?Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Volume 125, No. 78 Price 75¢ Larry Miller Tribune Staff Writer Public outrage continues to rise over a grand jury?s exoneration of police officers involved in a case of alleged brutality. During a press conference on Monday, held outside the Police Administration Building, local and state NAACP leader J. Whyatt Mondesire stated that District Attorney Lynne Abraham has one of the worst records when it comes to prosecuting allegations of police brutality. ?Furthermore, the real failure again falls on the outgoing district attorney who after more than 20 years has one of the worst records prosecuting police brutality allegations of any big city prosecutor in the nation,? he said. ?When it comes to policing abusive police, the best that can be said of DA Abraham is that she has been AWOP ? absent without prosecution.? Mondesire said that if Abraham had been seeking justice in the case, a special prosecutor without ties to the Philadelphia Police Department could have been assigned to head the grand jury. Eric Mayes Tribune Staff Writer More than two months after negotiations started between the city and its two largest municipal unions and still no reportable progress in contract talks. ?We?re still in active negotiations,? said Maura Kennedy a spokeswoman for Mayor Michael Nutter. Contracts covering the city?s two municipal unions ? American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, locals 33 and 47 expired June 30. Talks started weeks before that deadline. And yet, neither side seems any closer to signing a new labor agreement. President Barack Obama, right, Mexico?s President Felipe Calderon, center, and Canada?s Prime Minister Stephen Harper pose for an official photo at the Cabanas Cultural Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Monday. Obama joined Calderon and Harper for a North American summit, where the swine flu epidemic and knotty disputes over cross-border trade dominated a lengthy agenda. ? AP PHOTO/ALEX BRANDON Across America Health Commentary Op-Ed Business
