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March To Protest Award To
Officer Involved In Shooting
Ingrams
Outraged
Over Award
To Officer
A Raleigh police officer who shot
and killed an unarmed man during
a drug raid last November was one
of the many law enforcement offi
cers honored at a regional police
association ceremony, and the fam
ily of the victim is outraged.
The fifth annual Outstanding
Performance ceremonies of the
Raleigh/Wake Chapter of the N.C.
Police Benevolent Aseodatian was
held at the Raleigh Hilton Hotel last
Wednesday night. Raleigh Police
Officer Vincent Kerr was cited for
killing 35-year-old Ivan Lorenzo
Ingram on Carver Street on Nov. 8,
1991.
Ingram, who had no weapon, no
drugs, and no alcohol or drugs in his
system, was shot once in the chest
with a 12-gauge shotgun after, ac
cording to Kerr, he allegedly made a
move toward the officer while he
was protecting several other officers
during the raid.
Many in Raleigh’* African-Ameri
can community, and especially the
attorney for Ivan Ingram’s family,
dispute Officer Kerr’s version of the
•hooting. A W^ke grand jury cleared
Oficer Kerr of any criminal wrong
doing several weeks go.
In honoring Kerr, Sgt Jeffrey
Fluck, head of the PBA, ie quoted as
saying; TKerrJhad no regard for his
personal consequence. His thoughts
were tar his frllow officers.”
According to Roylene Smith,
Ingram’s cousin, this latest chapter
has eo upset Ingram’s mother that
(See COP HONORED, P.2)
GRAND JURY HANDS
DOWN INDICTMENTS
The ovur, hia son, and the
plant manager of the Impe
rial Foods chicken process
ing plant that caught (ire last
September, killing 26 work
ers, were all indicted by a
Richmond County grand jury
Monday on a total of 76
counts of involuntary man
slaughter.
Emmett J. Roe, the owner,
along with Brad Roe, opera
tions director, and James
Neil Hair, the plant manager,
ware each charged with one
count per person killed in the
Hamlet blase. They face a
leaimm of 10 years in
prison for each count. The
indictments came down altar
several people, including
investigating agents of the
State Bureau of Invertiga
tion, testified to fire doors
locked, emergency exits
blocked, and no sprinkler
systems or fire alarms.
PANEL DENIES GOP
REDISTRICTING SUIT
The N.C. Republican Party
failed Monday to have now
voting districts drawn by the
General Assembly ruled un
constitutional. A three-judge
federal panel, while agreeing
that the oddly shaped con
figurations were strange in
design, nonetheless found
that they did not violate vot
ers’ rights. The GOP had
ohaiged that the new dis
tricts^ drawn to ensure blaok
voting strength in oongres
"the Democratic controlled
General assembly picking
(80s NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
NAACP PROTEST-North CaroNna Confederate Flag Day
was denounced rocantly during a iHont vlgH at tha capftol.
The flag It the target at an NAACP resolution to have tha
pennant removed from the state capital buildings and state
flags. After the CivN War the Ku Klux Klan adopted the
pennant as its standard and today is considered offensive
to African-Americans. Holding the banner of N.C. Youth
and College division of the NAACP are Mary E. Perry,
president, WendeN-Wake Chapter of the NAACP and
Charles Bullock. (Photo by Sherman Jenkins)
Court Dates Near For
Two Local Teenagers
BY CASH MICHAELS
Contribatlng Writer
Sixteen-year-old Lorenzo McCoy
and 16-year-old Willie Morris Bar
nes don’t know each other, but they
have a lot in common. They're both
16, they’re both African-American
males, and they’re both finding
themselves entangled with the
criminal justice system in situ
ations that many in the community
find all too common, all too unfair...
and all too tragic.
Both young men are scheduled to
go to court within the next two
weeks to answer to criminal charges
that may ruin the rest of their lives
and many in Raleigh’s African
American community are preparing
to mobilize to show solid support.
Lorenzo McCoy will appear in
Wake District Court on Tuesday,
March 17, to answer to charges
stemming from an incident at
Crabtree Valley Mall. McCoy was
allegedly struck several times by a
Crabtree security officer on Jan. 26
after he and two friends were told to
leave the mall for allegedly loiter
ing.
Though McCoy was charged with
assault on a government official (a
security guard), resisting arrest and
trespassing, a subsequent investi
gation by the Raleigh Human Re
sources Department uncovered evi
dene* of an unwritten policy to un
fairly target black youth at the mall.
A report baaed on that investigation
from the city’s Human Resources/
Human Relations Advisory Com
mission also concluded that mall
security, and particularly the chief
of security, did not handle the situ
ation properly as a result of that
policy.
Based on those findings, many in
the African-American community,
including the head of the local
NAACP, have called for all charges
to be dismissed against McCoy.
Sources have told The CAROLIN
IAN of plans to picket the court, as
well as attending the trial as a show
of support.
“Mr. McCoy should never have
been charged. We expect the
charges to be dropped,* said Rev.
H.B. Pickett, president of the
Raleigh-Wake Branch of the
NAACP.
Citizens are also closely watching
the case of Willie Barnes. Barnes
was convicted of two counts of verbal
threats and three counts of assault,
all stemming from a Nov. 15,1991
incident at Enloe High School.
Three administrators at the school'
filed the charges against Barnes
after questioning him about a bro
ken BB gun he allegedly brought to
school. They never saw the BB gun,
but when they refused to call
Willie’s parents before trying to
search him, a struggle ensued when
they grabbed the teen as he was
trying to leave the school.
Though the five charges had noth
ing directly to do with the broken BB
gun, District Court Judge Anne B.
Salisbury, a former Wake County
teacher, found him guilty of all five
charges and sentenced him to two
years in the Youth Correctional
Center.
Supporters say that given the
teen’s clean background, good
home, good grades and the fact that
the school superintendent had re
turned Willie to school, he should
have been tried on the charges, not
on the broken BB gun. His case will
be appealed to Superior Court on
Monday, March 30.
NAACP Reports Project Fair
Share Agreements Beneficial
Fred H. Rasheed, the director of
the NAACPe Economic Develop
ment Department, after an ex
tended and comprehenaive survey
of companies that have signed Fair
Share agreements with the associa
tion, has reported that these agree
ments have produced an extraordi
nary flow of economic benefits to the
African-American community.
Over a five-year period,
1086-1090, these benefits have ex
ceeded soma $47 billion, affecting
not only minority entrepreneurs
and professionals, but employees
who have been provided upper
mobility at the companies, Rasheed
said.
Die analysis was prepared by the
NAACPs Economic Development
Department from information sub
mitted by the participating compa
nies.
More than 50 major corporations
have signed the agreements but the
analysis of results was confined to
only those companies who have
signed Fair Share Agreements dur
ing the period September 1982
through December 1989.
“I am elated at the encouraging
results of our efforts that have sig
nificantly contributed to the eco
nomic strength of African-Ameri
cans. We are committed tp enlarg
ing those efforts—even with ouf
limited resources,” Dr. Benjamin L.
Hooks, the NAACPs executive di
rector, said.
Operation Fair Share was initi
ated by the NAACP in 1981 to en- „
sure that a fair share of the dollars
spent by African-American consum
ers are reinvested back into their
(See FA$ SHARE, P.2)
Tony Brown To Speak
At Shaw Divinity Event
The Shaw Divinity school will
celebrate the 59th anniversary of its
founding at a special Pounder’s Day
Convocation to be held at 7 p.m. on
March 17 in the Shaw Divinity
School Chapel at Rush Street, near
Old Gamer Road in Southeast
Raleigh.
Tony Brown, nationally syndi
cated columnist and television host
of “Tony Brown’s Journal," will be
the Founder’s Day speaker.
The Founder’s Day observance
will begin on Sunday with the sev
enth annual Sarah Turner Tuypper
Banquet, to be held at 6:30 p.m. in
the banquet hall of the Student
Union Building, Shaw University.
The Hon. Marian E. Covington,
Grand Worthy Matron, Order of the
Eastern Star, PHA Jurisdiction of
North Carolina, will be the speaker.
The public is invited. Tickets may be
secured at the Shaw Divinity
School.
Dr. J.B. McLester of Durham,
past president of the Woman’s Bap
tist Home and Foreign Missionary
Convention, and Dr. Lorine McLeod
of Fayetteville, are chairperson and
co-chairperson, respectively, of the
Sarah Turner Tupper Banquet
Committee of the Board ofTrustees.
Rev. Helen McLaughlin, director of
King Statue
Defaced By
Vandals Here
BY CASH MICHAELS
Contributing Writer
In what many in Raleigh’s Afri
can-American community feel was
an apparent retaliation for the de
facing of the state Capitol’s Confed
erate memorial, the statue of civil
rights leader Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr. was marred early Sunday
when vandals threw a quart of white
latex paint on the monument.
According to the Raleigh Police
Department, the incident occurred
at approximately 6:15 a.m. on Sun
day at the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memorial Gardens at the corner of
Rock Quarry Road and Martin Lu
ther King, Jr. Boulevard.
Police say the defacing was dis
covered shortly after it occurred
because the paint was still wet and
no other areas of the gardens were
touched or marred, leaving authori
ties to believe that the vandal or
vandals were in a hurry. The King
statue was cleaned off after police
finished their on-site investigation.
As The CAROLINIAN went to
(See KING STATUE, P. 2)
TONY BROWN
recruitment and women’s concerns,
Shaw Divinity School, is coordina
tor.
The annual meeting of the Na
tional Alumni Association will be
held at 3 p.m. Monday, March 18, in
the Shaw Divinity School Chapel.
Dr. Leo Williams, executive secre
(See FOUNDER’S DAY, P. 2)
CRIME
BEAT
Editor’s Note: This column, a
fixture of The CAROLINIAN in
years past, has returned to our
pages in hopes of deterring
crime in our ooimmunity. The
information contained herein is
taken from public arrest rec
ords and does not necessarily
mean those mentioned are
guilty of crimes.
NABBED FOR FORGERY
Thirty-five-year-old Valtina
Bronson, 19 S. Pettigrew St., was
arrested and charged with two
counts of forgery on Monday at a
bank located at 2235 New Hope
Church Road. The alleged forgery is
said to have occurred between 3 and
3:17 p.m.
GENERATOR LIFTED
Adrian Bernard Griffin, 1306
Branch St., was arrested and
charged with larceny/shoplifting
Monday. The reported offense oc
curred at a business located at 4500
(See CRIME BEAT, P. 2)
Raleigh-Apex NAACP Freedom Fund
Banquet To Honor Harvey Gantt
The Baleigh-Apex Branch of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People will
recognize Harvey Gantt, former
mayor of Charlotte, at its annual
Freedom Fund banquet at Shaw
University on Saturday, March 21,
at 6 p.m.
The NAACP will also honor long
standing N AACP members and offi
cers and local winners of
McDonald’s “Black History Makers
of Tomorrow” program.
A welcoming reception, featuring
Gantt and other program attendees,
will precede the banquet at 5 p.m. in
Shaw University’s James E. Cheek
Library.
Gantt, a Charleston, S.C. native
and 1990 Democratic candidate for
the U.S. Senate, will be the event’s
keynote speaker. Gantt served as
Charlotte’s mayor from 1983 to
1987, following many years as a
Charlotte City Council member and
a career as an architect.
Gantt received his bachelor’s
degree in 1966 from Clemeon Uni
versity, after becoming Clemson’s
first black student in 1963. He re
ceived his master’s degree in 1970
(from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Gantt has lectured at a
variety of institutions including
Yale, North Carolina State Univer
sity, the University of North Caro
lina at Charlotte, and the Univer
HARVEY GANTT
«ity of Michigan.
A co-founder of Gantt Huberman
Architects, Gantt has designed
numerous buildings across ths
Carolinas, including the Winston
Lake YMCAin Winston-Salem, the
Campus Hills Recrsation Center in
Durham and UNCC student hous
ing. Hs is a member of the Board of
Trustees of Frisndship Baptist
Church and serves on various com
munity boards.
“Each year, the Raleigh-Apex
branch of the NAACP searches for
just the right person to inspire our
members to continue to be active
community citizens,’’ said Kenneth
Wilkins, Wake County register of
deeds and chairperson for the ban
quet. “Mr. Gantt has lived in the
Carolines most of his life—people
from this area have grown up re
specting him and everything that he
has done. We couldn’t think of a
more appropriate speaker to discuss
how the NAACP can make a differ
ence in the ’90s."
As part of the Freedom Fund
Banquet program, apecial guests
such as Dr. Talbert O. Shaw, presi
dent of Shaw University, and Dr.
P.R. RoBineon, president of St.
Augustine’s College, will discuss the
importance of the NAACP and rec
ognize the NAACP Mother of the
Year. In addition, the five local
winners of the McDonald’s “Black
History Makers of Tomorrow” pro
gram—an educational program
that honors outstanding high
school juniors who have demon
strated exceptional leadership,
character and scholarship, along
with the potential to be ftiture black
history maker—will read excerpts
from their award-winning eeaays.
Almost 400,000 Americans of all
races are members of the NAACP.
The NAACP is the largest vicil
rights organisation in the world,
and the largest secular citizens’ ac
tion agency in the nation.