DNA tests spur harassment suit: claim filed against Charlottesville Detective
Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 02:10PM
TheSpook
'Because the suspect is Black, every Black Man is a suspect'--
A man who says he was harassed during the search for the serial rapist
is seeking $15,000 from a city police detective. Lawyer Deborah C.
Wyatt filed the claim Tuesday in city General District Court against
Detective James Mooney, one of the investigators looking for the man
responsible for six rapes in the area since 1997. Wyatt said Monroe "wasn't even in the range" of the serial rapist's description.
The rapist has been described as a black man who is roughly 6 feet tall
with an athletic build. Monroe is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about
300 pounds. Monroe maintains that police showed up at his home
and work in April, told him his name was on a list and said they needed
to take a DNA sample, Wyatt said. They took swab of Monroe's saliva,
she said. [more] and [more] and [more]
Charlottesville police have asked over 200 black men to submit to
cheek swabs as part of the search for a rapist who has attacked at
least six women since 1997 [more]
ACLU of Virginia Asks Charlottesville Police to Halt DNA Collection from African-American Males [more]
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