FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 31, 2012
August 31, 2012
Opponents of NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Will Blow the Whistle in West Indian Day Parade
What: Issue-Oriented Contingent in West Indian Day Parade
When: Monday, September 3, 11:00 am
Where: Contingents Gather 10:00 am Schenectady & Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Cornel West, Carl Dix, and several others who began a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience last year to end the controversial NYPD practice of stop-and-frisk announced Wednesday a new and more widespread wave of public protest beginning September 13.
New Yorkers from all 5 boroughs will march in a “Blow the Whistle on Stop-and-Frisk” in Contingent #45 of the parade. Carl Dix, who will march, said, “The message we’re bringing to the parade is especially fitting, given that last year the NYPD handcuffed and detained City Council member Jumaane Williams and another Black official, and after a Facebook group of NYPD officers called parade-goers “animals,” “savages,” “filth,” and called for a bomb to be dropped on the parade.”
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network says, “If it sickens you to know that under Stop-and-Frisk, everyday almost 2000 people, most of them Black or Latino are subjected to harassment, disrespect, brutality and even worse; if you are tired of seeing Muslims and South Asians are targeted; if you hate the way immigrants and LGBT people are treated as less than human by NYPD; if you are someone who knows this will never happen to you but also know it's wrong; Join in BLOWING the WHISTLE on STOP-and-FRISK Thursday September 13. On September 13, nobody gets Stopped-and-Frisked in silence!”
The Network has announced gathering points where youth are regularly stopped and frisked in 5 boroughs on September 13, and also plans to symbolically “blow the whistle” on 1 Police Plaza at 4:00 pm that day.
When: Monday, September 3, 11:00 am
Where: Contingents Gather 10:00 am Schenectady & Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Cornel West, Carl Dix, and several others who began a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience last year to end the controversial NYPD practice of stop-and-frisk announced Wednesday a new and more widespread wave of public protest beginning September 13.
New Yorkers from all 5 boroughs will march in a “Blow the Whistle on Stop-and-Frisk” in Contingent #45 of the parade. Carl Dix, who will march, said, “The message we’re bringing to the parade is especially fitting, given that last year the NYPD handcuffed and detained City Council member Jumaane Williams and another Black official, and after a Facebook group of NYPD officers called parade-goers “animals,” “savages,” “filth,” and called for a bomb to be dropped on the parade.”
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network says, “If it sickens you to know that under Stop-and-Frisk, everyday almost 2000 people, most of them Black or Latino are subjected to harassment, disrespect, brutality and even worse; if you are tired of seeing Muslims and South Asians are targeted; if you hate the way immigrants and LGBT people are treated as less than human by NYPD; if you are someone who knows this will never happen to you but also know it's wrong; Join in BLOWING the WHISTLE on STOP-and-FRISK Thursday September 13. On September 13, nobody gets Stopped-and-Frisked in silence!”
The Network has announced gathering points where youth are regularly stopped and frisked in 5 boroughs on September 13, and also plans to symbolically “blow the whistle” on 1 Police Plaza at 4:00 pm that day.
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The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a 501c3 tax-exempt
organization. Tax-deductible contributions accepted online or checks made payable to the "Alliance for Global Justice," with "Mass Incarceration Network" in the memo line may be sent to:
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
c/o P.O. Box 941 Knickerbocker Station
New York City, New York 10002-0900
Phone: 866-841-9139 x2670 * Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stopmassincarceration.org
Twitter: @StopMassIncNet