Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.
Bitter Tears, the Assassination of Oscar Grant: "BARTing While Black" by mesha Monge-Irizarry 2009
Bitter Tears, the Assassination of Oscar Grant:
"BARTing While Black"
Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:35 am (PST)
Maya Angelou once wrote...
"Like the moon and the stars.... We shall RISE...."
Unless of course, it is 2 a.m.,
New Year's Eve 2009,
on the Oakland Plantation.
You, unarmed, pleading for your life as a young Father, at the
tender
age of
22,
while a rogue Bay Area Rapid Transit cop (Tony Pirone) punches you, then
crushes your neck with his knee, quickly followed in his
enthusiastic -racist, vicious rage
by Officer Joannes Mehserle, who shoots you in the back,
murdering
you.
Bitter Tears,
the Assassination of Oscar Grant:
"BARTing While Black"
by mesha Monge-Irizarry
(Idriss Stelley Action & Resource Center)
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