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3A NEWS/ The Charlotte Post Thursday, August 7, 1997 Discipline recommended for officers Continued from page 1A S odgkiss, associate attorney for le^ families, said this week. EjarUer this year, the city reached aji out-of-court settlement in the sjiooting death of Windy Gad ijiompson by officer Mark Fjarmer in December 1993. ■^e look at these issues that have arisen, most recently Carolyn Sue Boetticher, and that isDnly a measure of justice,” said kiihi^r Kobert Muhammad, the lialion of Islam’s leader in (iharlotte. “Certainly that is beyond nothing being done at all. 4u,t it does not appease the mass ed ;bf people. There seems to be season on black people in (jhilotte. i ^ “”It is imperative that we budd our own mechanism to seek jus tice for our people,” Muhammad said. “The Citizen Review Board is one piece, but only a step. We want a completely independent review board.” Farmer and Marlow have been cleared by local and federal inves tigations. The Cooper decision was annoimced Friday by the U.S. Justice Department, which said it fmmd no evidence to dis pute Marlow's assertion that he thought Cooper was reaching for a gun when the officer shot and kdled him after a traffic stop in east Charlotte. In the Boetticher case, an inter nal police review board, after a hearing last week, recommended that Jordan be fired. That recom mendation has been referred to the city’s Civd Service Board, as required by statute. A bullet from Jordan’s service weapon was identified as the one which struck Boetticher in the back of her neck, kfiling her. The board recommended that Belz be suspended for 30 days without pay for his part in the incident. Most of the bullets fired at Lirndys car entered the side and back of the vehicle as it passed the officers, who said they thought it was trying to run them down. Lundy, a former Columbia, S.C. businessman, WEIS uninjured. He has been charged with possession of a stolen auto and possession of cocaine in addition to assault on a police officer. Police Chief Dermis Nowicki concurred in both recommenda tions and both officers are cur rently serving suspensions. West Review board has 4 blacks f - - 1 o . 1.. . » nrt ... . 1_ jwo appointed by Qity manager Syfert dontinued from page 1A High, a retired court reporter; F^aon S. Kuester Sr., a retired nianager with American dyanamid and Kuester Hroperties Inc. and Brian David (Jott, a former Business Journal Importer who is a fund raiser for die American Cancer Society. Syfert appointed Fox and itarrison, plus John Robert Phillips, a former volunteer para- ipedic who is vice president of Qp^rations for QuaUty Equipment & Supply Co. ‘“yie were looking for good peo- ife* ; people who were good listen- ej$»;and good at gathering the fajJs,” McCrory said. “My goal i^s to make it a group of individ- i£w who are dedicated to finding (ftiOhe facts and giving a perspec- tjjgnutside the law agencies. jSji lot of qualified people were ijSrselected,” McCroiy said. “We leaked for people not in the spot- li^t...not political. I didn’t want tlii» board to be a jumping (ofi) ground for future pohticians.” City council included two blacks when it made five appointments. The council appointed African Americans Maxine Crowder- Wilson, director of the YWCA’s Alexander Street child develop ment center and Calvin Jackson, a CPCC forensics instructor. Whites George Daly, a lawyer; Bobby Miller, a retired Hoechst Celanese division vice president and Suzanne Varner, a bomemak- er and member of Calvary Church were also appointed. City council will appoint a chair man for the panel, which will review poHce actions in cases of deadly or excessive force, improp er search and seizure, improper arrest and unbecoming conduct. Citizens wiU bring complaints to tbe board if they are not satisfied with decisions made by the police Internal Affairs process. The board will only have powers to recommend actions to the city manager, who will convey them to the pohce chief It wfil also make reports from time to time on gen eral issues involving pohce and the community. Run, Jesse run in 2000? By Hillary Chura J’HE ASSOCIATED PRESS J CHICAGO - Two-time presi dential hopeful Jesse Jackson ^r. said Saturday he is consid ering a run for president in ^000. And his congressman son predicts Jackson will be in the mce. I Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., told the Chicago Sun-Times: “I ijiink he’ll run all the way” for tjie Democratic nomination. -The civil rights leader said he did not know of his son’s predic tion. “He has his opinion, which is shared by many, but I have dot made a decision to run right flow,” he said. \ “I know running involves the proper timing, proper organiza- fton and proper planning - many factors are involved,” he $aid. A decision was at least three weeks away, Jackson $aid. i Jackson ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1984 and 1988. He consid ered a run in 1996 but decided against it. > Rep. Jackson’s comments are Continued from page 2A journalist, Charlotte native Bea Thompson. •Alas, Fly has shed quite a few tears the last couple of weeks. Our favorite hangout. Big Plays, owned by everyone’s favorite Carolina Panther, Big Ray Seals was a victim of flood ing. Actually it was the victim of falling timbers, cement and sheet rock when a wall col lapsed during the Great Creek Flood of 1997. Anyway, Fly’s spies hears Ray didn’t have flood insurance and is wonder ing what to do next. Well Fly has the answer. Since Ray has been so good to us - all those free tickets, baby - we’re going to be good to you. Here’s a free list of places to move Big Plays: The old Roxy, formerly 1116 Fountain, formerly Le FountEim Bleu. Great neon, dance floor a little small, but Big Ray can afford to fix that. Good. The Capri 'Theater on Independence. Sure, it’s already sold, but hey, for Big Ray, anything’s possible. Or we could just build a club of our own, oops excuse me, his own. We like the University Area. Great location, lots of col ored folks. The citizens review board was estabhshed the city council in June after a community outcry over the pohce shooting of three unarmed blacks, including two women, in three years. o KINGSmRK . 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