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A candidate for Prince George’s County Executive has been accused of skipping out on her $26 check

"Gerron S. Levi, Maryland State Delegate"

Prince George (USA Radical Black/September 3, 2010)…The owner of the Ledo Pizza at Eddie’s Place in Crofton told the Gazette Wednesday that he has filed a police report naming Delegate Gerron S. Levi (D-Dist. 23A), of Bowie, as a chief suspect in the Aug. 27 incident. The restaurant owner asked the Gazette not to publish his name. Anne Arundel County police were unable to provide a copy of the police report but said an investigation into the case is ongoing. When workers realized the check hadn’t been paid, they noticed a “Vote Levi” magnetic sign on the door of the departing car and identified Levy by looking at the candidate’s website, the owner told the Gazette. Reached Wednesday, Levi said she ate at the restaurant last week, but said she didn’t believe she had left without paying. “Really? That is so crazy,” she said. “I’m almost certain I paid. … If I didn’t, it would have been a mistake. I always pay my bills. I don’t believe I would walk out a restaurant and not pay the bill. ” Levi said she would call the restaurant. “They couldn’t call me if they thought that was the case?” she said.

“It doesn’t matter who you are. You don’t do this,” the owner said. “Even if it was an honest mistake, she’s had four days to come back and pay, and she hasn’t.”  Levi campaign consultant Julius Henson denied the restaurateur’s allegations. “This is a politically motivated smear campaign,” Henson said. SURE!!

Levi is one of five candidates seeking the executive nomination in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary election.

Judicial Watch Sues Department of Justice for Documents Regarding Decision to Dismiss of Lawsuit against New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

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Washington, DC — May 25, 2010

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Justice Department to obtain documents related to the agency’s decision to dismiss the claims against several members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense who were accused of engaging in voter intimidation during the 2008 presidential campaign (U.S. v. New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense).

Judicial Watch filed its original FOIA request on May 29, 2009. The Justice Department acknowledged receiving the request on June 18, 2009, but then referred the request to the Office of Information Policy (OIP) and the Civil Rights Division. On January 15, 2010, the OIP notified Judicial Watch that it would be responding to the request on behalf of the Offices of the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, Associate Attorney General, Public Affairs, Legislative Affairs, Legal Policy, and Intergovernmental and Public Liaison. Read More »

7-year-old girl killed in Detroit police raid

By the CNN Wire Staff, re-posted by Admin-USA Radical Black
May 16, 2010 3:53 p.m. EDT

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Aiyana Jones, 7, was shot and killed by police executing a search warrant
* Police believed the suspect in a Friday shooting death of 17-year-old was hiding at the home
* Police official: “All we can do is pledge an open and full investigation and to support Aiyana’s family”

(CNN) — Police in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday expressed “profound sorrow” at the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl in a police raid. Read More »

Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Originally Posted November 11, 2009.

The U.S. stands alone in the world in condemning thousands of juveniles to life without parole. And race is a huge factor. Will the Supreme Court even consider it?

This is the second in a two-part series on juvenile life without parole. Read Part One here.

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases that could have major implications for the way juvenile offenders are treated in our criminal justice system. Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida both involve men who are serving life without the possibility of parole for crimes they were convicted of as teenagers — crimes in which no one was killed.

Joe Sullivan was only 13 years old when he was accused of sexually assaulting a 72-year-old woman in her Pensacola, Fla., home, hours after he and a group of older teenagers robbed her house. Sullivan, who reportedly suffers from mental disabilities, insisted that, while he participated in the robbery, he did not commit the rape. But his co-defendants, 15-year-old Michael Gulley and 17-year-old Nathan McCants, 17 pinned the crime on him. Both were tried as juveniles; Sullivan was tried as an adult. Read More »

Facebook alibi saves jailed Black teen

By ERIN CALABRESE – New York Post/November 12, 2009

Pass the syrup — this lucky guy is eating breakfast at home instead of on Rikers Island.

A Brooklyn teen’s playful Facebook message to his pregnant girlfriend about pancakes sprung him from jail and helped him avoid years in prison for a holdup he didn’t commit.

Prosecutors dropped a robbery charge against Rodney Bradford, 19, after learning his Facebook account status had been updated with the inside joke “WHERE MY IHOP?” from a computer in his dad’s Harlem apartment one minute before an Oct. 17 stickup of two men in Brooklyn’s Farragut Houses.

“They had me on Rikers Island for 12 days. It was really miserable,” Bradford told The Post last night.
“If it wasn’t for Facebook I’d still be on Rikers Island.”

His joyful stepmom, Ernestine Bradford, agreed, saying. “Facebook saved my son,” she said. “Normally, we yell at our kids, ‘Oh, you’re on the computer!” It’s completely different. If it wasn’t for Facebook, my son wouldn’t be here.” Read More »