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(6/3/10): Charges Dropped Against President Foster and President Smitherman |
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The City of Cincinnati has dropped criminal trespassing charges against the President of the Baptist Ministers Conference Rev. Dock Foster and President of the Cincinnati NAACP Christopher Smitherman.
June 3, 2010 . Cincinnati NAACP Media Release . The City of Cincinnati has dropped criminal trespassing charges against the President of the Baptist Ministers Conference Rev. Dock Foster and President of the Cincinnati NAACP Christopher Smitherman. Since both arrest several major White owned construction companies have disclosed to the Cincinnati NAACP their frequent and common practice of using pass throughs and front companies to disguise minority inclusion. Also, Cincinnati Public Schools had to admit that their institution had inflated their minority inclusion numbers to the public for six years. Turner Construction had to admit their involvement in CPS inflating their minority inclusion numbers for six years. Turner Construction provided the minority numbers to CPS and knew that CPS was actively reporting higher numbers. "The Jim Crow economic policies in the construction industry must stop if Cincinnati is going to move forward as a community," Smitherman says. . The Cincinnati NAACP and the Baptist Ministers Conference would like to thank the legal team that resolved this matter. Attorney Chris Finney, Attorney Larry Holley, and Attorney Elizabeth Tye all did an excellent job representing freedom and justice. All three attorneys deserve tremendous credit in resolving this matter for the benefit of the Cincinnati community. Also, both institutions extend a thank you to the City of Cincinnati attorneys for dropping the charges. "We remain undeterred in keeping pressure on CPS and the entire construction industry to stop the obvious corruption that undermines the credibility of the entire industry," Smitiherman says. . . . REFERENCE RELATED BACKGROUND ARTICLES: . |
