Question: When "Confederate OUTCOMES" are produced by a given set of people that are products of a particular culture - is it unreasonable for me and others to contrast the reactions between TODAY and in the past when the original "Confederate Sympathizers" executed systematic witness intimidation and violent acts to - KEEP THEM IN THEIR PLACE?
The fact that certain "EQUAL" acts are printed in the history books or shown in "black and white Civil Rights film footage" does not make the gun shot or stab wound SUPERIOR to the modern day assaults which so many people are "sleeping through" TODAY.
Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
(Author Unknown - To the STREET PIRATE ATTACKERS Today Who Have No Consciousness)
AJC Story:
A “critical witness” in the trial of the man charged with killing a Grant Park bartender had his leg amputated Tuesday, further threatening the prosecution of the accused gang member, Fulton County’s District Attorney said.
The attack worries law enforcement officials, because this is at least the third time in the last four months where witnesses in cases against violent gang members have been attacked.
The witness, who was shot over the weekend while working on a car, “was very critical in our being able to connect the case to” defendant Jonathan Redding, a suspected member of the street gang 30 Deep, District Attorney Paul Howard said Wednesday.
Police are investigating the shooting of the witness to see if it was connected to the murder case. “But it doesn’t take a fool to see this is quite a coincidence,” said Howard, who added that the man was not a gang member and was, in fact, the victim in another attack.
The trial in the January 2009 shooting death of bartender John Henderson was scheduled to start Monday and was postponed until at least next month. Now a trial date is uncertain. “That’s really bad news for us,” said Howard.
The prosecutor pointed out that a witness in the recent murder trial of 30 Deep leader George “Keon” Redding, was beaten in jail while waiting to testify. Keon Redding, who is Jonathan’s cousin, was convicted last week of killing two men and wounding two others.
One of those men wounded had witnessed one of the killings and was shot four times by Keon Redding. That witness survived. Later, when he refused to testify, prosecutors arrested him and put him in jail. He later testified.
And last October, witnesses in a murder trial against several members of the so-called Nine Trey Blood were attacked while in the Fulton County jail.
Rico "Mookie" Maddox, a self-described Blood "soldier," testified that he was stabbed five times by a co-defendant for breaking the gang’s code of talking to police.
In fact, most of the gang members charged in the case had been labeled "food," which in gang parlance means, "You're dead," Maddox testified.
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