Jungle Boogie at Mumia Rally

When the American dream becomes a nightmare

When 22 Year old, University of North Carolina student, Eve Carson set out her successful platform to be elected as Student body President she made a number of pledges as to what she would do to promote diversity.

Amongst other things she promised to make more of a concerted effort to express the ways in the student body were committed to diversity, and extend diversity focused events throughout the year, rather than limiting them to a single “Diversity Week” as had previously been the case. In addition she promised to set additional funds aside specifically for diversity related projects.

Of course as in most US (and UK) Universities a commitment to diversity is all but obligatory for anyone seeking election to any student body, however, as Eve appeared to go out of her way to be photographed with ethnic minority students during her campaign and is understood to have been a supporter of US Presidential hopeful Barrak Obama, whom she can be seen meeting in this recent picture, it seems that Eve Carson's commitment to the cause of diversity was a genuine one.


Sadly, Eve Carson was to pay a high price for the diversity she sought to celebrate and promote, in the same week that we in Britain saw the conviction of Karl Taylor for the murder of Kate Beagley

America was horrified by violent deaths of two beautiful female students, in circumstances so similar that some in the press initially speculated as to whether the two crimes were linked. One of those two young women was Eve Carson, the other was 18 year old Auburn University student Lauren Burke, both women had been shot, and both appeared to have been the victims of car-jackings.

Another apparent similarity between the two crimes is the race of the people suspected of their murder, on the same day as 23 year old African American Courtney Larrell Lockheart was charged with the murder of Lauren Burke. Police in Chapel Hill North Carolina issued photographs of the person whom they were seeking in connection with the murder of Eve Carson, the pictures issued by the police clearly showed a young African American male, who was apparently driving Eve Carsons's car and who had allegedly used her AMT card.

The slayings of Eve Carson and Lauren Burke bear a chilling similarity to another awful crime, notorious across the internet, but still largely suppressed by the US media, which happened just over a year ago, the car-jacking and violent rape and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville Tennessee.

Although Eve Carson clearly had some interaction with her killer before her death, and was alive long enough to be forced to reveal her ATM card PIN number, let us hope that neither she nor Lauren Burke suffered the terrible deaths which Channon and Christopher did. Accounts differ as to the degree of the brutality, and whether both suffered sexual mutilation at the hands of their five African American killers, however, the details which are confirmed reveal a horror which no innocent young couple should ever have to suffer.

Christopher was repeatedly raped, in front of Channon, by the four male members of the gang, before being shot and his body set on fire, we can only pray that, unlike our own tragic Kriss Donald, Chris Newson was dead before the flames engulfed his young body. Channon was kept alive longer than Christopher, being used as a sex slave for four days during which she was repeatedly beaten, sodomised and raped before being forced to drink bleach, after which she was murdered and her body dumped in the garbage.

As I said, the murder of Channon and Christopher are well known across the internet, however, elsewhere, it has only so far been reported in the local Knoxville press. Compare that to the vicious murder of James Byrd Jnr htt. at the hands of three drunken white men. As with Stephen Lawrence in Britain, Byrd's murder became a cause célèbre in America, a hate crime which to this day, ten years later, is repeatedly referred to in the press, on both sides of the Atlantic. Whereas details of the Christian Newsom murder is suppressed, and when it is mentioned said to be motivated by theft rather than hate.

There is a reason for this, for the US media the Byrd case, and the recent case of Megan Williams, allegedly kidnapped, tortured and raped, although not killed, by her hillbilly boyfriend, his mother and some trailer trash neighbours, are the equivalent of an alien space ship crashing into Manhattan, it only has to happen once in order to prove all the alien abduction claims true. The same would have happened with the infamous Duke Lacrosse case if it had not turned out to be a huge hoax. (The US media continues to seek that one single elusive white on black gang rape, which will become the case of record forever used to support the pretence that most most interracial sexual violence is perpetrated by whites, they haven't found it yet, but they keep hoping.)

Just like Britain, crimes committed by whites are the isolated incidents, which the media always claim black on white crimes are, whilst the vast majority of interracial crime, including violence, rape and murder are committed by blacks, and, just like Britain, the media hides the fact and pretend it is the other way round. It is difficult to find an official racial demographic specifically relating to car-jacking, however, I suspect that the US media would be hard pressed to find any incidents where young black women, or black couples had been car-jacked and murdered by whites but I am sure they are trying.

People argue that this is due to greater levels of black deprivation and higher levels of poverty, however, again they will be telling lies with statistics, it is certainly true that a higher percentage of the black community, around 26%, live in relative poverty, compared to around 8% of whites, however, presenting statistics based on individual racial group, is the same trick our government and theirs play with the hate crime figures, as it ignores the fact that blacks only account for 12% of the US population, (approx: 38 million) whereas whites are still over 63% (approx: 237 million) hence in numerical terms there are over twice as many whites living in relative poverty than blacks. Hence, if deprivation were the reason, one would expect to see far higher levels of such crimes being committed by whites than we do.

The big difference between the the US and the UK, however, is in terms of numbers, bad as black on white crime is in Britain, thankfully, so far we have not yet reached levels comparable to those in America. As in South Africa, some refer to the rate of black on white murders as an unspoken genocide, and it has been estimated that if whites murdered blacks, in ten years there would be over ten thousand more dead blacks than all the US troops who died during the Vietnam war.

The rates of black on black crime, are even worse and it is a little mentioned fact that roughly as many black men were murdered by other black men in 2005 as were lynched by white racists between 1870 and 1965.d

It is troubling to note that we are seeing a similar trend in Britain, you only have to look at the pictures of the 26 teenage murder in London alone, to see that they are overwhelmingly black
although the media does not say so, we can be sure that none of the black victims were killed by white assailants, because if even one had been our media would most certainly let us know.

The fact that we are seeing similar trends here is reason to be more than concerned, as they say, where America leads Britain will follow, we already share spiralling levels of ethnic crime, together with a government and a media which seeks to hide the true figures. At the moment this is a much safer country than America, partly due to different gun laws, but, as we see daily on our news screens, more and more guns are finding their way onto the streets, and they are being used. With mass immigration that can only increase. How long will it be before we share more with America than a special relationship?.

Pictures Of Suspect In Eve Carson Murder Released

I guess the ‘random crime’ is just another college student murdered by a black thug



CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Detectives are searching for a man videotaped using the ATM card of the University of North Carolina student body president who was shot to death on a city street. Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran released two surveillance photos Saturday of the suspect taken at an ATM machine in Chapel Hill, but declined to say when the photos were taken. Police also released a photo of a baseball cap the suspect appears to be wearing in both of the surveillance pictures. Curran said the photos are their biggest break so far in the case.

Eve Carson was found Wednesday morning on a street not far from campus. She had been shot several times, including once in the right temple, and her body was found lying in the street.

Her truck was discovered Thursday, hours after police identified Carson as the shooting victim.

Curran said police have circulated the picture with police departments in North Carolina, hoping their officers might be able to identify the suspect.

He said the ATM photos show a young man in a baseball cap and hooded sweat shirt driving a sport utility vehicle that may be Carson’s Toyota Highlander.

The police chief said Carson appears to be the victim of a random crime.

Want to cut down the black population? Here’s how…

Black rapes white woman as payback for slavery.

RALEIGH - The 36-year-old woman cried on the witness stand in the Wake County Courthouse on Wednesday, recalling the night more than eight years ago when she said a man broke into her Raleigh apartment and raped her.

The woman testified during the first day of the criminal trial of James Bernard Henderson, a Georgia man who was named as a suspect last year in the September 1999 crime when a DNA match led police to him. She is not being named in line with a News & Observer policy not to identify those who report sexual assaults.

Henderson, 41, is facing felony charges of first-degree forcible rape, first-degree burglary, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree forcible sexual offense.

He faces more than 90 years in prison if he is convicted of all those charges, according to court records and Superior Court Judge Henry W. Hight Jr.

His attorney, Gary Presnell, indicated he would argue that the woman was not raped but had a consensual sexual relationship with Henderson.

The woman denied that, telling jurors she had never met Henderson before the attack. That night, she said, a man broke into her apartment, made her cover her face with a blanket and raped her.

She had fallen asleep on her couch after returning from a weekend trip to the mountains with her boyfriend, she said.

"I woke up to a vision of a man coming into my apartment with a gun," she said.

The woman also told jurors Henderson repeatedly said he was attacking her because her forefathers raped and enslaved his ancestors. The woman is white, and Henderson is black.

Henderson was not identified as a suspect until 2007, when the case was reopened and evidence was tested by agents with the State Bureau of Investigation as part of a renewed effort to analyze rape cases where evidence had been collected but not tested for DNA.

After the 1999 rape, the evidence was not initially tested because police had no named suspect and the SBI declined to test the evidence without that, Jeff Cruden, a Wake County assistant district attorney, said in his opening arguments.

Last year, evidence collected that night, including semen, was retested, and Raleigh police learned from SBI agents that the DNA matched that of Henderson, who was living in Georgia. He was arrested there in April and has been held in the Wake County jail since.

The trial is expected to continue today.

The Jena Six........and Other Scams

Patrick Buchanan, American Cause, February 15, 2008

Some Americans do not understand why the sight of a noose causes such a visceral reaction,” declared President Bush to the White House gathering for Black History Month.

As The Washington Post rushed to remind us, President Bush was “responding to news coverage of such episodes as the ‘Jena Six.’”

But if history is about truth, not myth, that news coverage deserves another look, before the Jena Six enter the history books alongside Emmett Till and “the Scottsboro Boys.”

By now, most folks know the media story. White students at Jena High in Louisiana hung nooses on a tree to warn black students not to sit under it. After a fistfight over this racist outrage, black kids in the fight were indicted for attempted murder, while the white racists who hung the nooses walked away with a verbal spanking.

Last September, 20,000 traveled to Jena to march against this prosecutorial outrage. Fortunately, however, there are still a few real journalists around. Among them are Craig Franklin, assistant editor of the Jena Times, whose wife teaches at Jena High, and Charlotte Allen, who wrote an extended piece for The Weekly Standard. According to Allen and Franklin, here are the facts and chronology you have been denied by the Mainstream Media.

There never was a “whites-only” tree at Jena High. Both races sat under it, though whites congregated there. The nooses, or lariats, were the work of three young teens, who got the idea from watching “Lonesome Dove” on TV, where rustlers are hanged.

Franklin says they were a joke aimed at white friends on the rodeo team. As they were painted in Jena High’s gold and black, Allen reports that the kids said the nooses were directed at a rival school’s Western-themed football team.

When school officials confronted them, all were remorseful. All had black friends, and none knew the nooses were offensive to blacks.

Far from being let off, they spent “nine days at an alternative facility, followed by two weeks of in-school suspension, Saturday detentions, attendance at Discipline Court and evaluations by licensed mental-health professionals.”

They were not prosecuted for a hate crime because none of those who investigated the incident believed they committed a hate crime. Hung on Aug. 31, 2006, the nooses had been taken down instantly. Only a few students ever saw them. Case closed.

September, October and November passed at Jena High with no racial conflict emanating from the noose incident of August.

On Dec. 1, however, Robert Bailey Jr. tried to crash a party at the Fair Barn in Jena. One Justin Sloan, 22, not a student, put a fist in his face. So witnesses and Bailey reported to police. And Sloan was prosecuted for battery.

On Dec. 2, Bailey and two friends jumped a white male entering the “Gotta Go” grocery. When the latter ran to get a shotgun out of his car, they wrested it from him and took it. So two witnesses at the “Gotta Go” agreed.

Two days later came the “schoolyard fight.” Only this was no fight. Black students barricaded an exit to the gym and lay in wait for Justin Barker. As Barker went for another exit, he was struck in the head from behind by Mychal Bell. Multiple witnesses say Barker fell unconscious as a gang of eight or 10 blacks stomped and kicked him in the head. The assistant principal who reached Barker thought he was dead. Barker’s emergency room bill ran to more than $5,000.

When the six were arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder, none of them and none of the witnesses mentioned the noose incident. It had had nothing to do with this vicious racist assault.

After the charges were reduced to battery, Bell, tried as an adult, was indeed convicted by an all-white jury—because no blacks answered the summons to the jury pool. Why was Bell prosecuted as an adult? Because he had four prior convictions for crimes of violence.

After his conviction was overturned, Bell was ordered retried as a juvenile. Rather than face the same 17 witnesses, he pled guilty in December to hitting Barker from behind, slamming his head into a concrete beam and kicking him in the head. Sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention, he agreed to testify against his co-conspirators.

While some $500,000 has been raised for the Jena Six defense, its whereabouts is unknown. Bailey did pose on the Internet grinning, however, with $100 bills in his mouth. Bell’s mom is said to be driving a new Jaguar, and Bailey’s mom a new Beamer. Two other Jena Sixers, Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis, appeared in rapper attire on Black Entertainment Television as presenters of a Hip-Hop Award.

A week ago, 6-foot, 6-inch Purvis, who had transferred to Hebron High in Carrollton, Texas, was charged with assault, choking a student and ramming his head into a bench.

And that’s the Saga of The Jena Six. It belongs right up there with the Rev. Al’s other classics: Tawana Brawley and the Duke rape case.

Jewish Cartoon: How To Cook A Gentile

That's pretty funny. Here is my recipe for cooking a jew.
1. Find a suitable jew [any jew will do]
2. Tenderize jew [baseball bat]
3. Season jew [gasoline]
4. Begin cooking jew [bic lighter]
5. Extinguish jew [urine]
6. Garnish jew [dog excrement]
7. Serve jew [to a mud]
8. Never consume a jew yourself [food poisoning]
9. Sit back and enjoy watching your jew being eatin by a feral nigger]
10. Final step [shoot nigger]

Racism....makes you sad

I never bothered listening to Nikki Nichols defending non-white trash against the evils of racism until a couple of weeks ago. Give her show a listen.....I promise you won't regret it.

It's bullshit anti-racist COMEDY at it's best.
Fucking asshole bitch.

He mapped out his strategy for war and executed it.”

I guess this was "systematic racism" and "black rage".

KIRKWOOD, Mo. | A brother of the man who killed five people at a Kirkwood City Council meeting defended the shooter’s actions this morning.

Standing across the street from the site of the killings, Gerald Thornton told reporters that his brother, Charles “Cookie” Thornton, had become “a country of himself” and was forced to “go to war” after the judicial system denied his claims of mistreatment.

“He didn’t go out shooting random people,” Gerald Thornton said. “He mapped out his strategy for war and executed it.”

Gerald Thornton said his brother’s problems with the city stemmed from disagreements over building permits. Charles Thornton owned a construction company, Cook Co., that was frequently cited for performing work without the proper permits.

Charles Thornton was cited for more than 126 violations totaling around $64,000, Gerald Thornton said.

The city’s arguments were wrong, his brother said, but when Thornton challenged them in court, his arguments were overruled. It was those failures to find justice in the courts that led him to act last night.

“I understand why he did it,” he said. “He declared war because of the actions done by the court.”

Gerald Thornton said he last saw his brother last night, but said he had no idea what he was about to do.

He had never known Charles Thornton to own or carry a gun, he said.

Still, Thornton said he did believe his brother’s actions were planned.

“Those people he went after were the people listed in his problems with the city,” Thornton said. “Once he was abused by the people in that hall over there he stood up and tried to rectify it.”

Surrounded by a crush of reporters, Gerald Thornton, two years Charles’ senior and one of nine siblings, verged on obstinate in his defense of his brother’s actions.

When asked if he felt for his brother’s victims, Thornton said: “No one wants to see loss of life over issues that should’ve been solved. We have educated people over there and they should’ve been able to see the things they were doing should’ve came to an end sooner.”

Thornton also raised the issue of race, suggesting that African Americans have a more difficult time exerting their rights and that his brother’s race was a factor in his difficulties with the city and in the courts.

Before You Write That Article On Racial Injustice, Profiling and The Jena 6......

You might want to check and and see if one of those little niggers isn't being arrested and charged with committing yet another crime.

ALEESA MANN
2/7/08
The Hilltop
Howard University

Racial profiling was the topic at hand as members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and Howard students met on Capitol Hill in "An Evening with the CBC," an event held as part of the "I Am a Vote Week."

"This is a very important issue. It's not imaginary. It's real. If you look at the history of this country there has been selective enforcement since its inception," said U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams of Maryland. "When you contrast who's being pulled over and who's in court with the percentage of African Americans in this nation you know there is disproportionality of the criminal system hitting our people."

Panelists and students discussed issues of being singled out based on race and cited incidents of racial injustice including Shawn Williams, the Jena Six and Don Imus.

"Lives have been taken, people lost, families broken because of misinterpretation [base don race], so this is an epidemic," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. "We are long overdue for trying to find a legislative fix to this question."

"The words of Imus can be seen as racial profiling, because of his characterization of African-American women, then [we ask] is that the interpretation of law enforcement of someone who is driving a car? Same thing I would argue on the Jena '6' case," Lee said. "I think there is wide reaching opportunity to addressing the problem of racial profiling. Your support, your advocacy is going to be most important in this effort. I'm hoping that out of this will come some provocative legislation."

The audience listened attentively as the panelists discussed their experiences being accosted simply because of their race.

Congressman Danny Davis of Illinois expressed his astonishment at being pulled over. Howard professor of African-American studies, Gregory Carr, shared his experiences as well, and Judge Williams talked about the cases of racial injustice he had presided over.

"[Their experiences] show you that cops don't care if you're a member of Congress or a Howard University student. It shows that cops just discriminate," said Tashon Thomas, HUSA recording secretary and sophomore political science major.

The panelists also discussed recently proposed legislation slated to help put an end to racial profiling. The End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) of 2007 prohibits law enforcement from employing techniques of racial profiling in their practice. By requiring law enforcement to maintain adequate procedures, eliminate existing racial profiling procedures and having an appropriate system for filing complaints of racial profiling, the act aims to put an end to the unjust practice.

"As we think about this question of law enforcement we have to think about the question of racial profiling in a larger context," Carr said. He also proposed solutions to addressing the problem enforcing laws, punishing violators and providing sensitivity training for law enforcement as viable measures to combat racial profiling.

Students at the discussion found the discourse to be provoking and productive.

"[The discussion] brought forth a sense of the issue and how we need to confront it," said said Corey Briscoe, a freshman political science major. "I think we had the issue, and I think that it was reiterated again, but what we didn't have was a comprehensive solution, and now we understand what racial profiling is and what we as the black community need to do to endeavor over and beyond it. We're saying this is the issue, and this is how we're going to address it."

The event was organized by the College Democrats, College Republicans and HUSA organizations to help inspire students to become proactive in their local and national politics.

"I hope students take from the event what I initially took from my first visit to the Hill. I initially came to the hill for a class assignment. I knew nothing about politics, and like any other students I didn't really much care about politics," said Lauren Campbell, fundraising chair of the Howard College Democrats. "But then I just fell in love with the whole atmosphere. I was very interested after meeting my local representative. So basically if students can take away a passion for politics or just wanting to know more, that's very important."

Jena 6 defendant charged in Texas assault

Six blacks beating and kicking a white kid in the head was a schoolyard "scuffle".

Now when a black person pins another person's head down, choking him, and causing an injury to his eye is a "minor shoving incident."

Now 19 Years old is juvenile as well.

HOUSTON - A defendant in the racially-charged Jena 6 case in Louisiana has been arrested for assault after an altercation at the suburban Dallas high school he is now attending, potentially complicating his legal defense in Jena and dispiriting some of his supporters.

Bryant Purvis, 19, was arrested Wednesday in Carrollton, Texas, and charged with misdemeanor assault after an incident with another student at Hebron High School, Carrollton police said. Purvis was released in lieu of $1,000 bond on Thursday and suspended for three days from the school, where he enrolled as a senior after moving to the area to live with a relative.

Purvis' attorney, Darrell Hickman, characterized the assault as a "minor shoving incident" and said it involved a student whom Purvis believed had vandalized his car a few days before. A police affidavit accompanying an arrest warrant alleged that Purvis choked the student and pushed his head into a bench, injuring the victim's eye.


The new arrest could complicate ongoing plea bargain negotiations over the Jena case with LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters, Hickman said. Purvis is one of six black defendants Walters initially charged with attempted murder for beating a white student at Jena High School in December 2006, in a fight that capped months of racial tensions in the town.

The charges were reduced to aggravated second-degree battery after the Jena case drew criticism from national civil rights leaders, who contended that the justice system in the small town was biased against blacks. More than 20,000 demonstrators marched through Jena last September in support of the Jena 6 defendants and their case was one of several last year that launched what activists regarded as a new civil rights movement.

The first Jena defendant to face trial, Mychal Bell, pleaded guilty in December to a juvenile charge of second-degree battery and received a sentence of 18 months in juvenile detention. Purvis' case is set for trial in late March.

The Texas arrest "doesn't help his case in Jena, that's obvious," Hickman said. "From what [Purvis] told me, I can understand him losing his temper. We all lose our temper every now and then. But we're in the process of negotiations with Reed Walters. And what we've been asking for, probably Reed will be less inclined to give it to me now."

Purvis' arrest is the latest in a series public embarrassments for the Jena defendants, who last summer attracted the sympathies of more than 300,000 petition signers and donations of more than $500,000 to their legal defense fund.

Purvis and another Jena defendant, Carwin Jones, posed like rap stars at the Black Entertainment Television Hip Hop Awards in October, where they presented a music award and received an ovation from the audience. Jena defendant Robert Bailey Jr. posted pictures of himself on a Myspace page with a wad of $100 bills stuffed in his mouth. And questions arose over the accounting for some of the donated legal funds controlled by the Jena 6 families after they declined to say how they were spending the money.

Nevertheless, the Jena case remains important, said Mervyn Marcano, spokesman for Color of Change, an Internet-based civil rights group of nearly 400,000 members that raised more than $200,000 for the Jena defendants.

"It's sort of a pop culture touchstone of 2007 for a lot of black people," Marcano said, adding that he hoped that Purvis' latest arrest would not detract from the larger issues of equal justice raised by the Jena case.

"These kids are still juveniles, so I'm not surprised that they will get into scuffles and things of that nature," Marcano said. "These kids are not supposed to be angels. They are supposed to have equal access to fair treatment from the criminal justice system, and they will continue to be teenagers while we continue to fight for that."

JUST IN: Jena 6 Member Arrested

Blacks will be blacks!

A member of the “Jena Six” was arrested and charged with assault today, according to an official at a Carrollton, Texas, jail.

Bryant R. Purvis, 19, now living in the Dallas area, was charged with assault causing bodily injury and is being held in the city jail with no bail pending a Thursday morning bond hearing, the jail official said.

Broadcast media have reported his arrest was in connection to an assault on a fellow Hebron High School student after vandalism to Purvis’ car.

Calls to Tina Jones’, Purvis’ mother, went unanswered today. Information about the arrest wasn’t immediately available, and messages left for a public information officer for the Carrollton Police Department were unreturned.

Purvis and five other black teens were arrested and initially charged with attempted murder in connection with a Dec. 4, 2006, assault on a fellow Jena High School student, Justin Barker, who is white.

Soon after Purvis’ arrest, his mother said she sent him to live with his uncle, Dallas Cowboy defensive lineman Jason Hatcher, so he could stay out of trouble and out of the limelight.

Purvis had stayed out of the limelight for most of last year following the high-profile case, but he did appear on Black Entertainment Television’s Hip-Hop Awards. Purvis and fellow Jena Six defendant Carwin Jones helped present the video of the year award during the October awards show.

A message left for Darrell Hickman, Purvis’ attorney, went unreturned. But during a December interview, the Alexandria attorney said he was hopeful that LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters would drop the charges against Purvis.

“I still feel that Bryant is totally innocent in this case," Hickman said. "Only one person out of a number of witnesses indicated they saw Bryant involved. I don't think they have a strong case against him at all."

The case of the Jena Six has caught attention worldwide and led to what many have called the biggest civil rights demonstration of the new millennium on Sept. 20, 2007, when more than 20,000 marched through Jena.

Black History Month: A Salute To A Black Revolutionaries

While there's nothing revolutionary about a nigger sitting around, refusing to get off of it's ass or breaking the law, Please remember Rosa Parks managed to do both at one time. Revolutionary indeed.

Tree actually growing in rotting paper at Detroit Public Schools book depository.

This is what blacks do with books.

Blacks Demand 'Hanging' For White Kid

Swartruggens - Skielik murder accused Johan Nel was driven away from the Swartruggens courthouse at around 10:30 on Thursday as protesters threw stones and cans at the armoured police vehicle he was in.

Minutes earlier the crowd which had gathered outside the courthouse broke down the main gate and were forcefully pushed aside by riot police.

They were chanting: "We want Nel!"

Nel appeared in court briefly in connection with the murder of four people and the attempted murder of six others in a shooting incident in the Skielik informal settlement last Monday.

The case was postponed to February 12.

It is alleged that Nel left a Swartruggens farm last Monday and drove 10km out of town to the Skielik informal settlement. There he allegedly gunned down 10 people, killing four. Two of the victims were children aged 10 years and three months.

Speaking outside the court, North West safety and security MEC Phenye Vilakazi said the murders were racially motivated. He said there was "no other explanation".

Earlier Magistrate Andre Kleynhans appealed to the families of the victims to "keep a level head".

"I wish to appeal to people to let justice run its course and let the court do its work."