Was "Beat Whitey Night" Really About Race?
Remember Lori Lavorato from the “Beat Whitey Night” video I posted last week? She was the uniformed “police spokeswoman” from Iowa who tentatively hypothesized that “Beat Whitey Night” might have had “racial overtones”…
Note that at 0:34, Lori can barely bring herself to say “b-b-black males.”
Well, it seems that as federal employees go, Lori is a bold truth teller.
Demoines Register, Sept. 3, 2010By Daniel P. Finney
Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw reassigned her department’s spokeswoman Thursday, two weeks after Sgt. Lori Lavorato said it was “very possible” fights near the Iowa State Fairgrounds had racial overtones. The move came as a part of a series of police command assignment changes announced to officers by e-mail Thursday, the details of which have not been made public.
Bradshaw, who could not be reached for comment Thursday, raised concerns about statements Lavorato made after a series of fights outside the fairgrounds last month. A supplemental report about the Aug. 20 incident filed by Sgt. Dave Murillo said, “On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it ‘beat whitey night.’ “ While answering questions from the news media three days later, Lavorato said, “It’s all under investigation, but it’s very possible it has racial overtones.”
Police commanders later said they found no credible evidence the fights were racially motivated. ”I had some real concerns with us making that leap and making a remark like that publicly,” Bradshaw told The Des Moines Register in an Aug. 26 interview. “That’s a huge statement that, quite frankly, can provoke emotions on both sides of the issue. ”People are very sensitive to remarks like that, so I had some real grave concerns about us stepping out and I wanted to make certain that we were right to message the State Fair events that way.”
On Thursday, Des Moines police administrators did not return phone calls from the Register seeking comment and did not release a full list of administrative changes at the department. Bradshaw was out of the office and did not return a call to her cell phone. Messages left for Assistant Chiefs James O’Donnell and David Lillard also were not returned. Lavorato, 36, a police public information officer since May 2009, will work in the department’s traffic unit. Sgt. Jeff Edwards, 40, will transfer from the traffic unit to replace Lavorato effective Sept. 13.
White people in Iowa probably don’t want to even countenance the idea of racial violence occurring in their otherwise peaceful state. Perhaps some would prefer it if Lori had “jumped to the conclusion” that poverty, White racism, and the lack of access to educational opportunities caused rioting at the fair grounds on August 20. At any rate, instead of facing the bad news, the Iowa Police Department has reassigned the messenger.
2013-02-22 15:07:02
Source: http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/zeitgeist/was-beat-whitey-night-really-about-race/
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