Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Yahoo [Occupation Government] News: Meet Vanita Gupta the woman spearheading the federal probe of Ferguson - "she was the deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union" [Another open-borders outfit. No one should wrongly go to prison, including minorities and cops defending themselves from charging giant Black thugs, but who is crusading for Whites who are getting hammered every day by Black-on-White violent crime, countless laws and policies of 'affirmative action' dispossession and migration policies designed for their demographic extinction?]


Meet the woman spearheading the federal probe of Ferguson



Trailblazing lawyer Vanita Gupta is Obama’s likely pick to run the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
Vanita Gupta was only weeks out of law school in 2001 when she began looking into a strange series of drug busts in a tiny West Texas ranch town named Tulia.
In 1999, a third of the town’s black population had been ensnared in the biggest drug bust the Texas Panhandle had ever seen. Forty-six people, almost all of them poor African-Americans who had prior run-ins with the law, were convicted on charges of cocaine dealing and sentenced to years in prison based solely on the testimony of a former rodeo clown turned undercover cop who had little experience investigating narcotics.
Gupta, then 26, had just joined the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, and she began assembling a team of attorneys and civil rights groups to look into the drug arrests, which didn’t smell right to her. It was her first case as an attorney. Two years later, a Texas judge overturned many of the convictions, calling the cop’s testimony not credible. After the officer was found guilty of perjury, Gov. Rick Perry pardoned most of the defendants whose convictions had not been previously overturned.
It was one of the highest-profile cases of racial injustice in recent memory, and it branded Gupta, so young she still resembled a college student, a rising star in the legal world. “Don’t be surprised if she ends up on the Supreme Court someday" ...