Gothamist: Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell 4th Arrested for DUI

cool

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:52:11 -0500

is his brother Adam Clayton Powell? how does one become the IV after a II?

petebfd

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:30:25 -0500

sounds like a scumbag

Karen

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:00:59 -0500

I've met this jerk a few times in Albany. He's rude, selfish, sits there and takes cel phone calls while he's supposed to be meeting with you, deflects all talk of what his constituents are concerned with, to boast that Vanessa Williams played his stepmother in a movie he produced for HBO about his waste product father. Like father, like son.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:18:06 -0500

that's right, if we truly went by the one drop rule all of bensonhurst would be bed-stuy. hey, don't blame me, I didn't make up the one drop rule, it's been around forever, ask the founding Fathers. Thanks to CSPAN for African American month programming.

MFer

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:48:58 -0500

We need to stop being racist and judge people's blackness by the color of their skin. One drop of black blood = full fledge blackhoodom. Everyone knows this. In Sicily, they say ...

nik13

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:45:43 -0500

He certainly wasn't arrested for "driving while black", regardless of what Rev.Al will say.

nik13

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:45:01 -0500

He certainly wasn't arrested for "driving while black", regardless of what Rev.Al will say.

HughGass

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:26:27 -0500

he was arrested for drunk driving ... that's what he was arrested for. stop with the semantics. and he doesn't look black.

jaycjay

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:18:27 -0500

To many people get their definitions of legal terms like "arrested" from watching TV cop shows. "Arrested" does not mean "charged." He was arrested; he has not been charged. Essentially an arrest is a detainment for a substantial time (maximum time is set by law and can vary by jurisdiction); the subject is not free to leave and is held in custody while his possible involvement in a crime is investigated.

JenChungsBra

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:47:26 -0500

If you were in Colonie you'd want to get drunk too. I suppose the piece could say arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. But that would be redundant. Besides, he definitely is guilty of at least one crime: refusing to take a chemical sobriety test. So let's not treat him like some kind of persecuted saint. Especially when it's pretty obvious that he's a scumbag.

Goomba

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:38:32 -0500

Gotti was more of a man than this drunk or that traditore Giuliani!

r_friend

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:37:02 -0500

Panduh, I think you may be confusing "arrested" with "convicted"... He may not have been convicted of the charges yet, but he was indeed arrested.

Nick S

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:27:41 -0500

tell us more about the great things john gotti did, goomba.

Goomba

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:02:49 -0500

We thought Adam Clayton Powell was black. This guy is less black looking than Obama.

Jen Chung

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:56:16 -0500

All the news sources say he was arrested. And you'd think after the Colonie incident, he'd drink in his home, alone.

PanduhB

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:52:00 -0500

Harlem politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., was arrested for drunk driving on the upper West Side at 2:30 a.m. this morning Charges are still pending. You can't say "he was arrested for" as it hasn't been proved yet. It needs to say "He was arrested on charges of drunken driving." The Daily News article cites "police sources", so if you moved the "According to the Daily News" to the beginning of the paragraph, that would be better. As it is, there's no attribution. Just a suggestion to keep the up journalistic integrity of the site.