Zack Wants Lies Mitch has Told; Well here's just a few
Posted in Greensboro City Council
May. 20, 2008 at 06:23
by BrendaBee
JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYSThe following is a Quote taken from blog “Greensborpolitics.com” by Ryan Shell
Topic: Zack Matheny District 3 City Council representative Community meeting:
"A question from a resident that drew applause was “What does a city manager have to do to be considered incompetent?” Matheny answered by saying, “To lie. I need to have proof that the manager has lied.”
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Of course no answers are going to be forth coming from Mr. Matheny because he isn’t speaking to me, or at least not answering my e-mails so I can only assume I have ticked him off so badly that he is now refusing to acknowledge that I am in his district and he has some sort of an obligation to me. However, being as I am a slow learner perhaps a few instances where Mitch Johnson has lied to this particular Council, and not the lies he has been telling all along in case Mr. Matheny had been visiting planet Zenia before taking his seat on this Council.
1) The Black Book. Remember Mr. Matheny that when it was shown to you in closed meeting you said, “It made me feel kinda dirty.”? The note book with pictures of 100+ Black men including 19 Black Police Officers shown to you is called a Photo Array Book. A photo array is used for the purposes of having a crime victim identify his/her victimizer. In this case a prostitute claimed a Black Police Officer sexually assaulted her. The 19 Black Police Officer’s whose pictures were in the book were those who were on duty at the time the alleged crime took place. Now ALWAYS included in an array book is an explanation of why the array book was put together including all circumstances known concerning the allegation and information on the victim and of course a list of and pictures and information concerning the suspects. This information is as I said always included in the array and is usually place in a secured folder in the front or back of the array book. Without this information the array means nothing and is useless.
Mitch lied and/or is incompetent because he showed you just the pictures with no explanatory materials which MUST be included when the Array Book is shown or used. Mitch lied because he wanted you to come to your own conclusions that this was evidence of discrimination.
Question: There are now 60+ Black Greensboro Police Office suing the city for discrimination so why were there only 19 pictured in this book? Why these 19 who must happened to be working the same shift the same day as a Black Police Officer was reported to have assaulted a prostitute?
Mitch is incompetent to manage a police department and have control over professional well educated police officers if he claims he was not aware of the explanatory materials that MUST accompany every array book.
2) Mitch Johnson advised the current City Council to negotiate with the 60+ Black Police Officers claiming discrimination.
Fact: The EEOC does not investigate cases of discrimination. They merely review material sent to them by those claiming discrimination and advise whether a suit might be possible in a court of law based solely on the information they were given.
Fact: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a one year investigation did not find any evidence of discrimination. (Since David Wray was forced to resign and all investigations have been concluded he has been given a very high security clearance position with the Federal Government.)
Fact: The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) after over a year and a half investigation found no evidence of discrimination. They indicted two lower level police officers. One for hacking into a so-called “privately owned” computer. The other for telling a police officer from another city to not inform a GPD officer of any information gathered in a certain case as he was untrustworthy. This officer has been found to be suspected of lying and put under internal investigation several times. Most recently he claimed the GPD destroyed 50 boxes of documents pertaining to the 1979 incident between the Communist Party, the Klan and the Nazis costing the city months and a great deal of money to investigate the matter. Chief Bellamy after all these months of investigation revealed there were only 5 to 10 boxes of newspaper clippings destroyed which was perfectly legal and could have been done as early as 1999.
Question: Was the GPD officer not acting reasonably to warn an officer from another city that this particular officer might not be trustworthy in the serious federal/local investigation taking place when the investigators were aware of there being a “leak” in the department?
Question: Why has the City Manager Mitchell Johnson advised the City Council to negotiate with Black Police Officers and planning to pay them damages when the FBI and the SBI found no evidence of discrimination against these or any other officers?
Note of Advice: If you want to see documentation of this or any other instance where Mitchell Johnson has lied to the public and City Council please see Ben Holder as I am sure he would talk to you and show you the documentation he has. Or, go to Ben Holder’s blog site
http://thetroublemaker.blogspot.com
and by checking his archives see all the documentation and information there. But what ever you do don't bother asking Mitch Johnson to provide the documentation for you. The city is now being sued for information three bloggers requested months ago and finally had to resort to suing for it. This even after Council Member Mike Barber gave specific instructions that the material be given as required by state law to those who requested the documentation.
Sincerely, Brenda Bowers
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