Gothamist: Queens Man Arrested For 1971 Cop Killing

eyeroll

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:51:57 -0500

The Center for Criminal Constitutional Rights has issued a press release hitting all the usual hot buttons: Authorities in San Francisco today announced the arrests and indictments of former Black Panthers in the 1971 killing of police officer Sgt. John V. Young despite the use of torture to obtain confessions. Attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) compared the documented torture by law enforcement of Black Panthers arrested in New Orleans in 1973 to the documented torture the U.S. government has practiced recently at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. CCR Legal Director Bill Goodman said, “The case against these men was built on torture and serves to remind us that the U.S. government, which recently has engaged in such horrific forms of torture and abuse at places like Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, has a history of torture and abuse in this country as well, particularly against African Americans.”

huh

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:24:36 -0500

Someone with the name Francisco Torres was a member of the Black Liberation Army?? Why? Couldn't he find a hispanic terrorist group?

smitty

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:11:22 -0500

Nice guys: "A statement by the San Francisco police characterized Sergeant Young’s killing as a part of a “conspiracy to kill law enforcement officers” from 1968 to 1973, a plan that included the murders of two New York police officers, four attempted murders of law enforcement personnel, the bombing of a police officers’ funeral at a San Francisco church and the attempted bombing of another San Francisco police station, as well as three bank robberies, two here and one in Georgia."

edEx

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:08:09 -0500

while DNA has proven many men and women in jail are innocent... murder cases of old with little evidence resurface because murder cases have no statute of limitations.