"The Move Disaster"

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This paper reviews "The Move Disaster", by Jack H. Nagel, in which he defines the role of leadership through Mayor Goode's actions in regards to the 1985 police massacre at the MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia. The paper suggests that Nagel's observations are racially motivated by a lack of critical review of the police and the racism problems in the Osage Avenue neighborhoods.

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"Critical Review of the Case Study: "The Move Disaster" by Jack H. Nagel II. Key Problems * Poor Leadership by Mayor Wilson Goode in the MOVE Incident * Poor Communication Between Police and the Mayor * Philadelphia Police Action Against the Move Organization * Inability to Take Posthumous Responsibility by Philadelphia Mayor and Police Officials * The main problems with how the City of Philadelphia reacted to MOVE--a African American militant organization--reflected the lack of communication between police and Mayor Goode. Furthermore, a racist policy within the police force helped engage a series of illegal and unconstitutional acts brought against MOVE. Mayoral leadership helped to instigate the `disaster' portion of this case study, which Nagel makes the title of his investigation. Racist police enforcement was part of the violent and extremely poor execution of an attack against the organization, which become a neighborhood wide explosion of violence and racist hatred. "

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