Schietpartij in NY City Hall - raadslid overleden

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Op woensdag 23 juli 2003 21:26 schreef _The_General_ het volgende:
wraak van saddam?

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Burgemeester Bloomberg, die in het stadhuis aanwezig was, verklaarde later dat het niet om ,,terrorisme'' ging.

Bron: LC

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Er moet nog een centraal-tag voor + Deel 1 erachter

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Raadslid New York in stadhuis doodgeschoten

NEW YORK (ANP) - In het stadhuis van New York is woensdag een raadslid door een politieke rivaal doodgeschoten. De dader, die door een bewaker werd beschoten, bezweek later aan zijn verwondingen.

De schutter had het gemunt op het raadslid James Davis, afgevaardigde van het stadsdeel Brooklyn, meldt de Amerikaanse nieuwszender CNN. Davis, een voormalige agent, laakte het in zijn ogen soms buitensporig hard optreden van de politie.

Burgemeester Bloomberg, die tijdens het incident in het stadhuis was, verklaarde al snel dat het niet om ,,terrorisme'' ging. Hij sprak van een aanval op de democratie.

De politie grendelde de omgeving af, waardoor het verkeer in het zuiden van Manhattan ernstig ontregeld raakte. Het stadhuis stond bekend als een van de zwaarst bewaakte openbare gebouwen in de grootste stad van de Verenigde Staten.

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[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Jernau.Morat.Gurgeh op 24-07-2003 09:01]

En deze man was tegen het soms te harde optreden van de politie..hoe wrang.

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Op donderdag 24 juli 2003 08:35 schreef milagro het volgende:
Door een politieke rivaal doodgeschoten?

En deze man was tegen het soms te harde optreden van de politie..hoe wrang.

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NYC councilman killed by political rival

In a crime that sent shock waves across New York City, a political rival of City Councilman James E. Davis opened fire in the chamber's balcony, killing Davis just minutes after the two had entered City Hall together, authorities said.

The gunman, Othniel Askew, 31, was shot and killed by a plainclothes officer who was on the council speaker's security detail.

"It's a very sad day for New York," Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters. "It is a great tragedy."

Bloomberg said Davis -- a 41-year-old former police officer known as a crusader against urban violence -- and Askew had entered through the west entrance at 1:44 p.m. EDT.

The two did not pass through a metal detector, which is not unusual for elected officials, apparently allowing Askew to slip his silver 40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun into the council chamber undetected, along with an extra four bullets in his socks.

As a result of the security breach, Bloomberg said that effective immediately he and all other elected officials and their guests must go through the metal detectors.

Bloomberg and other city officials said there was no sign of a verbal or physical altercation between Davis and Askew before the shots rang out. Authorities said Askew fired shots at Davis on the balcony and never appeared to fire down below at the rest of the city council members.

"The city council meeting was going along normally when all of a sudden there were screams and shots," Bloomberg said.

One city councilman, Charles Barron, who represents Brooklyn, said shortly before the shooting, Davis had introduced him to Askew, saying, "This is the guy who was once against me, but now he's with me."

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Davis was shot in the torso. Davis was known to carry a licensed gun, but was unable to draw the weapon, Kelly said.

With the investigation focusing on the suspect and his motives, FBI spokesman Joe Valiquette told CNN that a man identifying himself as Othniel Askew called their office earlier in the day and accused Davis of harassment.

"The person who took the call said he sounded very cool, calm and collected," Valiquette said, adding that the caller made no threats.

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Geoffrey Davis, the brother of the assassinated councilman, was outraged.

"The system killed my brother," he shouted. "Just the same way they killed Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the system knew that my brother would continue fighting for the betterment to stop violence. That's who killed my brother. The system."

He also demanded: "How did this happen at City Hall?"

Friends and colleagues of Askew were equally shocked.

Cheni Yerushalmi, who worked on his city council campaign, said Askew was running for office because he wanted "to make things better for the underdog. He was an upstanding guy."

Yerushalmi said Askew did have a license to own a gun.

Volledige artikel: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/07/23/ny.shooting/index.html

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JAMES E. DAVIS

A Brooklyn native and former police officer, Councilman James E. Davis, D-Brooklyn, has been involved in public policy since 1983, when he was falsely arrested (and, he said, beaten) for stealing a car that was, in fact, his mother's.

After graduating from Pace University, Davis became a corrections officer at New York's Rikers Island. In 1991 he went to work for the Transit Police, then transferred to the NYPD in 1993. Later that same year, he went to work as a social science instructor at the police academy.

Davis headed "LOVE YOURSELF" Stop the Violence, a non-profit organization he founded in 1990. Among other efforts, the group in 1994 convinced Toys 'R' Us to stop selling realistic-looking toy guns. Davis was elected to the New York City Council in November 2001.

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Op donderdag 24 juli 2003 10:17 schreef Kozzmic het volgende:

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Hoezo is dat wrang? Had hard optreden van de politie deze moord kunnen voorkomen?

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Op donderdag 24 juli 2003 10:17 schreef Kozzmic het volgende:

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Hoezo is dat wrang? Had hard optreden van de politie deze moord kunnen voorkomen?

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Op vrijdag 25 juli 2003 13:57 schreef Herr_Oetker het volgende:
Kogel kwam van links zeker?

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