UC-IMC, Smile Politely launch Carrington site
Above is a screenshot from http://timeline.chambana.net/, the Kiwane Carrington Timeline, a website which communicates a timeline of events and documents pertaining to the Kiwane Carrington incident. The website is a joint project of the U-C Independent Media Center and Smile Politely, and is being released to the public for the first time this morning. From the site's About page:
This site is intended to be a permanent home for documentation, articles, reporting, and discussion regarding the death of Kiwane Carrington and the investigation and events that followed.
Items are arranged in a timeline format for ease of use and linear clarity. You will notice that many documents are concentrated on and around October 9, 2009, when the incident occurred.
Users can navigate to find different items either by scrolling through the timeline, or by selecting a particular file type (audio, images, documents, etc.) from the top menu.
| Francis Boyle vs. Extraordinary Rendition
University of Illinois International Law Professor Francis Boyle filed a complaint with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, last Wednesday against:
U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the "Accused") for their criminal policy and practice of "extraordinary rendition" perpetrated upon about 100 human beings.
Also:
For similar reasons, the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration risk the filing of a follow-up Complaint with the I.C.C. if they do not immediately terminate the Accused's criminal policy and practice of "extraordinary rendition," which the Obama administration has continued to implement.
This may seem like a quixotic endeavor, but Boyle has had success with filings in international courts before, gaining an indictment against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in the International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
I spoke with Professor Boyle by phone last Friday:
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(UPDATED: 11/04/2009) For the past three weeks, Champaign-Urbana has been scrambling to make sense of what happened on the afternoon of October 9th, when 15-year-old Kiwane Carrington was killed by a bullet discharged by Champaign Police Officer Daniel Norbits' sidearm. The verbiage of that last statement is itself a testament to how few facts the public has had at its disposal. So as not to disturb the investigation, the Champaign Police Department has yet to officially acknowledge that Norbits himself …
After 30 years of talk and planning, the Olympian Drive Extension is closer to becoming a reality. Some feel the extension would bring progress and economic growth; others feel that it would lead to unnecessary development and endanger a valued rural area. The $27 million extension — which would connect Olympian Drive where it currently ends east of North Market Street to Route 45 — is stalled right now because of funding issues, but is very much a possibility. …
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