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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 08:41 AM
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The latest chuckle from the union "beating" case in St. Louis
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/200908210006


The latest chuckle from the union "beating" case in St. Louis

August 21, 2009 9:10 am ET by Eric Boehlert


Hmm, maybe if Kenneth Gladney's attorney weren't so busy appearing on sympathetic media outlets telling tales about union "thugs" attacked Gladney outside a recent town hall forum, embarrassing mishaps like this wouldn't be producing so many chuckles .

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

A conservative African-American social networking group set out Monday morning to criticize the city's NAACP chapter for not supporting a black man who said he was beaten outside a forum on aging earlier this month.

But the effort was cut short when the head of the civil rights group showed up at the news conference and said that no one had asked the NAACP to investigate the claims.

"The St. Louis branch of the NAACP will and does accept and investigate all written complaints filed with us, regardless of the complainant's ideology," said Claude Brown Sr., president of the St. Louis City NAACP. "We regret that a group has decided to protest outside our office before contacting us or filing such a complaint."


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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 08:48 AM
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1. Most victims of assault go to the cops, not the newspapers
I wonder why Mr. Gladney isn't letting the professionals handle the investigation and any subsequent prosecution, instead of running around in front of every camera with a red light on top of it?
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 09:03 AM
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2. Ken Gladney is the new Phil Parlock.
Remember him?
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-21-09 10:28 AM
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3. Oh yeah
Funny, we haven't heard anything from Mr. Parlock for a while. I wonder why nobody's picking on him anymore? Or, more properly, I wonder why he's not staging his own oppression anymore?
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