[lbo-talk] MaxSpeak, You Listen!: CORY SI, TOOKIE NO

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> Sean Johnson Andrews wrote:
> > 
> > > Tookie Williams last words in the "chamber" according to an AP reporter.
> > > "You are killing an innocent man."
> > >
> > 
> > According to the reporters at the news conference afterwards, most of which
> > was broadcast this morning on Democracy Now, these weren't Tookie's words.
> > He didn't say anything in the chamber.  That statement was made by three of
> > his supporters, after the death was confirmed, as they left the chamber.
> > They would all then mention that, upon hearing this, the step mother of one
> > of the victims started crying after having shown no emotion up to that
> > point.
> 
> He wasn't innocent; he was black. And as a relative of a Pontiac Prison
> guard put it to me, in so many words, over 25 years ago, We have to get
> some of them. That is, it did not matter in the least whether those
> convicts accused of the murders were the guilty ones; it only mattered
> that they were convicts and black, and as long as some black convicts
> were punished, who cared whether they were the guilty ones.
> 
> Carrol

I haven't followed this case at all. Were the facts in the case questionable?

John Thornton (glad to be back home and away from TV)