Huzington
13th December 2003, 09:16 PM
F*** the police! Note that Fred Hampton Jr. was holding it down
in Cincinnati. At the website it also notes that Malik Shabazz of
the New Black Panther Party was in Cincinnati as well.
In my opinion, the revolution will come in the US from the
rebellion of people like Fred Hampton.
The black rebels in the US are true revolutionaries and not the
stuffy dogmatic "revolutionaries" like many of the
communist/leftist parties of the US are. Those like Fred
Hampton Jr., dead prez, Aaron Patterson, Charles Barron, Viola
Plummer, Elombe Brath and the now-deceased Khallid
Muhammad are true revolutionaries as they are struggling with
the proletariat and are truly living revolutionary ideals as
opposed to some of these white "revolutionaries" who are too
busy fighting partisan fights (Trotskyites vs. Stalinists, etc.) to
actually do anything that changes anything.
A revolutionary does not simply go around and bitch about the
bad conditions. A revolutionary is involved in the struggle. That is
why the Chavistas in Venezuela are revolutionaries...they have
mobilized. Revolutionaries and true friends of the people
mobilize. They do not sit around and publish newspapers and
pamphlets that convince nobody.
True revolutionaries are those that take action and those that
fully support these liberation activities, not those who hold
themselves as superior to the oppressed while having a
"white-man's-burden" mindset and a blame-capitalism point of
view. Yes, capitalism is the problem, but you won't solve a
f***ing thing as long as you are too busy fighting irrelevant
struggles against "revisionism" and "Stalinism". I say this to
white "communists" in the US. Get your head out of your ass and
realize that the struggle is passing you by. While you moan about
some opposing communist trend, the real revolution is
happening and you're looking more and more like ridiculous
children. Stop acting like ivory tower *********. A communist
"gets dirty" with the proletariat. A communist must not sit around
on his hands and rule his roost of a 50-member
communist party. What the f*** will that do?
Get militant!
Get mobilized!
Join the real struggle!
For black liberation in Africa and the Diaspora!
F*** the police!
RBG!
http://sfbayview.com/121003/changes121003.shtml
Will death of another Black man force changes in Cincinnati?
by Linda Bean
The 2001 police shooting of an unarmed African-American man
ignited three days of violent unrest in Cincinnati - a rebellion,
said African-American Juleana Frierson, chief of staff of the
Cincinnati Black United Front, sparked in part by the city's
unwillingness to explain or discuss how a man "with his hands
in the air" came to be shot and killed.
This week, following the death of another unarmed
African-American man, city officials said they have put into
practice at least one of the lessons they learned two years ago:
"We have to get the information out as accurately as possible,"
said Cecil Thomas, who heads the city's Human Relations
Council. "One of the things we learned is that the rumor mill is a
very critical problem in our city. Rumors are able to take on a life
of their own if we don't get the information out quickly."
The primary cause of death in this case was the struggle with
police, and the death will be ruled a homicide, Hamilton County
Coroner Carl Parrott said Wednesday.
"Now, they are being more open. They released the videotape,"
said Frierson. "But a minute and a half of the tape is missing.
And they are also trying to sway public opinion."
That reaction doesn't surprise Thomas, an African American and
27-year veteran of the police department. "You are going to see
that, because of the distrust we have."
Nathaniel Jones, 41, died early Sunday, following a beating by
six police officers in the parking lot of a White Castle restaurant.
A videotape of the confrontation, captured by a police cruiser's
camera, shows an officer stepping back from Jones, who
weighed 342 pounds.
The video documents repeated blows to Jones' legs and torso. It
shows officers spraying Jones with a chemical irritant and
wrestling him into handcuffs and a facedown position in the
parking lot. The tape is rolling as the cruiser arrives at the
restaurant, but goes blank for 96 seconds. It then captures six
minutes of the confrontation.
The officers involved, five white and one African-American, have
been put on administrative leave while multiple local and federal
investigations into Jones's death proceed. In addition to an
internal police investigation, the officers' actions will be
scrutinized by the U.S. Justice Department, the Cincinnati Citizen
Complaint Authority, a year-old civilian monitoring group, and the
police department's homicide unit.
Meanwhile, Mayor Charles Luken and Police Chief Thomas
Streicher Jr. have issued strong statements of support for the
officers - statements that strike Frierson as premature, given that
the investigations aren't yet complete. She's also troubled, she
said, by the quick release of preliminary autopsy results that
indicated the presence of cocaine and PCP, or "angel dust," in
Jones's body. Both drugs can produce violent or erratic behavior.
"They are swaying public opinion by releasing that; it's the same
pattern we've seen before and it is really tiring," Frierson said.
"He was not a violent man or a junky at all," Joseph Riley, a
friend of Jones since high school, told NNPA. "He took care of
his children. He was a quiet and funny guy. He had to be
provoked to react like that."
Diane Payton, Jones' aunt, also said the behavior was out of
character for her nephew. "This was a call for help that ended up
in death," she said. White Castle manager Shonte Johnson had
called 911 to ask for medical help for Jones.
"They talk about Skip like he was an animal," said the dead
man's grandmother, Bessie Jones. "He wasn't. Skipper was just
a good old fat jolly fella. He wasn't violent." "Everyone he met,
that he touched, loved him," Payton told the Associated Press.
"He was never mean."
The coroner, while ruling Jones' death a homicide, added that
his ruling "should not be interpreted as implying inappropriate
behavior or the use of excessive force by police," the Associated
Press reported. "It's hard for me to believe anything that comes
out of the coroner's office," the attorney representing Jones'
family, who is calling for an independent investigation into the
death, claiming the coroner has mishandled past cases.
In the aftermath of Jones's death, questions have centered on
the officers' actions and the city's response. Beyond the
immediate crisis, though, run deeper questions of trust and
community.
The city is currently operating under what is called a
"collaborative agreement" - a settlement reached after citizens
sued the city in federal court over the use of force by police. That
lawsuit was filed in March 2001, following a harrowing series of
deaths of African-American men in police custody.
On Nov. 7, 2000 - "election day," Frierson recalled - two
African-American men died in two separate incidents. "Two men,
on the same day. We filed suit in March. Timothy Thomas -
unarmed, with his hands in the air - was killed in April."
The settlement, reached with the participation of the Justice
Department, requires the city to make a number of changes in
police procedures, including the use of force. To date, the city
has complied with some, but not all, of the agreement's
provisions. It has, for example, established a Citizen Complaint
Authority, an independent and impartial panel of seven citizens
who review all "critical incidents" involving officers, as well as
citizen complaints against officers.
Jones is the 18th black man killed by Cincinnati police since
1995. "What folks have to realize is that this is not going to be the
last time that a negative confrontation takes place," remarked
Cecil Thomas of Cincinnati's Human Relations Council. "It is not
the first and it is not going to be the last."
Fred Hampton Jr., chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience
Committee, whose father, then chairman of Chicago's Black
Panther Party, was killed by police on Dec. 4, 1969, told the
Associated Press that the city could expect more activism.
"Cincinnati has been designated a `Code Red' national
terrorism area," Hampton said.
Most of this story comes from DiversityInc.com (© 2003
DiversityInc.
com) with additional information from the Associated Press and
NNPA, the Black Press of America
in Cincinnati. At the website it also notes that Malik Shabazz of
the New Black Panther Party was in Cincinnati as well.
In my opinion, the revolution will come in the US from the
rebellion of people like Fred Hampton.
The black rebels in the US are true revolutionaries and not the
stuffy dogmatic "revolutionaries" like many of the
communist/leftist parties of the US are. Those like Fred
Hampton Jr., dead prez, Aaron Patterson, Charles Barron, Viola
Plummer, Elombe Brath and the now-deceased Khallid
Muhammad are true revolutionaries as they are struggling with
the proletariat and are truly living revolutionary ideals as
opposed to some of these white "revolutionaries" who are too
busy fighting partisan fights (Trotskyites vs. Stalinists, etc.) to
actually do anything that changes anything.
A revolutionary does not simply go around and bitch about the
bad conditions. A revolutionary is involved in the struggle. That is
why the Chavistas in Venezuela are revolutionaries...they have
mobilized. Revolutionaries and true friends of the people
mobilize. They do not sit around and publish newspapers and
pamphlets that convince nobody.
True revolutionaries are those that take action and those that
fully support these liberation activities, not those who hold
themselves as superior to the oppressed while having a
"white-man's-burden" mindset and a blame-capitalism point of
view. Yes, capitalism is the problem, but you won't solve a
f***ing thing as long as you are too busy fighting irrelevant
struggles against "revisionism" and "Stalinism". I say this to
white "communists" in the US. Get your head out of your ass and
realize that the struggle is passing you by. While you moan about
some opposing communist trend, the real revolution is
happening and you're looking more and more like ridiculous
children. Stop acting like ivory tower *********. A communist
"gets dirty" with the proletariat. A communist must not sit around
on his hands and rule his roost of a 50-member
communist party. What the f*** will that do?
Get militant!
Get mobilized!
Join the real struggle!
For black liberation in Africa and the Diaspora!
F*** the police!
RBG!
http://sfbayview.com/121003/changes121003.shtml
Will death of another Black man force changes in Cincinnati?
by Linda Bean
The 2001 police shooting of an unarmed African-American man
ignited three days of violent unrest in Cincinnati - a rebellion,
said African-American Juleana Frierson, chief of staff of the
Cincinnati Black United Front, sparked in part by the city's
unwillingness to explain or discuss how a man "with his hands
in the air" came to be shot and killed.
This week, following the death of another unarmed
African-American man, city officials said they have put into
practice at least one of the lessons they learned two years ago:
"We have to get the information out as accurately as possible,"
said Cecil Thomas, who heads the city's Human Relations
Council. "One of the things we learned is that the rumor mill is a
very critical problem in our city. Rumors are able to take on a life
of their own if we don't get the information out quickly."
The primary cause of death in this case was the struggle with
police, and the death will be ruled a homicide, Hamilton County
Coroner Carl Parrott said Wednesday.
"Now, they are being more open. They released the videotape,"
said Frierson. "But a minute and a half of the tape is missing.
And they are also trying to sway public opinion."
That reaction doesn't surprise Thomas, an African American and
27-year veteran of the police department. "You are going to see
that, because of the distrust we have."
Nathaniel Jones, 41, died early Sunday, following a beating by
six police officers in the parking lot of a White Castle restaurant.
A videotape of the confrontation, captured by a police cruiser's
camera, shows an officer stepping back from Jones, who
weighed 342 pounds.
The video documents repeated blows to Jones' legs and torso. It
shows officers spraying Jones with a chemical irritant and
wrestling him into handcuffs and a facedown position in the
parking lot. The tape is rolling as the cruiser arrives at the
restaurant, but goes blank for 96 seconds. It then captures six
minutes of the confrontation.
The officers involved, five white and one African-American, have
been put on administrative leave while multiple local and federal
investigations into Jones's death proceed. In addition to an
internal police investigation, the officers' actions will be
scrutinized by the U.S. Justice Department, the Cincinnati Citizen
Complaint Authority, a year-old civilian monitoring group, and the
police department's homicide unit.
Meanwhile, Mayor Charles Luken and Police Chief Thomas
Streicher Jr. have issued strong statements of support for the
officers - statements that strike Frierson as premature, given that
the investigations aren't yet complete. She's also troubled, she
said, by the quick release of preliminary autopsy results that
indicated the presence of cocaine and PCP, or "angel dust," in
Jones's body. Both drugs can produce violent or erratic behavior.
"They are swaying public opinion by releasing that; it's the same
pattern we've seen before and it is really tiring," Frierson said.
"He was not a violent man or a junky at all," Joseph Riley, a
friend of Jones since high school, told NNPA. "He took care of
his children. He was a quiet and funny guy. He had to be
provoked to react like that."
Diane Payton, Jones' aunt, also said the behavior was out of
character for her nephew. "This was a call for help that ended up
in death," she said. White Castle manager Shonte Johnson had
called 911 to ask for medical help for Jones.
"They talk about Skip like he was an animal," said the dead
man's grandmother, Bessie Jones. "He wasn't. Skipper was just
a good old fat jolly fella. He wasn't violent." "Everyone he met,
that he touched, loved him," Payton told the Associated Press.
"He was never mean."
The coroner, while ruling Jones' death a homicide, added that
his ruling "should not be interpreted as implying inappropriate
behavior or the use of excessive force by police," the Associated
Press reported. "It's hard for me to believe anything that comes
out of the coroner's office," the attorney representing Jones'
family, who is calling for an independent investigation into the
death, claiming the coroner has mishandled past cases.
In the aftermath of Jones's death, questions have centered on
the officers' actions and the city's response. Beyond the
immediate crisis, though, run deeper questions of trust and
community.
The city is currently operating under what is called a
"collaborative agreement" - a settlement reached after citizens
sued the city in federal court over the use of force by police. That
lawsuit was filed in March 2001, following a harrowing series of
deaths of African-American men in police custody.
On Nov. 7, 2000 - "election day," Frierson recalled - two
African-American men died in two separate incidents. "Two men,
on the same day. We filed suit in March. Timothy Thomas -
unarmed, with his hands in the air - was killed in April."
The settlement, reached with the participation of the Justice
Department, requires the city to make a number of changes in
police procedures, including the use of force. To date, the city
has complied with some, but not all, of the agreement's
provisions. It has, for example, established a Citizen Complaint
Authority, an independent and impartial panel of seven citizens
who review all "critical incidents" involving officers, as well as
citizen complaints against officers.
Jones is the 18th black man killed by Cincinnati police since
1995. "What folks have to realize is that this is not going to be the
last time that a negative confrontation takes place," remarked
Cecil Thomas of Cincinnati's Human Relations Council. "It is not
the first and it is not going to be the last."
Fred Hampton Jr., chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience
Committee, whose father, then chairman of Chicago's Black
Panther Party, was killed by police on Dec. 4, 1969, told the
Associated Press that the city could expect more activism.
"Cincinnati has been designated a `Code Red' national
terrorism area," Hampton said.
Most of this story comes from DiversityInc.com (© 2003
DiversityInc.
com) with additional information from the Associated Press and
NNPA, the Black Press of America