Gescard Isnora, Marc Cooper, and Michael Oliver at a press conference last week, some time after hearing their “not guilty” verdict.
So it’s been about a week since the not-guilty verdict came down from the judge in the case of Sean Bell’s murder.
3 police go free for killing an African- American male and seriously wounding two others. Wednesday hundreds of people in New York blocked rush-hour traffic in protest of the police aquittals. There were at least 216 arrests.
Even Al got arrested.
Meanwhile, here is footage of what’s happening in Philly right now. (No wonder these Philly rappers are so heated right now). I’m sure this ain’t the only reason of course. Fuck.
These men have already been characterized as “murderers” by the Philadelphia police Commissioner. So they are made to be guilty already. No proof. Stereotypes, racism, criminalizing the victim(s), this is always how it happens. Police departments and the media have been doing this for centuries now. It’s a science. Making the victim the perpetrator and the perpetrator the victim and you have a spun story…
Not to mention the wrongful police killings of Gary King Jr. and Anita Gay by Oakland and Berkeley Police officers in the past 8 months. Nor does it include the beating of Michael Fykes by Cleveland police. No matter where you look it’s happening. Police beating, detaining, killing, unjustifiably justified. Sometimes they have video which makes people appalled so they gasp and say that shouldn’t happen, but it does. And it never stops really. Whether it’s 1 shot or 51 shots. Whether it’s 1 cop or 14 beating three people.
We also currently have over 2 million people incarcerated in the US right now, that figure does not include those under house arrest, on papers, etc. ICE is going crazy arresting, detaining, and deporting (peep the post right before this one). Amerika is a POLICE STATE, don’t get it twisted.
Fed the fuck up.
Signing out From the land of the free to be killed by the Police State and State Institutions,
Slavename.
May 8, 2008 at 6:25 pm |
Real friggin talk, man. Shit is straight up bananas. Even Al got arrested! Although I definitely don’t think it’s good to “rank” issues of importance, doing criminal justice work just really makes it clear to me how much of a beast the police state/criminal (in)justice system is and how crazy of an effect it’s having on this country.
There’s talk of our next organizing campaign at work targeting the fucked up Atlanta police practices, which are just as crazy as anywhere else in the country right now. When you moving down here? Hahah.
Great post, bruh, I’m loving these regular entries that keep flying off Slavename’s (digital) presses.
Peace,
KC
May 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm |
There was a time when the people, the artists, the musicians and the underground wouldn’t stand for this kind of shit. Most people remember “Fuck the Police” as N.W.A.’s comical middle finger to the local compton pigs – I remember it as a strong political statement – one that is is sorely lacking these days. Though people are warring in the streets, their cause is buried in bullshit headlines about sunshine, fake politicos and “entertainment” news.
May 8, 2008 at 9:25 pm |
Werd to KC. Keep the REGULAR posts coming (but don’t move to ATL =P)! I (and the world) needs to keep hearing the voices of people who won’t just take this sh*t lying down.
No matter where they are in the country or what they look like, Police Officers are being trained to target working-class people of color and ALL Black men for destruction. That Roots album (as everyone and they mama has written about, DESERVEDLY) speaks volumes to the anger and frustrations of the nation, and is really helping me get through some tough times right now (I’ll fill u in later – no homo…phobia). =P
PEACE KING
C
May 9, 2008 at 3:36 pm |
I never read blogs, and you know this, but I couldn’t pass it up. This bullshit has been pissing me off a lot lately. The fucking LAPD just said that there is no racial profiling in my Los Angeles. Take a look http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lapd30apr30,0,356351.story
May 16, 2008 at 8:21 pm |
You now read blogs ms. ma’am. thanks. i now post blogs, such is life. Shit pisses me off too, that’s one of the reasons i started doing the blog thang. I’m juiced, i got you to read my blog. go me! go you!
peace.
The Gregory A. Mitchell Experience the original GAME. haha.
July 27, 2008 at 8:04 pm |
I like a man who grins when he fights.SirWinstonChurchillSir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965