[act-ma] 5/29 STOP the Pandemic of Police Brutality- Friday @ 5 PM
Charlie Welch
cwelch at tecschange.org
Thu May 28 19:37:48 PDT 2020
*5:00pm Friday, 5/29***
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> *Mass Action Against Police Brutality writes *
> *Terrence Coleman*
> *(Peters Park)*
> *1277 Washington St, Boston, Massachusetts 02118*
> *‘STOP THE PANDEMIC OF POLICE BRUTALITY’ #NotOneMore
> <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/notonemore?__eep__=6>#ICantBreathe
> <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/icantbreathe?__eep__=6>#JailKillerCops
> <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/jailkillercops?__eep__=6> Justice
> for George Floyd Justice for Ahmaud Arbery Justice for Breonna Taylor
> & JUSTICE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF RACIST & POLICE MURDER*
> **
> *Sponsored by: Mass Action Against Police Brutality*
> **
> *For info:*
> https://www.facebook.com/events/868560033624665/** ***WE WILL BE
> PRACTICING SOCIAL DISTANCING WHILE LETTING OUR VOICES BE
> HEARD***Justice for Ahmaud Arbery! Justice for George Floyd! Justice
> for Breonna Taylor! End the cover-ups! Prosecute the prosecutors!
> Reopen the cases! Fire the police department! Jail all killer cops!
> Justice for all! While all attention has been focused on the crisis
> wrought by COVID-19, we are unable to avoid the pandemic of racism and
> police brutality in the US. On Monday, May 25, in full view of many
> bystanders, Minneapolis police rendered non resisting man George Floyd
> unconscious and inflicted fatal damage to his neck. Video of the
> incident has sparked outrage and since 4 Minneapolis police officers
> have been fired. So far none of these officers have faced criminal
> charges. The jarring video of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery being hunted
> and killed by three white men, William “Roddie” Bryan, retired cop
> Gregory McMichaels and his son Travis McMichaels, in Glenn County, GA
> on February 23, 2020 has added fresh wounds to a sore that has
> festered for centuries and stains the very fabric of the country. The
> audacious vigilante racist violence and the cozy relationship between
> the killers, the police department and the district attorney's office
> are unforgivable offenses to society. The unceasing effort of the
> Arbery family to seek justice in this case and growing questions in
> the community prompted Alan Tucker, a defense lawyer and friend of the
> killers, to release the now-viral video to a local radio station
> (WJXT4) on May 5. He allegedly assumed this move would be in the best
> interest of his friend, but instead it revealed to the world the
> warped perspective of the killers and their cronies. Within two days,
> on May 7, in response to public outcry, the Georgia state government
> intervened to arrest two of this vigilante group, Gregory and Travis
> McMichaels, on charges of murder and aggravated assault without
> parole. The third member of the illegal pursuit of Arbery, William
> “Roddie” Bryan, who shot the video, was also arrested and charged with
> murder two weeks later on May 21. These arrests happened two and a
> half months after the murder despite the fact that while holding the
> same video evidence all along, police made no arrests, two DA's
> recused themselves of the case, one publicly stated no charges were
> merited. The acting DA, Tom Durden, was preparing to wait until June
> 12 because of COVID-19 emergency restrictions closing courts in the
> state of Georgia -- almost four months after the murder -- to empanel
> a grand jury to simply investigate the incident. This murder and cover
> up of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery exposes the deeply entrenched and
> pervasive corruption of the police department and judicial system that
> is a mortal threat to the democratic rights of the people. Every
> person of authority who had a hand in the cover up should be
> prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Police officers who
> neglected to arrest should be stripped of their badges and fired. DA's
> who refused to file charges should be investigated, and if found
> guilty must be disbarred and criminally charged. Cases they have
> worked on should be reviewed and reopened. Racism and police brutality
> is a pandemic in the US that cannot be denied as the case of Arbery is
> not an aberration but one of many instances of racism, murder, and
> police brutality. As of Memorial Day, at least 377 people have been
> killed by the police in 2020. Few cases receive media attention and
> the necessary scrutiny of the public. In the last two months for
> example in Louisville, KY an EMT worker Breonna Taylor was killed in
> her home by a botched police raid, in Indianapolis, IN three people
> were killed by police in less than 24 hours, including Dreasjon Reed
> who was killed while streaming live on Facebook, in Houston, TX a
> gospel singer, Adrien Medearis, was killed by police at a traffic
> stop. A growing movement of families from coast to coast from cases
> years past like Mike Brown, Jr of Ferguson, MO to Terrance Coleman,
> Burrell Ramsey-White, and Usaamah Rahim in Boston, MA ALL CONTINUE TO
> DEMAND JUSTICE AND THAT THEIR CASES BE REOPENED! As we have
> experienced too many times in the past, charges, though rare, are
> merely a step in the process. All of these super predators should be
> convicted for their crimes. Massive public and political pressure
> should be waged to see this through to the end.
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