June 1st 2012 Edition

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The National Newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

FRIDAY,

JUNE 01, 2012

VOLUME 106, No. 22

www.thevincentian.com

Man dies in vehicular accident Ashley Hope died when his motor car collided with an oncoming passenger van. Right: The remains of the vehicle owned and driven by Ashley Hope.

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VINCENTIAN HONOR STUDENT SUES NYPD Vincentian honour student Brittany Rowley.

by NELSON A. KING naking@verizon.net US CORRESPONDENT

THE PARENTS of a Vincentian honor student at an all-girls Catholic high school in Brooklyn, New York, say they have filed a notice of claim with the City of New York and the New York Police Department (NYPD) for US$5.5 million in a case of mistaken identity. Delmus and Wendy Rowley, who reside in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, confirmed the lawsuit with THE VINCENTIAN on Monday. Mrs.

Rowley, née John, was born and lived in Rillan Hill before migrating to New York. The Rowleys said they have decided to take legal action because two White plainclothes cops last week severely and unnecessarily roughed up their daughter, Brittany, 15, claiming she matched the description of a shoplifting suspect in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. “I feel my daughter was racially profiled,” an outraged Delmus Rowley told reporters. “They had no proof, just a description of a black young lady

with braids. “It wasn’t necessary to tackle a 15-year-old girl,” he added. “It was excessive.”

The circumstances In court papers, the Rowleys alleged that Sgt. Jonathan Catanzaro and Officer Stephen Nakao of the 78th Precinct in Brooklyn used “excessive force” and “falsely arrested” Brittany,

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