EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE RALLY THURSDAY
CONDEMNING NON-INDICTMENT OF OFFICERS IN RADAZZ HEARNS SHOOTING
SUPPORTING FILMMAKER QUENTIN TARANTINO’S STAND AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY!
On Thursday, November 9th, the People's Organization for Progress (POP) will host an emergency press conference and rally to condemn a State grand jury’s decision to not indict the officers involved in the shooting of Trenton teen, Radazz Hearns.
The press conference will take place at the Peter Rodino Federal Building, 970 Broad Street, Newark at 5pm.
The press conference and rally will also support filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s recent outspoken condemnation of police brutality.
The decision to not indict the officers came down today.
Hearns, 14, was shot in the back and in the legs several times on August 7th in Trenton. He miraculously survived the shooting. He still faces questionable charges of weapons possession.
“We have four active police shooting cases right here in New Jersey, and we still cannot get an indictment of police officers using excessive here in this state,” said an upset Lawrence Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress.
In addition to the Hearns case, POP has also rallied for justice for the families of Abdul Kamal, Kashad Ashford and Jerame Reid, the other police shootings victims Hamm was referring to.
POP has called for a federal investigation in each of those cases.
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has come under fire from police unions for his recent condemnation of police brutality. He has said his criticism of several high profile police brutality cases are not meant to be taken as a general condemnation of the police, but of those officers involved in those cases and in those involved in that kind of behavior. Police unions have called for a boycott of his films for his criticisms.
“There was a time when artists like Tarantino were an active part of the Civil Rights Movement, and when they come forward like Tarantino has just recently, the movement for justice oughtt to support them as a matter of principle, and we will proudly do so,” Hamm said supportively.
On January 15th, POP is also calling for an International Day of Action in observation of Martin Luther King’s birth anniversary, with a special focus on police brutality, among other issues.
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THE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS
P.O. BOX 22505
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07101
973 801 0001
CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM
November 9, 2015
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