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    Quote Originally Posted by Hello_Kitty27
    This story took the whole topic of Richard Roeper's column in today's Sun Times.



    It is very well-said, in my opinion. Here's a piece of it:

    <snip> One resident of that building, who did not want to be identified on camera, told ABC-7 she saw the woman in the courtyard and outside her own door.

    "She got up on MY floor, she tried to come into my place," said the woman. "I said 'Oh no no no, you know, white people and us, we don't mix.' "


    Where's the outrage?

    ...The residents of the Taylor Homes are black, and it's not as if they see a lot of white visitors.

    ...But even if that resident somehow felt threatened, why not call the cops? Maybe it's because she doesn't trust the police. Maybe it's because she has enough problems and she doesn't care to get involved with things she doesn't understand. Maybe it's because she wants nothing to do with white people under any circumstances.

    "White people and us, we don't mix." So sad.

    You can imagine the outrage if a young black woman had wandered into a white neighborhood, and a white woman had told the local news, "You know, black people and us, we don't mix." You can imagine the press conferences and the protests and the calls for action. We should be equally outraged when something like this happens.

    As one e-mailer said to me, "I wish someone could explain to me how a 21-year-old girl ends up in the Robert Taylor Homes, is [allegedly] raped, begs for help and is told by a black woman she isn't going to help because she is WHITE, the young woman is pushed or jumped out of a seventh-floor window, and NOBODY is outraged? [Where are] the religious leaders like [Jesse] Jackson and [James] Meeks? Where is it on the news coverage? This is a young woman with mental problems and NO ONE is speaking up on her behalf."

    It's a legitimate point. Wouldn't it be something if community leaders reached out to the victim's family, pledged support to the police in their investigation, called for residents of the Robert Taylor Homes to come forward with any information they might have, and issued statements condemning the mentality that says whites and blacks don't mix? </snip>
    Haven't you heard? Blacks cannot be racist. Only white people can be racists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deogol
    Of course it makes the police look worse - it is written by a bunch of "hate the system" main stream press types.

    ...And people wonder why society is screwed up! This is an example of communism and gun control at work.
    Ordinarily I'm inclined to agree with you on many socio-political issues, but not this time...

    The article might have been written by a "Hate the rapists" type, who also hates the fact that the people who are charged with 'serving and protecting' are the ones who brought this about through gross negligence. The police may not have raped the woman or thrown her out the window, but they might as well have.

    If you are deranged and/or stupid enough to cause a scene in an airport, mouth off enough to get arrested by security and/or cops brought to the scene, and later at a holding facility, you don't deserve to be taken somewhere where your subsequent release (even if you demand it) means sure death or mutilation.

    You don't deserve to be released without your belongings, which might enable you to remain safe or possibly even get where you were trying to go in the first place. And you don't deserve to have your next-of-kin's urgent and repeated pleas to have your debilitating mental condition taken into consideration ignored as though you were just another piece of street trash...

    This isn't about communism or gun control. No one has brought up either subject. We don't even know whether guns were employed in the kidnapping/rape/attempted murder. Quite likely they were entirely unnecessary.

    This is about police not doing their jobs, and in fact aiding and abetting the most monstrous sort of criminals, by tossing this woman into a situation in which she didn't have a chance in hell.
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    I'm trying to put together my thoughts to begin sending my letters to the editor(s)......I really don't know what to think anymore when it comes to this. I did write to Richard roeper in response to his article about it yesterday....I'm hoping enough people may have done the same thing so that he could possibly do a follow up of some sort.

    I'm glad Venus and Djoser are also familiar with that area .... as I've said before I work just west of there and I see it and drive through it everyday. It's no exaggeration that the restaurants have bulletproof glass with the bullet-proof turnstyle-thing that they put your food on. Even in the chinese restaurant....everything is like that. There are no payphones or even seats in most fast food restaurants there. They want people to get in and get out as quickly as possibly.

    At work, in the middle of the day, we never even grab food alone, there's always at least two of us and we've still been harassed. That's why I brown-bag it almost every day....I don't like to deal with it.

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    This is the part that scares me:

    [snip]In a written statement, Cline said: "We appreciate NOW's concerns. . . . Once the investigation is complete, if it is determined that any wrongdoing or . . . department policy was not followed, the appropriate disciplinary action will be taken."[/snip]

    The Chicago Police have been known not to punish officers for wrong-doing, instead just putting them on leave until the storm blows over...

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    They should put them on leave, alright--how about a free room in that building she got tossed out of? Like that one with the busted lock on the door?

    Hang a sign out saying "Do not disturb! Police resting inside."
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    Pamela, are you reading these news stories??
    From the last news link: [snip] officers knew of the woman's illness but released her anyway -- in violation of department policy[/snip]
    How can you keep defending these guys when it's obvious they were in the wrong here?


    Anyway, I can hardly stand to look at this info anymore. It is sickening.

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    I just read this entire thread and, honestly, I'm not entirely sure that surviving the fall was the best thing for her. I would not be surprised, with her biploar disorder and her traumatic events, if they found her in a bathtub with her wrists cut in a week. :/

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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan
    I just read this entire thread and, honestly, I'm not entirely sure that surviving the fall was the best thing for her. I would not be surprised, with her biploar disorder and her traumatic events, if they found her in a bathtub with her wrists cut in a week. :/
    I agree. I just read the whole thread last night. It's as heartbreaking as it is sickening. I hope some good can come out of this by at least making the public aware of the atrocious actions of the chicago police.
    Since I moved here in October, I have been told by so many people; 'Stay as FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE' from the southside. Now I see why. That could have been me, or any one of us really.

    Yes, she did lose her temper, but man, how many of us wouldn't be stressed to the max after what she was going through.
    Stranded in chicago, nobody will help her back to california. Dealing with the notoriously cruel treatment from the chicago police. I would probably be a bit of an emotional wreck by that point myself.
    I feel so bad for her and her family that it's just beyond words.
    Let's just hope that some small amount of justice is served and some good comes out of this.
    Let's hope that this situation at least made the police scared enough and that there will never be a repeat of it.
    Maybe they will think twice next time they are faced with a similar situation.
    Maybe this story saved some other girls life.
    Some little bit of good has to come out of such a sick tradgedy.


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    A new article on this case:

    Bond denied in woman's plunge

    By Jason George
    Tribune staff reporter
    Published May 20, 2006, 6:41 PM CDT


    A Chicago man believed to have been the last person to see a California woman before she plunged from a 7th floor Chicago Housing Authority apartment window was denied bond Saturday on charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault and unlawful restraint.

    Marvin "Red" Powell, 23, has denied the assault charges, maintaining that after the woman performed a sex act with him in a vacant apartment, she inexplicably jumped out a window, said Assistant State's Atty. Julie Egan.

    A group of people told investigators that on the evening of May 8 they were hanging out in front of the Robert Taylor Homes, 5135 S. Federal St., when they were approached by the 21-year-old woman that none of them knew.

    They invited her up to a vacant apartment on the seventh floor, where the group and the woman socialized for a while before Powell arrived at the apartment just after 10 p.m. and ordered everyone out except the woman, Egan said.

    Powell, of the 8300 block of South Saginaw Avenue, then allegedly locked the apartment door for 30 minutes, refused to open it when members of the group demanded him to and sexually assaulted the woman, prosecutors said.

    The woman was next seen about 11 p.m., lying next to the building, wearing only her bra and panties. The woman, who is now on life support, was critically injured with two collapsed lungs, numerous broken bones and brain hemorrhaging, Egan said.

    Powell was seen running from the building, according to witnesses quoted in court.

    Powell is a reputed gang member and parolee from a conviction of unlawfully discharging a weapon in 2002, according to court and Illinois Department of Corrections records.

    The woman, from Los Angeles, was in the neighborhood after being released earlier in the evening from the police's nearby Wentworth District lockup. She was there after being arrested the day before at Midway Airport for acting erratically.

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    ^
    So what the above article makes me think is that she either A) Was pushed from the window by the man who was raping her.
    Or B) What was happening to her in that room was so horrific that jumping out of the window was a better option than being locked up in a room with a man who was raping her or worse?

    God, This story just keep's getting more appaling the more I hear about it.
    And that article didn't seem to be very sympathetic to the victim. And notice there is barely a mention of the fact that the police are the one's who put her there in the first place! Or the fact that she was mentally unstable and stranded.

    I didn't know she was in that bad of a condition
    ''The woman, who is now on life support, was critically injured with two collapsed lungs, numerous broken bones and brain hemorrhaging, Egan said.''

    If she does pull through and survive. I can't even imagine the emotional tramua she will have to deal with, or how she, or anyone, could get over that.


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    If she hit her head after falling 7 stories, she might not remember what happened, which would be a blessing--but I still have my doubts as to how much she will be able to regain any semblance of normalcy, physically.

    "Broken bones" has to be an understatement as to the trauma she sustained.
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    ^^^ Not remembering what happens doesn't always mean anything. I've been raped and I don't remember it but now if certain things happen to me I trigger and freak out and I don't even know why. Therapists and psychologists say they're all rape triggers... but I don't remember. Your subconcious reacts anyway. There's this small spot on my lower back that, when touched, I start crying uncontrollably. Fuck if I know where it stems from.

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    Magdalena .... you're pretty much right about the south side. There are only a few good neighborhoods on this side (I live in bridgeport) that have anything to offer aside from crime. Growing up here, you get to know REAL fast where not to go!

    To everyone else, I still am torn up about this. I did write to a few people about it (in the papers) but have heard nothing. I had a death in the family late last week, so I've been unable to stay on top of it. As Venus mentioned, the police here have a tendency to let things fall to the wayside. I wonder if anything will happen to any of the officers involved.

    Did anyone happen to catch Mary Mitchell's article in the sun-times about this? It's disgusting to me, she tries to compare it to the Duke case and make it a racial thing. I hate her to begin with, and I wanted to send her a nasty letter, but that was the day my grandpa passed away. I still may write to her .... here's a link.....

    http://www.suntimes.com/output/mitch...s-mitch18.html

    She did touch upon the mental illness aspect a few days later, for those interested:

    http://www.suntimes.com/output/mitch...s-mitch21.html






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    You read my mind Pan Dah, I was logging on the this very reason ....to post this article and let everyone know the update. I've heard nothing, which is sad considering it happened right in my city!

    Here is the Tribune article, which seems to have more details than the suntimes article you posted:
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...l=chi-news-hed






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    Wow. She's still unconscious. That is just terrible.

    I am not surprised her family is suing; I think it's definitely warranted in this case. The fuckers at the cop shop who dealt with her should be in prison getting acquainted with Mr Ben Dover for the next few decades

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    "She may have been exhibiting normal behavior," a police spokesman said. "And she is an adult. If she signs herself out, we couldn't keep her unless we had an arrest warrant."
    from this article:

    WTF kind of bullshit is this piece of shit trying to pass off here??? The girl got fucking ARRESTED for causing a disturbance at an airport stop. Of COURSE she wasn't exhibiting fucking normal behaviour!!!! OMFG I want to fly to Chicago just for the pleasure of dropkicking this asshole in the teeth

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    You don't know how frustrating it is to try and get information out of the "investigation" of this matter. In fact, I was told that it's still being looked in to and as far as they can tell (reporters who've been following up) the police are saying that they did nothing wrong. Obviously.

    I wonder how many people we Chicagoans could gather together and get the ball rolling. I fully support this family getting this lawsuit and I would be willing to do anything to help them win it.

    But, Bridgette, the Chicago Police are NOTORIOUS for covering up their fuck-ups. They're a bunch of half-witted monkeys at best and really do deserve to be put with the general population of the prison they would go to. Maybe then, they'll get some sense of what they sentenced this young lady to.

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    And what about the lady that died in a different lockup like a week ago? They even have record of her asking for help, saying that she needed medical attn. Of course, the autopsy came back "inconclusive".

    And you know what else bothers me about this girl that fell ..... her family is all from CA, right? So how are they able to afford being here at the hospital with her? I imagine someone is staying here to look after her. Of course, it's just specualtion on my part, but that concerns me as well. On a person-to-person level, you have to wonder about that side of things too. What would I do if my close relative, like my sister, had a near-fatal accident thousands of miles away ....I honesty think I'd leave everything to be by her side. So, have people in her family done this? If so, how are they affording it, or getting time off of work, etc. Maybe it sounds silly, but I keep thinking about that side of things as well.






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    Quote Originally Posted by Deogol
    Why do the words "Chapelle" and "When keeping it real goes wrong" come into my mind?

    It's a shame, but it sure sounds like that girl had a mouth that got her into A LOT of trouble.

    Let me add, I don't want to pay the police department to be 1) A taxi service for criminals getting out and 2) paying the police to drop criminals just out of jail into "safe" areas - aka low crime keep the doors unlocked areas.
    What an asinine thing to say. I'll ask you about that statement again if (god forbid) something ever happens to YOUR daughter/sister/cousin/girlfriend/friend.

    Actaully, I DO believe the police dept. should have arranged for her to get to safety. I think it was thier responsibility. Their motto is "to serve and protect" after all. Especially if they knew she was going to Midway to fly home.

    When I worked in an ER IN CHICAGO, we gave indigent patients and those who arrived by ambulance cab vouchers to get them home. The cops should at least be able to provide people with that much.


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    Quote Originally Posted by colleen
    What an asinine thing to say. I'll ask you about that statement again if (god forbid) something ever happens to YOUR daughter/sister/cousin/girlfriend/friend.

    Actaully, I DO believe the police dept. should have arranged for her to get to safety. I think it was thier responsibility. Their motto is "to serve and protect" after all. Especially if they knew she was going to Midway to fly home.

    When I worked in an ER IN CHICAGO, we gave indigent patients and those who arrived by ambulance cab vouchers to get them home. The cops should at least be able to provide people with that much.
    Well, in this case, they should have transported her back to the ORIGINAL booking station where all of her personal effects were.

    Another thing is that she wasn't a CRIMINAL.

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    Yes, at the very least, they should have taken her back to the original station she was booked at--though of course she shouldn't have been released at all, with her family trying to get her detained until they could make sure she was safely on the way home.

    She was obviously deranged to go with a big group of people into that building--no one in their right mind would have done so.

    The police in high crime areas have a tendency to get jaded, and to some extent this is understandable--but what happened to this woman is unspeakably foul.

    I doubt very much if anyone responsible from the police dept will get in much trouble. I also bet that the rapist will be cleared of any attempted murder charges handilly, since noone saw him throw her out, and she may well have been trying to escape this fucking animal.

    BTW, Colleen, I worked in a very large hospital on the South Side--which may well have been the same one, it was right off Midway Ave. (60th st.). Actually it was a group of hospitals clustered together, under the overall direction of University of Chicago.

    We actually had two murders take place within a few feet of where I worked--one down the hall in the cafeteria, and another right outside the doors which were close to my area (it was a friend of mine who got killed).
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    the bigest problem with cops isnt so much that many are incompetent or just dont care (there are good ones, but for some reason the only ones i've meet fallinto the first two catagories) but the police force and most other city departments that work with them act like a fratirnity. all for one one for all, they will all lie and cover up things to cover each other's asses. all cities have a history of this, i dunno why but it is what i've seen and it is a huge problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by colleen

    Actaully, I DO believe the police dept. should have arranged for her to get to safety. I think it was thier responsibility. Their motto is "to serve and protect" after all. Especially if they knew she was going to Midway to fly home.



    When I worked in an ER IN CHICAGO, we gave indigent patients and those who arrived by ambulance cab vouchers to get them home. The cops should at least be able to provide people with that much.


    I agree. And I'm sickened and appalled by this story--and by the sorry state of mental health care in this country. It's just disgusting. Those of you who have had to deal with mental illness in your circle of family and friends will know exactly what I'm talking about. There is so little understanding of these diseases that police officers can easily see "crazy bitch" instead of "ill person who needs assistance and treatment." Clearly, that's what happened here, and they acted accordingly. That they ignored the pleas of her family is just unconscionable. That is what is "criminal" in this story.



    But, you know, your comment also made me think about something else: If the arrestee had been a resident of those projects, we wouldn't be saying how awful it was that he or she had been allowed to walk home. And granted, a 21-year-old white girl in a manic state is in more immediate danger in those surroundings. But they're also dangerous for the people who live there each day. Yet, when a resident of those projects gets raped in an empty apartment, I doubt it makes the news. Even murders that happen there don't always make the papers. In my estimation, it's shameful that a place like this exists at all in our country. And as for the woman who wouldn't help her, saying "white folks and us don't mix"--well, that's shameful, too. But then again, we reap what we sow, don't we?
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    VenusGoddess-

    Can you PM me with addresses to send letters to? (govenor, police, DA, whomever you got, i suck at reserching them). i'd like to write to them about this too. i suffer from bipolar myself and can understand what kind of state of mind she might have been in, she should have been droped off at a hospital before being allowed on the street again, and most certinaly not the street they put her on.

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    Fuck the Chicago cops, I hate them. They are all assholes on a power trip. When I lived in Chicago, I was harrassed by them on two different occasions. Once I was wearing a skimpy top, short skirt, and heels while walking to a friend's house, and a cop stopped me and asked for ID. I said "Why?" and he replied that there were a lot of prostitutes in that area. I told him to fuck off, I wasn't a prostitute and he should have better things to do instead of harrassing innocent people, and I walked away. On another occasion I was waiting for the bus and I had a suitcase with me, and two cops who were stopped at a red light were just being really nosy and asking me where I was going, where I was from, and a bunch of other shit. They weren't speaking in a friendly manner; they were very condescending.

    That's really sad about the girl. She will probably die or be paralyzed for life. I agree that the mother is justified in suing the Chicago police. I looked up Christina Eilman (the girl who fell or was thrown out the window) on MySpace and she has a page here:

    www.myspace.com/commentallez

    Very pretty girl. Of course, I'm not saying this situation would be any less tragic if she were unattractive. Someone must've hacked into her account because it shows that she last logged on May 31st. I find it odd that none of her MySpace friends have commented on this tragedy.

    Another possibility-since she was bipolar and no one saw her get thrown out the window, is it possible that she attempted suicide?

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