How long do we accept the fact that black men are expendable
Show people the horrific video of his execution here - they need to see what happened and be enraged!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHjhtYZpX0
Read this article that tells you how f'edup it all is even more!!!!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/05/MN0R153...
BART rider belly-down when shot, lawyer says
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
(01-03) 15:34 PST -- The 22-year-old man killed by a BART police officer early New Year's Day was lying face-down on the train platform, his hands behind him waiting to be cuffed, when he was shot in the back, a lawyer newly hired by the man's family said Saturday.
Attorney John Burris said in an interview that a number of witnesses to the shooting at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland have told him Oscar Grant was posing no threat to the officer or anyone else when he was fatally wounded. The shooting occurred around 2:15 a.m. after police responded to a report of a fight on a train bound for Dublin/Pleasanton.
"If it happened the way the (witnesses) said it happened, he's on his stomach, his hands pulled up behind his back, he's compliant, the officer is standing over him and all of a sudden he shoots," Burris said. "The bullet went through his lower back, hit the ground and ricocheted through the upper part of his body."
The witnesses told him police handcuffed Grant after he was shot, but removed the cuffs just before news reporters arrived, Burris said. No weapons were found on Grant or anyone else involved in the altercation on the train.
Grant, of Hayward, died at Highland Hospital in Oakland several hours later. BART officials say the officer who shot him, a BART police officer for almost two years, has been placed on administrative leave during an investigation. He has not been publicly identified.
...Burris said BART police stopped the fight and took Grant and several others into custody. Officers were armed with stun guns as well as pistols, Burris said, and a witness said Grant cried out, as he lay on the platform, "Please don't Tase me, I have a 4-year-old daughter."
Date:
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Time:
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
FRUITVALE BART STATION
Street:
3401 East 12th Street
City/Town:
Oakland, CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHjhtYZpX0
Read this article that tells you how f'edup it all is even more!!!!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/05/MN0R153...
BART rider belly-down when shot, lawyer says
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
(01-03) 15:34 PST -- The 22-year-old man killed by a BART police officer early New Year's Day was lying face-down on the train platform, his hands behind him waiting to be cuffed, when he was shot in the back, a lawyer newly hired by the man's family said Saturday.
Attorney John Burris said in an interview that a number of witnesses to the shooting at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland have told him Oscar Grant was posing no threat to the officer or anyone else when he was fatally wounded. The shooting occurred around 2:15 a.m. after police responded to a report of a fight on a train bound for Dublin/Pleasanton.
"If it happened the way the (witnesses) said it happened, he's on his stomach, his hands pulled up behind his back, he's compliant, the officer is standing over him and all of a sudden he shoots," Burris said. "The bullet went through his lower back, hit the ground and ricocheted through the upper part of his body."
The witnesses told him police handcuffed Grant after he was shot, but removed the cuffs just before news reporters arrived, Burris said. No weapons were found on Grant or anyone else involved in the altercation on the train.
Grant, of Hayward, died at Highland Hospital in Oakland several hours later. BART officials say the officer who shot him, a BART police officer for almost two years, has been placed on administrative leave during an investigation. He has not been publicly identified.
...Burris said BART police stopped the fight and took Grant and several others into custody. Officers were armed with stun guns as well as pistols, Burris said, and a witness said Grant cried out, as he lay on the platform, "Please don't Tase me, I have a 4-year-old daughter."
Date:
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Time:
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
FRUITVALE BART STATION
Street:
3401 East 12th Street
City/Town:
Oakland, CA
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Permalink Reply by Kazu on -
http://gatheringforjustice.ning.com/events/justice-for-oscar
Tomorrow, WEDNESDAY, from 3PM at Fruitvale BART. Let's all gather and make our voices heard.
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Permalink Reply by Derek Johnson on -
There definitely is a sense in our urban areas where there is no respect for the life of black men. I will say, California is about the only place in the country that cop would'nt be thrown in jail immediately. The Union in CA is way too powerful.
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Permalink Reply by Honey on -
I knew Oscar at one point for about almost a year through someone else, I was so shocked when I found out. I am spreading the word through relatives and friends online and I hope it gains National awareness, this is not acceptable.
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Permalink Reply by Daryl M. Brooks on -
We are the most powerful force in America so when are we going to rise up and shake the foundation of this country? I must say people that the main stream black leadership in this country are weak. Now if Martin Luther would be alive today we would not have these problems. But the worst part about things the young generation of activist believes everything is going to be alright so party first and then work.
So until we are ready to die for what we believe in then nothing will change. Mr. Brooks
Ps.Oh yeah the enemy does not fear us.....
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Permalink Reply by Agnes Johnson on -
Hello,
We are blasting the info from NY to all we can. Harlem blogs are carring the 5 things to do.
I was part of the Sean Bell Organizing Committee and organized the boycott of Feb., Mother's Day and Father's Day. We were clear in what we wanted. We do not want to finance our own oppression.
If there is any way I can help please do let me know.We are blasting the info from NY to all we can. Harlem blogs are carrying the 5 things to do
Tomorrow on WBAI in NY will be famed lawyer Alton Maddoxx.
He just wrote in Amsterdam News "Maddox on WBAI-FM's "Caldwell Chronicle"
"I will appear on WBAI-FM's Caldwell Chronicle" on Friday, January 9 at 3:00 p.m. WBAI-FM is located at 99.5 on the dial. The lack of legal and political representation is killing us. The American colonists went to war over this issue. They refused to finance their own oppression. This is the key.
The common thread to each of our forced exit from competently and zealously representing our people is law enforcement unions. History connects the dots.
Unless we come to our senses and listen to our revered ancestors like other groups listen to theirs, 2009 and beyond will spell disaster for us even with President-elect Barack Hussein Obama swearing to uphold the original intent of the U.S. Constitution. He will use Abraham Lincoln's Bible. Lincoln despised the "black blood" in his veins. His father was an African. Can you connect any dots?
Hunting season is in effect for Blacks. Five police officers in Oakland, CA handcuffed Oscar Grant and fatally shot him in the back on New Year's Day. One cop tasered Grant who pleaded for his life citing his four-year old daughter. The assailant has resigned from the police department to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights.
Blacks lack the organization and the resources to defend themselves in addition to not enjoying a lack of legal and political representation. Slave codes are given birth in legislative branches of governments and enforced in judicial branches. We are in dire need of a Powell, Wright and Maddox
Agnes Johnson
MySpace.com/28DayBoycott
Author of "Failing Our Children" from my days in Davis, CA
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Permalink Reply by Agnes Johnson on
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I just can't get over all the voices I heard shouting over the video from the police attack. As all these people of color watched the lynching the cops didn't even look nervous. Even after the fatal shot and people shouted not a signal warrior was in the buch to step up. So not only do we finance our own oppression we also now are witnesses to our lynching.
Agnes Johnson
Myspace.com/28Day Boycott
Author of "Failing Our Children"
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Permalink Reply by Agnes Johnson on
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KING DAY events occur calling attention to Dr. King's statements against violence against the Black Man, social and economic justice and not just the "I Have A Dream" passage. Read the last speech he made at Riverside Church. Read the words that got him killed for saying.
Can there be pickets with posters outside of wherever CITY HALL'S KING DAY events occur calling attention to Dr. King's statements against violence,
SAME AS SEAN BELL!!
Age range
set in urban area with large Poor black youth
day of high celebration (Wedding, New Year)
unarmed and innocent black youth
Don't Be Betrayed in the Oscar Grant case
Racists cannot be argued out of their racism
End the BART cover-up—Open a public investigation of the murder
Remember we chanted "We are All Sean Bell". Now must we really be satisfied chanting "We are All Oscar Grant"? SAME AS SEAN BELL!!
COMMANALITY: Age range; set in urban area with large Poor black youth; A day of high celebration (Wedding, New Year); unarmed and innocent black youth
Please consider on this MLK Day to move for the change that is needed.
BOYCOTT ALL CITY-HALL EVENTS THAT HAPPEN AT CITY HALLS ON MLK DAY . I am in no way calling for a Boycott of King Day. Only a boycott of attending City Hall organized celebrations. I am asking for King Day to be celebrated and organized in our community and not ON STAGES with our murderers.
BOYCOTT CITY HALL PLANS FOR MLK DAY by not going to CITY HALL EVENTS. SEND A RSVP: " I WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE"
The action I am calling for is to urge all to:
NOT ATTEND ANY City Hall's official organized celebrations of MLK Day". Please send an RSVP to Mayors "WE WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE"
NO SHOPPING ON THAT DAY. Put nothing in the coffers of City taxes
Stand as Martin would, in a protest at Police stations, or Jails, or Prisons or Courthouses.
...can poets /hip hop etc offer presentations and speak on it.
Or make it a Day of Community Volunteerism and work in Our Community practicing the the principal of KUUMBA . "To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it."
January 19th, President Elect Barack Obama and Michelle Obama asks that all will join thousands of people across the country for an extraordinary day of service.
Create an event at and get it nationally seen:
http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/create
We need to somehow highlight what has been exposed as police state conditions as it relates to our people AND police murders of our people.
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Permalink Reply by Agnes Johnson on
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KING DAY events occur calling attention to Dr. King's statements against violence against the Black Man, social and economic justice and not just the "I Have A Dream" passage. Read the last speech he made at Riverside Church. Read the words that got him killed for saying.
Can there be pickets with posters outside of wherever CITY HALL'S KING DAY events occur calling attention to Dr. King's statements against violence,
Don't Be Betrayed in the Oscar Grant case
Racists cannot be argued out of their racism
End the BART cover-up—Open a public investigation of the murder
Remember we chanted "We are All Sean Bell". Now must we really be satisfied chanting "We are All Oscar Grant"? SAME AS SEAN BELL!!
COMMANALITY: Age range; set in urban area with large Poor black youth; A day of high celebration (Wedding, New Year); unarmed and innocent black youth
Please consider on this MLK Day to move for the change that is needed.
BOYCOTT ALL CITY-HALL EVENTS THAT HAPPEN AT CITY HALLS ON MLK DAY . I am in no way calling for a Boycott of King Day. Only a boycott of attending City Hall organized celebrations. I am asking for King Day to be celebrated and organized in our community and not ON STAGES with our murderers.
BOYCOTT CITY HALL PLANS FOR MLK DAY by not going to CITY HALL EVENTS. SEND A RSVP: " I WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE"
The action I am calling for is to urge all to:
NOT ATTEND ANY City Hall's official organized celebrations of MLK Day". Please send an RSVP to Mayors "WE WILL NOT BE IN ATTENDANCE"
NO SHOPPING ON THAT DAY. Put nothing in the coffers of City taxes
Stand as Martin would, in a protest at Police stations, or Jails, or Prisons or Courthouses.
...can poets /hip hop etc offer presentations and speak on it.
Or make it a Day of Community Volunteerism and work in Our Community practicing the principal of KUUMBA . "To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it."
January 19th, President Elect Barack Obama and Michelle Obama asks that all will join thousands of people across the country for an extraordinary day of service.
Create an event at and get it nationally seen:
http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/create
We need to somehow highlight what has been exposed as police state conditions as it relates to our people AND police murders of our people.
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