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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Najee Ali vs Bernard Parks



Last week Councilman Bernard Parks scheduled a press conference outside of the Los Angeles Sentinel office to address the Mexican Stamp (Memin Pinguin) issue. But before he could get it started and was waiting inside the newspaper's offices, local activists, namely Najee Ali(who Chief Bratton apologized for calling “one of the biggest nitwits in Los Angeles”), hijacked it.

They used the City podium and started speaking to thepress. Ali is a master of press conferences and knew just how to get the crowd surrounding the podium for agood press shot. In fact, K-CBS, KABC, KTLA and K-CAL attended, not to mention newspaper press. When Parks was finally ready to come out and speak, Ali wouldn’t give up the microphone and challenged Parks to make him give it up. You can actually hear him telling Parks to “get your hands off me.”

See it here: http://www.sisterleemedia.com

Scroll down to video #4 – “Parks lays hand on Ali.”The video is about 35 minutes long. At the 18 minutemark, Ali begins his press conference. The confrontation begins at the 19 minute mark. If you watch the whole thing, you’ll see Jan Perry and Herb Wesson arrive . . . but they’re smooth enough to stayout of the ruckus.

Apparently, the activists are pissed that they protested, got arrested and Parks' holds a press conference to say that the Mexican Government stopped issuing the stamps. Everyone in the community is talkin' about this videoclip . . . how Parks' press conference was not only hijacked, but how Ali "bitch-slapped" him into moving it inside.

I'd like to thank an anonymous tipster for the e-mail.

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

That has got to be the worst designed website ever. Ten simultaneous videos and Luther Vandross going all at once. I wonder if she normally hears so many voices in her head. This woman is a complete nutjob.

July 13, 2005 3:57 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Naji Ali IS A NIT WIT. Its amazing how the press give him so much attention. If anyone shld be protesting the Mexican stamp it shld be Latinos but they're NOT. And Naji Ali is having press conf. against police for toddler shooting.

Naji Ali did time this year for running away from the scene of a crime. He hit someone and then did the cowardly thing and RAN into a local theater. THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIM IN JAIL.

July 13, 2005 7:05 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

I'm doing a research paper on Illegal Alien smuggling and drugs across the Mexican/U.S. border. Do any of you have information as to the methods of smuggling people across other than hills, etc...?

July 13, 2005 9:03 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Anon 9:03: Going right through the border with a visa and not leaving? Buying off a customs agent?

July 13, 2005 9:58 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Here's a better link:
http://www.sisterleemedia.homestead.com/Mexican_Stamps_Press_Conference_-_LA_Sentinel.wmv

July 13, 2005 4:13 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

This was funny, yet pathetic.

July 13, 2005 10:13 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Najee Ali is a racist with no credibility. The icing on the cake for me was when he accused legal immigrant Latinos of stealing jobs from blacks. Latinos are incredibly underrepresented for their population size and Ali is trying to keep them as second class citizens. If he cared at all about black history, he'd be doing the opposite.

October 28, 2006 9:36 AM  

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