Talk:John Bennett

"Handcuffing"
We have secondary sources for Bennett's call for the players to be handcuffed. It would be desirable to get a primary source, if possible, so that we don't need to rely on a secondary source's characterization of the words Bennett spoke.

Secondary sources say the following:

"... Pastor John Bennett demanded that Nifong promise not only to arrest three players, but to parade them before cameras in handcuffs."

"At the April 11 NCCU hearing, Pastor John Bennett demanded that Nifong ensure that those students he targeted be placed in handcuffs, so they could be humiliated before the world."

"At the April 11 NCCU forum, Pastor John Bennett proclaimed that he would lead a protest outside 610 N. Buchanan every week until the suspects were not only arrested but led away in handcuffs."

Bennett also was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on the subject of handcuffs: "I know people who have gone to jail for being accused of rape," said Bishop John Bennett, pastor of a Durham church. "In minutes, they're in handcuffs."

I cannot check out the below link at this time to see whether it has relevance to the current issue: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5336811

-- ITFTM 16:19, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Other Bennett comments
At the Church of Apostolic Revival International, Bishop John Bennett worried about civil unrest "if people don't think the victim is treated fairly." He gestured outside his East Durham church to the hardscrabble neighborhood outside. "This area is the area they need to be praying about." As town and gown collide, this much is certain: amid the confusion, there is plenty of cause for prayer, from the fringes of Durham to the heart of Duke.

"John Bennett, a black pastor in Durham, criticized 60 Minutes for interviewing Kim Roberts (on the grounds, oddly, that Roberts has changed her story—in an affair where the accuser has offered multiple versions of events). Said the pastor, "Hopefully, justice is blind when it is time to carry out the proper punishment for what has been committed, and perhaps what has not been committed.", see also

-- ITFTM 16:19, 13 July 2007 (UTC)