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<span style="font-weight: bold">Black LI Man Goes To Prison For Killing White Teen
John White Surrenders After Losing Appeal</span>


A black Long Island homeowner convicted of killing a white teenager during a group confrontation has surrendered to begin his prison term.

Family and friends of 56-year-old John White thanked his supporters Thursday as the Miller Place man surrendered to begin serving a 2 to 4 year manslaughter prison sentence now that he lost his appeals.

&quot;I appreciate all of my supporters,&quot; his wife, Sonya Young said. &quot;This goes across all racial lines.&quot;

It was back in 2007 that White was convicted of shooting Daniel Cicciaro of Selden in a racially charged incident. The 17-year-old and his friends went to White's home looking for White's son who they mistakenly believed had threatened to rape a girl they knew.

Just minutes after John White surrendered to begin his sentence, the Cicciaro family said they felt little closure.

&quot;It will never be over,&quot; said Joanne Ciciarro, Daniel's mother. &quot;No amount of time will bring my son back. I miss him very much. At least I am happy he is seeing consequences.&quot;

Lawyers for White say he shot the teen in self-defense. Prosecutors argued White should have stayed inside his home and waited for police.

John White's wife says her family is strong.

&quot;I am thankful, I am blessed,&quot; she said. &quot;My husband is blessed. We will get through this as we did for four years.&quot;

The White family would not discuss any possible future lawsuits they are considering... Mrs. White says she has reported several threats made against her family in the last few months... But she would not elaborate.

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In this March 19, 2008 file photo, John White walks into court in Riverhead, N.Y., before being sentenced to two to four years in prison for fatally shooting an intoxicated white teenager during a racially charged confrontation with two carloads of young people at the end of his driveway. A state appeals court upheld White's manslaughter conviction on Friday, May 21, 2010

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tell mii oww two carload aff oyinbo yuths widd baseball bats goo too blakk man house cah dem lookinn fii lynch de blakk man son woo dem mistakenlee beeleeve rape wan mzungu gurl, sey dem aggo rape de blakk man's wife ann blakk man go to jail fii protectinn imm family

iss itt cah deer wass onlee wan blakk person pon de jury? iss itt caah de judge tell de jury shii might keep dem delibaratinn pon christmas eve?

mii guess sum oyinbo aggoo try fii ignore dat racism still a runn tings

[Emperah]

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thought all these tings were spose fi stap since Obama was elected, cah amerikkka didn't see race anymore.

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Why Governor Paterson Should Pardon John White




[Speaking Truth To Empower]


With the 2010 New York Gubernatorial Election approaching, a group of activists are petitioning Governor David Paterson to pardon the second-degree manslaughter conviction of Long Island resident John White.

Spearheaded by the United African Movement, the activists have launched an online petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/pardonjohnwhite/ to be signed by concerned New Yorkers, to lobby the outgoing governor into pardoning Mr. White.

The John White Case stemmed from the events of the night of Aug. 9, 2006 . Mr. White’s son Aaron, then 19, awoke his father to tell him a chilling story: several white thugs, threatening violence, were coming to the White’s home, on Miller Place in Suffolk County, Long Island and they were not coming for tea.

In fact, the hooligans stated they intended to beat up Aaron, along with his father and to rape his mother. The incident precipitated from a bogus online posting purporting that Aaron planned to rape a white girl known by the gang.

Outside their home the lynch mob, and it leader, Daniel Cicciaro, 17, had assembled blocking off the street. They were busy revving their engines and flashing their lights in an intimidating manner. Mr. White told his wife to call 911, grabbed a handgun, and went to his driveway where he confronted a trespassing Cicciaro. Cicciaro, and his friends, started hurling racial invectives, including the N-Word. Cicciaro lunged for Mr. White’s gun, which went off killing Cicciaro.

Mr. White was charged with second-degree manslaughter and third-degree weapons violations. He was ultimately convicted of both charges.

Mr. White recently lost his appeal bid to the New York State Supreme Court. The four judge panel rejected all the arguments made by Mr. White’s lawyers, including the seemingly inappropriate conduct of trial Judge Barbara Khan. The judges in their decision wrote: “Considering all of these circumstances, there is thus ample support for the jury’s conclusion that a reasonable person in the defendant’s position, and with his background and experiences, would not have believed that the use of deadly physical force was necessary to prevent the teenagers from unlawfully entering or attempting to enter his home to commit a crime, and that the shooting was thus not justified.”

How could these judges come to such a curious conclusion?

Did they consider part of Mr. White’s “background and experiences” was the knowledge his grandfather’s business, in 1920’s Alabama, was torched by the Klan? More importantly, did these judges really probe the imprudent behavior of Judge Khan? The truth is: this trial was headed to a hung jury before her interference. The judge, basically, threatened to force the jury to deliberate until Christmas Eve, by asking them to submit their religious itineraries for that Sunday. This was done on a Saturday where the jury deliberated for 12 hours.

We know there were, initially, two jurors who weren't convinced Mr. White was guilty. One of those holdouts was white South African, and West Islip resident, Francois Larche. Larche later lamented the events that transpired in the trial, including the jury’s lack of serious deliberations and the judge’s behavior.

According to Larche, Judge Khan told the jury another trial would burden the families. The judge also, reportedly, said if there was a mistrial the next trial’s jury &quot;would not be any different from you.&quot; Did the New York State Supreme Court seriously investigate these statements? Larche said “the judge’s repetitive admonitions that another jury in Suffolk County would have to try the case resounded.” He also accused the judge of “blatant disregard for the well-being of the jury and her request for us to deliberate such unreasonable hours in order to extract a verdict at all costs.”

Larche said most of the jurors made up their minds “within an hour” of the first day of deliberations. “As far as they were concerned, a young kid was dead and somebody had to pay the price.” He added “There was no objective, clear reasoning” and they “identified” with the white youths, instead of Mr. White. Larche eventually succumbed to the jury’s bias.

This case reeks of racist double-standard. Some say Mr. White should’ve waited for the police. Perhaps, if he had the police would’ve reached in time to save his family from being victimized. How many of us—faced with a similar situation—would take that chance?

In 1984, Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz shot and injured four Black youths on a train. He once said &quot;in a situation like this, your mind, you're in a combat situation…You're not thinking in a normal way…You are under adrenaline, a drug called adrenaline. And you respond very quickly.” Goetz was acquitted of all charges, except an illegal firearms violation.

Question: if John White was white, and the defendants Black, do you think the verdict would’ve been the same? An example can be found in the Joe Horn Case. Mr. Horn shot and killed two Black men, in his neighbor’s yard, in Pasadena , Texas . He wasn’t even indicted.

The John White Case is another reminder we aren’t in a “post-racial society.”

It’s an illustration of the “separate and unequal” dispensing of justice within American Jurisprudence. What happened to John White could happen to anyone of us. Every Black Long Islander—and New Yorker—needs to petition Governor Paterson to pardon John White.


&quot;Speaking Truth To Empower.&quot;

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">In fact, the hooligans stated they intended to beat up Aaron, along with his father and to rape his mother</span></div></div>

mii wandar oww many, iff any aff dem oyinbo yuths, were charged widd mekkinn threats


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">The incident precipitated from a bogus online posting purporting that Aaron planned to rape a white girl known by the gang.</span></div></div>

mii wandar y wood oyinbo poas sintinn like dat. y mii tink itt wass jealousy ting cah mzungu gurl wanted de blakk upgrade

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yu know Blu...

I wondered how the country would be if all black people were to kill off all the white ppl...

and then i got scared...

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">thought all these tings were spose fi stap since Obama was elected, cah amerikkka didn't see race anymore.
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sah oyinbo fear aff blakk men wey will defend dem blakk family. y yu tink soo many oyinbo peeps tekk set pon michelle

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skellee

blakk peeps wood neva doo tings like dat cah wii wood lose jah blessinn ann blakk humanity

mii find itt intarestinn dat de artikkle inn mzungu paypah figgit fii mention de oyinbo supremacists dat came to court everee day durinn da trial

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what a travesty &amp; miscarriage of justice...

i guess a one not allowed to protect their home and family from violent, threatening invaders...

this is just sick

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">yu know Blu...

I wondered how the country would be if all black people were to kill off all the white ppl...

and then i got scared... </div></div>

kisteet...

which pawt disya awgiment come from

[Blackstar*]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">yu know Blu...

I wondered how the country would be if all black people were to kill off all the white ppl...

and then i got scared...</span> </div></div>A pack of drunken, violent white teens threaten a black woman with rape, her son and husband with lynching and that's your response? OK.

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from the time i heard anything about &quot;rape&quot; and my &quot;wife&quot; in the same sentence, or anybody's really, and the very same people that said it come tearing up to my house, at that time the safety comes off and the clips empty. i'm surprised he stopped shooting. it's rare i would ever advocate violence, but to defend others i feel it is usually justified.

sad the kid is dead, but i am having a hard time generating sympathy for cowards what roll up cars deep. the man should have gone free, as any number of his equals have.

hopefully some investigative reporter finds out about this. have you sent out any emails about it?