Three fellow Gangster Disciples gang members confessed to police that they each saw Booker fire a shotgun into a car -- killing McClinton in cold blood.
Even more than being Catholics or Disciples or members of any other denomination, we are all called to be ecumenical Christians, accepting and celebrating the gifts of all who form a part of the one body of Christ, the Church.
As a Huntington disciple, and a member of The Culture Change Institute at Tufts University which was founded by Huntington and his protégé, Larry Harrison, I come to Huntington's defense.
It was packed with disciples and family members of the dozens arrested after the Oct. 22 rioting, when cars, shops and buses were smashed and pedestrians were terrorized by stone-throwing "Thiantacounes," as the sheik's followers are known.
In the state of São Paulo, the PT's base, Mr Dirceu's disciples "profiled the members in every municipality," assessing their loyalties and "intimidating those who were not in his circle," says Rudá Ricci, a PT activist turned sociologist.Others criticise Mr Dirceu's pragmatism.
The monkey is merely the latest animal member of his disciple entourage to act as an agent for his gospel and bolster his reach.
His mother was a devout member of the Disciples of Christ, and he knows, at first hand, the appeal of unreasonable devotion.
At one point, he identified himself as a member of the Latin Disciples gang.
In Carlisle he started out with one member; now his giggling disciples number 30 or 40.
A former member of the Gangster Disciples street gang, Wallace "Gator" Bradley, condemned the record labels for feeding on the "aura of violence" rappers create in their videos.
