gation, and the vcrv comparison with thernKing case was certain to inflame thernracial passions in which the case was atrnonce submerged.rnNcvers and Budzyn were suspendedrnwithout pay at about the same time, andrnChief Knox was able to forbid a PolicernReview Board investigation of the case, arndecision unprecedented in the city’s history.rnWithin 72 hours of Green’s death,rnDetroit Mayor Coleman Young announcedrnon national television that therntwo policemen were murderers, andrnwithin three weeks, the city had reachedrna settlement with Green’s family forrn$S.25 million. The city’s legal settlementrnthus conceded that Green was anrninnocent victim even before criminalrnproceedings against the policemen hadrnbeen initiated. If that wasn’t enough tornsend the message that the city wantedrnthem convicted, the police departmentrnproceeded to fire both officers during thernpretrial examination on the grounds ofrn”conduct unbecoming an officer for havingrncommitted second degree murder,”rnFrom the beginning, the NAACP wasrnat the center of the onslaught againstrnthe two officers. As Nevers has written,rn”This case gave them more fuel for theirrnracist fires. I lived through this case andrnwitnessed black racism at its absoluternfinest. The racism was perpetrated byrnthe local chapter, by powerful black officialsrnin the city, and black members ofrnthe Detroit Police Department in concertrnwith members of the Prosecutor’srnOffice [The NAACP] organizedrnmarches, demonstrated, and proclaimedrnthcv would investigate this case personally.rnThe NAACP also raised money forrnthe family and paid the funeral expensesrnof Green,”rnAt what reporters were pleased to callrn”the trial,” Ncvers and Budzyn were triedrnsimultaneously but by two differentrnjuries. One of the juries consisted of 11rnblacks (the sole white man later told a radiorntalk show host that his colleaguesrnhad “pressured” him into voting for conviction),rnand who should one of themrnturn out to be but the vice president ofrnthe local chapter of the NAACP, a factrnnever disclosed during the jury selectionrnor the trial itself. Shortly before the juryrnretired to consider its verdict, it was sequesteredrnand provided movies to watchrnfor its edification. The first film wasrnSpike Lee’s classic in Afro-racism, MalcolmrnX, which begins with the videotapernof the Rodney King beating, a burningrnAmerican flag, and a voiceover that identifiesrn”the white man” as “being therngreatest murderer on earth.” Mr. Leernand Malcolm would have had no problemrngetting onto the Nevcrs-Budzvn juries,rnbut the piece de resistance at the “trial”rnwas the autopsy report.rnThe autopsy was conducted bv Dr.rnKalil Jiraki, who testified that MalicernGreen’s death was due to “blunt forcerntrauma” (i.e., the blows from Ncvers’rnflashlight). What was not disclosedrnwas that there was a second autopsy, byrnDr. Jiraki’s supervisor, Dr. Bader Cassin,rnwhose suspicions were aroused. Dr.rnCassin noticed that Dr. Jiraki liadrnclaimed that he had examined the brainrnof the deceased and sliced into it, therebyrndetermining the cause of death. Butrnwhen Dr. Cassin examined the brain arnday later, he found that Green’s brainrnwas intact. This would not be possible ifrnthe brain had been sectioned.rnMoreover, though Dr. Jiraki testifiedrnat the trial that the amount of cocaine inrnGreen’s body (determined to be .50) wasrninsignificant and insufficient to causerndeath, several months earlier, in ju\rn1992, he had ruled somewhat differentlyrnin the death of another black suspectrnwho had died after multiple blows to thernhead administered by police officersrn(who in that case were also black). In thernearlier case, that of James Brooks, whornweighed 45 pounds more than Grc;en,rnDr. Jiraki held that the cause of deathrnwas “cocaine addiction.” The level ofrncocaine in Brooks’ body was .38, ratherrnless than the level in Green’s. NeitherrnGreen nor Brooks suffered any skull fracture,rnnor any swelling of the brain or langrnedema, but both had the enlarged heartsrnoften associated with drug abuse. Brooksrnhad consumed no alcohol, but Greenrnhad. If it was possible for a smallerrnamount of cocaine to cause the dcatli ofrna heavier man who had not been drinking,rnthen it should have been possible forrncocaine, and not the blows from Necrs’rnflashlight, to kill Malice Green, who hadrnalcohol in his system.rnNone of these facts emerged at the trial.rnThough it was known that a secc^ndrnautopsy had been performed, the judgerndidn’t allow that to get in the wa- ofrnwhat was obviously a witch hunt. E’cnrnso, there was testimony from three otherrnmedical experts that challenged thernblunt force trauma theory. Two forensicrnpathologists testified that cocaine and alcoholrndefinitely contributed to Green’srndeath, and a neuropathologist testifiedrnthat “absent the blows this man wouldrnhave died anyway…. Blunt force traumarnwas definitely not the cause of this man’srndeath.” The blows to Green’s head, sherntestified, were superficial. This testimonyrnalone ought to have established reasonablerndoubt.rnBut reasonable doubt is no longer arnvalid legal principle in the trial of whiternpolicemen charged with the murder ofrna black. Both Nevers and Budzyn werernconvicted and sentenced, Nevers to 12 torn25 years and Budzyn to 8 to 18 in prison,rnterms they are now serving. Their appealsrnfor a mistrial have been denied byrnlocal courts, and they are now appealingrnto the Michigan Supreme Court. Whilernthe case evaporated quickly as a nationalrnnews story, it continues to excite attentionrnin Michigan. It remains to be seenrnwhether antiwhite forces can prevent furtherrnappeals from being heard or somernreasonable facsimile of justice fromrnbeing served.rnBut even as they prepared their ap-rn]3eals last summer, the New York Timesrnand an army of other newspapers were rehearsingrnthe story of “black journalist”rnMumia Abu-Jamal, awaiting executionrnin Pennsylvania for the murder in 1981 ofrna white police officer in Philadelphia.rnThe evidence against Abu-Jamal is overwhelming,rnto the point that even most ofrnhis acolytes don’t even claim he is innocent,rnbut because of some supposedrnirregularities at his trial and the adroitnessrnof his legal and public relations cohorts,rnthere was a worldwide movement,rninstigated in this country by the Nationrnamong others, to get him a new trial. Inrnthe event, Mumia survived, mainlyrnbecause the court system renders thernexecution of convicted murderers all butrnimpossible within a generation. Laugh ifrnyou will at the belief among blacks thatrnO.J. is innocent, but the silliness of thatrnnotion pales next to what the white leftrnhas persuaded itself to believe in the casernof Abu-Jamal.rnBut there is no worldwide movement,rnor even a neighborhood rally, for a newrntrial for Nevers and Budzyn, nor for thernLos Angeles Four, nor for any of the otherrnwhite victims of black criminals andrntheir Afro-racist allies. Antiwhite forcesrnand their white allies have no problemrnmounting nationwide or worldwiderncampaigns as part of the race war theyrnwant to instigate, but the absence of anyrnresistance among whites or even of muchrnconsciousness of what is happening suggestsrnwho will be the victor when thatrnwar is over. crnNOVEMBER 1995/9rnrnrn