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Accurate bio on racist commie lunatic Angela Davis


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In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking hostage the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors. In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis. To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot, Ms. Davis fled California, using aliases and changing her appearance to avoid detection.

Two months later Davis was arrested by the FBI in New York City. At her 1972 trial, Davis presented her version of where she had been and what she had been doing at the time of the shootout. Because she was acting as her own attorney, she could not be cross-examined. She presented a number of alibi witnesses, almost all Communist friends, who testified that she had been with them in Los Angeles playing Scrabble at the time of the Marin slaughter. Prosecution witnesses who placed her in Marin were dismissed by Davis and her fellow attorneys as being unable to accurately identify blacks -- because they were white.

Following the announcement of the verdict that acquitted Davis, one juror faced news cameras and gave a revolutionary's clenched-fist salute. He laughed at the justice system, saying that prosecutors had been mistaken to expect that the “middle-class jury” would convict Davis. He and most of the jurors then went off to partake in a Davis victory party.


Four More Years! Ha ha ha ha ha ha

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>>Because she was acting as her own attorney, she could not be cross-examined.

What? That can't be right.

And who the hell picked that jury?

Just wondering. I'm no Angela fan. I see Will and Jada are as dumb as ever, and predictably hypocritical in their praise of Commie Angela while they enjoy an income that would feed and house the population of South Central L.A. for a year.


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Please put some dashes above your sig line so I won't think it's part of your dumb post.

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>>Because she was acting as her own attorney, she could not be cross-examined.

What? That can't be right.
According to this film it's half-right. She had a legal team; she did not act as her own attorney for the whole trial. Her legal team did however have her give the "opening statement" for the defense herself. The opening statements by the two sides are indeed not cross-examined.

This sort of carelessness makes me look more critically at the whole quoted statement, especially where it obviously differs from the film itself.

Another example of apparent carelessness or bias:
Prosecution witnesses who placed her in Marin were dismissed by Davis and her fellow attorneys as being unable to accurately identify blacks -- because they were white.
According to this film this actually happened. It's not a hypothetical, and no reason (not "because they were black") was suggested by anybody. The main point the defense drew from what happened was that even "eyewitness" testimony is unreliable (it had nothing to do with "black people").

What happened is during cross-examination one of the prosecution witnesses did mis-identify "Angela Davis" as a different woman also sitting nearby.

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It's obvious that COINTELPRO worked on you.

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Angela Davis my hero.. Best doc of 2013

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...Who wants that perfect love story anyway??? anyway...(#ON THE RUNwithMrHova&MrsRide/Die)

"I think that what George Jackson said about life in prison is very appropriate here. He says that prison either breaks a person or makes the person stronger. My emotional relationship with George became far more intense while I was behind bars. Part of that PASSION consisted in our being able to imagine ourselves as comrades helping to usher in a new world."

"An hour & a half since, OVERFLOWING???(damn!!!Angela,i was so envious when read all these POETIC descriptionS!!!)with U, I feel U, U in ME, All over ME, I'm TOTALLY INTOXICATED."---Angela's A LOVE LETTER for George

"She'd been lock'd up. And if she had the opportunity to do some hugging & kissing, RIGHT ON!!!(legal rep for Ms.Davis)

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...I got time, while she got freedom...

...Really ever LOVED A WOMAN...



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For providing the arms used in a hostage incident that resulted in the deaths of innocent citizens, or for other reasons?

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