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
a
B1 FLODEAN Rloo
I
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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