Events

P.O.P. WILL HOST PROTEST AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING TODAY!

FOCUSING ON LOCAL POLICE BRUTALITY

SUPPORT FOR NEWARK CIVILIAN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD

          Today, Monday, June 8th, the People’s Organization for Progress (P.O.P.) will host a rally at the Federal Building, 970 Broad Street Newark at 3pm.

          It will be the organization’s second protest in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

          Last week, under the leadership of Lawrence Hamm, its founding chairman and now a serious candidate for the US Senate, P.O.P. led a protest of 12,000 people condemning the Floyd killing without incident.

          This protest will also demand that the NJ Attorney General Gurbir Grewal reopen the case of Earl Faison, who was killed by Orange Police officers in April 1999.

          The most timely demand is that the NJ Supreme Court should uphold the recent NJ Court of Appeals decision that reinstated the authority of Newark’s new Civilian Comp