what a shame......... happened on saturday apparently
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2007/10/22/dekshoot_1023_web.html
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2007/10/22/dekshoot_1023_web.html
Statue at Arts Center Vandalized
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'We all live in Jena' say marchers protesting DeKalb shootings"
By HELENA OLIVIERO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/22/07
About 50 protesters wearing black T-shirts proclaiming "We All Live In Jena" marched on Memorial Drive Monday to call attention to shootings by DeKalb County police and other cases of what they regard as injustice.
One theme of the protest was the "criminalization of a generation." As demonstrators chanted "What do we want? Justice!" in front of the county jail, prisoners could be seen waving white T-shirts inside in an apparent show of support.
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"This is a day of remembrance and a day of acknowledgment that brutality will not be tolerated," said Iffat Muhammad, who has organized protests over police shootings since her brother was shot and killed by an officer investigating a trespassing complaint last year.
DeKalb police shot to death 12 suspects in 2006, and a 13th man died in custody after being pepper sprayed and struck with batons. A special grand jury is reviewing the cases and is expected to conclude its work by year's end.
The protesters T-shirts referred to the Jena 6, the case of six Louisiana high school students accused of assaulting a white student. Civil rights advocates argue that officials harshly prosecuted the black teens but did little after someone hung nooses on a tree on the school campus.
Today, a rumor circulated among the DeKalb protesters that a noose also had been found on a statue of slain performer Tupac Shakur at the privately run arts center named for him on Memorial Drive.
The center was to have been the starting point of the march, but Muhammad said organizers were told it could not be used because of vandalism.
Police confirmed the statue had been vandalized but said a cross — not a noose — was placed around the neck.
DeKalb County Officer Marcus Hodge said the wooden cross, on an orange nylon string, was found on the statue Saturday afternoon. Underwear was placed on the statue's head, and stickers that police described only as "defamatory" were placed on the statue, walls and a sign.
At 4:40 a.m. Monday, a security guard at the center found an apparently intoxicated man near the statue and called police, Hodge said. Officers later found screens and doors on outdoor pavilions had been damaged.
Marshall Haith, 37, of Decatur was charged with criminal trespass and public drunkenness. Hodge said he has not been charged with vandalism. Haith remained in custody Monday evening, according to jail records.
—Staff writer David Simpson contributed to this article.
By HELENA OLIVIERO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/22/07
About 50 protesters wearing black T-shirts proclaiming "We All Live In Jena" marched on Memorial Drive Monday to call attention to shootings by DeKalb County police and other cases of what they regard as injustice.
One theme of the protest was the "criminalization of a generation." As demonstrators chanted "What do we want? Justice!" in front of the county jail, prisoners could be seen waving white T-shirts inside in an apparent show of support.
RELATED LINK:
• More DeKalb news
"This is a day of remembrance and a day of acknowledgment that brutality will not be tolerated," said Iffat Muhammad, who has organized protests over police shootings since her brother was shot and killed by an officer investigating a trespassing complaint last year.
DeKalb police shot to death 12 suspects in 2006, and a 13th man died in custody after being pepper sprayed and struck with batons. A special grand jury is reviewing the cases and is expected to conclude its work by year's end.
The protesters T-shirts referred to the Jena 6, the case of six Louisiana high school students accused of assaulting a white student. Civil rights advocates argue that officials harshly prosecuted the black teens but did little after someone hung nooses on a tree on the school campus.
Today, a rumor circulated among the DeKalb protesters that a noose also had been found on a statue of slain performer Tupac Shakur at the privately run arts center named for him on Memorial Drive.
The center was to have been the starting point of the march, but Muhammad said organizers were told it could not be used because of vandalism.
Police confirmed the statue had been vandalized but said a cross — not a noose — was placed around the neck.
DeKalb County Officer Marcus Hodge said the wooden cross, on an orange nylon string, was found on the statue Saturday afternoon. Underwear was placed on the statue's head, and stickers that police described only as "defamatory" were placed on the statue, walls and a sign.
At 4:40 a.m. Monday, a security guard at the center found an apparently intoxicated man near the statue and called police, Hodge said. Officers later found screens and doors on outdoor pavilions had been damaged.
Marshall Haith, 37, of Decatur was charged with criminal trespass and public drunkenness. Hodge said he has not been charged with vandalism. Haith remained in custody Monday evening, according to jail records.
—Staff writer David Simpson contributed to this article.
With all that money put into the center how the fuck come there isn't some sort of huge fencing or gating or some sort of large scale perimeter put up around that place? Come on Afeni. Use pacs money to protect his center. That's fucked up. What happens if next someone tries to set fire to the place or something?
this is from the site E just posted
Tupac absolutely was a sex offender! He admitted to participating in a gang rape of a groupie who gave him oral sex in a club. He took her back to his hotel room, and his crew decided they wanted "some of that", and raped and sodomized the girl multiple times. She claimed Tupac #### raped her, but I beilieve a deal was cut so that if the other guys took the rap for the crime, Tupac could remain "outside" to earn money to pay the lawyers.He apologized for his participation in this crime in an interview in Esquire magazine, He would not cop to the anal rape, but admitted he was responsible for aiding and abetting, since he knew and allowed his crew to rape the girl in his presence, many times, and did nothing to stop it. And he's anybody's idea of a hero? That's just sick.That's just one horrific crime Tupac publically admitted to. I cannot imagine this was the one and only time something like this was done to stoned groupies.For those of you who think Tupac should be revered, I feel sorry for you. He came from a bad background, and maybe with time would have evolved, but when he died, he was a cold-blooded criminal. He was with Sug Knight for crying out loud!Role models? What about Martin Luther King who stood for something POSITIVE and non-violent, and was never accused of raping anybody in a time when black people could not even use a public water fountain, and had a lot more reasons to be bitter and violent. What about Bob Marley who advocated political change through protests, not gang-banging groupies.
its shit like this that 2pac always talked about.
Tupac absolutely was a sex offender! He admitted to participating in a gang rape of a groupie who gave him oral sex in a club. He took her back to his hotel room, and his crew decided they wanted "some of that", and raped and sodomized the girl multiple times. She claimed Tupac #### raped her, but I beilieve a deal was cut so that if the other guys took the rap for the crime, Tupac could remain "outside" to earn money to pay the lawyers.He apologized for his participation in this crime in an interview in Esquire magazine, He would not cop to the anal rape, but admitted he was responsible for aiding and abetting, since he knew and allowed his crew to rape the girl in his presence, many times, and did nothing to stop it. And he's anybody's idea of a hero? That's just sick.That's just one horrific crime Tupac publically admitted to. I cannot imagine this was the one and only time something like this was done to stoned groupies.For those of you who think Tupac should be revered, I feel sorry for you. He came from a bad background, and maybe with time would have evolved, but when he died, he was a cold-blooded criminal. He was with Sug Knight for crying out loud!Role models? What about Martin Luther King who stood for something POSITIVE and non-violent, and was never accused of raping anybody in a time when black people could not even use a public water fountain, and had a lot more reasons to be bitter and violent. What about Bob Marley who advocated political change through protests, not gang-banging groupies.
its shit like this that 2pac always talked about.
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