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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
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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.
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Minorities more likely to be searched and arrested
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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."
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(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
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