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Michigan Residents Outraged After Racist Flyers Placed In Their Doorways
Ivory Kingpin Held Without Bail
Off Napa Wine Train Do Not
Accept Company’s Apology
MOMBASA
(Kenya) - A
court in Kenya
on Monday
suspended the
release on bail
of a suspected
ringleader of
an ivory
smuggling
gang following an appeal by gov- ernment prosecutors.
Kenyan national Feisal Mo- hammed Ali, who figured on an Interpol list of the nine most wanted suspects linked to crimes against the environment, was ar- rested by international police agents in Tanzania in December after fleeing Kenya and was extra- dited to face charges in the port city of Mombasa.
In March, bail was granted on medical grounds, but Kenyan prosecutors successfully appealed that decision at the High Court.
On Friday, magistrate Davis Karani again granted him 10 million shilling ($96,900/85,800 euro) bail, but that was again sus- pended on Monday.
Prosecutor Alexander Muteti repeated his argument that Ali was a flight risk.
Young Girls Used As Suicide Bombers By Boko Haram
KANO (Nigeria) -- - A child bomber killed up to six people Tuesday outside a bus station in the heartland of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in northeast- ern Nigeria.
Witnesses reported seeing a "young girl" trying to get into the station in the Yobe state capital Damaturu around 7:00 a. m. and refusing to be searched by security guards at the gate before blowing herself up.
A private taxi. drove out of the park. As soon as the car came close, she detonated the explosive. Six people in the car were killed. She was also killed.
The attack came just hours after United Nations Chief Ban Ki- moon wrapped up a two-day visit to Africa's largest economy.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for Tuesday's bomb- ing -- which also wounded up to 28 people -- but it bore the hall- marks of Boko Haram, which has in recent weeks used young women and girls to carry out bloody suicide attacks in the restive northeast.
Boko Haram has stepped up at- tacks in Yobe and two other states in its northeastern bastion since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power in May amid a wave of optimism that he could tackle the worsening secu- rity situation. The wave of violence has claimed more than 1,000 lives over the last three months, dealing a setback to a four-country offen- sive launched in February.
An 8,700-strong Multi-Na- tional Joint Task Force, drawing in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, is expected to go into action soon.
The "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign marks 500 days since the girls were captured.
Napa Valley Wine Train representatives attempted to apologize Monday to a book club of mostly African American women who were kicked off on Sat- urday after employees said their loud conver- sation and laughing bothered some cus- tomers.
But one of the women involved in the incident dismissed the apology, saying Mon- day that the company was “playing the spin game” rather than ac- cepting responsibility for the incident.
News of the episode
— which The Chronicle
reported Sunday — has
since erupted on social
media and across Inter-
net news websites, and prompted many, in-
cluding the women involved, to question whether race played a role in the banishment.
“We want to apologize to them for their experience and listen to their concerns and complaints,” said Sam Singer, a crisis commu- nications expert hired Monday to be the company’s spokesman. “The company takes this very se- riously. They recognize they have a group that feels very displeased
Feisal Mohammed Ali
11 members of a Black Book Club were thrown off the Napa Valley Wine train for al- legedly talking and laughing too loudly.
SOUTHFIELD,
MI --- There is a
flyer being distrib-
uted in Southfield,
Michigan that posts
a photo of a Klans-
man in a hood
pointing his gun at
a head of a black kid
who couldn't be
more than six. The
black child is wear-
ing a white hoodie pointing a gun at a Black child wearing a and is extending a hoodie.
bag of Skittles to the man.
and disrespected.”
The women received a full re-
fund and were given a ride in a van after they were booted off the train, but 47-year-old Lisa John- son, one of the book-club mem- bers, said that didn’t cut it.
She said the women were hu- miliated and that the incident “felt like a racist attack.” She wants the company to acknowledge what it did was wrong.
This is one of the flyers with a hooded man Another flyer shows a photo of Trayvon Martin. The caption reads:
New Municipal Judge In Ferguson Orders Sweeping Changes
"George Zimmerman was right. We will stop thugs like this."
And if the message wasn't clear in the first two flyers, a third shows the photo of five white public officials, three of whom are expected to run for office in Southfield in upcoming elections, with the words: "Let's
get the blacks out of Southfield in November."
Angry residents told a news station that the flyers begin showing up
Sunday on the doorsteps of homes in the area.
Kenson Siver, a candidate for mayor in the Michigan suburb whose
photo appears on one of the flyers, denounced the racist literature as dirty politics and added that the hateful message goes against the diver- sity of the city that he claims makes Southfield great.
Family Of Teen Shot In The Back By Police Suing Department
FERGUSON, MO --- A new municipal judge in Ferguson, Mis- souri, on Monday ordered sweep- ing changes to court practices in response to a scathing Justice De- partment report following the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown a year ago.
Municipal Court Judge Don- ald McCullin, appointed in June, ordered that all arrest war- rants issued in the city before Dec. 31, 2014 be withdrawn.
Defendants will receive new court dates along with options for disposing of their cases, such as payment plans or community service. Fines may be commuted for indigent people.
The changes come five months after the U. S. Department of Jus- tice strongly criticized city leaders in its report, saying the police force and court worked together to exploit people in order to raise revenue.
The Justice Department specif- ically said Ferguson's municipal court practices caused significant harm to many people with cases pending as minor municipal code violations turned into multiple ar- rests, jail time, and payments that exceeded the cost of the original ticket many times over.
McCullin ordered instead that if an arrest warrant is issued for a minor traffic violation, the defen- dant will not be incarcerated, but will be released on their own re- cognizance and given another court date, the city said.
"These changes should con-
Ferguson’s new municipal judge, the Honorable Donald McCullin, has ordered sweeping changes.
tinue the process of restoring con- fidence in the Court... and giving many residents a fresh start," said McCullin in a statement.
He added that many people who have had drivers licenses sus- pended will be able to obtain them and start driving again. In the past, the city's director of revenue would suspend a defendant's dri- ver's license solely for failing to appear in court or failing to pay a fine.
McCullin replaced Judge Ronald Brockmeyer who re- signed after being criticized in the Justice Department report.
"It is meaningful and will have a real impact on the lives of many," said St. Louis-area lawyer Brendan Roediger, who has helped represent some protesters complaining of mistreatment by police and courts in Ferguson.
"That being said, payment plans and community service do not solve racial profiling or exces- sive fines," Roediger said.
ST. LOUIS, MO --- Lawyers representing the family of a Black teenager fatally shot in the back last week by police in St. Louis, Missouri, said Monday that inter- views with several witnesses who were at the scene contradict the police account of the incident.
At least six different witnesses have provided information about the Aug. 19 shooting of Mansur Ball-Bey to two lawyers repre- senting the 18-year-old's family, and none say the teen was in the house that officers said he ran out of just before they shot him, ac- cording to Attorney Jerry Christmas.
Christmas said he and co- counsel Jermaine Wooten have also interviewed the teenager who was with Ball-Bey just before he was shot, and the boy disputes po- lice accounts that Ball-Bey was carrying a gun that he pointed at officers.
"The cops' account doesn't wash," said Christmas. "He was not even in the house."
Christmas said the family is preparing to sue the St. Louis Po- lice Department, and a petition could be filed as early as next week.
The police department did not respond to a request for comment. Ball-Bey's was allegedly killed when St. Louis police were at-
Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was fatally shot by police on Aug. 19.
tempting to execute a search war- rant at a home. Two plains-clothes officers claimed they encountered Ball-Bey and another Black teenager as they ran out the back door of the house where the search warrant was being exe- cuted.
The two police officers, both of whom are white, said that Ball- Bey pointed a gun at them and they both fired in response.
An autopsy found Ball-Bey died from a single gunshot that entered his back and struck his heart.
Police said they recovered the gun and determined it was stolen.
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