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In Ronnie Cornett's 2004 day planner, there was a curious entry for Dec. 2. Affixed to that page was a small black sticker that read, simply, "Special Event," Kentucky State Police Detective Monte Owens told jurors this morning.
There were no other entries after that date.
That planner was one more piece of evidence Owens said police gathered at Cornett's girlfriend's Sea Biscuit Drive apartment on the morning of Dec. 2 that shows the "special event" Cornett had planned was the murder of his ex-wife Kathleen Cornett, attorney Eileen O'Brien and Family Court ... Read more
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NAACP Official: Police-Miscond
Videotaped evidence of police misconduct will help the NAACP document trends, but will also help in court, said James Bible, president of the organization’s Seattle-King County branch.
Bible spoke Saturday as part of the weekend gathering of the Alaska-Oregon-Washington NAACP state conference, hosted by the Bremerton NAACP branch and the organization’s local youth council.
The national organization has launched an online effort to make it easier to document cases of police misconduct, which the NAACP plans to use to gather data to support policy changes in law enforcement.
“This is just a tool that will give us the power to advocate for change,” said Niaz Kasravi, who represented the organization’s national office in Bremerton to discuss the NAACP’s “Rapid Reporting” program.
Someone with videotaped evidence on a cell phone or other recorder can submit it online or e-mail an account of the incident.
Closer to home, Bible said locals need to be active in seeking videotaped evidence when misconduct is suspected. While there are a growing number of cell-phone videos, Bible said there’s also an increasing amount of institutional sources that can provide proof.
“It’s also about those cameras located in stores, gas stations and the like,” he said.
He told of a story of a King County man in a wheelchair who was arrested in a Rite-Aid for drug possession. The man was a known drug dealer, but on that occasion he said the drugs had been planted on him by police. The store’s video cameras backed him up.
Mack Murray, also with the Seattle-King County chapter and a retired University of Washington professor of law and political science, reiterated Bible’s admonitions to gather solid evidence.
“The real remedy we have is the system itself. The system works on proof,” he said.
Bible also told the about two dozen attendees Saturday afternoon to be conscious of the union contract negotiations for police officers, because accountability measures can become part of those contracts.
Conference attendees gathering at the Comfort Inn event shared successes and asked questions of each other and heard discussions about health and education issues in the black community.
The weekend conference also spent considerable focus on youth organizations, according to Joan Ferebee, president of the Bremerton NAACP branch.
James Parks, youth advisor for the three states and member of the Yakima branch, spoke to students who traveled to the event, training on the mission of the NAACP and how to organize new chapters.
The three-day conference concludes today following a morning worship service led by Bishop Larry Robertson of the Emmanuel Apostolic Church.
Gregg Peterson, chapter president of Oregon’s Salem-Keizer NAACP branch, said the event provided “a lot of valuable information for how we can better advocate.”
Oscar Eason, a Tacoma branch member who was re-elected president of the three-state organization Saturday, said discrimination in the Pacific Northwest is unique. The African-American community is smaller, compared to East Coast cities, which means people of color have to be closer to be effective, he said.
Eason said the NAACP is not about making other people fall in position, but to end discrimination and to try to lift communities on the wrong side of wealth and education gaps.
“As long as there is discrimination there will be a need for the NAACP,” he said.
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