Trigg
12-03-2007, 07:20 AM
Previously they were calling for the head of the person who did this, now the guy MAY face additional punishment, but no criminal charges.
A firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and a threatening note with a drawing of a noose in an East Baltimore station house last month had placed the items there himself, city officials said yesterday.
The man was suspended last week for performance-related issues and will likely face additional punishment, fire officials said. Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for the Police Department and for Mayor Sheila Dixon, said the man admitted to the hoax and
will not face criminal charges.
Of course the NAACP had this to say.
"The reaction from the NAACP, the mayor and the Vulcan Blazers was sickening, and we're going to demand an apology."
But Marvin L. "Doc" Cheatham, president of the NAACP's Baltimore chapter, said the fact that such an incident could occur shows that pervasive racial problems persist in the department.
"It really saddens us to hear that evidently things have reached a stage that even an African-American does an injustice to himself and his own people as a result of a negative culture in that department,"
Yep, sure enough the poor guy had no control over himself, he was forced into this by the negative culture.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.ci.probe02dec02,0,5563956.story?coll=bal_tab01_ layout
A firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and a threatening note with a drawing of a noose in an East Baltimore station house last month had placed the items there himself, city officials said yesterday.
The man was suspended last week for performance-related issues and will likely face additional punishment, fire officials said. Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for the Police Department and for Mayor Sheila Dixon, said the man admitted to the hoax and
will not face criminal charges.
Of course the NAACP had this to say.
"The reaction from the NAACP, the mayor and the Vulcan Blazers was sickening, and we're going to demand an apology."
But Marvin L. "Doc" Cheatham, president of the NAACP's Baltimore chapter, said the fact that such an incident could occur shows that pervasive racial problems persist in the department.
"It really saddens us to hear that evidently things have reached a stage that even an African-American does an injustice to himself and his own people as a result of a negative culture in that department,"
Yep, sure enough the poor guy had no control over himself, he was forced into this by the negative culture.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.ci.probe02dec02,0,5563956.story?coll=bal_tab01_ layout