by KYW's John Ostapkovich
The Philadelphia Human Relations Commission is looking into race-baiting posters that have surfaced in the wake of the murder of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. But the focus is less on the posters than those who might be affected by them.
The posters from the group that calls itself "Keystone State Skinheads" show pictures of white police officers killed in the line of duty and the black suspects in each case. The wording blames what it calls "dangerous minorities."
Nick Taliaferro, executive director of the Human Relations Commission, says its response is more like outreach than investigation:
"We are not policemen. We don't go out and try to arrest people. What we do is try to proactively engage the community in ways that will resist that type of poisonous engagement of an otherwise very decent community. You won't find better people than you will find at Shiller and Almond Street."
Taliaferro says the commission will look to see if the law was broken and if the poster had any effect beyond creating upset.
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