Showing posts with label Attorney Gloria Allred. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attorney Gloria Allred. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

McKinney Mom From Pool Party Video Speaks: “This Is Not About Black & White”

By CBS Dallas Fort Worth, Jun. 16, 2015

CALIFORNIA (CBSDFW.COM) – Speaking for the first time, hundreds of miles away from her North Texas home, Tracy Carver Allbritton gave her account of the June 5 incident at a McKinney pool that made international headlines.

Surrounded by her lawyer, Gloria Allred and African-American friend of more than a decade, Aaron Clark, Tracy spoke about the afternoon she took her two children, grandchild and a visiting friend to the Craig Ranch North Community Pool, where she has lived for 11 years.

She says she noticed about an hour after she arrived at the pool, a BBQ with a DJ was being set up outside the pool gates. Within a half an hour, several of the party goers had made their way into the pool area.

“By the time our security officer arrived for his scheduled shift, the pool had been overtaken by unruly teenagers and young adults,” said Tracy. She says many of them became upset when they were asked for key cards to prove their residency and complained it was because of the color of their skin. However, she said everyone at the pool, including herself, was asked to prove they lived in the community.

More: www.dfw.cbslocal.com


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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Rescued Woman To Be Represented By Gloria Allred

Dianna Bedwell was found
severely dehydrated

By Patrick Edgell, Jun. 2, 2015, KESQ

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. - Some new developments are taking place regarding the case of the missing couple from Orange County who became lost in San Diego County while heading to La Quinta to visit their son.

They were missing for two weeks before someone riding an off-road vehicle found them on an Indian reservation. Cecil Knutson had died, but his wife Diana Bedwell was found alive and severely dehydrated.

News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 learned the family transferred her to Desert Regional Medical Center, and then Eisenhower Medical Center where she's now recovering in a rehabilitation center.


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Friday, February 13, 2015

Two New Bill Cosby Accusers Come Forward--Gloria Allred Promises More On The Way

By The Inquisitr, Feb. 12, 2015

Two new women came forward Thursday accusing Bill Cosby of drugging them, and one alleges the comedian sexually assaulted her. Gloria Allred says she has more accusers who are ready to come forward.


USA Today reports the two women appeared at a Los Angeles press conference on Thursday with civil rights attorney Gloria Allred, who represents six of the nearly three dozen women who are accusing Bill Cosby of drugging them over the past four decades.

Allred asserts that while the 77-year-old comedian may want this scandal to go away, she has more accusers just waiting to come forward.


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Saturday, October 18, 2014

By Larry Elder, Jan. 25, 2012, Dailynews.com

Is the term "illegal alien" racist? What is the appropriate term to describe the status of those who broke our laws either by illegally entering or over-staying the time allowed under a student, work or other temporary permit?

Cindy Rodriguez of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists considers the term "illegal" to be a pejorative, used by "reactionary commentators and politicians" and "radio talk shows."

"If you can control the words people use," Rodriguez says, "you can frame the issue... That's how propaganda works. Repeat the words continually until it reshapes the way people think."

Attorney Gloria Allred represented gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's Mexican-born housekeeper. Allred said the term "alien" should apply only to those "from outer space."

Words matter.

The term "illegal alien" does not only apply, of course, to persons of Mexican or Hispanic heritage. "Illegal alien" is a race- and ethnicity-neutral term. The U.S. Code defines an "alien" as "any person not a citizen or national of the United States."

The word "alien" appears numerous times in the U.S. Code and is applied to those who live here legally (tourists, resident aliens, students on visas), as well as to those who live here illegally.

The term "illegal alien" is used throughout U.S. law in statutes and court cases - all referring to non-U.S. citizens who illegally enter and/or unlawfully stay here. The code painstakingly defines the procedures to grant "immigrant status" to an alien - a privilege reserved for those who follow the law.

Guess what term doesn't appear in U.S. immigration law? "Illegal immigrant."

People like Rodriguez worry - not without reason - that terms like "illegal alien" will harden attitudes and cause voters to oppose policies like the Dream Act, allowing driver's licenses for those here illegally and bilingual education. But changing words to advance one's political agenda does not make it right or fair. Calling people "racist" for using the term "illegal alien" to distinguish between those here legally and illegally is, well, racist.

Words matter. Words like "racist" and "anti-Hispanic" are used to attack people who raise fair questions about the costs and problems associated with "illegal aliens." This shuts down debate. When amnesty opponent Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Hispanic son of Cuban exiles, is called "anti-Hispanic" by the CEO of Univision, we have a problem.

Debate gets shuts down when "comprehensive immigration reform" proponents call others "racist" for rejecting the politically correct term "illegal immigrant" or "undocumented worker." What is wrong with the legally accurate and more precise term "illegal alien"?

Guess that makes me a racist - and Sen. Rubio a Tio Taco.



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