[Peace-discuss] Re: [CUCPJ Announce] What happened Friday night?

[Nora Whipple]

I don't know if I have said this enough times or not over the years.  Have the parents file a complaint with the city of the newly formed citizen's board that helps choosing officers, the officer's Superior's and the city board.  Inform people like Timothy V. Johnson, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin and the New Black Panthers and the NAACP and protest, protest protest.  Make tee-shirts (buy or use an old plain tee-shirt and permanent markers) and wear them in heavily populated areas that inform others in your community of what is happening and who is responsible for what is happening.  For example, when I visited New Orleans not too long ago, I was on the campus of New Orleans University's main library and made a tee-shirt, went to the bathroom to change and walked around campus singing a song Harry Connick Jr. wrote about two people that could no longer keep their relationship quite that also could sound like the levee system was singing out to be fixed.  The tee-shirt looked
 like this:
   
  On the front:
   
  So who is killing New Orleans now?
   
  On the back:
   
  1)  Jim McCrery
  2)  Kathleen Blanco
  3)  Mary Landrieu
  4)  The Bush Administration

   
  Each of these people and groups of people are the people that should be demanding and lobbying for funding of the levee or to move the City of New Orleans.  I, unfortunately will have to now wait until the end of this month or this summer to visit the C-U area and Chicago.  I will take with me any complaints and anyone with me to Chicago when I speak with Senator Obama's office about the levee system in New Orleans.  If you want, send group representative with me to talk about the situations in C-U area.  Now that "Chief Illiniwek" has retired, it is time to talk about other important matters that have gone unnoticed and under-reported for so long.
   
  Keep the Faith and the Ball Rolling,
   
  Nora E. Whipple
  
Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com> wrote:
  Here's a write up from the investigative work of Martel Miller, with the help of Chris Evans.
We will be taking up this issue at the Champaign City Council meeting, Tuesday, April 3 at 7pm.

Friday night, March 30, a 17 year-old black youth was confronted by police in Douglass Park.  
An altercation ensued, ending with the youth being heavily pepper sprayed, an ambulance arriving, and him being taken to the hospitol.  This is the victim's story:
  According to the victim, the officer that approached the 17 year old was NOT the officer that attacked the victim. The attacking officer came from another squad car and acted on her own provocation without telling the victim why he was being attacked and apprehended. This happened in front of the nine-year old and 15 year-old. Still not explained is why the female officer needed to use force in the first place. When she attacked the 17 year-old, his "hoodie" got caught in a chain link fence, and other officers joined in the fray, and the youth was trying to get his shirt unhooked off the fence. The victim was NOT resisting. Other officers piled on top of him, and it was then he was punched in the face causing the bleeding. While he was piled upon and subdued already, it was then that the officers used pepper spray directly into his face and nostrils. 
According to the victim, he was punched in the face, there were knees into his neck and back while he screamed that he was having difficulty breathing. It was then when they pepper sprayed him. The nine-year old and 15 year-old watched all this. One other youth watching was the one who ran down to Gina Jackson's house, which may have stopped the police brutality from escalating further and saved the young man's life.
Questions from the community are why are these officers still on active duty and will there be some suspensions? Chief Finney promised nearly 3 years ago, that it was his priority to improve relations with the black community and police. It looks like we have a long way to go.

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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
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Urbana, IL 61801
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