Gonzalez Backers Press Suit After 6 Years (Elian)

[kskiska]

ATLANTA -- Six years after the government raid to seize Elian Gonzalez and return him to his father, supporters of the Cuban boy continue to press their claims that federal agents used excessive force in seizing him.

Oral arguments were heard Wednesday before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an amended lawsuit against the government.

The suit was filed by more than 90 people who say they were injured by a type of tear gas used by immigration agents who removed then-6-year-old Elian from his relatives' Miami home on April 22, 2000.

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Among them is Donato Dalrymple, who was on a fishing trip with his cousin on Thanksgiving 1999 when they found and rescued Elian, who had survived a shipwreck that killed his mother and others fleeing Cuba.

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[onehandle]

1. Fishing for book deals are they? nt

[napi21]

2. Hmmm. 11th Circuit is in Atlanta. I checked a few cases

where excessive force was the claim and they were all dismissed and remanded back to the apppeals court. This story is so old, I question what impact it will ahve nw...other than in FL!

[struggle4progress]

3. Well, a federal court had ruled against them a month earlier; Elian's ..

.. father had been in the country for two weeks, trying to pick up his son; and Reno had made repeated efforts to get the relatives to release the boy.


Mar 21, A US Federal Judge ruled that Elian Gonzalez should be returned to his father in Cuba. (SFC, 3/22/00, p.A3) ...
Apr 3, The US granted visas to the immediate family of Elian Gonzalez along with a cousin, doctor, and teacher. 22 other visas were under review. (WSJ, 4/4/00, p.A1) ...
Apr 6, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, the father of Elian Gonzalez, arrived in Washington DC with his wife and baby son to press his case for the return of his son from relatives in Miami. (SFC, 4/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/6/01) ...
Apr 7, Attorney General Janet Reno met in Washington with the father of Elian Gonzalez; Reno later told reporters that officials would arrange for Juan Miguel Gonzalez to reclaim his son, but she gave Elian’s Miami relatives one more chance to drop their resistance and join in a peaceful transfer. (AP, 4/7/01) ...
Apr 12, Attorney General Janet Reno met in Miami with the US relatives of Elian Gonzalez, after which she ordered them to bring the six-year-old boy to an airport the next day so he could be taken to a reunion with his father in Washington. Elian was seized by federal agents ten days after Reno’s order to turn him over. (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/12/01) ...
Apr 22, In Miami US INS agents stormed the home of Lazaro Gonzalez and took away Elian Gonzalez to Washington, where he was united with his father. Riots erupted in Little Havana and 290 protesters were arrested. (SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A1,4) ...
Apr 23, Elian Gonzalez spent a secluded Easter with his father at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, a day after the six-year-old boy was removed from his Miami relatives’ home in a pre-dawn raid by immigration agents. (AP, 4/23/01) ...
Apr 28, In Florida William O’Brien, the Miami police chief, resigned after Mayor Joe Carollo fired Donald Warshaw, the city manager, who refused to fire O’Brien. O’Brien did not alert the mayor to the federal action in the Elian Gonzalez seizure. (SFC, 4/29/00, p.A1) ...
http://timelines.ws/20thcent/2000_B.HTML

[mainer]

4. I kinda miss Donato and Marisleysis

That was a fun time, wasn't it?

[yellowcanine]

5. How did Donato get tear gassed? He was inside the house and busy

breaking down the door for the cameras.