Thursday, March 02, 2006
Courtroom Olympics: Shani Davis Goes For the Gold
If lawsuit filing was an Olympic event, the United States would have retired the gold medal decades ago. U.S. speedskater Shani Davis, who medaled in Italy now seeks more gold in a Chicago court room:
Speedskating gold medalist Shani Davis is part of a lawsuit against the city of Chicago and former police superintendent Terry Hillard.
The suit, filed March 24, 2003, alleges that Davis and two other plaintiffs were stopped in 2001 because they are black, reports The Associated Press.
Harvey Grossman, the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said: “The case challenges indiscriminate street stops of young men, and there are two components to the case."
He adds, “The first is to get systemic relief in the form of an injunction to get the police department to change its practices. They’ve changed a lot of them, but they have not gone the final steps. The other component is to get monetary damages for each of the individuals.”
Davis, like many members of minority groups has been indoctrinated into finding racism everywhere. Evidently he has learned his lessons all too well, to the detriment of his future:
I've got bad news for Davis. When you behave as unprofessionally as he did with NBC supposedly out of anger at critical remarks made by Bob Costas, when speed skating legend Bonnie Blair is afraid to mutter your name because your mother, Cherie, told her not to discuss you, it just kills all your sincere intentions.
Davis said upon winning his medal: "If people in America are excited and thrilled to have a black Olympic champion in speedskating," he said, "then I'm happy that I can make people happy."
Another "victory" for the multicultural agenda: an Olympic champion seething with anger against the people who make up the nation he represented.
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