether anyone ever will be. C hiles was ju st an infant when Till was killed. Even though she grew up just 12 miles com m ission. “Perception is ev erything som etim es. We want to make sure the public understands that we are a state agency, and that our m andate is to represent everyone.” plaints — including a letter from City C om m issioner Sam Adams dem anding a response. "This allegation is so serious that you c a n ’t let it lie,” said Ken Palke, spokesm an for the liquor Look Who’s at Wild Oats Spa/Salon M arion Pea “MADAM” Nail & Foot Specialist / Hand Care Pedicure Nail Tech & W 1 U > O A TS NATURAL M ARKETPLACE 2nd floor • 3535 NE 15th Ave. • Portland, OR 97212 503-281-3173 Joyce Chiles oversees a new probe o f the 1955 slaying o f Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy tortured and killed for whistling at a white woman. (AP Photo) from M oney, she doesn’t rem em ber much talk about the infam ous case, other than to hear people point and w hisper that this or that person was related to T ill’s killers. C hiles rose slowly and steadily through the law -enforcem ent ranks, from undercover nar cotics agent, to probation officer, to assistant prosecutor, and last year to district attorney for M ississippi’s Fourth Judicial District. She was ju st a month in office when Alvin Sykes, a civil rights leader from Kansas City, asked her to meet with federal officials and m em bers o f the Till fam ily. A docum entary film m aker from New York claim ed to have un covered evidence that people who took part in the killing were still alive. Two months after that m eeting, the Justice D epartm ent announced it was reopening the case, with C hiles leading any potential pros ecution. m eineke c a r c a re c e n te r í r — > .**• ~ J ; ------- Racial Profiling Report Uncovered / ; I t Minorities more likely to be searched and arrested i Mike and Chris will help you with your automotive needs. Rap mogul Suge Knight was shot Sunday in Miami, but remains in good condition. Leads Sparce in Shooting of Suge Knight (AP) — When rap mogul Suge Knight was wounded dur ing a party, hundreds of people were in the nightclub. But when police interviewed the guests, most claimed to have seen noth ing. A police report described the man who shot Knight in the leg Saturday at a party held in con junction with the MTV Video Music Awards as black and wearing a pink shirt. Miami Beach police spokes man Bobby Hernandez said the investigation was being ham pered by witnesses’ unwilling ness to talk. “We don't have any physical description. We don’t know how many subjects were in volved, which is mind boggling, with all those people around," Hernandez told the newspaper. The party was hosted by Kanye West at the Shore Club hotel in Miami Beach. “It’s disturbing that some one can let off six shots in a packed club and can escape without being arrested.” said Elliott Wilson, editor in chief of the rap magazine XXL. “The hip-hop com m unity d o esn 't trust the police to confide info to them, and in turn the police have done little to make us feel like they give a damn about our safety. It's a vicious cycle." V (AP) — Black, Hispanic and white motorists are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched, hand cuffed, arrested and subjected to force or the threat o f it, a Justice Department study has found. The study was completed last April and posted on the agency’s Web site after Bush administra tion o fficials disagreed over whether a press release should mention the racial disparities. The director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Lawrence A. Greenfeld, wanted to publicize the racial disparities, but his su periors disagreed and he was moved to a new job following the dispute, according to an em ployee who was not authorized to talk to reporters. “When someone in law en forcement who is willing to speak the truth about racial profiling gets demoted for it, that’s abso lutely ch illin g ,” said H ilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s When someone in law enforcement who is willing to speak the truth about racial profiling gets demoted for it, that's absolutely chilling. stopped. Traffic stops were the W ashington bureau. Based on interviews of almost most frequent form of police con 77,(MX) Americans age lô o ro v e rin tact with the public; an estimated 2002, the study drew no conclu 16.8 million drivers were stopped sions about the reasons for the in 2002. The racial disparities showed racial disparities in post-stop treat that blacks (5.8 percent) and His ment. Shelton said the BJS study found panics (5.2 percent) were much less racial disparity in traffic stops more likely to be arrested than than a nationwide NAACP study whites! 2 percent). Hispanics(71.5 between 1991 -93, but said the figures percent) were much more likely to for racial disparity in arrests and use be ticketed than blacks (58.4 per of force were consistent with his cent) or whites (56.5 percent). Blacks (2.7 percent) and His group’s findings. panics (2.4 percent) were far more The data showed that black, His likely than whites (0.8 percent) to panic and white motorists were report that police used force or the equally likely to be pulled over by threat of it. police; about 9 percent of each are SPINACOLUMN An ongoing senes of questions and answers about Americas natural healing profession Dr. Billy R. Flowers Part 21. Chiropractic VS Fatigue: Climbing the stairs to a new you, two steps at a time. 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