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

[Tanya Parker]

Nora,
YES, THIS IS THE SAME LANGUAGE that I believe we should use.
I WANT TO GO to Sen. Obama's office with you.  I will like to invite
me 4 team members.

Friday Night:  This is a very common situation that happens in our
community.  The one commonality that I have noticed is the vulnerable
age of 15-20.  It is as if it is used as a fear factor that they are
trying to create; with quite success, at an early age.

ucimc.org

Tanya

On 4/3/07, Nora Whipple <carbenmommy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
> 303 W. Locust St.
> Urbana, IL 61801
> briandolinar at gmail.com
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Tanya Parker
Executive Director of Habari Connection
202 S. Broadway Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-531-8894