con
velop
d tbey ould for
oven motion not of n
granted in . chi n.
lth the I
ports howin Green .5 micro­
grams per millilite of cocaine in his
blood nd a O.Olle I of alcohol in
his urine, th medi began peculat­
ing whether Green violent,
whether the co inc may have been
factor in hi d
Cocaine c n affect the heart,
elling in the brain, or lead to ex­
ive bleedin experts ay.
Wayne County Chief Medical
Examiner Dr. B der in told the
Free P Wed day, that he could
"not interpret" whether or not the
cocaine w a factor in Green'
death.
No drug t ts were adminirtered
to the alleged lants.
The cause of death, according to
the report w "blunt force trauma 0
the head."
GREE UFFERED at least 10
cu and bruises to the head, am
other cuts on the forehead, scalp am
face, e Free P reported.
G cuts and bruise
on his bands and knees, the report
said.
Not satisfied with the Wayne
County examiner's answer to the ef­
fect the cocaine would have, the Free .
Press took the report to the Oaklaoo
. County med� • r . re-
caine "is going to be active ... It'
going to affect the body functions,
aJ¥l the behavior, through its potent
timulant effect."
"One bas to view the presence of
cocaine in the blood a significant
feature, rot the actual quantity," tbe
Oakland examiner told the daily pa­
per.
Wilne se to the beating of
Green, say he put up no truggle and
was beaten while still in his car with
an officer traddling Green, beating
him as his head lay back on the seat.
These eyewitnes accounts have
now been dropped fr In news re­
ports.
OFFICERS THEN pulled
Green from the car .still punching
moved."
him, d it
od with
hile ndc ere put on.
while, little pl y w given
to reports the city d ttled another
I uit filed ai t one of the offi­
cers charged ith econd degree
murder in th Green beati . The
city will P Y 5,500 ttle a uit
brought by a motorist who suffered
broken arm t the hands of Officer
Larry eyers who topped the mo­
tori t for a tmffic offe and then
beat him.
Community leaders and activists
h ve moun ed cal for better' disci­
pline of office in the department.
Horace Sheffield, director of De­
troit Area Black Organizations, aid
the city' failure to focus on contin­
ued police misconduct and mete out
appropriate discipline has led to the
Green beating.
"THE FACT THAT he bas co­
caine in his ystem docs not excuse,
does not condone, does oot obstruct
or legitimize misconduct on the part
of the police department," said Rev.
Wendell Anthony of Fellowship
Chapel for . Church of
Christ. "For us to use this in any way
to legitimize the death of this indi­
vidual is irr ponsible."
Defense attorneys disagreed. "It
clearly casts new light on his behav­
ior on the night in question," said
John Ooldpaugh, who represented
the three 1e 0 eers charged. - t
Meanwhile the police union has t
a I er to Chief Knox king
that the three suspended officers
who were at the scene but were not
charged be put back on the payroll.
If the citizens calling into the lo­
cal Black radio talk show are any
indication, there is widespread anger
that those three officers are not being
charged for their role in the beating.
"Let me be present at a murder
scene and not get arrested for con­
spiracy, accessory or some other
charge," one called said.
Community residents have also
expressed indignation that all the of-
ficers are out on personal bonds
pending a Dec. 14 preliminary ex­
amination in Detroit's 36th'District
Court ..
" e m t al not ml 1 bel thi
'police brut lity,''' he dded.
"That rm d only th physi­
cal rt of it. 'Police misconduct'
i th every peel, from how
o ce are igned, to how people
in the conununity are tre ted when
they report crime."
Gravely . d the mi conduct of
police officers i part of a larger
problem. Lac of police interaction
with the community and not enough
training re mo tly at fault, he said.
tul J nd rin
J hal to 9i �
"Ev ry precinct S y d Hutch, " id former police 0 cer
Lewi Colon, t the Detroit Branch NAACP meetin I t SUnd y.
"The e re office who re ordinary people lied on to do n ext or­
dinary job. Som are ticking time bomb , orne n d in- ervi trainin
and orne n d to b relieved of their dutie in th treet."
Colon lolled upon th community to fight to p the tri lof
the police offic rs in 0 troit.
"Let' not let t m change th venue," he id. "When th e
com up for trial, the first thing their lawyers will y i th t th office
can't get a fair trial in 0 troit. Then it may end up being tried in northern
Michigan or meplace."
Colon add d that th Malice Green case hould be a warning to the
community.
"Just because we brought in faces of color, we thought that thin
would change," he said. "We ee now that they have not. The time has
come that th community look at and change the police department 0
that it represents not only the color of the people in our community, but
the attitude of th people in our community."
"WE C OT j t focus on the
police mi conduct," he said. "We
must also focus on the factors that
make it po ible. Any time officers
are id ntified by a nickname like
'Starsky and Hutch,' it' an indict­
ment of the officers and the people
over them who hould have known.
DC Statehood
where legislators have expressed
concern over the dis tri ct' fiscal and
crime problems.
"The occupation of D.C. has be­
com an old, bad habi 1," Jackson
said ..
Jackson also rejected an asser­
tion by Nield that making D.C. the
51st tate would require a constitu­
tional amendment. Most of the
states were created with a imp Ie
majority vote in Congress, like any
other law, he said.
Jackson was elected in 1990 as
BUT JACKSON noted that the one of three "shadow" repre-
mea5\l1'C would require the approval sentatives of the district to lobby
tbe AIIICIIIIBl�-""", Cbmm:.sl&.on �half of stateh9'>d------.
contlnu d from Pag 1
Under Nickles' plan, land that
includes the Mall, the White House,
, Congress and some federal build­
ings would still be D.C., not part of
Maryland.
Nickles-said he would introduce
an amendment when a D.C. state­
hood bill comes up for a vote next
year.
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