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Walker continue to fight in Americus GA

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 The AmericUSumter Observer newspaper has received several calls about Craig Walker’s recent arrest on disorderly conduct at the October City Council meeting.  As we understand it, Walker also blasted Thomas Holloway, publisher of the Sumter News, at the September meeting of the council.  Walker kept interrupting Holloway’s “time to rebut” and the police arrested him on a charge of disorderly conduct.   Walker is currently dealing with an indictment on child cruelty in the first degree charge for allegedly spanking his niece.  Full Story..............

Craig Walker

 

Prison & jail Project: Demand justice for Eddie Bridges

 Editor's Note:  Since April 2007, when Americus resident Eddie Bridges was brutally beaten by police officer Michael Middleton in the Wheatley Plaza parking lot, the Prison & Jail Project has been demanding that the city fire Middleton.  P&JP director John Cole Vodicka recently gave the following interview to the AmericUSumter Observer.  Full Story........

John Cole Vodicka

 District attorney may have broken the law in Unadilla

 The Georgia State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is calling for an investigation of District Attorney Denise Fachini’s actions against officials in Unadilla, GA.  Full Story........

Edward Dubose, GA State NAACP president leads protest at the Dooly County courthouse for abuses by DA Denise Fachini.

Shame, Shame, Shame on Sumter.  SEE Cartoon Page 2A
History Fact

Two police were charged with murder and one with manslaughter , on Nov. 16, 1992, in a beating death of Malice Green, a 35-year-old Black man from Detroit, MI Green was beaten 11 days earlier in an incident similar to the Rodney King beating

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Corrections: The article on the front page of this month's paper has a misprint. It should read, Craig Walker has a child cruelty in the first degree charge, instead of child molestation. We apologize for the mistake.