Gettin’ Paid: Central Park II, Part Five

By Nicholas Stix
June 22, 2000

(This isn’t about the brutal, racist, April 19, 1989 black and Hispanic mob attacks and robberies of whites, and rape of a white woman in Central Park; it’s about the brutal, racist, June 11, 2000 black and Hispanic mob attacks, robberies and rapes of white women in Central Park.)

Central Park II, Part Five

In the most celebrated case of "police brutality," that of the shooting death of Amadou Diallo, the four officers who tragically but accidentally shot Diallo were looking for the most brazen serial rapist in the city's history. The women of the Bronx were in a state of understandable hysteria, and everyone in The Bronx demanded action.

All this was conveniently forgotten, the moment the first of the "41 shots" whizzed in Amadou Diallo's direction. The most notable cases of amnesia were the collective cases of the good people of The Bronx, and of New York feminists, respectively. The Bronxites immediately remembered that they hated cops more than they did serial rapists. And white feminists immediately remembered that they hated whomever "minorities" hated, including white feminists.

Three weeks after the Diallo shooting, police arrested black Isaac Jones, for possession of property robbed from one of the victims of the Bronx Rapist, the worst serial rapist in New York history. On April 7, a relieved Isaac Jones confessed to being the Bronx Rapist, who had committed 39 rapes, dozens of armed robberies, and sundry other crimes against 51 different women over the previous five years.

Isaac Jones closely resembled Amadou Diallo [at least, according to a verbal description], and even lived in Diallo's Soundview neighborhood in The Bronx. But instead of praising the police for protecting women, feminists damned "the job" for fictitious "racial profiling." Feminists' loyalty was with just the sort of thugs who would rampage through Central Park on June 11. And let me tell you, the feminists are shocked.

Hearing me speak constantly of white female victims, you may be asking, But what about the two black victims? To which I say, What black victims?

In less than 48 hours, Ashanna Cover and Josina Lawrence, of Somerset, New Jersey, were able to round up a high-priced attorney, get the most high-profile "civil rights" leader in the nation on their side, file a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, and hold a press conference. But somehow, they never found the time to cooperate with the police.

On Tuesday, June 13, Ashanna Cover and Josina Lawrence announced that they were suing the City of New York for $5 million each for its failure to protect them. At their press conference, Cover and Lawrence were accompanied by their spokesman, none other than the Rev. Al Sharpton, racial arsonist and hoaxster extraordinaire. By Wednesday, the NYPD brass said it was already poking holes in the two women's stories. (Radical attorney and radio host Ron Kuby was quick to point out that due to legal technicalities, none of the lawsuits by women claiming to have been ignored by police will have any legal standing.)

Having Al Sharpton as one's spokesman automatically brings with it a credibility problem. When the NYPD brass sought to interview the women, and have them look through mug shots of all the officers on duty in the area where the women said the first two cops they encountered brushed them off, the women refused to cooperate. Shades of Tawana Brawley.

When Al Sharpton's most famous charge claimed, in 1987, to have been gang-raped by a group of off-duty state police troopers in Dutchess County, he instructed her to refuse to cooperate with law enforcement officials. Brawley couldn't cooperate, because she hadn't been raped! Neither by troopers nor by anyone else.

Criminals are creatures of habit. When I hear the same m.o. used by the same "mope," over twelve years later, a light goes on in my head. Besides, who ever heard of a real crime victim refusing to cooperate with the police?

I didn't see any black women on the videotapes so far released to the public. None of the other victims or witnesses has identified Cover or Lawrence. Neither Cover nor Lawrence has identified any attackers who assaulted them, nor any of the police officers whom they insist refused to help them. Can you say, "Quick, sealed, tax-free, cash settlement"? Since they haven't filed a police report, they can't be charged with perjury, filing a false report, or obstruction of justice. And no one has been charged with fraud for bringing a false civil case in the State of New York since Lincoln was president. And even if Cover and Lawrence were to file charges, there is an unwritten rule in New York, according to which black females instigating racial hoaxes are released from any obligation to obey the law. Just ask Tawana.

Personally, I'd like Ashanna Cover and Josina Lawrence to prove that they were anywhere near the island of Manhattan on the day of the attacks, before hearing any more from them.

As far as I can see, we have here a case in which dozens of white women were assaulted, and robbed of their dignity, because of the color of their skin, and two black women who want to get paid, based on the color of their skin.