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by ALTON H. MADDOX JR.
Originally posted 11/30/2006 in The Amsterdam News
The Supreme Court watered down the Fourth Amendment, in 1967, to keep a tight lid on urban Blacks. Hell-o racial profiling and stop and frisk. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has, since, ruled that racial profiling is constitutional. This ruling applies to New York.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has taken it a step further. He has created the language police, who struck again in Queens on November 25. Can you connect the dots – Rev. Butts? The mere fact that a person mentions “gun” gives the police no legal basis for a police confrontation. |
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For Immediate Release
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
Contact: New York October 22nd Coalition, 866-235-7814,
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Juanita Young, Brutalized & Arrested by NYPD in Her Own Home
On Sunday evening, November 26, an ambulance was called for Juanita's daughter.
Cops came to the apartment first before the ambulance arrived. Juanita wouldn't let the cops in and told them to leave. The ambulance refused to do anything and called for backup.
Eight cops showed up and started grabbing people. She kept telling them to leave.
The cops threw Juanita in a room, and as one of them tried to hold the door shut, others beat her. |
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Gov. Blanco Is Violating the Human Right to Housing (New Orleans, LA) Governor Blanco of Louisiana
Access to housing is a basic human right that is recognized by the U.S. government and international laws. However, Governor Blanco designed a disaster recovery program that doesn’t give a single dollar directly to any displaced renters.
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Statement
Against the Continued Attack on Black people and our Movement
While
the continued torture by the United States government at Guantanamo
Bay and Abu Graib are fresh in the minds of the people around the
world, The U.S. has opened up a new front on its continued assault
against people of color and human rights. The recent arrests of
several former Black Panthers and community activist is a further
attempt to criminalize the history of the Black Liberation and Civil
Rights Movement and to scare us into accepting the continued
domination of the U.S. as we seek self-determination as a people.
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Community Organizers Harassed and Ticketed by Police for Feeding the Homeless
 Newark Police Harass MXGM |
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