Taboo Tongue
6th February 2009, 09:38
---So you know the "Revolution Club" is connected to the RCP---
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Enough is Enough -- A March of Stolen Lives!
The Stolen Lives Project of Oct 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
Friday, February 6, 2009
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Ogawa Plaza
14th and Broadway (In front of City Hall)
Oakland, CA
2009 – A year in which we're promised "change we can believe in." But as the year is ushered in, everything is much too much the same.
2009 was barely 2 hours old when 22 year old Oscar Grant was executed with a shot to his back. While fully complying with BART transit police, with one officer kneeling on Oscar's neck, another stood over him, unholstered and aimed his gun and fired point blank. This cold-blooded murder was witnessed by dozens of onlookers, and captured on video and seen all over the country.
An hour later and halfway across the country, Adolph Grimes, also 22, died in a hail of 48 bullets, 12 in his back, by New Orleans police. He was sitting in his car in front of his grandmother's house.
On New Year's Eve, Robbie Tolan, a promising professional baseball player, was shot in the chest, after protesting his mother being thrown against the wall of her home by police in Bellaire, a suburb of Houston. His baseball dreams are over.
Three young Black men shot, 2 dead, in 24 hours. How many others were shot, tasered or beaten to death by police in this same period, murders that did not make it into the news? The Stolen Lives Project of Oct 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality has documented over 2000 people killed by police and La Migra in the 1990s alone. And these are only the cases the Coalition was able to uncover through its own efforts! There is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality and murder being unleashed up on our people by the whole system that rules over us. In the time that we are told the society is now "post racial" – these killings are overwhelmingly, but not exclusively, against young people of color. And the numbers of stolen lives are on the rise.
Most killer cops are never charged for their criminal acts, even when their victims were unarmed and doing nothing wrong. In the few cases when cops are prosecuted, they are, almost always, let off by the courts.
Like the New York cops who fired 50 shots, killing Sean Bell, on his wedding night. ACQUITTED! The 41 bullets fired into unarmed Amadou Diallo by other New York cops. Again ACQUITTED! And the Riverside sheriffs who fired 51 bullets in Tyisha Miller, killer her while she was unconscious in her parked car. NEVER CHARGED! Or another BART police officer, who in 1992, fired a shotgun into the back of the head of 19 year old, and unarmed, Jerrold Hall. NEVER CHARGED!
The cop who murdered Oscar Grant was only finally arrested and charged with murder after righteous and long suffering anger and injury at the hands of police, burst through the levee of patience and suffering silence.
WE SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT BRUTALITY AND MURDER BY POLICE. WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. WE REFUSE TO LET OUR YOUTH TO BE TREATED AS LESS THAN ANIMALS. THIS IS 2009, NOT THE TIME OF SLAVERY, OR OF THE KKK NIGHTRIDERS. TIMES SHOULD BE LONG PAST WHEN POLICE CAN COME INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO MURDER, ABUSE, OR TERRORIZE OUR PEOPLE AND GET AWAY WITH IT. EVERYONE WHO'S FED UP WITH THIS MURDER AND BRUTALITY
JOIN THE MARCH OF STOLEN LIVES
FRIDAY FEB 6th 3pm, Ogawa Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY!
END POLICE MURDER NOW! JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT
CONVICT THE MURDERING COP AND ALL HIS ACCOMPLICES!
THE PEOPLES' ANGER IS JUSTIFIED! DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS
For more info check out
www.october22.org (http://www.october22.org/)
[email protected]
---So you know the "Revolution Club" is connected to the RCP---
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v174/TabooTongue/StolenLives.png
Enough is Enough -- A March of Stolen Lives!
The Stolen Lives Project of Oct 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
Friday, February 6, 2009
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Ogawa Plaza
14th and Broadway (In front of City Hall)
Oakland, CA
2009 – A year in which we're promised "change we can believe in." But as the year is ushered in, everything is much too much the same.
2009 was barely 2 hours old when 22 year old Oscar Grant was executed with a shot to his back. While fully complying with BART transit police, with one officer kneeling on Oscar's neck, another stood over him, unholstered and aimed his gun and fired point blank. This cold-blooded murder was witnessed by dozens of onlookers, and captured on video and seen all over the country.
An hour later and halfway across the country, Adolph Grimes, also 22, died in a hail of 48 bullets, 12 in his back, by New Orleans police. He was sitting in his car in front of his grandmother's house.
On New Year's Eve, Robbie Tolan, a promising professional baseball player, was shot in the chest, after protesting his mother being thrown against the wall of her home by police in Bellaire, a suburb of Houston. His baseball dreams are over.
Three young Black men shot, 2 dead, in 24 hours. How many others were shot, tasered or beaten to death by police in this same period, murders that did not make it into the news? The Stolen Lives Project of Oct 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality has documented over 2000 people killed by police and La Migra in the 1990s alone. And these are only the cases the Coalition was able to uncover through its own efforts! There is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality and murder being unleashed up on our people by the whole system that rules over us. In the time that we are told the society is now "post racial" – these killings are overwhelmingly, but not exclusively, against young people of color. And the numbers of stolen lives are on the rise.
Most killer cops are never charged for their criminal acts, even when their victims were unarmed and doing nothing wrong. In the few cases when cops are prosecuted, they are, almost always, let off by the courts.
Like the New York cops who fired 50 shots, killing Sean Bell, on his wedding night. ACQUITTED! The 41 bullets fired into unarmed Amadou Diallo by other New York cops. Again ACQUITTED! And the Riverside sheriffs who fired 51 bullets in Tyisha Miller, killer her while she was unconscious in her parked car. NEVER CHARGED! Or another BART police officer, who in 1992, fired a shotgun into the back of the head of 19 year old, and unarmed, Jerrold Hall. NEVER CHARGED!
The cop who murdered Oscar Grant was only finally arrested and charged with murder after righteous and long suffering anger and injury at the hands of police, burst through the levee of patience and suffering silence.
WE SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT BRUTALITY AND MURDER BY POLICE. WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. WE REFUSE TO LET OUR YOUTH TO BE TREATED AS LESS THAN ANIMALS. THIS IS 2009, NOT THE TIME OF SLAVERY, OR OF THE KKK NIGHTRIDERS. TIMES SHOULD BE LONG PAST WHEN POLICE CAN COME INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO MURDER, ABUSE, OR TERRORIZE OUR PEOPLE AND GET AWAY WITH IT. EVERYONE WHO'S FED UP WITH THIS MURDER AND BRUTALITY
JOIN THE MARCH OF STOLEN LIVES
FRIDAY FEB 6th 3pm, Ogawa Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY!
END POLICE MURDER NOW! JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT
CONVICT THE MURDERING COP AND ALL HIS ACCOMPLICES!
THE PEOPLES' ANGER IS JUSTIFIED! DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST DEMONSTRATORS
For more info check out
www.october22.org (http://www.october22.org/)
[email protected]
---So you know the "Revolution Club" is connected to the RCP---