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  Earl Faison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earl Faison (born 1939) was an American college and professional football player.
Faison was an All-American at Indiana University and is a member of the school’s Hall of Fame.
Faison was a member of the original "Fearsome Foursome" (the Chargers' defensive line) from 1961-66.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_Faison   (181 words)

  
 JUSTICE FOR EARL FAISON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In April of 1999, Earl Faison was wrongfully arrested as a suspect in the brutal murder of Orange police officer Joyce Ann Carnegie.
Earl died while in custody after being beaten and tortured by Orange police.
Among them was Earl Williams, the father of Earl Faison; Ingrid Crew, the sister of Stanton Crew; and Bishop William Pickett, the grandfather of Michael Anglin.
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 Rights Charges Filed In Death Of A Man Wrongly Arrested (The New York Times)
Faison at gunpoint in a stairwell at the Orange police headquarters, according to the indictment.
Faison's father, who had contended from the beginning that his son had been beaten, the indictments were a vindication of sorts.
Faison's death and if the officers were successfully prosecuted, they would have faced up to life in prison or the death penalty at sentencing, depending on how a judge weighed the circumstances of the cases.
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 Justice for Earl Faison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earl Faison died more than three years ago on April 11, 1999 after being beaten and tortured by these men and no one has been to jail yet.
The beating and torture of Earl Faison, which led to his death, was a heinous and despicable act.
Faison, was tried, found guilty, sentenced to life without the possibility of parole and put in jail within weeks.
www.njpop.org /press/faison120302.html   (953 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - Frankie R. Faison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faison developed the acting bug while in grade school after appearing in a school play, and after high school he was a theater student at both Illinois Wesleyan University and New York University.
Faison made his film debut in 1981 with a small role in Ragtime, and Faison soon began supplementing his stage work with small parts in motion pictures and guest shots on television.
In 1990, Faison scored the male lead in a short-lived sitcom, True Colors, and in 1991 he appeared in another adaptation of a Thomas Harris novel when he was cast as Barney Matthews, the big but gentle male nurse in The Silence of the Lambs.
www.mtv.com /movies/person/19870/bio.jhtml   (367 words)

  
 The Guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faison, a 27-year-old rap artist and father of three, died while in police custody April 11, 1999.
Shwartz claimed that Faison was quickly chased down by the officer, subdued and handcuffed, but when other officers arrived on the scene, the violence began to escalate.
First she said, Payton kicked Faison in the head and then, along with Thomas Smith and Carpinteri, tossed him into a patrol car "like a rag doll" where Smith and Garth continued to beat him "as he lay helpless", handcuffed in the rear seat.
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 Professor Kim's News Notes: 03/14/2004 - 03/20/2004
While Faison's death shared elements of the Feb. 1999 police killing of Amadou Diallo, as well as the 1997 beating and torture of Abner Louima, it never got the kind of attention accorded to those earlier cases.
Faison's death was one of a series of instances of brutality, corruption and mismanagement that brought national attention to the police failings in Essex County and across the state.
The story behind yesterday's sentencing of three former Orange, NJ police officers for the 1999 beating death of Earl Faison, 27, is the role played by local activists in keeping the case alive in the courts and the press.
professorkim.blogspot.com /2004_03_14_professorkim_archive.html   (3077 words)

  
 The Militant - November 27, 2000 -- Civil trial hears how cops in New Jersey brutalized Earl Faison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
NEWARK, New Jersey--Five Orange, New Jersey, cops beat Earl Faison after he was handcuffed, and then pepper-sprayed him from a canister held directly against his nose and mouth.
Two Orange cops threw Faison into the back of a squad car "like a rag doll," Jackson said, and beat him with their fists as he lay handcuffed and in the back seat.
Faison was pronounced dead by the time he arrived at a local hospital.
www.themilitant.com /2000/6445/644566.html   (461 words)

  
 Activists want killer cops jailed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earl Faison died after being in police custody for 45 minutes on April 11, 1999.
Faison, an innocent Black man who was wrongly apprehended as a suspect in the murder of Orange police officer Joyce Anne Carnegie, died after being in police custody for 45 minutes on April 11, 1999.
Faison’s civil rights, after evidence was presented at a federal trial that officers kicked and punched him, and sprayed him in the nose and mouth with pepper spray as he lay handcuffed in a police station stairwell.
www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/article_1203.shtml   (504 words)

  
 NEW JERSEY LAWYER, WRONGFUL DEATH SETTLEMENT
Faison, 27, of East Orange, died from an asthma attack at police headquarters on April 11, 1999, after he was taken into custody for questioning in the shooting death of Carnegie.
The suit charged that the police were negligent because they knew Faison was asthmatic but left his inhaler at the arrest scene when they took him to the station.
Faison's estate was represented by David Mazie, a partner and, a Eric Szoke, an associate, both of Livingston's Nagel Rice Dreifuss & Mazie and by Mark Baumgarten, of counsel to West Orange's Mandelbaum, Salsburg, Gold, Lazris, Discenza & Steinberg.
www.nrdmlaw.com /article14.html   (345 words)

  
 N.J. Police Guilty in Fatal Beating
The officers from the city of Orange were found guilty of punching and kicking Earl Faison while he was handcuffed.
Faison, 27, was arrested in 1999, three days after the murder of policewoman Joyce Carnegie.
Faison's father, Earl Williams, and Faison's fiancee, Mikki J. Wilkins, insisted the officers still should be tried for murder.
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 New Jersey cops guilty appeals court rules
Faison’s lungs; therefore, state prosecutors said they found no evidence to charge the officers with murder.
Faison’s death could not be considered evidence of a conspiracy under court precedents.
Faison’s civil rights, have not served any time and are free pending appeals.
www.finalcall.com /national/NJpd07-09-2002.htm   (465 words)

  
 10. Earl Faison
Earl Faison says a kid had to be creative to find fun growing up in the poverty-ridden Newsome Park housing development in the 1950s.
Faison scored 15 points in the final as Huntington repeated as state champs in 1956, then averaged 21 points and 21 rebounds as a senior.
Faison brought that sense of integrity to his career as a high school football coach and educational administrator in San Diego.
www.dailypress.com /sports/dp-top100-faisonsep24,0,6606492.story?coll=dp-sports-utility   (961 words)

  
 Fight Back! June/July 2005 - Newark, NJ: People vs Police Terror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After a struggle of five years, led by the Faison’s family and by the People’s Organization for Progress, four cops were sentenced to terms of 33 months each for violations of the victim’s civil rights.
Earl Williams is the grandfather of one of Rasheed Moore’s children.
Earl: As a parent we tend to dread that phone call late in the night if the kids aren’t in the house.
www.fightbacknews.org /2005/03/newark.htm   (1186 words)

  
 University of Pittsburgh: News From Pitt
Helen Faison became director of the Pittsburgh Teacher’s Institute Program after retiring from a 43-year career in the Pittsburgh School District, where she began as a teacher and eventually became interim superintendent during the 1999-2000 school year.
Faison is an emerita member on Pitt’s Board of Trustees and a recipient of Pitt’s Outstanding Alumna Award.
Earl F. Hord, founder of the Minority Enterprise Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, has served as president of Independence Bank of Chicago—at the time the largest Black-owned bank in the United States that merged with Chicago’s Shore Bank in 1995—and executive vice president of Dollar Savings Bank in Pittsburgh.
www.pitt.edu /news/031021_alumni.html   (1063 words)

  
 The Militant - 5/10/99 -- 300 Protest Black Man's Death By New Jersey Cops
The dead man's father, Earl Williams, said he was shown a picture of the corpse at the county morgue April 12.
Faison was one of four Black men who have been arrested in connection with the killing of Joyce Carnegie, a Black police officer who was killed April 8 while allegedly investigating a robbery scene.
Everett's statement that he had been with his wife in a restaurant at the time of the killing was ignored by police and Essex County prosecutors' office, until the store manager talked to the news media on April 15.
www.themilitant.com /1999/6318/6318_28.html   (861 words)

  
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All of the assaults occurred while Faison was lying with his hands cuffed behind his back, first on the sidewalk, then in the patrol car, and finally on the floor of a back stairwell at police headquarters, according to the Indictment.
Faison, 27, died in police custody less than an hour after his arrest on April 11, 1999.
The conspiracy count charges that the officers, acting under color of law, conspired to "injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate" Faison, depriving him of the right to due process, the right to be free from unreasonable seizure and the intentional use of unreasonable force.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/nj/publicaffairs/releases/or0621_r.htm   (837 words)

  
 Earl Faison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers in 1961, the 6-foot-5, 260-pound Faison blewby opposing offensive lineman on his way to smashing American Football League quarterbacks.
Faison was an All-American at Indiana University and is amember of the school’s Hall of Fame.
The“Foursome” was made up of Faison and Hall of Fame linemate ErnieLadd, with alternate members of the group including Bob Petrich, Ron Nery, George Gross, Bill Hudson and Henry Schmidt.
www.therfcc.org /earl-faison-201860.html   (170 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Investigation -Facts and Figures 2003
On April 11, 1999, Earl D. Faison was arrested as the suspect in Officer Carnegie's murder.
While in police custody, Faison subsequently died as a result of complications from asthma.
Faison's family alleged police brutality during his arrest and incarceration, and in April 1999, the FBI's Newark Field Office initiated a Color of Law investigation.
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 5 cops found guilty in beating
Earl Faison, 27, of East Orange was arrested April 11, 1999, and died less than an hour after the attack.
Faison had been picked up three days after a manhunt began for the killer of Officer Joyce Carnegie, 38, slain by a suspect she had been questioning.
They were not accused of causing Faison's death.
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 1010 WINS - ALL NEWS. ALL THE TIME.: Ex-officer Gets 33 Months In Brutality Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faison, 27, an aspiring rapper from East Orange, was arrested April 11, 1999, during the search for the killer of Orange police officer Joyce Carnegie, who had been shot several days earlier.
The officers were charged with violating Faison's civil rights, not with causing his death, which medical experts attributed to an asthma attack.
In December 2000, the officers were each convicted of one count of conspiring to deprive Faison of his civil rights by striking him after he was handcuffed or trying to conceal the assault.
1010wins.com /topstories/winstopstories_story_078163806.html   (564 words)

  
 Fifth Ex-Officer Is Sentenced in a Deadly Brutality Case
Faison while he was in custody were viewed as less serious than the pepper spraying of Mr.
Faison was one of three innocent people arrested in connection with Officer Carnegie's death led to the forced resignation of the Essex County prosecutor.
Faison's father, who had been among the overflow crowd of family and friends of both the victim and the five defendants to sit through the long hearings, said the verdict provided "some closure" for him.
www.nytimes.com /2004/03/20/nyregion/20sentence.html?ei=5007&en=eb75307f3af1ea5f&ex=1395205200&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1111978809-yllCZa3Z5duhVtMTODjo8Q   (931 words)

  
 Judge dismisses conspiracy convictions against N.J. police officers accused in beating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Faison, 27, of East Orange, died in police custody less than an hour after being arrested April 11, 1999.
Brian Smith was also convicted in December of shooting pepper spray at close range into Faison's face while the handcuffed man was lying in a police station stairwell.
Faison was one of four fl men detained in Officer Joyce Carnegie's death in the days following her shooting.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/05/24/national0008EDT0401.DTL&type=printable   (332 words)

  
 Earl Faison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Drafted by the (Click link for more info and facts about Los Angeles Chargers) Los Angeles Chargers in 1961, the 6-foot-5, 260-pound Faison blew by opposing offensive lineman on his way to smashing (Click link for more info and facts about American Football League) American Football League quarterbacks.
The “Foursome” was made up of Faison and Hall of Fame linemate (Click link for more info and facts about Ernie Ladd) Ernie Ladd, with alternate members of the group including Bob Petrich, Ron Nery, George Gross, Bill Hudson and Henry Schmidt.
He was an American Football League All-Star five straight years, 1961 through 1965; a member of the Chargers Hall of Fame and the (Click link for more info and facts about American Football League Hall of Fame) American Football League Hall of Fame
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 Faison Commercial Real Estate Investments. Asset Management. Private Equity. Venture Capital. Internatio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Did he know, Heir Krieg is actually Cesar Faison, the man responsible for the deaths of Robert and Once his identity was known, Faison and Luke played a cat and.
A New York City Native, Faison began his acting career as an enthusiastic five year old attending the This Fall Donald Faison is returning for his forth season in NBC's.
FAISON stepped over the car engine in his living room floor on his way to his bedroom to pranced on his front paws.
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 1010 WINS - ALL NEWS. ALL THE TIME.: Faison's Father Opposes Officers' Retrial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earl Faison died of an acute asthma attack four years ago.
But the officers' sentencings were delayed in March after an FBI technician admitted that she failed to use acceptable testing standards in more than 100 cases.
Faison's father, Earl Williams, made his plea outside Newark City Hall today.
1010wins.com /topstories/winstopstories_story_331000651.html   (314 words)

  
 AllHipHop.com : Daily Hip-Hop News
Faison, who was an up and coming rapper, was beaten, robbed and pepper sprayed by the five officers, who were seeking revenge for the shooting death of another officer.
Officer Payton allegedly pulled out his gun, but it to Faison's head, and went through his pockets, tossing his money to a fellow Officer, and telling him to give it to the slain police Officer's family.
They then took Faison to a car, and beat him all the way to Police headquarters, where the attack ended in a stairwell.
www.allhiphop.com /hiphopnews?ID=107   (275 words)

  
 Earl Faison - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earl Faison - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers in 1961, the 6-foot-5, 260-pound Faison blew by opposing offensive lineman on his way to smashing American Football League quarterbacks.
This page was last modified 15:24, 21 May 2005.
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 American Civil Liberties Union: ACLU Praises Federal Convictions of Police Officers in Beating Death of New Jersey Man
NEWARK, NJ--The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey today praised the verdict in a federal lawsuit against five Orange City police officers convicted of conspiring to deprive Earl Faison of his civil rights when he was killed in police custody on April 19, 1999.
Faison," said Deborah Jacobs, Executive Director of the ACLU of New Jersey.
However, when the ACLU wrote to the Attorney General in August requesting an explanation for the state's failure to bring criminal charges against the officers who killed Earl Faison, Farmer claimed that he did not have sufficient evidence for criminal charges.
www.aclu.org /news/NewsPrint.cfm?ID=8222&c=117   (594 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In June, FBI agents completed a 14-month investigation, which resulted in indictments against the five officerswith the arrest of five veteran Orange Police officers.
Then, Shwartz said, Faison was taken to a secluded entrance of police headquarters where he was thrown into a stairwell while Payton, who had a close relationship with Carnegie, pulled his gun and pointed it at Faison's head, shouting, "Why'd you have to kill her?"
Payton took cash from Faison's pocket, held it in the air and said "Give this to Joyce's mom," before Brian Smith kneeled down and blasted Faison with pepper spray.
www.pww.org /past-weeks-2000/Police_trial_begins.htm   (512 words)

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