Is Bill de Blasio going to be quiet or demand Bill Bratton resign?
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Outraged families, community members, and supporters unite to condemn the June 4 NYPD military-style attack on the West Harlem community.
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 (first trial hearing) 8:30 am
Location: 100 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013
Before dawn on June 4, 400 NYPD officers armed with assault weapons and wearing body armor, led by Commissioner Bill Bratton, carried out a coordinated assault on the Manhattanville Houses, Grant Houses, and Manhattan Avenue Apartments, to allegedly round up so-called gang members. Officers broke down doors, pointing guns at residents and children, and tearing apart their homes. A woman’s face was smashed into a wall upon opening the door. A teenage girl was dragged out of bed and handcuffed in her underwear at gunpoint.
Family members report that many of the young men indicted have not been given details of the charges they are being held for. Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan District Attorney announced two indictments charging 103 individuals with 145 counts, including conspiracy, assault, attempted murder and criminal weapons possession – from four years of massive police spying of thousands of Facebook boasts and phone calls. Yet no physical or even eyewitness (and easily manipulated) evidence has even been presented. Some of the boys picked up in this sweep facing charges are 15 years old -- when this “evidence” was collected they would have been 11 years old.
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Carl Dix and Dr. Cornel West, co-founders of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, stated: “These raids … just like Stop-and-Frisk, are rooted in the way that Black and Latino youth have been criminalized in this society, treated like they're guilty until proven innocent, if they can survive to prove their innocence. “
Cecily McMillan, jailed Occupy activist , said from Rikers Island, “Looking out the window, I can see the boat said to hold many of the victims of the racist, classist raid in Harlem. We must demand accountability for these coordinated acts of violence. We must stand, united, in the streets and in the courts with one solidified cry ‘No justice! No peace!’”
Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 (first trial hearing) 8:30 am
Location: 100 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013
Before dawn on June 4, 400 NYPD officers armed with assault weapons and wearing body armor, led by Commissioner Bill Bratton, carried out a coordinated assault on the Manhattanville Houses, Grant Houses, and Manhattan Avenue Apartments, to allegedly round up so-called gang members. Officers broke down doors, pointing guns at residents and children, and tearing apart their homes. A woman’s face was smashed into a wall upon opening the door. A teenage girl was dragged out of bed and handcuffed in her underwear at gunpoint.
Family members report that many of the young men indicted have not been given details of the charges they are being held for. Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan District Attorney announced two indictments charging 103 individuals with 145 counts, including conspiracy, assault, attempted murder and criminal weapons possession – from four years of massive police spying of thousands of Facebook boasts and phone calls. Yet no physical or even eyewitness (and easily manipulated) evidence has even been presented. Some of the boys picked up in this sweep facing charges are 15 years old -- when this “evidence” was collected they would have been 11 years old.
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Carl Dix and Dr. Cornel West, co-founders of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, stated: “These raids … just like Stop-and-Frisk, are rooted in the way that Black and Latino youth have been criminalized in this society, treated like they're guilty until proven innocent, if they can survive to prove their innocence. “
Cecily McMillan, jailed Occupy activist , said from Rikers Island, “Looking out the window, I can see the boat said to hold many of the victims of the racist, classist raid in Harlem. We must demand accountability for these coordinated acts of violence. We must stand, united, in the streets and in the courts with one solidified cry ‘No justice! No peace!’”
