[Imc-newsroom] Shaka Shakur article

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the article, I'll forward it to our print group.

--Sascha

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Joshua Moise wrote:

> Here is the article I just put out on the case in
> Gary, IN involving Shaka Shakur.  He is a former
> Wisconsin Supermax inmate and political activist.  He
> also spent 13 years in the Indiana prison system and
> is known throughout it as a political agitator.  This
> matter is urgent and unfolding as we speak and I was
> hoping your Indy Media branch would consider featuring
> it.  Should you take the story I have many more photo
> and interviews with Shakur and his wife from a
> November interview.  He is a powerful speaker and
> adament revolutionary.  I also have scans of thier
> separate letters, which I had trouble uploading onto
> this email and the website.  Thanks....
>
> The Article:
>
> This is a statement made by Akili Sadiki and Shaka
> Shakur regarding their targeting and imprisonment by
> the gary police department.
>
> Statement By Akili Sadiki (scribed by Shaka Shakur)
>
> Uhuru!
>         I know there has been a lot of questions
> surrounding
> the latest set of events i.e. the arrest of myself
> Akili Sadiki-Shakur.
>         On April 1, 2002 I was arrested on my job at
> Purdue University-calumet.  I was charged with murder.
>  The Gary Police in a bogus investigation charged me
> after having previously charged my husband and son
> with the same count.  All of this is due to the
> erroneous
> statement given by one Christina Martin.
>         For those who missed the “let bail” court
> hearing Christina gave a statement claiming that she
> was present when the said defendant shot and killed
> one
> Sidney Jones.  It was noted that although Christine is
> not a reliable witness, the G.P.D. did not investigate
> her statement nor her background.  her statement only
> came forward after the father of her child was picked
> up for a drug charge and had been accused by previous
> anonymous callers stating he was the killer.  It is to
> be noted that he cut a deal and wll soon be on the
> streets.
>         In relationship to credibility the police
> never mirandized Christine nor did they have her
> mother sign a permission sheet for Christines
> statement.  According to the testimony of Det.
> Richardson the reason for this flagrant error is
> because "they forgot" but frove from Gary to
> Indianapolis to obtain the statement.
>         It was proved on the witness stand that
> Christine was lying on several occasions and was
> actually impecced while on the witness stand.  Case in
> point:  She stated that she was in the company of
> myself and Geometry (my son) from 11:00am until 9:30
> that night.
> This is stated in her deposition, what was proven in
> court was geometry was at work from 5:00pm until
> almost 9:00am the following day.  hat in itself should
> be enough to show she is an unreliable witness.  She
> claims she's known me for at least four years.  I just
> met her last year.  She states I held her against her
> will but never once did I restrain her nor state that
> she was not free to leave.  The lies go on and on.
> She saw Shaka shoot Sidney on Utah street then it was
> on Idaho street then it was back on Utah.  All of this
> and more proved to all that witnessed her testimony
> and the states that this case is bogus.
>         To quote Judge Stefaniak in his scathing
> criticism of the Gary Police and prosecution during
> the hearing "Dyer and Hammond police investigates a
> D.U.I. more throughlly than Gary Police investigates a
> murder.  I do not know why the prosecution continues
> to accept
> these cases from the Gary Police Dept. instead of
> sending them back and making them do thier jobs."
> This statement was made just prior to allowing bail to
> be set for my son Geometry.
>         However two days later this same judge denied
> bail to myself and to shaka stating that "Although the
> state has no case without Christine's statement and
> although she was impeeched on the stand and proved to
> be inconsistent and confused on critical points and
> key
> issues in her testimony that he still personally
> believes that she is credible and therefore is denying
> both Shaka and I a bond "forcing us to file an
> emergency appeal to the appelate court.
>         The question remains why?  Why do the police
> and state wish to pursue this?  Because of a personal
> vendetta with Shaka Shakur (who was accused of
> shooting at a Gary cop in an unrelated case).  The
> wish to destroy him by any means necessary!  It
> matters not that they destroy his family along with
> him.  Here is a prime example of a facism here at
> home!  The state is willing to back a police dept.
> that is renowned for thier illegal and unjust
> practices.  It brings new meaning to the word "no
> justice-just us!"
>
> In Solidarity and Struggle,
> Akili Sadiki-Shakur
>
> NOTE!
>         It was only after the states original case
> against Shaka begun to fall apart and it became known
> that Akiki was not only working very closely with his
> attorney as well as spearheaded his defense did she
> and her family become targets for attack bby the Gary
> Police Dept.  It was also only then did they move to
> frame her and Shaka on a four month old murder solely
> based on the contradictory statements of a 15-year-old
> girl whose whose baby father was initially considered
> the primary suspect.  The state has no murder weapon,
> no fingerprints, DNA, nothing and the autopsy report
> contradicts her so call eyewitness account and yet
> Akili remains held without bail soley based on the
> statements of a 15-year-old girl who is protecting her
> baby's father.
>
>
>
>
> Basic Facts by Shaka Shakur:
> 	On January 7th 2002 I was arrested and accused with
> shotting at a Gary cop.  The G.P.D. filed 5 felonies
> with the most serious one being attempted murder.  The
> indicident originated at a location where my 18 year
> old son had been murdered 5 months earlier.
> 	My bond was $105,000 property and $10,500 cash.  As
> we begun to organize with my wife spearheading the
> organizing to rasing my bond, the state stepped up its
> attacks and begun sending threats that if I bond out I
> was a dead man.
> 	The week I am to bond out (we raised the $10,500) we
> discover that the federal authorities have filed a
> federal complaint back dated it and placed a "hold" on
> me.  So that if I bond out I would be turned over to
> the federal authorities where I am most likely to be
> denied a bond altogether.
> 	The Federal complaint is for "ex-felon in possesion
> of a irearm" but they never actually filed charges or
> indicted me.  Why?  Because I am already charged with
> the same thing in the state courts.  i can't be
> charged with the same thing in both state and federal
> court.  But the hold was/is sufficient to stop me from
> bonding out.
> 	After we started attacking the federal hold ad the
> states original case begun to unravel from overkill.
> The Gary Police (G.P.D.) pulled over my step-son in
> for questioning on a four-month-old murder of a
> suspected police informant.  G.P.D. tried to force my
> step-son into signing a statement implicating me as
> the killer.  When he refused they locked him up and
> charged him as a form of pressure.
> 	The next day as my attorney was preparing to meet
> with the prosecutor in my case to discuss the
> disnissal of one of these gun charges, the G.P.D. was
> outside of its jusidiction in Portage, IN using a
> rouse to storm my apartment without a warrant claiming
> they wanted to question my wife/comrad Akili about a
> murder.  They already knew that Akili worked and
> attended Purdue Univ.-Calumet every morning.  After
> playing cat and mouse games with her and her attorney
> for several days they went on campus and arrested her.
>  Went through the same routine with her as they did
> Goemetry(my step-son) and after she refused to lie,
> held her for 72 hours on probable cause for murder.
> This was late March.
> 	On march 22, Goemetry and I was formally charged with
> murder based soley on the false eyewitness statement
> of a 15-year-old girl whose father in jail on a drug
> charge was initially listed as the prime suspect.
> 	On April 11th Akili was re-arrested and formally
> charged with murder based on the same evidence.
> 	On April 24th, in response to our motion for bail,
> Geometry was given a $35,000 property/$3,500 cash
> bond, paid it and released.  This was after his
> attorney discredited the eyewitness testimony who
> claimed to hava been with him from 11am to 9:30pm,
> when in fact Geometry was at work in South Bend,
> Indiana from 5pm to 9am the following day and had work
> records and a supervisor to prove it.(See Akli's
> Statement)
> 	Two days later Akili and I were denied ond forcing us
> to file an emergency appeal to the appelate court.
> The same judge who found the "witness" unreliable
> against Geometry and issued forth a scathing criticism
> against the G.P.D. and the prosecution for even
> bringing the case now found her credible enough to
> deny Akili and I bond!
> 	The state is trying to pressure/force Akili to
> implicate me in something that not only does she not
> know anything about but that I did not do.
> 	The state has launched an aggresive counterattack
> against those trying to organize around my case
> involving the shoot out with the G.P.D.. Akili was the
> Main proponent organizing and now she has been charged
> with murder.  This sista has put in mad work for our
> people and I cannot believe that now people lay silent
> as they try to railroad her to prison for 65 fuckin'
> years!  The state has no gun, no fingerprints, no DNA,
> nothing!  Indiana doesn't even allow bond on a murder
> unless the evidence against you is so slight that your
> likely not even to get a conviction.  And yet they
> gave my son a bond!  How can your only witness be
> unreliale against one (when he claimed he handed me
> the guns) and not be unreliable against all when its
> all the same evidence?  Cause ain't no justice- it's
> just us!
> 	We are looking for radical attorney's to do some
> pro-bono owrk.  We have some funds to work with..
> Also ned people to take responsiblility for getting
> this information out.  They are trying to carry this
> legal lynching out in darkeness.  We need to turn the
> spotlight on it.
>
> In Struggle,
> Shaka Shakur
>
>
>
> For more info contact either Shaka Shakur or Akili
> Sadiki at:
>
> Akili Sadiki-Shakur
> Section 5C
> 2293 N. Main St.
> Crown Point, IN 46307
>
> Shaka Shakur
> WA-W400
> 2293 N. Main St.
> Crown Point, IN 46307
>
>
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