Wednesday Links
Hundreds Mourn Slain Officer in Brooklyn [NY Times] Promised Help Is Elusive for Some Homeowners [NY Times] Pending U.S. Home Sales Jumped in April [NY Times] FBI: New York Safest of All Big Cities [NY Post] Brooklyn Man Loses Leg to Livery Cab [NY Daily News] City Hotels Slashing Prices [NY Daily News] Bicycle Accident…

Hundreds Mourn Slain Officer in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Promised Help Is Elusive for Some Homeowners [NY Times]
Pending U.S. Home Sales Jumped in April [NY Times]
FBI: New York Safest of All Big Cities [NY Post]
Brooklyn Man Loses Leg to Livery Cab [NY Daily News]
City Hotels Slashing Prices [NY Daily News]
Bicycle Accident In Boerum Hill [Brooklyn Eagle]
Bed Stuy Girl Booted from Harvard over Shooting [AP]
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Someday this war is gonna end…
I hope so, too, M4L. Personally, I dislike the media hyped, Al Sharpton, or some other high profile activist at your side, noise-fest, as I think it doesn’t help one’s credibility or incourage the real facts to come out. I’d rather have stealth ninja lawyers and investigators who get results, the kind who will hunt the truth down, no matter where it takes them.
I’m still not seeing why she can’t walk at graduation. Because she knew somebody who was dating somebody who may have shot someone? Absurd. If that’s the criteria for walking at graduation, half the student body should be headed home, because the amount of people who know people who have illegally consumed drugs, encourage and participated in underaged drinking, cheated on exams, bought answers, plagerized, and done God knows what else, would leave about 100 students walking down to Harvard Yard.
The police shooting is horrible. I wonder if the public perception will ever change. White guy running with a gun: undercover cop. Black/Latino guy doing same: criminal. Until that changes, this will happen over and over.
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that’s why I was expecting her to fight back more than the article was implying / conveying. This is NOT a small slight by the university. This is effectively branding her guilty and not seeing where / how the university is holding anything back against her on this bad treatment. Hope she is fighting back big time behind the scene away from media spotlight.
The article infers that Harvard has absolutely no evidence that this girl had anything to do with the shooting. Assuming that the only thing she did “wrong” was know someone who knew someone else, then she shouldn’t even be involved in the case. Something stinks here, and I hope she gets some loud, obnoxious powerhouse lawyers to get her rights restored. Why isn’t this case national news?
Another thing that bugs me is the inference that just because she came from Bed Stuy, and considers herself poor, doesn’t automatically mean that she grew up surrounded by drugs and crime. The raised up from the dregs to the ivy towers story is good pr, but the girl went to Packer and has been around the elite for at least 8 years now. That would not be possible had she not had moral support and encouragement from family, and her own personal will to succeed, in addition to some serious smarts and intellect. You can get and do all of that in Bed Stuy without being surrounded by crime.
I hope this story has a happy ending, and she graduates, because no one should be convicted by the actions of twice removed aquaintances, and Harvard should be holding people like her up as role models, not scapegoats.
What sucks about the Harvard story is the university just started to recruit minorites in the past 4 years or so and I’m sure that will stop..immediately. As to the student not fighting enough—I’m sure she doesn’t want to go against a university with so much wealth and power. It’s my understanding that she’ll get her degree but just can’t walk.
And yes, she’s not walking b/c she’s blk. It’s really just that simple.
So honestly, Dave, are people expected to climb over the center console to their Driver’s seat through the passenger door? And how are we to put kids into carseats if there are more than one in back? Should we stretch over the first, while the second kid presumably waits to get placed, perhaps to run out into the street while we fumble with the first? We really have no choice but to venture to street side, nervously at times, while quickly getting them buckled in. I’m always nervous until I can shut the back door and hop in to the car. This story certainly heightens that worry.
I read somewhere that Rummy was a big fan of R.D. Lang.
best photo ever!
I LOVE that Rumsfeld quote, despite the man.