Day 2 ends with juries set for Monday in Dunbar Village rape trial

From 11th Floor of PB County Counthouse: restored former courthouse in front of county commission building, Intracoastal Waterway, Town of Palm Beach, Atlantic Ocean.

C.B. Hanif reporting for WAOD:

Nathan Walker’s jury is set. Thomas Poindexter case to begin 8:30 a.m. Monday, allowing me time for some interviews lined up. Courtroom has emptied. Let me share some thoughts before leaving the courthouse.

I mentioned that I had requested to speak with several of defendant Nathan Walker’s family members who were in the courtroom when I arrived. I was the last to leave the courtroom. His mother and sister were waiting outside.

I kept our first, obviously sensitive interview very simple: What would he and they would want to share with our readers?

I’ll be posting their comments. Afterward they agreed to a photo:

Nathan Walker's mother, Ruby, and family friend Tabatha Haliburton, outside the courtroom.

Notable is the contrast between the view and lives outside the window, in the picture above taken earlier, and  what one might see in nearby neighborhoods such as Dunbar Village.

I meant to mention this yesterday: Don’t overlook the coverage by my courts-reporter colleague Susan Spencer-Wendel in my former newspaper, The Palm Beach Post.

But a special shoutout goes to WAOD for sponsoring a veteran local traditional journalist, now a freelance multimedia journalist, to provide you another set of eyes and ears (and mind and spirit).

I neglected to provide my e-dress in earlier posts: cbhanif@gmail.com.

I’m also monitoring my CBHanif.com blogs and Facebook.

But I especially want to hear from you at http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/

Nathan Walker’s jury is set. Thomas Poindexter case to begin 8:30 a.m. Monday, allowing me time for some interviews lined up. Courtroom has emptied. Let me share some thoughts before leaving the courthouse.

I mentioned that I had requested to speak with several of defendant Nathan Walker’s family members who were in the courtroom when I arrived. I was the last to leave the courtroom. His mother and sister were waiting outside.

I kept our first, obviously sensitive very interview simple: What would he and they would want to share with our readers?

I’ll be posting their comments. Afterward they agreed to a photo:

I planned to mention this yesterday, but don’t overlook the coverage by my courts-reporter colleague Susan Spence-Wendel in my former newspaper, The Palm Beach Post.

But a special shoutout goes to WAOD for engaging a veteran local traditional journalist, now freelance multimedia journalist, to provide you another set of eyes and ears (not to mention mind and spirit).

I neglected to provide my e-dress in earlier posts: cbhanif@gmail.com.

I’m also monitoring my CBHanif.com blogs and Facebook.

But I especially want to hear from you at /

Comments

[Miss Thang]

Lady you raised a monster. You should be in jail too!

[Andrew Machado]

Hey Gina,
I landed on this site through the Blog World Expo 2008 site. That being said I'm finding your coverage of the Walker case very interesting. If you are interested in telling the story even further take a peak at what I did to your post using Apture. http://preview.apture.com/linkproxy/G41ZEhye/

I inserted some relevant links and embeds around the WAOD and Nathan Walker.
Andrew

[Yvonne C.]

I, along with your other readers appreciate all that you do and have done for the empowerment of women and girls so much that I've nominated your website and Black Women Blow the Trumpet as the ones who have used this medium to bring about change in our community's. You two do not hide from the truth when so many others are afraid to tell the truth. I know accolades mean nothing when you get so much joy from having the real passion to serve humanity. Here's the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/help-us-pick-the-huffpost_b_259194.html

[gem2001]

Thanks Yvonne.

@cbhanif I can't wait to hear what they have to say.

[tryin2understanurside]

This is excellent coverage. This blog and twitter give the rest of us a birds eye view into the courtroom. The details you provide regarding the jury selection is very helpful to someone like me who has never sat through a real trial. It is also reassuring to know that the voices of a victimized black woman and child will not be muffled out.
I'm curious as to whether or not you believe that the lack of any black jurors will help or hinder the defendants? This blog has raised the issue many times that the black male is sometimes "glorified" (my own words not yours) at the expense of black women and children in the black community. Do you believe this preference may also be played out in the case among the non-black jury by objectifying the woman and child or vice versa?

[tryin2understanurside]

I just came from the Huffington Post site to offer my support. Here's what I posted: I nominate www.whataboutourdaughters.com This blog has taken on "liberal media" such as CNN, BET and Viacom to have programming offensive to minority women and children removed from the airways. Given from the perspective of a young black woman, it calls society to question: What value do we place on minority women and children? Why are white victims of violent crime more highly regarded than other human beings? Doesn't the media have more images to offer black women and children than the highly violent, demoralizing and sexualized images of the "hip hop" culture? Who is speaking out for us, more importantly who is speaking out for our sons and daughters when they cannot speak up for themselves?

[Faith]

I also want to hear what the relatives have to say. They look soooo beat up by life, strife and struggle. Yet the hardships of others fueling their atrocities is a vicious cycle. It is so important that we as black women learn how to make life-affirming, normative decisions that uplift us and improve the lives of the generations that will follow. Otherwise we have this....and worse....

[anona]

what you've done is steal WAOD content and then actually have the audacity to suggest that you have helped improve it.

This is no different from a content clipping service. It's theft and very shabilly done as well.

[deborah]

Thank you for the coverage.

[tryin2understanurside]

Why is there someone in this thread pretending to support your site when he is actually trying to promote some website tool?

[Fed up observer.]

Faith, I agree with you about those two poor women.