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LOS ANGELES. CA, -Blac
and Latino re ident of Lyn-
ood, California, and other
filed I w uit in federal
court September 25 alleging
more th n 40 incident of
police brut lily and mi COR­
duct by L.A. County deputy
ne r i rr a signed to Lyn­
ood.
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All but one of these inci­
dent took place in a three
month period in 1990.
Filed by more than 70
plaintiffs, the ction i the
Iar ge s t police mi conduct
suit in Southern C lifornia
history, and one of the largest
ever filed in the nation.
According to the lead at­
torney for the plaintiff •
George v . Denny ) II, of the
Lo Ange Ie -ba ed Pol ice
Mi conduct Lawyer Referral
Service: "To resident of
Lynwood ho want protec­
tion from cri mi nals, deputy
heriff are the criminal. In
D' lc t in
their w ke dozen of b ui eu,
broken bodies nd terrified
citizen'. "
nCou
• Either there
I an
In tltu�lonally
condoned reign
of terror In
lyn ood, or
tat of .anarchy
exl t th re.·
Say Patrick Patterson or
the NAACP Legal Defen e
nd Educational Fund,
another uorney in the ca e:
"Either there is an in titution-
ally-c on d rei
in Lynwood, or state of
anarchy exist there."
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slIIg npotl!r
ST, JOSEPH -The Berrien
County Board of Comrpi -
sioner voted 10-3 on a
recommendation by Chief
Probate Judge Wilbur Shil­
linger to' pha e out Berrien
County Juvenile Center
Deputy Prob te Director
Kitty Joyner' job after 27
year� of worki ng wi th the
county.
Joyner' po ition wa
ed out Thursd y, Sept.
20, amid a county reorg niza­
'on, ccording to juvenile
nre r or e r Freddie
oore.
He ys a lot of employees
contend the reorg nizauon i
for pol i lIcal or r ci I rea on ,
and that the pro ed cut in
taff a jut a f nt to get rid
of Joyner.
The ten commi ioner
ho voted for Shillinger'
recommend tion re white"
of the three who voted
gain t, two arc Black nd.
one white. Joyner i Black.
The Berrien County
Juvenile Court i one of the
Ic pi ce s where Blacks
er
wo in the county ystem,
and Black employees are very
sensitive to cuts there.
Third Di tr ic t County
Commi sioner Willie Askew,
who voted again t the firing,
. aid he grees the reorganiza­
tion might have been for
political or racial rea on ,
and id, "Don't reorganize
on the back of long-term
employee. "
He aid the firing wa a
rational inju uce to long­
term employees. "It sends a
bad ignal when you work for
the county for a 'number of
ye rs and you wake up one
day to find you're out of a
job." aid Aske .
Shillinger a recently
charged with f voriti m
toward two other worker at
the center for an Aug. 2
memo he circulated instruct­
ing management personnel
not to di cipline Group
Leader John I rael and After-
'Care worker William Walker.
Former center employee
Albert Pough contend the
Co tI ed 0 1
arrakhan
-Speaks I
this event, Participant must
pre-register to obtain the pia tic
identific tion b dge required tp
enter tbe work hop . Regi tra-
tion available now at
Muhammad's Mosques 11,
14880 Wyoming (two block
outh of Fenkell, 10am-9pm),
t e Ught Hou e Tape Source,
173 6 W. Seven Mile Rd. (Iour
bloc ea t of Southfield, l1am-
6:30pm). d Cold-Tech Ap­
plianfe , 7441 E. Seven M�le
Rd. and Van Dyke (lOam-5pm).
There i regi tration fee
of $25 for the three-d y con­
ference or S15 for Sept, 14, in- _
cluding Farrakhan' speech.
Minister Loui F rrakh n
will be the gue t speaker at the
National Convention for the N -
tion of I I m to be eld at oe
Loui Arena on October 12·14,
1990.
The three·day conferen e,
"Stop the Killing", will foe
upon black-on-black cri me, nd
the controver ial Farrakhan
will addre s thi subject on the
last day of the meeting at P.­
proxim lely 5:00 pm.
Ticket will nOI be sold for
