BI!NTON HAUO - A Ben
Harbor police omcer
tin in to
., cCi man milta • Iy
believed &0 be • rc 0 ccorcl-
in to Berricn County
Prosecutor Dc Wilcy.
In a 19-pa.c statement
Ie Feb. 8, Wiley d -the
• tin, Jan. 18, or Norril
Stephen Maben by 29-year
veteran LI. MD Fiedler
-j tira - tbougb Maben w
unarmed and not a felon.
"It (the jusUCi ble ruling) i
not a urprise, " id ()pcration
PUSH chief Rev. Walter
Brown. "This i a practice in
Berrien County. This i what
we get whenever the situ lion
i a whit police officer hoot
i a BlICk man. The office
are never re ponsible for their
actions. They alway blame the
other party.":
According to
report. Fiedler. who alone
driving through a Benton Har-
.• bor neighborhood. was
re ponding to a 911 call alert
ing th police to the presence of
a murder uspect in the 500
block of P vonne headin�
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Housing ills
•
worsen since
a e report
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a
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B1 FLODEAN Rloo
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The money u already allo
ca d. by MSU Prov t David
Scott in late January, for
, several aCitivie, aid Ezra
Hyland, a faculty dvisor to As
One, an MSU tuclent group.
·One hundred and twenty-
five year from slavery
(African American) people still
are not free, - group members
charged in a ritten statement.
"Instead of chains, economic
bl ckmail is used to keep
(African American) people in
their place. �
and Michigan S te University
Black Alumni say, hen
uDiversity officials froze
S5,OOO haultin African
American History Month ac
tivities it violated set policy al
lowin controvenial leaders,
to lpea openly on camp ..
DETRO - Economic extor
tion i the eri me and N lion of
Islam Mini ter Louis Fanak
ban is tlie victim.
inbc of • Ituclent gro
Civil Right
.targets lagging
I
employers
whether they realize i or not,
have job-qualificati n require
ments that exclude minorities.
"Sometime employer et
up certain criteria for job that
may no be relevan to the par
ticular job and this has ten
dency of excluding certain .
people n in fact it shquldn't"
Cutillo id,
Yet these are common ex
cuses emp ayers have used in
U
Program' aimed at Macomb,
Wayne and Oakland county
employers with fe or no
miDority rken:
MiclUgaD Ovil Rights Direc
tor Jolm Roy Casti;;p said that
because many companie
recruit through ncies they
have orked . th for ome
time, the companie are not
aware that qualified minorities
are available outside the
recruiting ageancy.
"ADd if tbey are no familiar
with a minority con truction
fum or a minority engineering
firm or a H' panic association
of la ers or a women's en
gineering . ation, then they
don't recruit there," Castillo
. d. esc companies need to
. expand their horizo "
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Castillo said there' also a
pr.oblem with employer; 0,
LANSINO- The Michigan
Civil Ri&hts Co .. on will
hold eminar to help
employer recruit more
minorities and n into- the
workforce, but one B legis
lative Ie der contend the
� yoot .
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