Tampa police lieutenant fired for untruthfulness after complaining he was targeted for his race
Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
TAMPA — A Tampa police lieutenant who filed a federal complaint saying he was a victim of racial discrimination has been fired because he was untruthful in that complaint, police officials said Friday.
Dwayne “D.J.” Johnson, 42, who joined the force in 1994, was terminated Friday morning after an internal affairs investigation determined he misrepresented the [...]
Police chief fires back at university president
Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by Jim Ellison in Education, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
Here is just another “Chimp out” moment, this time in Daytona, Fl. This is a college folks, a place of “Higher” learning. It’s a disgrace and an abomination. The attempted cover-up is deplorable. It’s funny how no matter hard the Judean media tries to hide this violent and barbaric race of people, its fails badly. [...]
Tampa police say man took kids to drug deal, hid cocaine in his buttocks
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Jim Ellison in Hidden Crimes, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
TAMPA — Police say a 30-year-old man took his children with him to a cocaine deal Friday night and then tried to hide the drugs in his buttocks.
About 10:40 p.m., police used an informer to set up a drug buy with Leroy Filmore at the Oasis Motel, 6720 N Nebraska Ave.
When he arrived in the [...]
Ex-Judge to Stand Trial on Sex Charges
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Top Stories
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Oct. 4) — Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. The respected circuit judge once was the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama.
Then his career collapsed under allegations that he brought [...]
White Racialist Cookout in North Carolina
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Jim Ellison in Events, Jim Ellison
On Saturday, November 7, from 12pm until 7pm, there will be a White Racialist Cookout in North Carolina, approximately halfway between Morganton and Shelby NC.
All White Racialists are invited, regardless of group or affiliation. Families are welcome, so feel free to bring your spouse and/or children. We’ve never had trouble from law enforcement, protestors, [...]
Neo-Nazis, anti-racism groups face off in Mpls.
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Jim Ellison in Events, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
“I find it amazing how only four uniformed white men on a “mission” can hurl a city into a slobbering multicultural panic. The local headlines exclaim that only four MSN members were surrounded by hundreds of angry anti-racist. Sadly, I did not see one article written in their (NSM) favor, not that I really expected [...]
Community mobilizes to oppose neo-Nazi rally in Minneapolis
Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Top Stories
What kind of self respecting “white” person would purposely attend a class that promotes the “white privilege” canard? I find this class apprehensible and sinister since I am sure it will facilitate white guilt further. I for one am glad that the NSM will be there to illustrate our disdain for this pogrom towards [...]
Radio host Mark Larsen wears blackface after Obama win
Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Free Speech, Jim Ellison
It didn’t take long for the first racially controversial routine to emerge in local media following the landmark success of Barack Obama’s election Tuesday as the nation’s first black president.
The moment came at 6 a.m. this morning, when WWBA-AM (820)morning man Mark Larsen, who is white, dressed in blackface makeup at the start of his [...]
Zimbabwe on the brink of new crisis as food runs out
Posted on 07. Oct, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Economy, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
As President Mugabe and opposition MDC leaders wrangle over cabinet appointments, millions face starvation in a catastrophe created by economic chaos and the dramatic collapse of commercial farms.
Six months after the elections, Zimbabwe still lacks a functioning government and is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Following the worst wheat harvest since the independence [...]
Woman loses fingertip in Tampa meat market brawl
Posted on 09. Jul, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Top Stories
TAMPA — The first time Jacqueline Wimbush got into a fight and lost a fingertip, doctors managed to save it.
Not this time.
Wimbush, who has a history of brawling, lost the tip of her left ring finger to another woman at a busy East Tampa meat market Monday.
“Right now it’s gone, and there’s nothing I can [...]
Despite crowd, no witness will discuss police shooting
Posted on 12. Jun, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
ST. PETERSBURG — Frustrated and desperate for leads, police on Wednesday issued an unusual public plea for eyewitnesses to Saturday night’s shooting of a teenager by a police officer outside a chaotic graduation party.
More than 250 teenagers attended the party, but not one has stepped forward to say what happened to Javon Dawson. Even [...]
Details of teen’s shooting released
Posted on 10. Jun, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Gun Control, Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
ST. PETERSBURG — A 17-year-old Gibbs High School student who was killed outside a chaotic graduation party Saturday night was trying to flee when he pointed his revolver at a police officer, who then shot him dead, police said Monday.
Police also released a photograph of the snub-nosed revolver they said they found near Javon [...]
First they came for the cartoonists
Posted on 19. May, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Free Speech, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A Dutch political cartoonist is facing possible hate crimes charges.
The cartoonist, who works under the pseudonym Gregorius Nekschot, was arrested Tuesday and held overnight before being released.
Officials say a criminal investigation is continuing into whether Nekschot’s work targets people because of their race or religion.
Nekschot is known primarily for cartoons mocking [...]
Killer who used samurai sword gets 40 years in prison
Posted on 17. May, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
TAMPA — For killing a man with a samurai sword, Willie Tarpley Jr. received a 40-year prison sentence Friday.
Tarpley, 47, claims he wanted only to protect his young daughters from their mother’s new sex offender boyfriend and never meant to kill on May 12, 2007.
But a jury convicted him of second-degree murder in April. At [...]
Jury convicts teen in officer’s shooting
Posted on 06. Apr, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
TAMPA — Despite a less-than-perfect investigation, jurors found DeAndre Jamal Wallace guilty Thursday of shooting Hillsborough sheriff’s Detective Christopher Baumann after an undercover training session turned violent.
Wallace, 19, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for the attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer when he is sentenced May 8.
“It’s very difficult for [...]
In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
Posted on 21. Feb, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Top Stories
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about [...]
Wesley Snipes Cleared of Serious Tax Charges
Posted on 01. Feb, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Top Stories
OCALA, Fla. — A federal jury returned a mixed verdict against the actor Wesley Snipes on Friday, acquitting him of the most serious tax charges he faced, but convicting him on three of six lesser charges. The case was the most prominent tax prosecution since the billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley was convicted of tax fraud [...]
Howard Judge Rejects Deal In Crash That Killed Two
Posted on 01. Feb, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Immigration, Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
A Howard County judge rejected a plea agreement yesterday that called for a sentence of up to eight years for a 26-year-old man accused of killing a Marine and his date in a drunken-driving accident on Thanksgiving night in 2006.
Circuit Court Judge Lenore Gelfman did not explain her opposition to the prosecution’s agreement with [...]
Indy Police: 4 Killed in Drug Robbery
Posted on 31. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
INDIANAPOLIS — Four suspects plotted to steal drugs from a house knowing the only adults inside were two women, who were gunned down along with the young children they held in their arms, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
Prosecutors also requested additional time to file formal charges against the four men arrested in the slaying. [...]
Ex-NFL Player Finds Trouble Again
Posted on 30. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
TULSA, Okla. (Jan. 29) – Former NFL player Alonzo Spellman was arrested Tuesday after Tulsa police fired pepper-spray pellets into his car following a nearly 20-minute chase.
Spellman was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on complaints of eluding, assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, resisting arrest and driving without a license, jail [...]
Ten-finger Fingerprint Scan To Enter U.S.A.
Posted on 29. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Science and Technology, Top Stories
Security screening for arriving passengers has been stepped up yet again at American airports with the implementation of 10 finger fingerprint scans.
Last week, Logan airport, in Boston, became the third US airport to install the 10-finger scanners. Dulles airport, which serves Washington, DC, began using the devices in November and Atlanta airport began this month. [...]
Hitting a nerve on race, stereotypes
Posted on 29. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
One of the first calls Sundeep Bhatia received Monday was from the principal at Dorsey High, a few blocks from his South Los Angeles 7-Eleven store.
Bhatia is the store owner I wrote about Saturday after his 7-Eleven was hit by a group of rowdy kids last week on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. [...]
‘Web of deceit’ traps felon
Posted on 29. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
He gets 40 years for a murder for hire plot and firearm.
TAMPA – A federal jury didn’t believe Robert Covington when he testified at trial that wanting to hire someone to kill his ex-girlfriend was just a joke.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge James Whittemore told Covington that he didn’t believe lots of things the [...]
Brattleboro to vote on arresting Bush, Cheney
Posted on 29. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Free Speech, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.
The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day [...]
Germany Confronts Holocaust Legacy Anew
Posted on 29. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Top Stories
BERLIN — Most countries celebrate the best in their pasts. Germany unrelentingly promotes its worst.
The enormous Holocaust memorial that dominates a chunk of central Berlin was completed only after years of debate. But the building of monuments to the Nazi disgrace continues unabated.
On Monday, Germany’s minister of culture, Bernd Neumann, announced that construction could begin [...]
2 Charged in NYC Hate Crime Cases
Posted on 28. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Top Stories
NEW YORK — Authorities arrested a man they say had an arsenal in his apartment and was charged with spray-painting swastikas and spreading fliers reading “Kill All Jews” and “US hates you” around his Brooklyn neighborhood in September.
At a news conference on Sunday, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes said the man, Ivaylo Ivanov, had [...]
Episcopal church agrees to ‘resist’ illegal alien laws
Posted on 27. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Immigration, Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
Virginia Episcopalians tangled over immigration yesterday, finally passing a resolution committing the 86,000-member diocese to resisting the “criminalization of persons providing humanitarian assistance to migrants.”
Meeting at the Reston Hyatt for their annual council meeting, Episcopalians passionately debated whether they should “resist legislation and actions that violate our fundamental beliefs as Christians.”
Holocaust Museum Starts Arabic Web Site
Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Israel & Jewish Issues, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Holocaust memorial launched an Arabic version of its Web site Thursday, including vivid photos of Nazi atrocities and video of survivors’ testimony, to combat Holocaust denial in the Arab and Muslim world.
Among those featured on the Yad Vashem site is Dina Beitler, a survivor of the Nazi genocide that killed 6 [...]
Arun Gandhi Quits Peace Institute in Flap Over Blog Posting
Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Israel & Jewish Issues, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
Jewish identity is “locked into the holocaust experience,” which Jews “overplay . .
The grandson of Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi resigned yesterday as president of the board of a conflict resolution institute after writing an online essay on a Washington Post blog calling Jews and Israel “the biggest players” in a global culture of violence. [...]
An uneasy question for the Tuskegee Airmen
Posted on 26. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Hidden Crimes, Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories, War Coverage
It is an enduring legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, repeated by Hollywood, presidents and by the pioneering black pilots themselves:
They never lost a bomber they escorted in air-to-air combat during World War II.
In 2004, a black Navy veteran, history buff and longtime Tuskegee fan stood before the group and uttered the unforgiveable.
He called the record [...]
US Willing to Send Troops to Pakistan
Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Real History, War Coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is willing to send a small number of U.S. combat troops to Pakistan to help fight the insurgency there if Pakistani authorities ask for such help, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
“We remain ready, willing and able to assist the Pakistanis and to partner with them to provide additional [...]
Man already in jail accused in shooting
Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race, Top Stories
Police say he shot the owner of Boyett’s Grove twice in the chest on April 25.
SPRING LAKE – With police hard on his heels, Elijah Montgomery ran through an Orlando neighborhood in June, dropping a pistol and his driver’s license. When officers finally caught up with him, the evidence he tossed aside helped solve a [...]
Ex-tax worker gets 26 months for selling illegal driver’s licenses
Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Hidden Crimes, Immigration, Jim Ellison, Top Stories
TAMPA – A former Hillsborough County tax collector employee will spend two years and three months in federal prison for selling drivers’ licenses to people without proper documentation, a judge ordered Tuesday.
Deisy Oropesa, 31, of Tampa, whose last name also shows up in court records as Oropesa-Hernandez, admitted to the crime in November when [...]
Judge Sentences Padilla to 17 Years, Cites His Detention
Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison
MIAMI, Jan. 22 — Jose Padilla, the former Chicago gang member originally accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” on U.S. soil, was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 years in prison on less dramatic charges.
Teller Called Possible Ringleader in Two Bank Thefts
Posted on 21. Jan, 2008 by Jim Ellison in Jim Ellison, Race
A brazen swindle in Wheaton last week in which a man walked into a BB&T bank dressed as an armored truck courier and walked out with $574,500 in cash has been linked to a similar bank job the next day in Washington, authorities in Montgomery County said yesterday.
Assistant State’s Attorney Marybeth Ayres named Elizabeth [...]
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