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THE BATTALION
Wednesday. March21) Wednesday. Ma
Ex-Black Panther Brown arresteFE
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — H. Rap Brown, the
1960s black militant, was cornered in a shed and ar
rested after a gun battle with U.S. marshals searching
for him for the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy in At
lanta, authorities said.
Brown, now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin,
was arrested Monday night on a rural road west of
Montgomery after he fled the shed and was pursued
through woods by federal and local law officers.
Al-Amin was wearing a bullet-proof vest when
Williams spotted him and ordered him to the ground,
Lowndes County Deputy John Williams said today.
“He didn’t say anything. I said, 'Get on the ground.
Spread ’em and keep your hands where I can see
them,’ ” Williams said. “I guess he didn't want to die.
He knew what would happen if he came out of the
woods with a gun.”
A rifle was found about 50 yards from where Al-
Amin was arrested. Sheriff Willie Vaughner said. Two
ammunition clips also were found, he said. Shell cas
ings were found by the shed.
Al-Amin’s capture came three days after he al
legedly killed a Georgia deputy and wounded another
while they tried to serve him with an arrest warrant in
Atlanta, 160 miles northeast of Montgomery.
Al-Amin immediately began firing shots when dis
covered at the shed, then ran into nearby woods, said
FBI agent Theodore Jackson. Agents encircled him, then
released dogs. A short time later Williams spotted him.
“He was walking away from me, and I knew it had
to be him,” Williams said.
Al-Amin apparently changed clothes at some point
after initially being reported to have on tan clothing.
“When they caught him he was wearing overalls. He
was walking just like he was part of the community with
overalls on," Vaughner said.
Several other people were being detained for possi
bly harboring a fugitive, though no charges have been
filed, Atlanta Police Chief Beverly Harvard said.
It was not immediately clear what led to the con
frontation at the shed about 30 miles west of Mont-
killing a Georgia deputy and wounding ano
associated with the Black Panther party.
gomery. Officials with the FBI’s Mobile office re
fused to comment.
Al-Amin, 56, is accused of fatally shooting Deputy
Ricky Kinchen and wounding Deputy Aldranon Eng
lish last Thursday. The deputies were trying to serve Al-
Amin an arrest warrant at his store.
After Al-Amin’s arrest, Fulton County Sheriff Jackie
Barrett spoke with English. She said
he told her: “Tonight I can sleep.”
The warrant was issued after
Al-Amin failed to appear in court
in January on charges of theft by
receiving stolen property and im
personating an officer. Those
charges stemmed from an incident
last May, in which Al-Amin was al
legedly stopped in a stolen car and
flashed a badge.
On Thursday, as the deputies
approached a black Mercedes-
Benz, the driver got out and start
ed shooting an assault rifle. English
identified the shooter as Al-Amin.
In 1968, Al-Amin was briefly
the justice minister of the Black
Panther Party when the organiza
tion entered a short-lived merger
with his Student Non-Violent Co
ordinating Committee.
Al-Amin once exhorted blacks
to arm themselves, saying, “Vio
lence is as American as cherry pie.”
The Black Panthers collapsed
in the late 1970s, brought down by
deaths, defections and infighting.
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whites. Al-Amin was wounded by a shotgunpelkti
a white police officer was wounded. The nextm®
a school and two city blocks burned.
Al-Amin went to Atlanta in 1976 after con: Jince June —
to Islam while serving five years in prison for lit Speeding eco
in a robbery that ended in a shootout withNewiomescalatir
police. In recent years, he has been the spiriB The anno
losed-door n
What’s become of the Black Panthers?
erve’s Federa
H. Rap Brown, the 1960s militant now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. was arrested Monday, accusedi
Here is a look at Al-Amin and some other notable peo^e
H. Rap Brown
Justice minister of
the Black Panther
Party and a leader
of the Student Non-
Violent Coord
inating Committee.
Brown once said.
"Violence is as
American as cherry
pie " He took the
Muslim name Jamil
Abdullah Al-Amin
after converting to
Islam while serving
five years m prison
In recent years, he
has been the
spiritual leader of a
mosque and has
operated a small
grocery in Atlanta.
He popularized the
rallying cry "Black
Power" during the
1960s He was
head of the
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating
Committee and
prime minister of
the Black Panther
Party but later cut
his ties with the
groups. In Guinea,
he organized a
revolutionary
gr oup and took the
name Kwame
lure He died Nov
15. 1998. at age
57. of prostate
cancer.
Huey Newton
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Black Panther
Party, he was
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In 1967, Al-Amin was charged with inciting a riot
in Cambridge, Md., where he had told about 400
blacks: “It’s time for Cambridge to explode, baby.
Black folks built America, and if America don’t come
around, we're going to burn America down.”
After the rally, shots were fired between blacks and
leader of a mosque and operated a small groca;
Atlanta’s West End.
In 1995. Al-Amin was accused of aggravated^
after a man claimed he was shot by Al-Amin. Thei
later recanted and said he was pressured by auta and the Cl
to identify Al-Amin as the shooter.
MicroStrategy stock plunges
Victim attempts
to remove hand
SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — MicroStrategy Inc.’s billion
aire chief executive, who announced plans last week to donate
$ 100 million to help create an online university, saw the value
of his holdings in the software
company sink more than $6 bil
lion in a single day.
Shares of MicroStrategy
plunged nearly 62 percent Mon
day after the Vienna-based com
pany said it would have to low
er its revenue totals for the past
two years to comply with recent
Securities and Exchange Com
mission guidelines. The sellotf
continued today, with the stock
down $10.75, or 12 percent, to
$76 in early afternoon trading on
the Nasdaq Stock Market.
That decline knocked the
value of chief executive
“Our contracts have be
come so much more
complicated. We're do
ing megadeals, SO times
larger than we did a
few months ago.”
— Michael Saylor
Chief Executive of MicroStrategy Inc.
Michael Saylor’s holdings to $3.8 billion from about $9.9 bil
lion. With today’s losses, Saylor’s holdings were down an ad
ditional $470 million at midafternoon. But a spokesperson has
said the plans for a donation to create an “Ivy League”-caliber
online school would remain unchanged.
MicroStrategy, which makes software that analyzes corpo
rate data on marketing and customer relationships, said it had
recorded too large a portion of revenue for multiyear contracts
in the first year rather than spreading those revenues over the
length of contracts.
Some revenue initially booked for 1998 and 1999 now will
be spread over several years, it said.
For 1999, revenue was revised to $150 million to $155
million, down from $205 million. That would be a loss of be
tween 43 cents and 51 cents a share, compared with previ
ously reported earnings of 15 cents
per share. For 1998, the company re-,
duced its reported revenues to be
tween $96 million and $101 million,
from $106 million. Earnings per
share will drop to between 1 cent and
4 cents, from 8 cents.
In an interview, Saylor declined to
blame anyone within his company, at
the SEC or at PricewaterhouseCoop-
ers LLP. the auditing firm that ap
proved MicroStrategy’s revenue fig
ures. MicroStrategy was the victim of
evolving accounting practices, he said.
“Our contracts have become so
much more complicated,” Saylor
said. “We’re doing megadeals, 50
DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) -
Trapped for days in a crashed®
as traffic whizzed by onlyafet
feet away, Lee Risler got so de;
perate he tried to cut off
pinned hand with a pocketkri
Risler’s van veered off In
state 605 and overturned ii
ditch around 3 a.m. Saturde
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to drop Sn
lawsuits.
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Monday when a California Df jpg lawsuits
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times larger than we did a few months ago.”
Pricewaterhouse Coopers also cited the complicated nature
of software industry contracts as a reason for the earnings re
statement.
Steve Abrahamson, an analyst with Prudential Volpe Tech
nology, said MicroStrategy’s long-term prospects remain
strong. “This is an accounting-only issue,” Abrahamson said.
“Their products haven’t deteriorated.”
He added that the news from MicroStrategy may force oth
er companies to revise results.
A spokesperson for the SEC declined to comment on
whether other companies might be forced to revise earnings.
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News in Brief
Teen drivers at risk
with passengers
CHICAGO (AP) — The more
young people you pack into a car
with a teen-ager behind the wheel,
the more likely the driver will die in
a crash, a study found.
The study, conducted by re
searchers at Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health in Baltimore, con
firms what many parents have long
suspected.
The study, published in Wednes
day’s Journal of the American Med
ical Association, was based on fed
eral data from 1992 through 1997.
Researcher Li-Hui Chen and her
colleagues found that 16-year-olds
carrying one passenger were 39
percent more likely to get killed than
those driving alone. That increased
to 86 percent with two passengers
and 182 percent with three or more.
The rate for 17-year-olds was even
higher: 48 percent, 158 percent
and 207 percent respectively.
Mother abandons
toddler on bus
NEW YORK (AP) — A 2-year-old
rode a Greyhound bus to New Jer
sey by herself after the child’s moth
er got off in New York to get a snack
and the bus left without her.
Yanitza Castro, 21, and her
daughter, Yanitza Rivera, had board
ed the bus Monday morning in
Massachusetts to travel to their
home in York, Pa.
When the bus pulled into New
York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal
at midday, little Yanitza was hungry.
Castro got out to get a snack, and
returned to find the bus had left.
New Jersey State Police pulled
over the bus about a half-hour later
near New Brunswick and drove the
girl back to her mother.
During the bus ride, Yanitza en
tertained other passengers with
her Winnie the Pooh pillow. They
assumed her mother was in a
seat nearby.
“I think the people on the bus
took good care of her,” her moth
er said, “because she came back
happy.”
partment of Transportation wort
er spotted his 1991 Ford
by trees a few yards off the frel th e CO mmis
way, about 15 miles southeast! we w j|| neve
downtown Los Angeles.
Risler complained of a tremen
dous thirst and was bleediii
from the hand, but he was i
ent, rescue workers said.
Maintenance worker
Ochoa, the second on
scene, said Risler told hin
tried to amputate my arm
cause I’m trapped.”
“He did more damage toliis
arm than the accident,’’
Downey Fire Department!
ion Chief Chuck Seely. “Thisgi!
was definitely in desperation,
Rescue workers rust
Risler to the St. Francis Medi
Center in Lynwood, wherelie
was in fair condition late
day, said hospital spokespef
son Lisa Ciccanti.
Risler was driving from Ii
high desert home in Lucerne#
ley to sell sandals at a craftfai'
in Hermosa Beach whentheafr
cident occurred. Investigators#
not immediately determineMofr
day why his van left the higt
Risler’s wife, Bryn Risler,
family members went totheHef
mosa Beach show and wonder HienextSOyea
where Risler was. They
called the Highway Patrol.
“I knew he was hurt,”
Risler said.
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