Posts Tagged ‘Sean Bell’
Up Too Early on a Sabado Morning Links
6:32 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events| Immigration| Linking Latinos| Marketing| Money| Movies| New York City| economy · 1 Comment
18 Apr 2009Unfortunately toddlers don’t understand the idea of a weekend so I’m up watching the sunrise con un cafecito and reading.
If you’re in the NYC area, check out the 10th Havana Film Festival
Tax day came and went with a little racism for good measure
Sean Bell will get a street named after him, and the assholes are just further Brutalizing the dead man (as in don’t read the comments).
How did Goldman Sachs manage to do so well? Conspiracy? Yeah, well probably. (P.S. I used to work for GS, still feel dirty)
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M – Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Clusterfu#@k to the Poor House – Goldman Sachs’ Connections | ||||
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And don’t forget you can still enter to win a Pantech Matrix Phone here.
It’s a lovely day. Go outside and enjoy it!
I Am Sean Bell : A Film By Stacey Muhammad
11:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Movies| New York City| race · Comments Off
5 Jan 2009I remember being pregnant with my first child when Abner Louima was assaulted by the NYPD and feeling worried that I would have a boy, a boy in a city where brown boys grow up feeling that they can be shot at a moment’s notice. That bullet can come from generic street crime or from the police.
I gave birth to a girl but 12 years later the fears are the same.
I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak from Stacey Muhammad on Vimeo.
Via / No Snow Here
One Month Since Sean Bell Police Shooting Acquittal : The Community Doesn’t Stop
10:00 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Events| Justice| New York City · Comments Off
22 May 2008
Sunday marks one month since the New York City Police officers that shot and killed Sean Bell were acquitted.If you think one month is enough time to forget, and move on to business as usual, at least one part of the community thinks otherwise. Today and next Thursday, at 4 pm in Rufus King Park – Jamaica Avenue add 150th St in Queens, there will be people saying “We Are All Sean Bell”.
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Week Long Boycott for Sean Bell
5:31 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Justice · Comments Off
19 May 2008
Today marks the start of a week long national boycott called by various activist and community organizations to protest the Sean Bell police killing and subsequent verdicts. From the email announcement of the boycott:
As many of you may know, the NYPD detectives in the Sean Bell murder trial were acquitted on all charges. The judge in the case had made his decision based on the fact that the demeanor and background of Mr. Bell and his friends had warranted the detectives to shoot over 50 times. This judicial decision cannot go unanswered. Go back to the 80’s with the death of Michael Stewart and Eleanor bumpers to name a few. Go back even further to a time when it was legal to lynch African Americans. For too long we have sat idly by while we let the “establishment” shoot our leaders(Malcolm/ Martin/Medgar) and our young Black/Hispanic men(Stewart/ Baez/Bell) and have done NOTHING about it.
Now is the time to move to action. We must make this stand because if we do not, they will continue to just kill our leaders and young men when it suits them knowing they will not be held to the same judicial consequences as the average citizens. We can no longer turn a blind eye, because it may happen to us. The only thing that the establishment understands is the almighty dollar.
So remember, do all necessary shopping prior to the MAY 19th (May17 & 18). Buy no gas; fill up before. Do grocery shopping before. Carpool to work, if possible ride a bike or walk to work. Bring bagged lunch to work or leftovers. Spend not one penny that week. Make a donation of at least $5.00 to a Black/Hispanic organization. God Bless. PLEASE PASS THIS ON.
More Info on NYPD Shot Dogs than People
7:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| New York City| crime| race · Comments Off
15 May 2008With Sean Bell fresh in the minds and hearts of people, and immigrants in Iowa being held in cattle yards, people of color have already gotten the message that we are viewed as animals or even as less than animals. So it should be no surprise that the New York City Police Department keeps better records on the dogs they shoot than the people they shoot.
Last week, the NYPD gave the City Council nine years’ worth of previously confidential detailed reports on the department’s shooting incidents.
But members of the council’s Public Safety Committee, which ostensibly oversees the NYPD, were barking up the wrong tree if they thought these long-sought-after Firearms Discharge Reports were going to reveal anything about the racial makeup of the people shot by New York’s cops.
On the other hand, among all the statistics and analyses were detailed breakdowns of the breeds of dogs shot by cops.
NYPD Go To Hell : We Are All Sean Bell
5:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| New York City · Comments Off
28 Apr 2008Need a sense of how the community is feeling about the Sean Bell verdict?
Via / Cripchick
3 Detectives Aquitted of All Charges in Shooting Death of Sean Bell
10:06 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| New York City · Comments Off
25 Apr 2008
About an hour ago, the three New York City Police officers charged with an array of charges for the November 25th, 2006 shooting death of 23 year old groom Sean Bell, were cleared of all charges. Unarmed, Sean Bell died in a hail of 50 some bullets outside a strip club where he was having his bachelor party.
Officers Michael Oliver, 36, and Gescard Isnora, 29, stood trial for manslaughter while Officer Marc Cooper, 40, was charged only with reckless endangerment. Two other shooters weren’t charged. Oliver squeezed off 31 shots; Isnora fired 11 rounds; and Cooper shot four times.
Breaking News : Sean Bell Cops All Not Guilty
9:16 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Justice| New York City · 1 Comment
25 Apr 2008The three cops that killed Sean Bell have all bee declared not guilty.
The life of a brown man is worth nothing in New York City.
NYC Latinos Stand Up By Sitting In for Sean Bell
10:54 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Justice| New York City · 4 Comments
20 Mar 2007
All to often in the mainstream media, the issue of police brutality is painted as a black and white issue when in reality it is an issue impacting all people of color. The most recent highly publicized police killing of Sean Bell in Queens, NYC last November has long time police brutality activists and communities of color across the city organizing and calling out a pattern and practice of racially based police killings.
The recent indictments against three of the five officers who fired 50 shots at Bell on the eve of his wedding have left some in the Latino community justifiably unsatisfied. Some showed their dissatisfaction by committing and act of civil disobedience by blocking the entrance to the Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens.
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