US Police ‘Occupational Force’ In Black Communities

US Police ‘Occupational Force’ In Black Communities
Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:34PM
1. Police brutality against African American males is an “ongoing phenomenon,” said Abdul Alim Musa, a renowned public speaker and director of Masjid al-Islam in Washington, DC. “The black community has always been over-policed and extra-policed,” he complained. Police treatment of African Americans and other minorities has become a big issue in the United States over the past year.
2. Americans Hold... Protests In Support Of Seriously Ill Mumia Abu-Jamal.
>>US activists have held demonstrations across the country to express their support for American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is seriously ill and not receiving proper medical care, Press TV reports. Protesters said prison authorities in Pennsylvania are attempting to murder the 60-year-old African American activist by triggering a diabetic shock, Press TV correspondent Caleb Maupin reported from New York Abu-Jamal was arrested and charged with murdering white police officer Daniel Faulkner in Philadelphia in December 1981. One year later, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. But he was resentenced to life in prison in 2012. He was released from a hospital in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, on April 1, and returned to the prison, where his health is fast deteriorating, according to activists. Abu-Jamal, who graduated from Goddard in 1996,..Abu-Jamal joined the Black Panther Party at the age of 15 in May 1969 and helped form the Philadelphia branch of the party. He was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970 and was subject to FBI COINTELPRO surveillance from 1969 until about 1974.<<