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Over the last few WEEKS, police have murdered five Black men & women across the country:

Mike Brown: Ferguson, MO
Ezell Ford: South Los Angeles
Eric Garner: New York
Jacorey Calhoun: Oakland
Unidentified woman in San Jose who had a power drill

And of course, there have been thousands and thousands more murdered Black, Brown & poor people throughout the years.

Oscar Grant
Alan Blueford
Alex Nieto
Andy Lopez
Kimani Gray
Kendrec McDade
Amadou Diallo

Sean Bell
Ramarley Graham

Camillo Mejia

22nd  august - 19:00 - Tempest Library (Reichenberger Str. 63)

An invitation to an in-depth discussion on the current unrests in Ferguson (Missouri/USA) surrounding the shooting of an unarmed 18 year old black man by a white cop. Info event will include information on the shooting and the development of the now week long riots that also include the presence of the national guard. In addition, also an analysis on the racial relations in Ferguson, historically a slave town. The riots depict an intensity and militancy that has not been present in the USA for a long time and stem from a racially targeted community and for this reason we'd like to take a closer look at the occurrences.

Deutsche Übersetzung möglich.

drei neuere Kommentare zu der rassistischen und militärischen Polizeigewalt in Ferguson von Mumia Abu-Jamal auf Prison Radio:

1) War and False Peace (2:58) by Mumia Abu-Jamal (August 18, 2014) http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/war-and-false-peace-258-mum...

2) One, Two, Three Ferguson's (2:11) by Mumia Abu-Jamal (August 17, 2014) http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/one-two-three-fergusons-211...

3) Night of Pain Night of Rage (2:07) by Mumia Abu-Jamal (August 11, 2014) http://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/night-pain-night-rage-207-m...

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It was mind blowing for me, Bobby Seale, to see the images of a tear-gassed, smoky night in Ferguson, Missouri where the people were protesting the murder of an 18-year-old African American male, Michael Brown, murdered by the Ferguson police with his hands up in surrender. I’m taken back to another tear-gassed, smoky night in Oakland, California in 1968 after the death of Martin Luther King. That night another young African American youth, Bobby Hutton, was murdered by the Oakland police. Bobby Hutton, like Michael Brown, was murdered with his hands up. He was kicked in the back by the police and told, “run, nigger, run,” and when he stumbled forward, several policemen riddled his body with bullets.

 Everything was hidden about the shooting of Bobby Hutton in one way or another until six to eight weeks later when an Inquest into the shooting of Bobby Hutton began. Prior to the Inquest, Marlon Brando, my friend at the time, and I had done a television show together where Marlon had stated that “Little Bobby Hutton had been murdered by the Oakland police.” In response to this accusation, five or six policemen filed a lawsuit against Marlon Brando. At the Inquest, after two or three policemen had sworn and testified attempting to distort the facts of the murder, a young, black female officer, fresh on the force, testified that those police officers who had just testified had murdered Bobby Hutton. The Inquest was immediately shut down and Bobby Hutton’s family was awarded $250,000 and, of course, the lawsuit against Marlon Brando was dropped.

With Michael Brown, we are still in the situation where the police are not forthcoming on the details of his killing, holding off on releasing the Officer’s name and trying to assassinate Michael’s character and, like Bobby Hutton’s murder, stalling for time. Recent examples of Oscar Grant, in Oakland, California, who was murdered while laying on the ground with his hands behind his back in a subway station when an officer pulled out his weapon and shot him in the back, or Eric Garner who was strangled in an illegal choke hold by police while struggling to breathe and asking for help, these incidents seem to me endemic of a fascist mind-set in police and law enforcement agencies.

Of course not all policemen are like this, but many departments get out of hand. With the Black Panther Party in 1969, I put together a campaign for greater community control of police. The Party and our coalition partners actually put a Community Control Of Police referendum on the ballot in Berkeley, California. Before the actual voting took place, they had falsely arrested me. My people’s control of police concept was set up in four different cities in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley. The Black Panther Party, working with different organizations and groups, crossing all racial and ethnic lines, was able to get enough signatures to place the referendum on the ballot in Berkeley, California only.This was basically community control of the police. The referendum called for, rather than the appointment of a police chief, a tri-level body of police commissioners to be duly elected by the people of the community. It called for three community review boards with not less than five members duly elected to each of the three community board members. These review boards had the investigative power to review questionable police shootings, undue, unnecessary force and community complaints. If the board found in their investigation unnecessary force was used or complaints more than credible, then the people’s voice would be heard. With this method, in the community control of police, we add a broader framework above and beyond the police internal affairs, i.e., police investigating police. By having duly elected members as a people’s investigative body, from there they can recommend legal action to be taken against any specific policeman violating the law, such as Eric Garner being strangled in an illegal choke hold in New York.

While I was in jail, the coalition committee with my Black Panther Party put this referendum on the ballot in Berkeley, California. We lost only by one percentage point. Besides the need to get all police operations to recognize people’s constitutional democratic civil-human rights, these are the things that we must realize and the people must do to change the relations with the police.

Ferguson, Missouri has become another example of the militarization of police departments across America which is being used to repress the First Amendment rights for people to redress their grievances. Those people in Ferguson, demanding information on the killing of one of the members of their community, found themselves surrounded by police in military vehicles armed with officers pointing guns into the crowd, and being bombarded by tear gas and smoke canisters. For them it is nothing more than an example of the avaricious, rich, corporate machine controlling our politicians, police and law enforcement agencies. What’s needed is greater democratic community control of the police.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for any one people to dissolve the political bondage which has connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the co-operational and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind dictates that we the people should declare the causes which impel us to dissolve that oppressive bondage. Implement a greater people’s community control of police. We, the people, can organize and structure things to defend our human rights. What I was doing in the late sixties was in the spirit of and in line with Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and other progressive human rights activists. What my Berkeley referendum to the ballot meant in those times is what needs to take place today in cities across America.

All Power To All The People!
Bobby Seale, Founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party (1962-1974) SPEAKING Across America.

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