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agree with many took happens to ng In 1984, the Senate ent of the policies of the outgoi to do onThat had as much to confirm Presid ey general and the the presi- a year the rub. ’s nominee, attorn with undermining imity as Ronald Reaganfor attorney going president. simply amazing Several days after author ive It’s be able dent’s execut Meese, panel, Yes, the Senate may can get past a we would Edwin was bills pressing a Senate and that delay the else, at ng that gum red general, but hit that anythi walk and chew Loretta Lynch appea d believe that the committee then messy busi- to but we all suffer succee Re- be naive to based on Meese’s to be a shoo-in to igans are not at if some same time, is stuck to their implacable wall called U.S. atThe same shenan ness practices. And way, when the gum are politically Eric Holder Jr. as s confirmation. publican repugnance. licans have their leave it Repub- play in Lynch’ and they shoes er is right Repub (Bill Moore photo) torney general. But story here is that be tarred with the Sen. Chuck Schum , meanthat Lynch will immobilized. apparently don’t noted to the mischievous he alleged licans the imwhen to funds on point same brush, given Two things are clearly and spirited Republicans At “can walk and mind gathering with drug race . for the Senate dealings she had mutable—Lynch’s rain on her parade from predators fined but chew gum at the same time,” it! money launderers. By MILTON temand So get overand s. , only lords lt politic ALLIMADI accused of fathering several crimes hope, a difficu sh. her least, we sex trafficking but this becomes of this is hogwa excuses. Confirm children with teenage secreAll used more be COLIN BENJAMIN No ering can’t ly. she consid porari this money process when d to ! s problem is that toLynch the AmNews taries. The popular narrative Loretta s to pay for aborJust when she seeme forth by Pres- Lynch’ n who Special partic- by the victim d any action put is a strong Black woma was that Malcolm was killed be a lock for the post, nent tions. Republicans conten Obama. Barack ident promi Was the NYPD involved or by Muhammad loyalists after use of the money ularly with such Hatch that such did they merely know about he was expelled from the NOI. Republicans as Orrin Arizo- would compromise the Hyde of except Flake , the impending murder of But many people, especialJeff which of Utah, ment, m of South Amend forbids use of tax Malcolm X and allow it to ly in the Black community, na, Lindsey Graha rape, Collins of for March 13, 2015 happen 50 years ago? Were never believed that version of Carolina and Susan for abortions. to confirm dollars to do with some reporters, including events as being the complete Maine promising What has this got the famed scribe Jimmy Breslin, story. While there had been nell her, there is a snag. s confirmation or Hon. Mitch McCon problem? Lynch’ This tipped off that something was a clear rift between Malcolm So what’s the of rice in China? Majority Leader Senate Ma- price about to go down? and Muhammad, it was also is very similar to The problem is United States Senate McCo- boondoggle The official story has been a period when the FBI was 20510 se over Homeland jority Leader Mitch Washington, D.C. nce to the impas that Malcolm X was killed conducting its Counter Intelnnell and his relucta a hu- Security funding that includ of e Feb. 21, 1965, at the Audu- ligence Program, initially tarration attach call a vote becaus in- ed an immig Hon. Harry Reid that see bill to d ing bon Ballroom in Harlem begeting suspected communists man-traffick We were please Minority Leader that would ment. cause of a Reid feud between him but later expanding it to disHarry licans capitulate on cludes a provision United States Senate Mitch McConnell for victims the Repub re and allow the and his former allies in the rupt groups such as the Black 20510 establish a fund measu service Washington, D.C. to publichad those con- that SeitmentMalcolm Nation of Islam. Panthers and other Black nacomm from fines paid by for the tment of Homeland y Depar skills, attorne . ement States crimes d ing manag United a falling out with NOI leader tionalist organizations. and strong victed of traffick funding to go forwar to serve Dear Mr. Leaders: District of New York, itedguide the Demo- curity her well-su and his former spiritual Indeed, records revealed make express Eastern These funds, as tossing immigration has developed a I write this letter to be used while Elijah Muhammad, after Malcolm’s death show this position. who he’d caation Ms. Lynch crats proposed, could limbo. achievements, in support for the nomin therein lies into nation requires a e long record of Our becom to tion for abortions, and Lynch reputa ve advoenjoys a of Loretta pable and effecti l of the and she Lynch and evenhandedly the attorney genera such as Loretta tment for fairly elaw. 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that the FBI had been actively monitoring him, as Malcolm’s files, available on the FBI’s website, confirm. Therefore, it isn’t beyond reason that the FBI, under the maniacal J. Edgar Hoover, could have played a role in the assassination by either fomenting, participating or at least turning a blind eye and allowing it to happen. Could it be that the NYPD also came to know from the FBI, or from its own investigations, that Malcolm would be killed by opponents on that fateful February date? Could it be that the NYPD and the FBI worked together to allow Malcolm to be killed by not warning him or by not
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coma and died April 19. At a press conference this week, Deputy Police Comfree him. True to his i missioner Jerry Rodriguez time cuts and rever- vowed to rumored to have controlled receive Hamilton had Acevedo a SOLOMON SAINTwas ByGray said, “When Mr. He, too, was back in La- word, a large percent of the illic- sals. on the street before the n put in that van, he could talk fayette Gardens in less than a back turbulent it activities in that particular decade. turn of the century. and he was upset.During … When the od. neighborho while Hamilton was b when 2000, In 1990s, early 1980sofand he was taken out that In 1987, 50 Cent was immorsimultaneously, J.R. was Almost mayhem and drugs Julio “Wemo” still in jail, his brother murder, van, he could not talk and seaNorth Homicide talized when down murdered inside of his plagued the inner cities, Brooklyn he could not breathe.” a roving Acevedo gunned him restaurant. According to gangsters Squad developed of self-made scores See BALTIMORE on page 34 a dusky hallway located in food in quell to force task was a federal indictment, Damion vied for control of certain 40-man epidem- Albany projects. Acevedo Lamurder another Brooklyn’s Hardy, Brookly arrested, con- “World” neighborhoods. In resident, was Of all the detectives, Louis subsequent ic. Garden Lafayfayette and upan Greene to Fort lyn, shipped was most famous victed and responsible for ordering that ette Gardens were atop the Scarcella state prison. solving murders. Word on the a Brooklyn man particular hit. list that harbored some of for 1991, In jailed was In 1983, Hamilton was street was Hamilton, while the most infamous characof violent named Nathaniel Cash had convinced While Killer Ben and for an assortment ters. Hamilton’s name incarcerated, such as manslaugh- murdered. lackey to kill Hardy. 50 Cent found infamy in Fort crimes, up in the investigation. a paroled a head weapon possession and came have the pa- Although he sustained Greene, Lafayette Gardens ter, During his time in Scarcella didn’t survived the wherewithal for wound, Hardy was dubbed “Bush Gardens” robbery. and tience Hamilton, Elmira prison, because of the way Der- an He believed that he shooting. Scarcella self-taught jailhouse lawyer, justice. Coincidentally, law. He arrestrick “Bush” Hamilton, along a convicted killers was above the Michael, other helped brother, a were lost J.R., also with his brother ed Hamilton post haste. After cop who committed suicide a lengthy trial, Hamilton was a WWW.AMS y witnessed TERDAonce again convicted and as he depressingl MNEW tainted career decades of con- his brother’s to OM sentencedS.C unravel and capsize. finement. In 2011, Hamilton’s legal Hamilton wasn’t worried. Elinor R. Tatum: Publisher with Scarcoupled prowess, In rodeo. and Editor in Chief This wasn’t his first faulty and shoddy Member fact, he and fellow Brooklynite cella’s work secured his preKristin Fayne-Mulroy: Managing Editor Acevedo ended up in the police release from prison. same prison. After exchang- mature Nayaba Arinde: Editor plows Acevedo 2013, ing penitentiary pleasant- In Alliance for Penda Howell: Vice President, Sales, Advertising a crowded Brook©2015 The Amsterdam News | $1.00 New York City Media Audited ries, Hamilton told Acevedo through Wilbert A. Tatum (1984-2009): Emeritus street while driving drunk Vol. 106 No. Chairman of the Board, CEO and Publisher that he knew of some legal lyn 4 | January crashes into a taxi, caus22 discrepancies in his case and and
anger replacing the unbridled outrage that followed the funeral of Freddie Gray. The irony is not lost on social observers that the volatile response to a death in police custody occurred just two days before the 13th anniversary of the 1992 civil unrest ignited by the vicious videotaped police beating of
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Monday kicked off Justice By HERB BOYD investigation of Gray’s death League NYC’s firstto the AmNews March2Justice. Particip and send two top officials to ants started their Special walk on Staten Island and will Baltimore to help calm the continue for nine days until Attorney they arrive in Washing Gener- city and stop the rioting. ton, D.C. Along theU.S. way, Lynch had hardly they plan on engaging al Loretta “As our investigative proin rallies and mobiliz ations being sworn in cess continues, I strongbefore they meet with finished legislators to demand congressional intervention Monday as the first African- ly urge every member of the on of woman to hold the Baltimore community to police brutality. Accordi the national crisis American ng to the organiza tion, when the outrage adhere to the principles of they are “inspired and position moved by young people others across the country andand violence in Baltimore nonviolence,” Lynch said in a that continue to keep NEWS this RDAM moveme nt alive in the name after Freddie Gray’s death in statement Monday evening. THE NEW YORK AMSTE want of justice. We now custody became an “In the days ahead, I intend to see action from the police powers that be, and it's time we take the moveme immediate flashpoint. to work with leaders throughnt t them.” The march will cover In effect, she has to hit the out Baltimore to ensure that five states, with movements planned in cities ground running with a sit- we can protect the securisuch as Trenton, Philadel phia, Baltimore and D.C., uation- that is becoming all ty and civil rights of all resiwhere the final rally will take place on Capitol Hill. The group thentoo customary in Ameri- dents. And I will bring the full plans Vol. 106 No. February 26 -resources March 4, 2015 Lynch’s first9 | statement of the Department See MARCH on ca. page upon6 taking office was her of Justice to bear in protectpromise that the Justice De- ing those under threat, invespartment will continue the See LYNCH on page 6
the the one goo help the The wer wer ly, t not the me T Bla tur it, the ful op in This situation is madness, ex ol and it shows how deep the rifts ki that trust Any have become. ar once existed is now completely eroded. Youngsters on the qu street used to know the beat w cop, and the beat cop knew b posa were them. The police m itive fixture in the communia ty and they were a part of the c community, not apart from
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