Lying Nigger Media claims HOMOcide

The nigger/nigger loving media is at it again.  

Headline: Death of Man Beat by Cincinnati Police Ruled a Homicide

Reality (buried several paragraphs down): "The struggle, therefore, is
the primary cause of his death," Parrott said. But use of the word
"homicide," he said, "should not be interpreted as implying
inappropriate behavior" by the police. 

Notice the NAACP gets top billing before the facts.  Typical
inappropriate reporting from the lying nigger media!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32081-2003Dec3.html


Death of Man Beat by Cincinnati Police Ruled a Homicide 


A coroner issued a ruling of "homicide" today in the racially charged
case of a 350-pound black man who died after a police beating outside
a Cincinnati fast-food restaurant, but he cautioned that this did not
necessarily mean police used excessive force against the man, who had
an enlarged heart and intoxicating levels of drugs in his system. 

In a televised news conference, Carl Parrott Jr., the coroner of
Ohio's Hamilton County, said Nathaniel Jones, 41, "suffered from a
potentially lethal combination of health problems" when he struggled
with police in the parking lot of a White Castle restaurant early
Sunday. 

The struggle, in which Jones lunged at officers and was repeatedly
struck with metal nightsticks, was captured on a police cruiser's
video camera and has been shown on television numerous times since
then. 

The videotape of the incident, reminiscent of the 1991 beating of
Rodney King in Los Angeles, has outraged some civil rights activists
and prompted calls for the resignation of the Cincinnati police chief.
But so far there has been no sign of a violent reaction in the city,
which was the scene of race riots two years ago after a police officer
tried to arrest a black youth wanted on misdemeanor charges and shot
him when he tried to flee. 

The six police officers involved in the Jones case -- five of them
white and one black -- have been placed on administrative leave
pending a local investigation. The U.S. Justice Department also has
opened a preliminary investigation into the death. 

The Justice Department probe was welcomed by the NAACP, the nation's
oldest and largest civil rights organization, which called the beating
of Jones "sickening" and "well outside the norm for subduing an
unarmed suspect." 

In a statement issued by the organization's Baltimore headquarters,
NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said, "No one wants to second guess the
police, but it's hard not to be sickened at the sight of the police
beating this unarmed man. Why didn't they use a stun gun or other
nonviolent means to subdue him? No one is suggesting that Jones is
innocent, but neither are the arresting officers in this instance." 

Mfume said the Justice Department should not only investigate possible
civil rights violations, but should consider withholding federal funds
from the Cincinnati Police Department until officers "are trained to
handle this kind of situation without using excessive force." 

In issuing the homicide ruling, Parrott said that although Jones was
"a markedly obese man with a markedly enlarged hypertensive heart" and
had intoxicating levels of cocaine, PCP and methanol in his blood, he
would not have died when he did without the "stress reaction" from the
violent struggle. He said an irregular heartbeat resulting from the
struggle was listed on Jones's death certificate as the immediate
cause of death. 

"The struggle, therefore, is the primary cause of his death," Parrott
said. But use of the word "homicide," he said, "should not be
interpreted as implying inappropriate behavior" by the police. 

Parrott said Jones had consumed cocaine and PCP, also known as "angel
dust," shortly before he died. An autopsy also found a relatively
large amount of methanol, a main ingredient of embalming fluid, in
Jones's body, Parrott said. He said the methanol likely accumulated in
Jones's system as a result of smoking cigarettes dipped in PCP-laced
embalming fluid. These cigarettes, sometimes containing marijuana, are
known as "fry sticks," Parrott said. 

Parrott said the lower part of Jones's body was bruised by the blows
from the police nightsticks, but that no damage to his internal organs
or to his head was found. 

A lawyer for the Jones family called for an independent investigation,
asserting that the coroner's office had mishandled previous cases, the
Associated Press reported. "It's hard for me to believe anything that
comes out of the coroner's office," attorney Kenneth Lawson told a
news conference before Parrott issued his ruling. 

The incident began shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday when Jones began
behaving in a bizarre fashion at the White Castle restaurant, where he
passed out on the floor at one point, employees reported. Videotape
shot from inside and outside the restaurant showed him dancing and
marching like a soldier, then falling down and rolling down a hill.
Employees called the fire department, which sent paramedics to the
scene. The fire department later called police. 

The police videotape shows an officer saying to Jones, "You gotta tell
me what's going on." Jones then is heard on the tape saying, "white
boy, redneck." Jones lunges at an officer and tries to put him in a
headlock. Two officers, both white, then wrestle Jones to the ground
and strike him repeatedly while yelling, "Put your hands behind your
back." 

Minutes later, Jones was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced
dead.