May Murderous Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Not Rest in
Peace
His supporters would be far better off praising someone deserving of praise.
Carter was not only convicted of triple homicide by two juries, first in 1967 and again in 1976 but his appeals were repeatedly shot down by appellate courts, all of whom found him guilty of killing three people in 1966 at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey. There, accompanied by John Artis and armed with a shotgun and a pistol, the pair cold-bloodedly murdered the bartender, James Oliver, a male customer, Fred Nauyoks, and a female patron, Hazel Tanis.
Not incidentally, Carter and Artis are black and their defenseless victims were white.
Also not coincidental, before Carter became a professional middleweight boxer in which he earned the nickname “Hurricane” due to his viciousness in the ring, he had a criminal record that would almost make Charlie Manson envious.
Sentenced to a reformatory for assault at the unripe, young age of 14, he escaped confinement and joined the Army which soon dumped him as unfit for service. He was arrested and sentenced to an additional nine months. He was released and quickly committed a number of muggings, was imprisoned for four years in the maximum security East Jersey State Prison.
He subsequently resided in both the Rahway and Trenton state prisons before being remanded for the Paterson murders after his second appeal was denied.
Much like former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal who was sentenced to death, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36761.)
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