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With us in the studio were local grassroots activists:
To download, right-click and select “Save link as…” PUNKONOMICS 4-29-15
With us in the studio were local grassroots activists:
Miguel Adams — Speak Up Florida
We will have several local grassroots activists in the studio including our regular Miguel Adams from Speak Up Florida-The Movement to End the New Jim Crow (more details will be posted with the podcast).
We’ll try to be pragmatic and realistic but we will NOT allow ourselves to fall into the disgusting white supremacist racist rhetoric of the majority of the mainstream press and politicians (including President Obama).
It’s going to get ugly >:/
Here’s my favorite cover version of the 1930’s classic union song:
http://politicalblindspot.com/stop-and-frisk-of-african-american-teen/
A 16-yr-old African American boy was sexually assaulted by a police officer during a “stop and frisk” pat-down. The assault was committed with such violence that the youth’s testicles were literally ruptured.
Now, Darrin Manning of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania may never be able to father children, according to thedoctors who performed surgery on his virtually destroyed testicles.
Darrin was a star basketball player with no criminal history to speak of. He was a straight-A student who never got into any sort of trouble. He was with his teammates heading to a game right after school when he encountered an officer who decided he was “suspicious” and needed to be subjected to local “stop and frisk” procedures.
All of the boys with Darrin had scarves covering the lower parts of their faces. But this was simply due to the extreme cold weather that had swept the region, with record-low temperatures that day.
Veronica Joyner, the Principal of the high school the teens attended, said that she herself had given the boys scarves to wear to keep warm in the freezing temperatures. Twenty minutes later, she was informed of Darrin’s “arrest.”
Darrin was put in handcuffs. When the officer began “frisking” him, they grabbed hold of Darrin’s genitals so hard, pulled and twisted, that the teen’s genitals literally tore off.
“I felt the officer reach and grab my butt. Then the officer grabbed my testicles and squeezed again and pulled down. And that’s when I heard something pop, like I felt it POP,” Manning said.
Keon Gerow, Pastor of Catalyst for Change Church, said “We want to have some questions answered and some accountability. We want the entire public to be aware, not only of the Darrin Manning situation, but the entire issue of police brutality.”
This story is without question one of the most severe cases of documented police abuses of power, brutality and sexual assault. Watch the video below and SPREAD THE WORD! There is no excuse for staying silent about this!
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