blackpanthers - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T15:55:51Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/blackpanthersNEW PANTHERS, PEOPLE ADDRESS SCOURGE OF POLICE ABUSEhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/new-panthers-people-address2010-02-14T20:04:16.000Z2010-02-14T20:04:16.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:Impact, 'sans-serif';font-size:24pt;">THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><font face="Calibri">February 15, 2010</font></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Arial Black', 'sans-serif';font-size:14pt;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:14pt;">NEW PANTHERS, PEOPLE ADDRESS SCOURGE OF POLICE ABUSE</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">On <b>Monday, February 15<sup>th</sup>,</b> the funeral for Darnell McNeil, the black college student shot to death by an
undercover Essex County Police officer on February 7<sup>th</sup>, will take
place at Christian Pentecostal Church.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">The funeral will take place at 10 am.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Christian Pentecostal Church is located at 971 Clinton Avenue, near Coit Street, in
Irvington.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">McNeil’s family, distraught over the sudden uncalled shooting of their son, just appeared at a
rally against police brutality protesting the recent police beating death of
Basire Farrell this past Saturday in Newark. They vowed to host their own rally
against police brutality at 3pm at Knockouts, a nightclub located at Sanford
Avenue and 18<sup>th</sup> Avenue, where McNeil was gunned
down.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">The New Black Panther Party and the Peoples Organization for Progress (POP) vowed to be onhand
to support the family and their rally….</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Lynda Lloyd, a Newark district leader, also surfaced at the rally for Basire Farrell to tell
yet another horror story about police brutality.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">This story involves Lloyd herself being abused and arrested in her own neighborhood on this
past January 27th. Thankfully, Lloyd survived to tell her story, but she was
seriously traumatized by the incident.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">She has secured an attorney and vowed to tell the story of the abuse she faced at the hands of
the police at the Newark city council meeting on <b>Wednesday, February 17<sup>th </sup></b> at 6p.m.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">“This is why McCarthy must go,” said Zayid Muhammad, the Party’s national minister of
culture, referring to embattled Newark police director McCarthy and voicing a
central longstanding demand by the Newark Antiviolence Coalition.
</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">“This is why we need a civilian review board with full subpoena powers. This is why should have
a residential requirement for Newark police officers. This is why we can no
longer allow the mayor and city council get away with producing anything less,”
he finished emphatically.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Newark City Hall is located at 920 Broad Street, Newark…</span></p>
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<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">On <b>Wednesday, February 17<sup>th</sup></b>, the Newark Chapter of the New Black Panther Party will present <i>“Khallid’s Soldier’s Speak,”</i> a tribute
to Huey Newton and Khallid Abdul Muhammad.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">It will feature Divine Allah, the Party’s national youth minister, Hannibal Rushiddeen, the Party’s national special assistant,
Bashir Akinyele, former chairman of the Party’s Newark chapter and Zayid
Muhammad, the Party’s longtime minister of culture.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Not only with this intimate tribute honor Khallid Abdul Muhammad, the man; It will detail what
it was like for proven activists to personally serve under the incredible
organizer.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">This will be held at Waset Kommuniversity, 271 So. 9<sup>th</sup> Street, from 6:30-8:pm.
Free admission. Call 201-602 0780 for more information…</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">LOOKING AHEAD!</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">On Saturday, March 6th</span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">, the Harlem
chapter of the New Black Panther Party and the Black Student Union of City
College in Harlem, will host the Party’s national chairman, attorney at war,
Malik Zulu Shabazz, in a rare New York appearance, in a special revolutionary
tribute to the Party’s legendary Black Power General, the immortal Khallid Abdul
Muhammad.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">This event was originally scheduled for February 20<sup>th</sup>.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Chairman Shabazz, Muhammad’s designated successor, founder of Black Lawyers for Social
Justice and leader of the incredible
‘Operation Rescue’ in a Katrina-crushed New Orleans, where several hundred
9<sup>th</sup> ward Black residents were rescued by crack troops of the New
Black Panther Party, will also discuss the attack on the New Black Panther Party
by the white right, the truth and drama of the earthquake in Haiti and important
rescue and support efforts, and more.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Other special guests will appear including <i>‘Mr.
CurriculumofCorrection,’</i> Dr. Leonard Jeffries, <i>‘The Peoples Servant,’</i> Councilman
Charles Barron, <i>‘The Conscious Key
Turner,</i> Dr. James McIntosh, and more.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Key party national officials will also speak including national chief of staff Hashim
Nzingha, national youth minister and candidate for Trenton City Council, Divine
Allah and national minister of culture, Zayid Muhammad</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Khallid Abdul Muhammad was one of the premiere Black organizers of the late 20<sup>th</sup>
century. He was especially important to the rebirth of the Nation Of Islam under
the leadership of Minister Louis Farrakhan, having served as Supreme Captain of
Nation’s Fruit of Islam, National Spokesman and National Assistant.
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<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">“Khallid Abdul Muhammad was to Minister Louis Farrakhan what Malcolm was to the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad, the protector, the obstacle remover, the builder and the doer,”
said Zayid Muhammad emphatically.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Upon his departure from the Nation Of Islam, Muhammad was asked to serve as the New Black
Panther Party’s first national chairman. In that role, he propelled the party’s
growth to approximately 35 chapters around the country and the led the party in
an epic armed confrontation of the KuKluxKlan in June 1998 in the aftermath of
the lynching of a Black resident of Jasper, Texas, James
Byrd.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">He passed away on February 17, 2001 after a sudden illness.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">This special event will take place from 2-7pm at the NAC Building, Lecture Hall 1/202 at City
College in Harlem…</span></p>
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