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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 11:30 AM
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Responding to report of three white prostitutes, cops beat and arrest a
12 year old African American girl. Because they were plain clothes officers and didn't ID themselves, she fought them. for that they later came to her middle school and arrested her for resisting arrest. They also arrested her father for protecting his daughter from these men who were beating her and trying to drag her into their unmarked van.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6179209.html

Responding to a call that three white prostitutes were soliciting in the neighborhood, the plainsclothes officers jumped out of an unmarked van on Gomez's orders and one of them grabbed the girl, who is black, the lawsuit states.

The girl contends that the officers did not identify themselves as police and that the officer who grabbed her, later identified as Roark, told her, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."

Her parents, Wilfred and Emily Milburn, heard her cries for help and came outside to see the hysterical girl hanging on to a tree and screaming "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" while two officers hit her in the head, face and throat, the family alleges.



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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 11:34 AM
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1. This is SO damn racist....
...GOD this stuff makes me mad! Those "police" officers need to be PUT OUT OF WORK - period.

:grr:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 11:40 AM
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2. The only part of this story that really amazes me...
is that three men tried to kidnap a twelve year old while screaming something about her being a prostitute... IN TEXAS. And they didn't get shot in the face.

These assholes should be thankful they're still ALIVE.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 11:51 AM
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 12:03 PM
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5. Bad behavior by police is the fault of those above. If the top of the chain
of command allows racist behavior, the officers below will follow their lead.

I just don't see how a 12 year old black girl can be mistaken for three white prostitutes.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 12:17 PM
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6. "I just don't see how a 12 year old black girl can be mistaken for three white prostitutes."
Exactly. I find this VERY suspicious. Like another person in this thread, I think the cops maybe were looking for a young black girl to rape. Where is there evidence of any report of 3 white prostitutes? And how in sam hell can they "mistake" a 12-year old black girl for 3 white prostitutes?

Bullshit. It doesn't add up.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 01:01 PM
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8. There should be an audio or written report of the call.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 08:45 PM
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10. The parents have filed a lawsuit, the story has been documented.
Was discussed at length on DU about a week ago.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 10:15 PM
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12. I hope they win big.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 10:17 PM
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14. The cops knew they messed up big. The arrest of the 12 yr old a few weeks later
was to cover their tracks, to document the "resisting arrest charge" and justify beating the daylights of of a little girl. The city might as well open their coffers and give the parents a bag to carry out the money.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 10:27 PM
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16. The girl should not have to worry about money for college.
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martymar64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 09:59 AM
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29. She will also not have to worry about nights without nightmares
An incident this traumatic can scar her psyche for life. I hope that her family finds her good mental health assistance to help her recover from this horrific traumatic experience.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 03:01 PM
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33. that should be covered in any settlement.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 11:51 PM
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17. The arrest of the father sounds like an attempt at intimidation.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 12:25 PM
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7. Hmmmmm.....
Edited on Sat Dec-27-08 12:25 PM by GreenPartyVoter
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Pab Sungenis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 11:15 AM
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30. Yeah, but it was WHITE men grabbing a BLACK girl.
Most of the gun-toting people in that town were probably on the side of the cops.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 02:35 PM
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32. Sad, but true.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 11:43 AM
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3. I read this story a week or so ago. What evidence is there of a report of 3 white...
prostitutes? Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen any.

I hypothesize that these plain clothes officers that didn't ID themselves were actually hunting for a young girl to rape, and after everything went sour concocted the other story for cover.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 07:35 PM
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9. I had a friend who was raped by three Detroit police officers. They then
made her strip naked, took her out to Belle Isle and dumped her. Belle Isle late at night is/was a very dangerous place. She was lucky that some kind hearted people picked her up instead of adding insult to injury. She was a virgin.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 08:46 PM
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11. did she file charges? I hope so.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 10:16 PM
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13. She didn't. Those years in Detroit, the police were untouchable.
If she tried, worse would have happened.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 02:49 AM
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20. Police everywhere are untouchable anymore, if they ever were.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend, I just wish I had never heard this story before. Cops excused for murder as a matter of course and written off as one of the many prices we pay to protect the parasite class.

"To serve the rich and protect the status quo". - LAPD motto

"The history of the great events of this world are scarcely more than the history of crime." - Voltaire


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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 09:26 AM
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26. The discipline in the force had broken down. There was violence between
the police and the sheriff's department over drug territory. It was a nasty place until the police chief was fired. Detroit was disintegrating, the police force was just a symptom of a general decay.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 09:55 AM
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28. "Belle Isle late at night is/was a very dangerous place"
Was. It's closed late at night now and well-patrolled. It's quite nice now.


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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 10:21 PM
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15. WTF
:wtf:
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-27-08 11:53 PM
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18. C'mon cop defenders! Spin this!
:grr:
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cabluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 09:48 AM
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27. Why do I not see more outrage about this criminal act here?
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 02:42 AM
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19. We can be so thankful that we don't live in some totalitarian police state, huh? n/t
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 03:02 AM
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21. What a horrible story.....
"Two hours later, Dymond Milburn was examined at the University of Texas Medical Branch emergency room and doctors found she had a sprained wrist, two black eyes, a bloody nose and blood in an ear, according to the lawsuit."


That poor kid! SOME police officers are really thugs with a badge. Some actually are good cops but the bad ones really make you distrustful. I know my son hates cops...he's a college student, never been in trouble a day in his life but gets pulled over constantly for what we call DWB (driving while black) stops. It's sick world out here.

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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 03:43 AM
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23. If there are so many good cops, why do they always help cover
up for the bad ones that give them all a bad name?
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 03:53 AM
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25. I can't answer that one tblue37...
but I can't think they are ALL bad. None of them should be covering up for rogue cops. That is wrong on every level.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 11:33 PM
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34. It's an in group, out group thing.
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kas125 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 03:12 AM
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22. Here's the complaint the family filed in court.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/08/26/GalvestonCops.pdf

Those thugs even threatened to shoot her puppy. That poor little girl will never be the same again and they need to pay for what they did to her.
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 03:50 AM
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24. Even if the guys had identified themselves as cops (Which they didn't)
Edited on Sun Dec-28-08 04:41 AM by truedelphi
A lot of kids have been told not to believe any strangers. Child molesters have used the ruse of being a cop - Gacy did that now that I think about it. He would dress up like a clown and appear at Rotary functions, as well.

Here's praying that both the girl and her father have the charges dropped against them.
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 11:35 AM
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31. The poor little girl
I hope that they win a lawsuit against the police, and those officers are put on suspension or fired for their abusive behavior.


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