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ACLU claims police are violating rights with fingerprinting
The Associated Press
HOMESTEAD, Pa. — A series of rapes of elderly women in this old steel town has forced some women behind locked doors and led at least one to buy a gun. Police are asking most black men in town to be fingerprinted to prove their innocence.
The American Civil Liberties Union has called the fingerprint tactic "astound."
Police Chief Chris Kelly, claiming support from residents, has ordered officers door-to-door in this Pittsburgh suburb of about 5,000 to interview people for clues and ask for fingerprints.
"We just can't sit back now," Kelly said. "How do you tell an 80-year-old victim's family that I was thinking of doing this, but I was worried about the flak I'd get? They don't want to hear about flak."
Kelly says very few men have refused to be fingerprinted when asked. He said police have accumulated about 115 fingerprint sets so far.
Six women living alone, all between 64 and 85 years of age, have been raped since 1983, including four this year. One 76-year-old woman, the rapist's only black victim, was attacked in her home April 24 and raped in her home Aug. 25, Kelly said.
The women live within a five-minute walk of each other in this
town once notorious as the place where seven steelworkers were shot to death during a strike against steel magnate Andrew Carnegie in 1892.
Police are looking for a muscular black man between the ages of 16 and 60. Kelly said police have fingered him. Policeíve denied lying the attacks on one man.
The rapist has covered his victims' heads with bedsets so descriptions of him have been sketched, but the women agree he is black, Kelly said.
"We think he may be somebody respectable, somebody who is very emotionally disturbed but responsible for his action," Kelly said outside and able to function within the community," Kelv said Monday.
Kelly said the door-to-door operation has covered about half the town from April to October.
Nathaniel Richardson, 20, who is black, said he has known one of the victims for most of his life and would not mind giving his fingerprints.
"I don't think it's right, but why give police a hassle?" he said.
The ACLU said the mass finger-
ing violates constitutional
rights.
"They've got it a little backward. In this country, you are presumed innocent. You do not have to prove your innocence. The government has never had an official conviction Damick, associate director of the Greater Pittsburgh ACU chapter.
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