As she tried to keep cashman out. you know you ve done wrong, so you need to own up. today, she was in court to hear the guilty verdicts. you know you ve done wrong, so you need to own up. - today, she was in court to hear the guilty verdicts. yes! cheryl, how are you feeling? ecstatic. the murder made national headlines, the shooting of a child cited as a real low, but not a new low. exactly 15 years earlier, 11 year old rhstones was also shot dead in liverpool. olivia s murder carried the sense of history repeating itself. the shooting provoked a strong reaction within this community. information flowed into the police in a volume detectives say they haven t experienced before. and they say some of those they d expected to put up a wall of silence, chose to speak out. what we saw with this particular crime, with olivia s murder is people were talking about a line being crossed,
Olivia s murder carried the sense of history repeating itself. the shooting provoked a strong reaction within this community. information flowed into the police in a volume detectives say they haven t experienced before. and they say some of those they d expected to put up a wall of silence, chose to speak out. what we saw with this particular crime, with olivia s murder is. people were talking about a line being crossed and almost for those involved in crime, as though there is an acceptable level where you don t talk normally, that grass culture being embedded. what we saw with this crime is that lots and lots of people on both sides of that criminal line were wanting to come forward and speak to us. but until he was caught, thomas cashman was still terrorising some within the community. he was causing that fear and that intimidation and putting people off.
Yes! cheryl, how are you feeling? ecstatic. the murder made national headlines, the shooting of a child cited as a real low, but not a new low. exactly 15 years earlier, 11 year old rhstones was also shot dead in liverpool. olivia s murder carried the sense of history repeating itself. the shooting provoked a strong reaction within this community. information flowed into the police in a volume detectives say they haven t experienced before. and they say some of those they d expected to put up a wall of silence, chose to speak out. what we saw with this particular crime, with olivia s murder is people were talking about a line being crossed, almost for those involved in crime, as though there is an acceptable level where you don t talk normally,
Culprits that night, but overall, when it came down to the relationship with the police department and the black community, it was always hostile. ida b wells once said, the ones who write the reports commit the murders. even when other officers know that something someone is doing within the department is wrong, there is such a wall of silence. the blue wall is what we call it. michael was the lawyer for glenn diamond and later michael donald, and he just knew that that was the lay of the land, that there was racism on every level and it needed to be fought. we re calling upon mobile s black community to be as cool as possible in response to this murder but at the same time, we