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Kenneth Walker
His death is definitely a tragedy that can not be reversed.
In going forward, we all need to do whatever we can to use our Black Anger in a positive manner! Peace! |
Officer Fired
Officer Who Shot Unarmed Black Georgia Man is Fired
By Felicia Crabtree The White Georgia police officer who shot and killed a 39-year-old unarmed Black man in December was fired from the force Thursday. David Glisson, a Columbus, Ga., sheriff's deputy fatally shot Kenneth Walker, a married man with a 3-year-old daughter.Advertisement Sheriff's officials did not elaborate on the firing, but they denied that Walker was a victim of racial profiling. "Mr. Walker refused to abide by a direct command from the deputy," said Muscogee County Sheriff Ralph Johnson. "The deputy in turn felt his life was threatened; therefore, he fired two bullets that would end Walker's life." Walker's family, however, notes that Walker was a model citizen who had never been arrested for any crime; in fact, they say, he had never even gotten a speeding ticket. "The family and the community are outraged in the delay in providing answers to what happened December 10," said former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell. On Dec. 10, police, acting on a tip from an informant, stopped Walker and others in the car as they rode along Interstate 185. Police say they were the subjects of a drug investigation. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Friday turned over the results of its investigation of the shooting to the Muscogee County District Attorney. However, the attorney representing the three men with Walker the night he was killed is calling for a special, independent prosecutor. The current prosecutor, Gray Conger, has worked too closely with Muscogee Police officials to fervently seek justice against an officer in this case, said the attorney, Dwayne L. Brown of Montgomery, Ala. "We're not saying that Gray Conger is biased, but we are saying that it gives the appearance of impropriety because he has worked with these officers on a daily basis," said Brown. The community has been outraged since the shooting. Earlier this week, angry residents and civil rights leaders gathered outside City Hall, demanding the sheriff's resignation and full disclosure of the police videotape of the incident. Among those in attendance was Pastor Wayne Baker of Spirit Filled Methodist Church. "I share your grief. I feel your pain," Baker was quoted in the Sacramento Observer recently. "On December 10, a grave injustice was done in this city. Four young professional men were dragged out of their car, beaten like animals, dragged into separate directions. Three survived to tell the story. Unfortunately, Kenny did not survive to tell his story. Murder was committed. There is no doubt this was a homicide." |
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Now maybe because this tragedy is so painful to me, I am being overly sensitive. But it is how I feel. |
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Thank you LadyGreek, that is exactly what I was stating!
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Excuse the error, Thank you TonyB06! You stated my point exactly.
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According to WTVM 9/FOX 54 [WXTX]
GBI Delivers Kenneth Walker Report "The sevenovolume report on the Kenneth Walker investigation is now in the hands of the Muscogee County District Attorney. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation turned over its report to Gray Conger at a 10:00 a.m. Friday meeting. The G.Bi> has been investigating since shortly after Walker was shot and killed by Sheriff's Deputy David Glisson December 10, 2003. News leader 9's Jason Dennis, who's monitoring developments at the Government Center, says the G.B.I. report includes interviews with Walker's three fellow passengers and the patrol car video tape from that pullover along Interstate 185. But it has no interview with Glisson, as none could be arranged. The next step is uo to Conger, who is likely to present the report and its evidence to a grand jury. It's not yet clear if any of the report will be released to the public immediately. Wayne Baker, the President of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, says the videotape shoud be released. In a live interview on New Leader 9 at Noon, Baker said it's a 'first amendment right' for citizens to see what's on the tape..." |
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...0columbus.html
> > > The last thing Kenneth Walker probably heard were shouted commands from > submachine gun-toting deputies in the night. > > The 39-year-old black insurance manager from Columbus was either exiting an > SUV that had been pulled over on I-185 or was getting set to lie on the > ground. A bullet, one of two shots fired from an MP5 9 mm submachine gun, > ripped into Walker's brain. Six hours later, the husband and father of a > 3-year-old girl was dead. > > What happened depends on whom you ask in Columbus. > > Some residents see it as the war on drugs gone mad. Many in the black > community see racial profiling. Other people, including the sheriff, see a > horrible mistake. > > The Dec. 10 incident grew from a drug investigation. But none of the four > men in the GMC Yukon - longtime friends who went out each week for dinner > at Applebee's - had drugs or weapons on them. > > "This was not a racially profiled random traffic stop," Muscogee County > Sheriff Ralph Johnson said in a statement. He said deputies saw the men in > the SUV visit an apartment twice that was under surveillance and where > cocaine was later found. > > The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is expected to turn over a seven-volume > investigation today to Muscogee County District Attorney Gray Conger, who > will decide whether he should bring the case to a grand jury to seek > charges. > > Deputy David Glisson, who shot Walker, was fired Thursday because of the > "totality of facts revealed in the [in-house] administrative > investigation," said sheriff's spokesman Capt. Joe McCrea. Glisson, a > deputy for 20 years and a member of the department's Special Response Team, > did not speak with GBI investigators, said Special Agent Chris Hosey. > > The FBI has started a civil rights investigation and will turn over the > results to federal prosecutors, said FBI spokesman Steve Lazarus. > > The incident has drawn national attention, with numerous news stories, > Internet Web postings and chain e-mails. There have been memorials, public > hearings alleging police brutality, charges of cover-ups and racial > insensitivity, and calls for city boycotts and the sheriff's resignation. > Democratic presidential hopeful Al Sharpton even stopped in town in > December to expound on the case. > > Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, one of the Walker family's attorneys, > said the case has drawn so much anger and outrage because Walker "is not a > drug dealer. He's not a thug. He's a guy like any other guy, enjoying life. > People imagine themselves in this situation. > > "This is the nightmare of every African-American parent," said Campbell, > who now works for the Florida-based law firm of Willie Gary, who has won > hundreds of millions of dollars in civil rights suits. > > "If Kenneth Walker can be killed without cause, then no African-American > male is safe on the streets," said Campbell, who pointed out that the > driver of the vehicle, Warren Beaulah, is a Columbus high school basketball > coach and another passenger is a probation officer. > > Campbell called the sheriff's statement that the SUV occupants visited an > alleged drug dealer's apartment "an ugly, reprehensible effort to justify > the murder of Kenneth Walker, to paint him as involved with drugs." > > Campbell says autopsy results show Walker had no drugs in his system. > > The incident has brought to the forefront the oft-tenuous relationship > between the black community and police departments nationwide. At least a > dozen black residents at a Columbus NAACP forum last month alleged > mistreatment by law enforcement. One speaker was Walker's pastor, the Rev. > Douglas Force, the pastor of St. Mary's Road United Methodist Church. > > Preacher stopped > > Force said a deputy a few months ago shone a spotlight on him as he got > ready for his morning walk at a Columbus park. The 6-foot-4, 59-year-old > black preacher said the deputy called for backup and repeatedly told him to > get off the walking trail. He said the deputy grew agitated and the > situation was defused only when some of Force's elderly white friends > arrived. > > Force added that racial insensitivity, coupled with hard-nosed drug > enforcement, is bound to end in tragedy: "We have turned loose a SWAT squad > mentality that has run roughshod over people, usually minorities." > > Beaulah, the SUV driver, could not be reached for comment and has retained > Birmingham lawyer Dwayne L. Brown, who said he plans on filing a > "seven-figure" civil rights lawsuit against the sheriff's department and > the combined Columbus-Muscogee County government. > > Days after the shooting, Beaulah talked with a local radio station, telling > the host, "I felt like an animal. > > "The way they had guns in the faces, not saying anything, you basically > didn't know what to do and you felt like if you even tried to turn your > face from one side to the other, they'd shoot you," Beaulah said. "It was > that scary." > > Sheriff Johnson, in his statement, said a confidential informant told > investigators that an alleged drug dealer was about to receive a shipment > of cocaine from Miami dealers, who were said to be driving a vehicle like > Beaulah's Yukon. While deputies waited outside the apartment, Beaulah's > vehicle parked outside the building and the four occupants went inside > twice, McCrea said Thursday. > > Beaulah's Yukon was stopped on I-185 shortly afterward. Authorities > initially said the deputies had difficulty seeing Walker's right hand as > the occupants were ordered from the vehicle. > > McCrea would not discuss matters concerning the shooting. > > Several local black leaders and organizations have accused the sheriff's > department of stonewalling. > > "Where is the video and why is it being kept quiet for so long?" said > Edward DuBose, president of the Columbus NAACP. "The African-American > community is tense." > > State Rep. Calvin Smyre (D-Columbus) said he's been in political life for > 30 years "and I have never seen anything that has captivated or put a cloud > over Columbus like this." > > He said the length of the investigation has allowed "a growing suspicion." > > Robert Poydasheff, mayor of Columbus, which is 50 percent white, 44 percent > black, has called for patience. He said the public hearings looking at > alleged law enforcement abuses are "cathartic." > > He said that Walker's mother, Emily, "has said that maybe Kenny was chosen > as a catalyst to right wrongs and bring the community together." |
Thanks again Bruh for the updates.
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Defense of Deputy in Columbus, Ga. Slaying Challenged
Date: Thursday, March 04, 2004 By: PATRICIA NEWMAN BlackAmericaWeb.com The attorney for the former Muscogee County Sheriff’s Deputy who shot and killed an unarmed Columbus, Ga. man said the victim's involvement with illegal drugs led to his death. During a press conference last week, Attorney Richard C. Hagler came to the defense of Deputy David Glisson and blamed the shooting on Kenneth Walker's own actions, not Glisson's. In a prepared statement Hagler said: "The entire incident has been portrayed to the public as an incident which arose out of racial profiling. This portrayal is a fundamental lie, which has resulted in great prejudice and political pressure against my client. ”The undeniable fact is that Mr. Walker placed himself in a situation that night through his own illegal conduct which ultimately resulted in his death." On Dec. 10, Glisson fatally shot Walker following a stop along Interstate 185. Before the stop, Walker and friends Warren Beulah, Anthony Smith and Daryl Ransom, were riding in a gray GMC Yukon seen leaving an apartment. According to official reports, the apartment was under surveillance by Metro Narcotics Task Force agents. Bill Campbell, lead attorney for Walker's family, said allegations of Walker using cocaine were totally out of his character. "We have yet to find a single colleague, friend, co-worker or family member that has ever had any knowledge of Kenneth using drugs," Campbell told BlackAmericaWeb.com. Hagler's statement said Walker's family was in denial about his drug use and the results of the autopsy report that show he had traces of alcohol and cocaine in his blood. "Without any evidence to support their allegations,” said Hagler, “the family of Kenneth Walker now seeks to perpetrate another lie by alleging the autopsy report and toxicology reports have been mysteriously altered." "We never said that,” Campbell, speaking on behalf of the family, fired back. “What we said is what we affirmed all along. Several days after the killing, the family was told that drug and alcohol tests had come back negative." Despite the results of the toxicology report, Campbell said nothing changes the facts of what happened that night on the interstate. "It was a cold-blooded killing," he said. Hagler said he broke his silence after Glisson was fired and Walker's family filed a $100-million wrongful death lawsuit. "It was our intent to let the investigation run its course," said Hagler. "We reserved saying anything earlier, but because of the firing and the allegations made during the news conference, we felt like we had to respond." Sheriff Ralph Johnson fired Glisson, said Hagler, because of political pressure. Capt. Gary McCrea of the Muscogee County Sheriff's Department said it wasn't political pressure that led to Glisson’s termination. "Obviously during the course of our administrative investigation we found sufficient concern that we felt his termination was warranted," he said, "considering when you have an administrative investigation it focuses on police procedure and training." Another Hagler accusation is that one of Walker's friends carried a suspicious package into the apartment that night. "We believe the evidence will ultimately reveal the package was a delivery of cocaine," read the statement. "We also believe the evidence will show that at least one or more of the four occupants of the SUV used cocaine while in the apartment." Dwayne L. Brown, the Montgomery, Ala. attorney representing the three men in the vehicle with Walker, said the package was a DVD player. "My clients got out of the car with an unwrapped DVD player," said Brown. "This was known that night. That is why they have not been charged with any illegal narcotic and will not be charged. There was no illegal contraband discovered in the vehicle in which they occupied." http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site....georgiaslaying |
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His drug involvement caused his death??????? He was not the only one in the vehicle but he was the only one killed. Regardless of what the police officer may have "thought" Kenny's murder was still senseless!!!!!!!!!!
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B.S. to the 3rd degree
You know, covering your ass takes time and planning. It's sad...but the majority of our society will find it hard to question Muscogee County's most recent reports relating to this case. The general public will inherently view Mr. Walker's "biological presentation" as synonymous with illegal activity. We live in a country where most people are not willing to think past baseless generallizations or stereotypes....and african-americans (especially males) have been socially devalued, and are considered non-essential.
It was no more than 30-35 years ago when crowds would gather in masses, watching and cheering with pure hatred as black men were hanged from trees or lamposts located in a downtown area. This country tries write off, and would like for us to forget that it was only yesterday when a murder similar to Mr. Walker's was considered a public exhibit. And officials were not required to follow up with an investigation or provide "documentation" as to why it took place. Bro. Walker's death was a SENSELESS MURDER, and only a person with blinders on will accept it as justified. I know that we have not become complacent and I know that we are not asleep...... |
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