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Tony Brown's
COMMENTS
tWieieHas Our Morality Gone?
On a drizzly Monday afternoon
in Northeast Washington, D.C.,
tt-year-old Catherine Fuller, the
wife of David Fuller, and the
mother ofsix, went to the store to
buy medicine for a sore ankle.
Tins 99-pound, 4-foot-U Black
wonaitn with pink rollers in her
hair was spotted by a gang
jgroup in this poor Black area of a
•city dominated by Black-elected
Monday, October l, 1984,
Tioweyer, will not be a day to
celebrate the victory of the first
Black mayor - or any other
notable event. Instead, it will
burn into the collective Black
jwyche a dangerous benchmark
in our perpetual sojourn for
Justice.
As this nightmare unfolded,
the gang of young-adults blocked
her passage home, shoved her
into an alley, banged her with
their fists, kicked her and
robbed her of the $50 she had
bidden in her bra. Then they
^stripped her and dragged her, "
Over broken glass, into an empty
^.garage.
With a crowd of 30 watching,
pushing and shoving to see
better, about 12 were trying “to
get their licks in” and their share
of the coins. A six-foot-six, 235
pound, 26-year-old Black man,
assisted by two others, grabbed
ana held her legs open.
Levy Rouse, witnesses say,
shoved a one-foot iron pole up the
fbeaton, frail woman’s rectum.
Others screamed “let me see”
and “push it in further.”
It penetrated so deep that her
liver and internal organs Were as
severly harmed as internal
damage received from the
impact of a high-speed car
accident. Politely, the coroner
pronounced death from
“multiple bhmt-force” injuries.
Timothy Catlett, 20, called
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“Snot Rag,” admitted, “I only
beat and kicked the lady....”
Witnesses say that he also said,
“Levy stuck that thing up her
because she wasn’t acting'
right.”
Eight of these animals have
been convicted. Some may get
about 20 years in jail (16
actually). Their parents are
crying all over television about
what good boys, and in one case,
what a “Christian” lady, they
are.
The next wave of experts are
going to explain their unemploy
ment, their underclass status
that deprives them of hope, the
drugs that made them do it, the
babies they have fathered out of
wedlock and the racism that is
ultimately responsible for any
unexplained behavior of the
Black-poor. Most poor people are
law abiding.
There is not enough space for
me to explain how little I think of
fiipd^Qtfcer ready-made
excuses we nave for the behavior
of two-legged animals:
There is no appropriate justice
for carnage of this type in the
court of law. And too many know'
it. Which is one reason they rob,
assault, rape and impale in
broad daylight before cheering
throngs.
We’ve lost our way as a people.
Benjamin Banneker,. the
African-American who Laid out
Washington, D.C., weeps for the
blood of this Black woman that
was spilled on his streets.
And Frederick Douglass,
Harriett Tubman and Martin
Luther King did not fight - and
die - for our new immorality.
TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL
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