Police officer in Raleigh
shooting not indicted
By HUNTER T OEOROE II
Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH (AP) ? A grand
jury's decision not to indict a
white Raleigh police officer in the
shooting of a black man was
"wicked and demonic," a New
York civil rights activist said in
calling for a second grand jury
probe.
"This is absolutely racist," the
Rev. A1 Sharpton said Tuesday.
"This goes back to the olden days
when if you're white you're right,
if you're black get back."
About 75 people marched in
front Of City Hall while Sharpton
urged city leaders to take respon
sibility to protect the public.
The marchers chanted "Stop
Killer Cops," "No Justice, No
Peace" and "Who's got to go?
Heincman's got to go. Glover's
got to go."
A Wake County grand jury
Monday refused to indict Raleigh
Police Detcctivc Jimmy Glover in
the shooting of television engi
neer Tony Farrell.
Raleigh Police Chief Freder
ick Heineman watched from the
rally from a second-story window,
waiting to address the city council
on another matter.
"These are people exercising
their Hirst Amendment rignts,
Heineman said. "The police arc
out there making sure they can do
that."
Heineman refused to com
ment on the case. Farrell was shot
the night of Jan. 24 while on his
way home from work. He was
shot after Glover, thinking the
man was a robbery suspect,
approached his car with a gun
drawn.
Farrell, not knowing the
plainclothes detective was an offi
cer, pulled his car out of traffic
and sped away. The officer, a 24
year veteran of the force, fired
into the car and wounded Farrell
in the leg.
After the shooting, a Raleigh
Police Department inquiry found
the detective had failed to use his
blue light and had failed to show
his identification during the
encounter.
"Why should Farrell obey
any white man who tells him to
get out of his car?" Sharpton
asked the crowd. "He should have
gotten out of the car and kicked
his butt."
David Foy, a member of a
group formed after the shooting
called Raleigh Citizens For Jus
tice, said they have filed a written
request in Washington to be
included in a nationwide Justice
Department investigation of
police brutality.
"It is my understanding that
Raleigh, North Carolina, is on
their list and they wUl be here
within 30 days," Foy said.
The federal investigations
were started at the request of U.S.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., in
the wake of alleged police brutali
ty against a black man in Los
Angeles. The investigation
includes 22 U.S. cities, which
have not been publicly identified,
according to the congressman's
office.
In his speech, Sharpton drew
similarities between the Raleigh
shooting and the incident in Los
Angeles. He said the Only differ
of the L.A. incident.
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Chronicle Staff Rooort
| :;; A Wta$ton?Salem man was
charged last Friday night in the
armed robbery filthy Kroger store
at 1925 Silas Creek Parkway.
Twenty-nine year-old Grady
Conway Parmon, of 1633 Marble
Street, is under an $80,000 bond
in the Fbrsyth County Jait charged
with taking $61 from the store
after telling an employee that he .
had a gun.
^ As of presstime no trial had
been set.
NAACP announces plans for
the Freedom Fund banquet
Chronicle Wire Report
On Sunday, Mar. 31, the Forsyth/Winston
Salem Branch of the NAACP completed plans
for its Annual freedom Fund Banquet, and
launched its mammoth county-wide program to
obtain 5000 new membership registrations by
^1992. _
The Annual Banquet program will be
power-packed with inspiration, education, and
promotion. The NAACP public relations strategy
is to sell its theme: black Awareness and Afro
American Togetherness For justice. Respect, and
Peace. The organization is concentrating on its
case against the city-county school board to
legalize a districting plan which will finalize
with a majority of black voting district.
, The banquet program will feature the Hon
. Arable Annie B. Kennedy, Slate Representative
?md senior partner in the law firm of Kennedy,
JCennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy as Keynote Speak
er, Also being recognized and honored are Mrs.
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Bessie Allen, prominent educator; and Mrs. Sal
lie Mitchell, civiLrights, human relations leader,
and community worker.
An honorary plaque and an NAACP Life
Membership will be given in memory and honor
of Pfc. Jerry Leon King, a local soldier killed in
Iraq, to his family (in the name of his mother,
Mrs. Vernelle King FaisonJ Several others will
be recognized at the Annual Banquet at Benton
Convention Center on Thursday, Apr. 18, at 7
p.m.
Fifteen hundred or more people are expcctcd
to attend the affair.
Tables are being reserved for churches, busi
ness enterprises, industry, institutions, and others
who may wish to exhibit their support for a wor
thy cause, they may reserve tables or secure ban
quet reservations and memberships by calling the
Rev. Joseph L. Nance Sr., president (home-922
4804, office-922-2538) or Mr. David Thompkins
(home-722-7578, office-727-8500) or the
NAACP office (748-1072).
Annie Brown Kennedy
Wife of Gulf War survivor charged with murder
By DAVID GOODMAN
Associated Press Writer
; DETROIT (AP) ? The shooting
;death of returning Persian Gulf War
;veteran Anthony Riggs set off a wave
;of fear and anguish about violent
tcrime on the nation's streets.
Bui the arrest of Riggs' wife and
?her brother in the slaying shows how
?most killings are family affairs, and
?experts say that should ease public
?concern about random violence.
? / "It's the wild, unpredictable attack
Ithat scares us," Robert Ressler, an FBI
^consultant on criminal psychology,
said Saturday. "Everybody's worried
about street crime. People were very
quick to jump on that case."
Riggs, a Las Vegas native, was
stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. When
he got off the plane from Saudi Arabia
on March 8, Toni Riggs told him she
wanted a divorce. They drove back to
Detroit, arriving March 17, where he
was to help her move, then return to
base.
On March 18, the 22-year-old
Army specialist was shot to death on a
Detroit street 10 days after returning
from Saiidi Arabia, where he had
served with a Patriot missile crew.
The slaying provoked an out
pouring of sympathy for Toni Riggs,
and distress over urban violence in
America.
James Brady, Ronald Reagan's
press secretary and a gun-control
advocate, told Congress that Riggs
survived an enemy overseas only to
succumb to "the enemy here at home
? random gun violence ? which
threatens our very existence and the
social fabric of this great country."
At Riggs' funeral, the Rev. Jesse
Jackson spoke over the 700 mourners
and directed his words at the White
House:
"Build a monument to him, Mr;
President ? a world where there is no
hate. Stop the violence."
The image of a returning war
hero struck down by random violence
began to crumble last week as police
arrested Riggs' brother-in-law,
Michael Cato, 19, and Riggs' wife,
Toni Cato Riggs, 22. They were jailed
pending a preliminary examination
Friday on first-degree murder charges.
Investigators cite a desire to col
lect on Riggs' more than $50,000 in
life insurance as a probable motive for
the murder.
Court records revealed last week
also showed Toni Riggs already was
married to another man at the time she
and Riggs wed in October 1989. She
didn't divorce her first husband until
13 months later.
Anyone surprised by the arrest
shouldn't have been, said Ressler, an
adjunct professor at Michigan State
University who spend 17 years devel
oping the FBI's psychological profil
ing system.
"A lot of this stuff is within the
family _ husbands, wives, boyfriends,
girlfriends," he said in a telephone
interview.
Ressler said homicide investiga
tors always remember what a fearful
public sometimes forgets _ most vio
lence occurs between relatives and
acquaintances.
The FBI's latest statistics show 54
percent of killers were related to or
acquainted with their victims. Only 13
percent of killers were known to be
complete strangers to their victims.
The rest were unknown or unsolved.
For the average person, the risk
of being killed by a stranger is "like
being struck by lightning," he said.
"You might comc down with leprosy,
too."
The arrest of family members in
Riggs' death was welcome news at
Detroit police headquarters, where
. investigators were undet pressure tq
solve a slaying seen as a blot on a city
? already stigmatized as pne of the
nation's most violent.
"I think everybody is happy we
vindicated the city," said homicide
Officer Ralph Openshaw, one of the
team that worked around the clock to
crack the case. Other community lead
ers were more restrained.
"It was a tragic situation no mat
ter how he was killed," said Paul Hub
bard, president of the civic group New
Detroit Inc., founded in the wake of
the city's 1967 riots.
Riggs' slaying may not point to a
wave of random lawlessness in Detroit
"but it highlights another problem ?
the problem of domestic violence,"
said City Councilman Keith Butler.
"Our streets arc still not safe,"
added Councilman Mel Ravitz. "We
still have enough violence to be
deeply concerned."
Jackson said he stands by the
message in his eulogy.
Students to attend a
model U.N. conference
Chronicle Wire Report
More than 150 college student
from North Carolina, Georgia, and
Canada will participate in the Second
Annual Model United Nations Con
ference being sponsored by Winston
Salem State University April 4-6.
~ Ttreronfferencerwhich wilh be
held at the Holiday Inn North, is a
program of the North Carolina Con
sortium for International and Intercul
tural Education.
"The purpose of the conference is
to enable students to actually experi
ence what it mean to deliberate topics
or issues that affect various countries
and their relationship with other coum
tries," said Donald MacThompson, a
professor in Winston-Salem State
University's social sciences depart
ment who is serving as the confer
ence's faculty coordinator.
"The conference makes it possi
ble for students to express their view
points on issues and to propose possi
ble solutions to some, if not all, of
them," MacThompson said. ?
Participating in the conference
are: Barber-Scotia College, Bennett
College, Elizabeth City STate Univer
sity, Fayetteville State University,
Johnson C. Smith Uixiyersit^^.C, ,
A&T State University, N.C. Central
University, Salem College, Savannah
State College, Shaw University, St.
Augustine's College, Trent University
(Ontario, Canada), Wake Forest Uni
versity, and Winston-Salem State Uni
versity.
Ambassador Larissa Kapitsa of
the Soviet Union will deliver the
keynote address, "The FUture of the
University Nations: Educating Citi
~ zens on the Role of the United
Nations." Kapitsa, who is chief of the
development analysis branch in the
Department of Economics and Social
Affairs at the United Nations in New
York, will speak at the opening ple
nary session, which wiltbe held from
5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 4, at
the Holiday Inn North. ,
More than 50 countries will be
represented by student-delegates who
will simulate the actual workings of
the United Nations' Security Council,
the peacemaking arm of the world
body.
? To prepare for the conference,
students have been studying docu
ments about each of their respective
countries that were provided by the
permanent missions to the United
Nations. "The students will be
espousing the official positions of
their country during the simulations,"
MacThompson explained.
Among the issues that will be
debated are: the Middle East, the civil
war in Liberia, apartheid in South
Africa, human rights violations in
Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the Inter
national Monetary Fund's attitude
0.tp^4,^f^pa and Latin America. . -
. <Xhe. Security Council and com
mittees will^eet throughout Friday
and Saturday.
An awards banquet and ceremo
ny will be held from 7-9 p.m. on Sat
urday at the Anderson Center on the
campus of Winston-Salem State Uni
versity. Keynote speaker will be Larry
Little, a Winston-Salem attorney.
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