Friday, May 16, 2008

JUSTICE FOR SEAN BELL & DEONTE RAWLINGS


A ONE-WEEK BOYCOTT during the week of memorial day, from MAY 25TH TO MAY 31ST

***DO NOT BUY ANYTHING***

This is an ORGANIZED, UNIFIED boycott to protest the constant police murder and brutality


**IF YOU FEEL THE URGE TO SPEND, DONATE TO THE SEAN BELL MEMORIAL FUND**

**THE BOYCOTT WILL BE IN NYC AND DC**

....any other cities that wanna be down, i.e. Philly because of that police beating, Mumia, etc, or ATL because of Kathryn Johnson, just email or message me....

IT'S TIME TO STOP BEING ANGRY AND THAT'S IT...LET'S TURN OUR ANGER INTO ACTION!!

THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON OUR BACKS AND NOW OUR DOLLARS CONTINUE TO DRIVE THE ECONOMY....WHY SUPPORT A SYSTEM THAT SAYS IT'S OKAY TO KILL US???

*****REMEMBER THE COPS DIDN'T LOSE MOMENTUM WHEN THEY SHOT AT SEAN BELL 50 TIMES, SO WE CAN'T LOSE MOMENTUM FOR 7 DAYS!!! *****

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Sean Bell Benefit Fund
c/o Mitchell Law Office
225 Broadway, Suite 1410
New York, NY 10007
- or -
call 1-866-695-2992

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WHO ARE SEAN BELL & DEONTE RAWLINGS?

Sean Bell was a 23-year-old father of two who was killed by five NYPD officers on the morning of his wedding day, November 25, 2006. The officers fired a total of 50 shots, saying they feared Bell had a gun in his car; there was no weapon. A criminal investigator testifying FOR the officers said that NYPD weapons were made harder to fire after the Diallo murder, and that when he attempted to fire so many times, his finger got tired (yet one of the officers reloaded and continued to fire). Another NYPD commander who heard the entire exchange testified that NOT ONCE did the officers, who were in plainclothes, identify themselves as cops. Yet only three of the officers were charged; two with manslaughter, one with reckless endangerment. All were acquitted.

DeOnte Rawlings was a 14-year-old, shot and killed by an off-duty D.C. police officer on September 17, 2007. The officer went out to look for his bike, and claimed to see DeOnte riding it; when he get out the car, DeOnte supposedly shot at him, and the officer returned fire. The gun DeOnte supposedly used has never been recovered, the bike didn't show up until several days later, there was no residue on DeOnte's fingers indicating he shot a gun, and his autopsy showed he was brutally beaten before being shot in the back of the head. The prosecutor ruled that there was no evidence to charge the officer with any wrongdoing, and closed the case.



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