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TONIGHT 6pm #NYC #FOLEYSQUARE #StandWithMuslims #NoMuslimBanEver #ShutItDown #ShutItDownNYC (at Foley Square)
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TONIGHT 6pm #NYC #FOLEYSQUARE #StandWithMuslims #NoMuslimBanEver #ShutItDown #ShutItDownNYC (at Foley Square)
Schedule and Endorsers of S 17 NYC Day of Action
September 17th NYC Day of Action against Racism, Gentrification & Police Brutality Schedule of Events as of 9/13/2015 : To add your community action or to participate in a scheduled event please email : [email protected] or call/text(646) 820-6039
7am-10am: RUSH-HOUR Visibility & Information Actions at major Transit Hubs - Please bring your banners and help flyer at :
Barclays Center/Atlantic Terminal
Broadway Junction
Flatbush Junction
Add your Train Stop
10am - 5pm: Neighborhood and Community Actions
Got a landlord, developer or politician who needs to be held accountable in your neighborhood? Community groups are encouraged to organize speak outs, press conferences, rallies, information tabling, etc
12-2pm Protest called by FUREE in front of the NYCHA management office in Farragut Houses at 251 Nassau Street, Brooklyn, NY
2:30pm: TAKE IT to City Hall! Join BAN for a Press Conference on the steps of City Hall
4:30pm: Fight the Rezoning of Our Communities! Action at New York City Department of City Planning
22 Reade St
5:30pm: Citywide Convergence/ Speakout in Lower Manhattan, Canal & Bowery
6:30pm: March from Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn across Manhattan Bridge
8:00pm: Demonstration at Barclays Center
Want to get involved in the work of The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN)? Join the new BAN community organizing list : https://groups.google.com/d/forum/the-brooklyn-anti-gentrification-community-organizing-list
Endorsers of September 17th NYC Day of Action against Racism, Gentrification & Police Brutality as 9/13/2015
*Denotes member organizations of the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN)
Al-Awda New York: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Align Brooklyn
*Artist Studio Affordability Project
Black Alliance for Just Immigration -BAJI
Believe Out Loud
BreakAWAY
Bronxites for NYPD Accountability
Brooklyn Congregations United
Brooklyn Laundry Social Club
Brooklyn Movement Center
Brooklyn Solidarity Network
*Bushwick Housing Independence Project
Coastline Tenants Association
Criminal Justice Initiative
East Harlem Preservation, Inc.
Educated Little Monsters (ELM)
*El Grito de Sunset Park
*Equality for Flatbush
*Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE)
FIERCE
Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST)
Freedom Trainers
Globe - The LGBTQ Justice Project of Make the Road New York
I Grew Up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Facebook Page
International Action Center
International Working Women's Day Coalition
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, USA (ICAHD-USA)
JACK
Jago Community
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFRE)
Just Info
Law Firm of Abdula Greene
Law Office of Geoffrey Schotter
*Movement to Protect The People
New York Latina Advocacy Network
New Yorkers Against Bratton
*Northwest Bushwick Community Group
NYC Shut It Down
Organizing Committee of the Crown Heights Tenants Union
People's Climate Arts
Peoples Power Assemblies
People's Theatre Project
Picture the Homeless Housing Committee
Prisoners are People Too, Inc
Purpose Productions
Queens Neighborhoods United
*Reclaim Bushwick
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)
Resistance in Brooklyn
Resource Generation NYC Chapter
Ridgewood Tenant's Union
Right to the City
Rising Tide NYC
South Asian Fund for Education, Scholarship and Training (SAFEST)
Street Vendor Project
Sunset Park Restoration
Sunset Parker Facebook Group
*The 320 Sterling Street Tenants Association
*The Audre Lorde Project
*The Bushwick Cop Watch Team of Peoples' Justices for Community Control & Police Accountability
The Commons Choir
*The Crystal House Project of The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
*The East Flatbush Cop Watch Team of Peoples' Justices for Community Control & Police Accountability
The Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)
The Laundry Workers Center
The NYC Jails Action Coalition
The Sullivan-Ludlam-Stoddard Neighborhood Association
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project
The White Anti-Racist Group/European Dissent
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC
*Third Root Community Health Center
UPROSE
VOCAL-NY
Women’s Fightback Network
The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN) is a mass-based coalition of tenants, homeowners, block associations, anti-police brutality groups, legal and grassroots organizations working together to end the rampant gentrification and displacement of low to middle income residents of Brooklyn, New York.
Endorse TODAY! To have your group, business or organization endorse the September 17th NYC Day of Action against Racism, Gentrification & Police Brutality email: [email protected] or call/text (646) 820-6039
footage from Athens-Clarke police officer Jonathan Fraser's body camera during the arrest of Michael Roquet.
Clarke County police officer, Jonathan Fraser, is facing aggravated assault charges
Fraser told investigators that Roquet became combative and resisted arrest.
He struck Roquet several times with baton, including once in the head...which is considered deadly force.
Chief Freeman says officers are trained to deescalate situations, and noting Roquet did required a use of force.
Fraser tried to arrest Roquet, but, according to police documents, Roquet “refuses to comply with his orders."
Fraser's description of what happened that night, which he wrote in the incident report, portrays Roquet as the aggressor. In Fraser's words, Roquet "struck me with his left elbow in my chest," and later "he hit me again with his elbow.... so I struck him [with a baton] in the leg and upper body" and then handcuffed him.
That’s how it looks on paper. But Fraser's own body-cam video added much more detail.
Even though his body cam is sometimes pointed away from the action, investigators concluded that Fraser used his baton to strike Roquet nine times, including striking Roquet once in the head and then striking Roquet twice after Roquet fell to the ground.
“He [Roquet] is not resisting at that point, he is on the ground," said Police Chief Scott Freeman on Friday, as he watched the video of Fraser delivering the final, two blows to Roquet.
Chief Freeman was not the chief at the time of the incident. He became the chief just after Fraser was fired, a month ago. Freeman said Friday that Fraser's actions do not represent the standards and professionalism of the department and the other officers.
As Freeman replayed the video of Fraser striking Roquet repeatedly, Freeman was emphatic: “That is unauthorized use of force, absolutely. And that is something that is completely intolerable, and something we’re not going to put up with, and we dealt with it appropriately.”
In the department’s official report about the incident, investigators found that Officer Fraser never told anyone that he used his baton to strike Roquet in the head. Using a baton to strike someone in the head is considered deadly force, and the department concluded that, in this case, it constituted excessive force.
Further, Fraser “denied striking Roquet in the head with the baton," attempting to “mislead investigators” about what really happened.
According to the department's findings, Fraser also violated policy by not notifying medical personnel that Roquet might have a head injury as a result of the baton strike to the head.
Athens Attorney Harry Gordon represents Michael Roquet.
"He overreacted, the police officer,” Gordon said Friday . “There’s no question about it.”
Harry Gordon's career has involved both sides of criminal cases, as a prosecutor -- he served as the county’s district attorney -- and as a defense attorney.
Gordon praised police officers and the life-and-death service they perform every day to keep citizens safe. Gordon said police body cams are useful -- for the police, and for the public. “There’s just not much anything as far as evidence is concerned that’s better than having a video of it.”
In police documents, Fraser, 46 -- when questioned about his final, two baton strikes while Roquet was on the ground -- said he felt that he was “tunnel visioned” and that he “knows he is out of shape," especially when up against a drunk, but otherwise strong, 19 year old man crouched near to the ground.
Fraser said, "I didn't know if he [Roquet] was going to spring up from that position and continue resisting. I struck him again on his back."
Investigators wrote in their report to Fraser, "You violated... policy.... You used hard control strikes from an impact weapon... on an individual who was actively resistant, but was not assaultive.... a strike to the head from a baton is considered use of deadly force.... You used more force than necessary."
Marching for prison reform and the life of Kalief browder in the #bronx #peoplesmonday #shutitdownnyc #kaliefbrowder #knowjusticeknowpeace (at Yankee Stadium)
#protest #ferguson #blacklivesmatter #NeverForget #saytheirnames #mikebrown #sandrabland #nyc #brooklyn #blackout #shutitdownnyc #shutitdownformikebrown #policebrutality