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17th October 2011, 05:09
16th National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
October 22, 2011
Across the U.S., Black, Latino, and poor neighborhoods are treated like occupied territory by increasingly militarized armies of law enforcement. People are criminalized and brutalized for their perceived status – socioeconomic, immigration, mental health, and/or racial, gender, or sexual identity. People living in our communities, especially youth, are routinely stopped, harassed, beaten, and even killed.
In Chicago police have shot 47 people so far this year, mostly youth of color, including 13-year-old Jimmell Cannon.
NYPD continues to stop hundreds of thousands of youth of color every year for the most minimal suspicion.
Police nationwide continue to kill with very little consequence.
Twelve Miami cops shot at 22-year-old Raymond Herisse 100 times, then threatened those who recorded the incident, destroying their cellphones. A Tucson SWAT team shot at 26-year-old Iraq War veteran Jose Guerena over 70 times. Both their allegations of gunfire and drug-dealing were later revealed to be false. In New York and New Jersey, at least 28 people have been killed by police since October 22 of last year, while at least 35 people have been killed by law enforcement in Washington State in the last 12 months..
Police routinely abuse the mentally ill and disabled. Fullerton, CA cops beat to death homeless and mentally ill 27-year-old Kelly Thomas. In Fresno, CA, 28-year-old Raul Rosas, Jr. died after being tasered by police. His girlfriend said "I didn't call the Fresno County Sheriff to kill him. I called because he needed help with his mental illness.”
Recently enacted anti-immigrant laws have given police in the states of Arizona, Georgia, and Alabama sweeping powers to stop people "suspected" of being undocumented on no other basis than appearance.
Racially targeted mass incarceration exacerbates the criminalization and marginalization of Black people, playing the same role as Jim Crow laws. In 1954, 90,000 Black people were incarcerated. Now, over 900,000 Black people are imprisoned, a tenfold increase. The U.S. also has the highest incarceration rate worldwide, with 2.4 million people in prison.
Law enforcement continues to harass and sexually assault people, most especially women and the transgendered. According to the website InjusticeEverywhere.com, sexual misconduct was the second most common complaint against police in 2010.
Young schoolchildren are increasingly treated as criminals by school security and local police. Eight-year-old Aidan Elliot was pepper sprayed and handcuffed by Colorado police, and ten-year-old Sofia Bautista was removed from her elementary school, then taken to a NYPD precinct, handcuffed, and interrogated for hours.
Meanwhile, repression against those who take action against injustices continues to escalate. Police in cities and towns nationwide have attacked and arrested people merely for recording their activity. Repression against progressive and antiwar activism has intensified: simultaneous FBI raids on activists from numerous antiwar and international solidarity organizations in three U.S. cities took place on September 24, 2010.
These vicious attacks are not going down without opposition. Whether standing up to police violence when it happens, as we saw in the video of Kenneth Harding's shooting, or organizing inspiring prison strikes in Georgia and California, people are uniting to fight back.
One thing we know from years of experience is that when this system has to answer to organized people, it can’t easily get away with all the things it's used to doing. Resistance matters.
THE VIOLENCE OF THE COPS, THE COURTS, THE FBI, LA MIGRA, AND HOMELAND SECURITY IS INTENSIFYING.
OUR RESISTANCE MUST INTENSIFY AS WELL!
Every year, thousands of people nationwide express their outrage, creativity, and resistance in response to the crimes of this system. People speak out and perform, they march in the streets, and more.
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation embraces and encourages any and all such expressions of people’s righteous outrage.
As said by the mother of Gil Barber, gunned down by a deputy in High Point, NC in 2001, “October 22nd is our day.”
ORGANIZE against these injustices! BREAK DOWN the barriers between communities that these crimes seek to strengthen!
MOBILIZE people of all communities in the most visible way…and on October 22, 2011, WEAR BLACK!
FIGHT BACK!
October 22nd -
Wear Black, Fight Back:
March and Rally 1:00pm
J R Thompson Center –
100 W Randolph in Chicago Loop
[email protected]
For Chicago Info email: [email protected]
(312) 933-9586 facebook: October 22 Chicago
Ad Hoc Committee for October 22nd
Police Brutality, Repression and
Criminalization of the youth!!
WEAR BLACK!! FIGHT BACK!!
Below are the faces of just a few of the more than 195 people shot
and/or Killed by Police in Chicago alone from 2007 to 2011!!
Lester “Ronni”
Spruill, 43 years old
Beaten to death by
Police
July 21, 2007
Devon Young
Shot in the
Back by Police,
Killed
June 14, 2008
25 years old
William Hardy
27 years old
Shot and killed by
Police
March 30, 2010
Aaron Harrison
Shot in the Back
by Police, Killed
August 6, 2007
18 years old
Reginald Knight
Shot in the Back by
Police, Killed
June 15, 2008
24 years old
Willie Miller
25 Years
Shot and Killed by
Police
April 2, 2010
Johnny Goodwin
Shot by police
and killed
August 23, 2007
21 years old
Shappell Terrell
Shot 14 times, Killed
by Police
June 22, 2008
39 years old
George Lash
Age 19
Shot and Killed by
Chicago Police
while handcuffed
Sept 21, 2010
Meliton Recendez, Age 15
Shot by Police
Killed.
Sept 27, 2007
Rakeem Nance
Age 16
Shot and Killed by
Chicago Police
July 2, 2009
JonRynn Avery
23 years old
Killed by police
chasing him into a
glass door
July 12, 2011
Freddie “The Saint” Wilson
34 years old
Shot 18 times and
killed by police
Nov. 15, 2007
Corey Harris
17 years old
Shot in the back
killed by Police
Sept 11, 2009
Flint Farmer
29 years old
Shot and killed by
Police for carrying a
cell phone
June 7, 2011
Jonathan Pinkerton
Shot in the back
Paralyzed from waist down
June 11, 2008
17 Years Old
Matthais Mayhorn
Shot and Killed by
Chicago Police
March 10, 2009
Jimmell Cannon
13 years old
Shot 4 times by Chicago Police
July 2011
Oct 22nd: PROTEST MARCH & RALLY
1 PM at the JR Thompson Center –
100 W Randolph in Chicago Loop
NO MORE
October 21st: Day of Defiance for High Schools
October 22, 2011
Across the U.S., Black, Latino, and poor neighborhoods are treated like occupied territory by increasingly militarized armies of law enforcement. People are criminalized and brutalized for their perceived status – socioeconomic, immigration, mental health, and/or racial, gender, or sexual identity. People living in our communities, especially youth, are routinely stopped, harassed, beaten, and even killed.
In Chicago police have shot 47 people so far this year, mostly youth of color, including 13-year-old Jimmell Cannon.
NYPD continues to stop hundreds of thousands of youth of color every year for the most minimal suspicion.
Police nationwide continue to kill with very little consequence.
Twelve Miami cops shot at 22-year-old Raymond Herisse 100 times, then threatened those who recorded the incident, destroying their cellphones. A Tucson SWAT team shot at 26-year-old Iraq War veteran Jose Guerena over 70 times. Both their allegations of gunfire and drug-dealing were later revealed to be false. In New York and New Jersey, at least 28 people have been killed by police since October 22 of last year, while at least 35 people have been killed by law enforcement in Washington State in the last 12 months..
Police routinely abuse the mentally ill and disabled. Fullerton, CA cops beat to death homeless and mentally ill 27-year-old Kelly Thomas. In Fresno, CA, 28-year-old Raul Rosas, Jr. died after being tasered by police. His girlfriend said "I didn't call the Fresno County Sheriff to kill him. I called because he needed help with his mental illness.”
Recently enacted anti-immigrant laws have given police in the states of Arizona, Georgia, and Alabama sweeping powers to stop people "suspected" of being undocumented on no other basis than appearance.
Racially targeted mass incarceration exacerbates the criminalization and marginalization of Black people, playing the same role as Jim Crow laws. In 1954, 90,000 Black people were incarcerated. Now, over 900,000 Black people are imprisoned, a tenfold increase. The U.S. also has the highest incarceration rate worldwide, with 2.4 million people in prison.
Law enforcement continues to harass and sexually assault people, most especially women and the transgendered. According to the website InjusticeEverywhere.com, sexual misconduct was the second most common complaint against police in 2010.
Young schoolchildren are increasingly treated as criminals by school security and local police. Eight-year-old Aidan Elliot was pepper sprayed and handcuffed by Colorado police, and ten-year-old Sofia Bautista was removed from her elementary school, then taken to a NYPD precinct, handcuffed, and interrogated for hours.
Meanwhile, repression against those who take action against injustices continues to escalate. Police in cities and towns nationwide have attacked and arrested people merely for recording their activity. Repression against progressive and antiwar activism has intensified: simultaneous FBI raids on activists from numerous antiwar and international solidarity organizations in three U.S. cities took place on September 24, 2010.
These vicious attacks are not going down without opposition. Whether standing up to police violence when it happens, as we saw in the video of Kenneth Harding's shooting, or organizing inspiring prison strikes in Georgia and California, people are uniting to fight back.
One thing we know from years of experience is that when this system has to answer to organized people, it can’t easily get away with all the things it's used to doing. Resistance matters.
THE VIOLENCE OF THE COPS, THE COURTS, THE FBI, LA MIGRA, AND HOMELAND SECURITY IS INTENSIFYING.
OUR RESISTANCE MUST INTENSIFY AS WELL!
Every year, thousands of people nationwide express their outrage, creativity, and resistance in response to the crimes of this system. People speak out and perform, they march in the streets, and more.
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation embraces and encourages any and all such expressions of people’s righteous outrage.
As said by the mother of Gil Barber, gunned down by a deputy in High Point, NC in 2001, “October 22nd is our day.”
ORGANIZE against these injustices! BREAK DOWN the barriers between communities that these crimes seek to strengthen!
MOBILIZE people of all communities in the most visible way…and on October 22, 2011, WEAR BLACK!
FIGHT BACK!
October 22nd -
Wear Black, Fight Back:
March and Rally 1:00pm
J R Thompson Center –
100 W Randolph in Chicago Loop
[email protected]
For Chicago Info email: [email protected]
(312) 933-9586 facebook: October 22 Chicago
Ad Hoc Committee for October 22nd
Police Brutality, Repression and
Criminalization of the youth!!
WEAR BLACK!! FIGHT BACK!!
Below are the faces of just a few of the more than 195 people shot
and/or Killed by Police in Chicago alone from 2007 to 2011!!
Lester “Ronni”
Spruill, 43 years old
Beaten to death by
Police
July 21, 2007
Devon Young
Shot in the
Back by Police,
Killed
June 14, 2008
25 years old
William Hardy
27 years old
Shot and killed by
Police
March 30, 2010
Aaron Harrison
Shot in the Back
by Police, Killed
August 6, 2007
18 years old
Reginald Knight
Shot in the Back by
Police, Killed
June 15, 2008
24 years old
Willie Miller
25 Years
Shot and Killed by
Police
April 2, 2010
Johnny Goodwin
Shot by police
and killed
August 23, 2007
21 years old
Shappell Terrell
Shot 14 times, Killed
by Police
June 22, 2008
39 years old
George Lash
Age 19
Shot and Killed by
Chicago Police
while handcuffed
Sept 21, 2010
Meliton Recendez, Age 15
Shot by Police
Killed.
Sept 27, 2007
Rakeem Nance
Age 16
Shot and Killed by
Chicago Police
July 2, 2009
JonRynn Avery
23 years old
Killed by police
chasing him into a
glass door
July 12, 2011
Freddie “The Saint” Wilson
34 years old
Shot 18 times and
killed by police
Nov. 15, 2007
Corey Harris
17 years old
Shot in the back
killed by Police
Sept 11, 2009
Flint Farmer
29 years old
Shot and killed by
Police for carrying a
cell phone
June 7, 2011
Jonathan Pinkerton
Shot in the back
Paralyzed from waist down
June 11, 2008
17 Years Old
Matthais Mayhorn
Shot and Killed by
Chicago Police
March 10, 2009
Jimmell Cannon
13 years old
Shot 4 times by Chicago Police
July 2011
Oct 22nd: PROTEST MARCH & RALLY
1 PM at the JR Thompson Center –
100 W Randolph in Chicago Loop
NO MORE
October 21st: Day of Defiance for High Schools