FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 2011 Stop "Stop & Frisk" Coming to Jamaica, Queens
Civil Disobedience Planned at NYPD 103rd
Backed by growing support from community members, anti-police brutality advocates and Occupy Wall Street, the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and other affiliated activists have planned a rally and civil disobedience protest at the 103rd Precinct at 91st Avenue & 168th Street just above Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.
Following a protest rally and community speak-out at King Park at 153rd and Jamaica Avenue at 1:00 pm, activists will march the ten blocks to the precinct, where they will once again deliver through non-violent civil disobedience the message that the city’s residents have had enough of the repressive NYPD policy of Stop and Frisk.
It was in the 103rd precinct’s cachement area on November 25, 2006 that a group of undercover and plainclothes NYPD officers shot and killed the unarmed Sean Bell, on the morning before his wedding. Two of Bell’s friends were also severely wounded in the attack, which the city later described as excessive force.
The Novemeber 19 rally comes on the heels of two successful demonstrations in other New York City neighborhoods that are heavily targeted by the NYPD for Stop and Frisk enforcement, a policy that the Center for Constitutional Rights and other groups have challenged as illegal.
Among the many arrested during the first two demonstrations are: Dr. Cornel West, Rev. Luis Barrios, professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice; Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party; Randy Credico, social comedian/activist and former director of the William Kuntsler Fund for Racial Justice; Margaret Ratner Kuntsler, widow of the late William Moses Kuntsler; and Gbenga Akinnagbe, the actor who portrayed Chris Partlow on the TV show "The Wire."
Plans to continue these protests are currently being made.
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Stop Stop & Frisk Campaign
c/o P.O. Box 941 Knickerbocker Station
New York City, New York 10002-0900
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stopmassincarceration.org
Twitter: @StopMassIncNet
PRESS COVERAGE: 'New Freedom Riders' Arrested in Queens as They Protest Ray Kelly's Stop and Frisk Policy (Brooklyn Ron)
The "Stop Mass Incarceration: We're Better Than That!" Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a 501c3 tax-exempt organization. Tax-deductible contributions accepted, and checks should be made payable to the "Alliance for Global Justice, with "Mass Incarceration Network" in the memo line. Other forms of contributions also accepted.
Following a protest rally and community speak-out at King Park at 153rd and Jamaica Avenue at 1:00 pm, activists will march the ten blocks to the precinct, where they will once again deliver through non-violent civil disobedience the message that the city’s residents have had enough of the repressive NYPD policy of Stop and Frisk.
It was in the 103rd precinct’s cachement area on November 25, 2006 that a group of undercover and plainclothes NYPD officers shot and killed the unarmed Sean Bell, on the morning before his wedding. Two of Bell’s friends were also severely wounded in the attack, which the city later described as excessive force.
The Novemeber 19 rally comes on the heels of two successful demonstrations in other New York City neighborhoods that are heavily targeted by the NYPD for Stop and Frisk enforcement, a policy that the Center for Constitutional Rights and other groups have challenged as illegal.
Among the many arrested during the first two demonstrations are: Dr. Cornel West, Rev. Luis Barrios, professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice; Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party; Randy Credico, social comedian/activist and former director of the William Kuntsler Fund for Racial Justice; Margaret Ratner Kuntsler, widow of the late William Moses Kuntsler; and Gbenga Akinnagbe, the actor who portrayed Chris Partlow on the TV show "The Wire."
Plans to continue these protests are currently being made.
Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Stop Stop & Frisk Campaign
c/o P.O. Box 941 Knickerbocker Station
New York City, New York 10002-0900
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.stopmassincarceration.org
Twitter: @StopMassIncNet
PRESS COVERAGE: 'New Freedom Riders' Arrested in Queens as They Protest Ray Kelly's Stop and Frisk Policy (Brooklyn Ron)
The "Stop Mass Incarceration: We're Better Than That!" Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a 501c3 tax-exempt organization. Tax-deductible contributions accepted, and checks should be made payable to the "Alliance for Global Justice, with "Mass Incarceration Network" in the memo line. Other forms of contributions also accepted.