Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1987 — Page 3

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A GROUP of ministers and concerned citizens confer outside City-County Council chambers Monday night after they called for a citizen’s review board to investigate complaints against police. The latest request came following the bizaar shooting death of

Michael Taylor Jr. Identified in photo from left are Rev. Dr. Damon S. Roache, Elder Lionel Rush, Rev. Wayne T. Harris, and Reginald Jones. (Recorder photo by M. Dawson Broomes)

Councilman Howard to meet voters

As Election Day nears, those familiar with Glenn Howard as 9th District City-County Councilman want as many people as possible to meet him and have input into his campaign. And the general public can do just that during a matinee given by Friends of Glenn Howard Saturday, Oct. 17, from 5-9 p.m. at Pearl’s Lounge, 18 McLean Place.

Throughout his stellar tenure with the council, Howard has seen his work result in the naming of a street after the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., introduction of a measure that would ban the investment of city funds in financial institutions that conduct business in South Africa, and asked a federal judge to declare

the current council districts unconstitutional because they discriminateagainst Democrats. “I just want to continue what I’ve started,” Howard says. “Up to now I’ve been trying to do a decent job and I want your confidence in my efforts to keep up the work on vour behalf.”

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“Let them explain why they keep changing the story and why they' would exonerate the policeman instead of finding the truth to bring to the city,” he said.

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Do you think the police killed Michael Taylor?

Although the Indianapolis Police Department has ruled that the Sept. 24 death of Michael Taylor Jr. was either accidentia! or suicide, many in the community feel this is not the case. Recorder photographer and reporter Anita L. Sharpe took to the streets earlier this week in an ef-

fort to gain an insight as to how the man and woman on the street really feel about Taylor’s death. Reported herein is some views and opinions of those who responded to the question, “Do you think the police killed Michael Taylor?”

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Harris criticized police chief Paul Annce’s reading of statements from two witnesses confirming IPD’s version of what happened when there are other statements that do not. One of those two witnesses admitted he had been drinking before making his statement. Harris commented that 1PD would take the word of two white witnesses who might have gotten drunk before testifying. “They believe we’re going to be mad today and let it die tomorrow,” he added. “If we let it pass, it’ll happen over and over again.” The task force plans another rally at Mt. Olive at 10 a.m. Oct. 17. There may also be a rally Oct. 21 at Indianapolis International Airport.

DAWN GARZA

Student

CHARLESSMITH

Unemployed

I think it’s really stupid! Ain’t no way a man is going to shoot himself with his hands handcuffed behind his back. Why don’t they try to put that lie detector on the police and see what it says. If he says he don’t want it, something is wrong. SHANDELLEGRAVES Telephone Operator No, 1 don’t think police killed Michael Taylor. I have talked with someone who is in on the investigation. I’m not at liberty to give his name, but the way he pointed it out to me is that, at first I thought maybe he had planned to escape and the gun went off. But the way that he had presented the evidence to me...it’s conceivable that he may havecommilted suicide. WAYNE DAVIS

Security worker

Yes 1 do and 1 try to look at it from an objective point of view and say that he did commit suicide. But 1 have been stopped by the police in the city before and I have looked at some of the things they have passed on as evidence and I find it very hard to believe that blacks don’t

discuss personal things.

There’s a lot of gray matter. Even if he did kill himself, the suspension of one day is not severe enough. A

HERBERT HINES Credit Buyer lot of people, especially whites, look at it as another nigger gone; he wasn’t nothing but a trouble maker. Whether he killed himself or not it’s their (the policemen) fault. They should have checked. The police were negligent and in that sense they definitely killed him. HERBERT HINES Credit Buyer With the information I’ve gotten, I don’t think so. I’m not sure what happened, but I’m pretty sure the police didn’t do it. I understand there were two witnesses that said the police weren’t involved. My conclusions are that they (the police) were not. I don’t think it was suicide, however. DAWN GARZA Student No! He probably shot himself. He committed suicide. I think it (the gun) could have been in the seat (of the police car). It sounds wierd that he had a gun in his shoe unless the cops didn’t search very well. I think it was a cop’s second gun. STEVESHULL Welder I’m not sure, but if they didn’t they know who did. I’ve been arrested before and the officer didn’t walk off and leave that kid in the car. No way did Michael Taylor shot himself...no way on earth that

STEVESHULL Welder kid could have kept a gun on him after a search. The gun has an ambiguous history...sounds like something from the police property room. They didn’t put the handcuffs on right or he could never have moved his hands. I can’t think of a motive as to why police would kill him unless he got real smart with them and he lost his temper.

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