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  Date / Time: 7/29/2007 4:14 PM UTC

  Review Of The System of Injustice In America
  

  Topic of discussion and commentary focusing on the racial injustices perpetrated by the American Justice System on minorities and poor people in general. We will address the common myth that blacks commit more crimes when the statistics show that whites commit more crimes but blacks are 5 times more likely to get prison sentences. Will specifically highlight a few cases that are glaring examples of injustice. Special Guest will be Dr. Ernest Johnson of the Louisiana Chapter of the NAACP assisting in the "Jena Six" case. Listeners are encouraged to call in and share their views. 

  
  The Sentencing Project Examines Racial, Ethnic Prison Disparity in New Report

  A new analysis by The Sentencing Project provides a regional examination of the racial and ethnic dynamics of incarceration in the U.S., and finds broad variations in racial disparity among the 50 states. The report, Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration by Race and Ethnicity, finds that African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six (5.6) times the rate of whites and Hispanics nearly double (1.8) the rate...........

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  NAACP Criminal Justice Goals:

  Eliminate disparate treatment of blacks in all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice systems. Target Areas: Eliminating capricious racial profiling practices Ensuring fair and equitable trials and sentences Ensuring felony re-entry Promoting a moratorium of the death penalty........

  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RACE, RIGHTS AND POLICE BRUTALITY

  Police brutality and use of excessive force has been one of the central themes of Amnesty International’s campaign on human rights violations in the USA, launched in October 1998. In United States of America: Rights for All (AI Index: AMR 51/35/98), the organization documented patterns of ill-treatment across the USA, including police beatings, unjustified shootings and the use of dangerous restraint techniques to subdue suspects. While only a minority of the many thousands of law enforcement officers in the USA engage in deliberate and wanton brutality, Amnesty International found that too little was being done to monitor or check persistent abusers, or to ensure that police tactics in certain common situations minimized the risk of unnecessary force and injury. The report also noted that widespread, systematic abuses had been found in some jurisdictions or police precincts. It highlighted evidence that racial and ethnic minorities were disproportionately the victims of police misconduct, including false arrest and harassment as well as verbal and physical abuse......

  Highlighted Cases:
  

  Marty Alston
  

  Marty Alston was an active duty Airforce Fire Fighter home on medical leave in Trenton , NJ to attend to the needs of his daughter when he claims he was kidnapped at gun point by unknown assailants and force to drive them in  a commission of a theorized kidnap for ransom of a convicted drug dealer. Mr. Alston was on his way to pick up food for his wife and children whom he dropped off at the laundry mat when this occurred. The alleged victim, Sean Riley did not file an official police report/statement, testified that Mr. Alston was not one of his assailants and it is believed that the alleged victim was able to escape his attackers because Mr. Alston slowed the van down enough for the alleged victim to jump free of the vehicle. Mr. Alston also stated that he did not know his alleged co-defendant who did not testify. The prosecutor in this case made suspect statements in 2006 that jurors walk into the courtroom with "jaded feelings" towards police officers after a jury would not convict a man of the attempted murder of police officers citing lack of evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Mr. Alston is currently awaiting sentencing behind bars and faces a possible sentence of 30 years...................

  related links:

  Sign Petition drive to help Mr. Alston obtain a new trial and/or his freedom

  New Jersey Prosecutor States Mercer County Jurors have “Jaded Feelings”

  Kidnap suspect: I was kidnapped

  Alleged kidnapped drug dealer: ‘I didn’t know who did it’

  Genarlow Wilson

  

  Could this happen to your child? Your brother?  Your friend?

  Genarlow Wilson sits in prison despite being a good son, a good athlete and high school student with a 3.2 GPA. He never had any criminal trouble.  On the day he was to sit for the SAT, at seventeen years old, his life changed forever.  He was arrested.  In Douglas County he was accused of inappropriate sexual acts at a News Year’s Eve party.  A jury acquitted him of the allegation of Rape but convicted him of Aggravated Child Molestation for a voluntary act of oral sex with another teenager.  He was 17, and she was 15.

  Along with the label “child molester” which will require him throughout his life to be on a sexual offender registry, Genarlow received a sentence of eleven years — a mandatory 10 years in prison and 1 year on probation.

  On July 1st, the new Romeo and Juliet law went into effect in Georgia for any other teen that engages in consensual sexual acts. That change in the law means that no teen prosecuted for consensual oral sex could receive more than a 12 months sentence or be required to register as a sex offender. 

  Had this law been in effect when Genarlow Wilson was arrested, or had been done after the Marcus Dixon case, Genarlow would not now be in jail.

  Genarlow and his mother are overjoyed that no one else in Georgia will have to know their pain. In the meantime, however, the legal fight goes on for Genarlow Wilson.

  Genarlow has been incarcerated since February 25, 2005.

  related links:

  Sign the online petition demanding freedom for Mr. Wilson

  Outrage After Teen Gets 10 Years for Oral Sex With Girl

  Why Is Genarlow Wilson in Prison?

  Genarlow Wilson Update

  JENA 6

  

  NAACP SUPPORTS THE "JENA 6"

  The Facts:

  In a small highly segregated rural Louisiana town of Jena in September 2006, a black student asked permission from school administrators to sit under the shade of a tree commonly reserved for the enjoyment of white students. School officials advised the black students to sit wherever they wanted and they did. The next day, three nooses, in the school colors, were hanging from the same tree. The Jena high school principal found that three white students were responsible and recommended expulsion. The white superintendent of schools over-ruled the principal and gave the students a three day suspension, saying that the nooses were “a youthful stunt.” Black students decided to resist and organized a sit-in under the tree to protest the lenient treatment given to the noose-hanging white students.

  Racial tensions remained elevated throughout the fall. On Monday, December 4 2006, a white student who allegedly had been racially taunting black students in support of the students who hung the nooses got into a fight with black students. Allegedly, the white student was taken to the hospital treated, released, reportedly attended a social function later that evening.

  As a result of this incident, six black Jena students were arrested and charged with attempted second degree murder. All six were expelled from school. The six charged were: 17-year-old Robert Bailey Junior whose bail was set at $138,000; 17-year-old Theo Shaw - bail $130,000; 18-year-old Carwin Jones--bail $100,000; 17-year-old Bryant Purvis--bail $70,000; 16 year old Mychal Bell, a sophomore in high school who was charged as an adult and for whom bail was set at $90,000; and a still unidentified minor.

  
  my comment:

  Three White Students responsible for hanging nooses were guilty of Hate Crimes

  Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241
  Conspiracy Against Rights

  This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).

  It further makes it unlawful for two or more persons to go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another with the intent to prevent or hinder his/her free exercise or enjoyment of any rights so secured.
  
  Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death........................
  
  

  related links:

  Sign the Petition on behalf of the Jena 6

  http://oneblackmansblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/conspiracy-against-rights-and-police.html

  Send a letter to the Governor and the Louisiana Attorney General

  Jim Crow still lives in Louisiana - still fighting racist terror

  Two Races, Two Systems of Justice in Louisiana

  http://elleabd.blogspot.com/

  Conspiracy Against Rights:

  http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/statutes.htm#section241

  Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law/Police Misconduct:

  http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/statutes.htm#section242

   

  
  

   

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