January 2006: 14 year old Martin Lee Anderson is suffocated to death at juvenile boot camp by 3 sheriffs for not completing his mandatory mile run, within hours of his arrival.
November 2006: 23 year old Sean Bell is killed in a barrage of 50 bullets hours before his wedding by police officers using excessive force to control a situation with 3 unarmed men. 11 bullets were recovered from the right side of one surviving victim’s body.
December 2006: 6 Black Teen agers living in the small town of Jena, LA are charged with attempted murder for allegedly beating up their white classmate after events escalating from the hanging of nooses on tree used by white students. No adults; school administrators, parents or otherwise take any action to stop racial tensions from rising to the level they did between either of the groups – rather they put pressure on DA Reed Walters who in turn shows up at Jena High School after a peaceful protest and threatens the black students by telling them he can end their lives with the stroke of a pen. I guess he meant by trying them as adults and charging them with attempted murder.
September 2007: Megan Williams is held against her will by the Virgina 6 for a week. During this time she was tortured, stabbed choked and beaten.
September 2007: Nooses have become the burning cross of the new millennium. They hang in school yards, at Universities, on cars, in front of homes.
Friday Nov 16th, 2007 - March at the Department of Justice
Spearheaded by: Al Sharpton - National Action Network, Martin Luther King III - Realizing the Dream, Charles Steele - President of the SCLC
Saturday Nov 17th, 2007
Enough is Enough! Stop Hate Crimes and Police Brutality
Rally and Concert at the Washington Monument
12 noon until dark
Join victims and family members of victims of police brutality and hate crimes, as well as activists and artists for a FREE EVENT featuring M1 of dead prez, and Go-Go bands performing live including Backyard, ABM, TCB, Familiar Faces, Uncalled 4 Experience, Mambo Sauce, What Band. Hosted by Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.