Malcolm X Grassroots Movement releases “Report on Extrajudicial Killings of 120 Black People since January 1st, 2012.”
Every 36 hours in the United States one Black woman, man or child is killed by police, and by a smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes. These are the startling findings of a new and now updated report on Extrajudicial Killings of Black People released July 9, 2012 and updated July 16, 2012. What motivated the round-the-clock research for this new Report? More than two years ago, on New Year’s Eve, police killed two innocent men: Oscar Grant in Oakland, Adolph Grimes in New Orleans and shot Robert Tolan in a Houston suburb. Based on research started in 2009 after those murders, we learned there were a lot more killings that had not yet been uncovered. Then, after Trayvon’s murder, there was a huge public outcry and a few headlines about more killings. More grieving families and more calls for investigation. Further research became urgent and it demonstrated that Trayvon’s death was not an isolated tragedy. Between January 1, 2012 and June 30, 2012, at least 110 Black people were killed by police and their “deputies.”
Monday, July 16, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Rosa Clemente
413.345.4018
clementerosa@gmail.com
An updated edition of the Report on Extrajudicial Killings of Black People is now available, revealing that every 36 hours a Black Person is killed by the police in the United States.
“As we dug deeper, and more grieving family members came forward, we found that every 36 —not 40 hours — another Black child, man or woman dies at the hands of the police, security guards or self-appointed vigilantes”, Kali Akuno of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement explained.
In the week since the first edition of the Report on Extrajudicial Killings of Black People was released the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and Malcolm X Solidarity Committee (MXSC) uncovered 10 new confirmed cases of Black people killed by the police in the first six months of 2012. This brings the total to 120 — which, the Report indicates, is still only the tip of a very deep iceberg.
What motivated the round-the-clock research for this new Report? More than two years ago, on New Year’s Eve, police killed two innocent men: Oscar Grant in Oakland, Adolph Grimes in New Orleans and shot Robert Tolan in a Houston suburb. We anticipated that the election of the first President of African descent in 2008 would lead to an upsurge in racist violence against Black people by the police and other instruments of repression. Based on research starting in 2009, we uncovered the sad reality was far worse than we thought. After the murder of Trayvon Martin, there was a huge public outcry and a few headlines about more killings, then more grieving families and more calls for investigation. Exposure of the true depth of the problem became more urgent to demonstrate that Trayvon’s death was not an isolated tragedy, but symptomatic of the larger problem of institutional racism and the devaluation of Black life.
“Any one of these people killed could have been my son or your husband or daughter”, says Arlene Eisen, member of the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee and co-author of the Report.
Rosa Clemente of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement elaborates, “Nowhere is a Black woman or man safe from racial profiling, invasive policing, constant surveillance, and overriding suspicion. All Black people – regardless of education, class, occupation, behavior or dress – are subject to the whims of the police in this epidemic of state initiated or condoned violence.”
The Report, produced by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the “No More Trayvon Martins” campaign, is part of a larger effort. Kali Akuno, report co-author explained, “The Report shows how people of African descent remain subjected to institutionalized racist policies and procedures that arbitrarily stop, frisk, arrest, brutalize and even execute Black people. The killing will continue despite calls for investigations and lawsuits. We urge people to read this Report and join us in demanding that the Obama administration implement a National Plan of Action for Racial Justice to stop these killings and other human rights violations being committed by the government”.
To read the report visit www.mxgm.org. For information on the petition visit http://www.ushrnetwork.org/content/webform/trayvon-martin-petition.
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this is what is wrong with the black community. You bitch about 112 by police and other extras since the newyear, what do u got to say about the thousands of blk deaths by other blks since the newyear? This is where you need to start.
Where who needs to start? And you need to get all of those white males, the leaders of drunk drivers, off of the streets. That’s what’s wrong with the white community. Thousands of white deaths by other whites, every year. That’s where you need to start. You are not bright, so don’t let anyone lie, and tell you that you are.
You bitch about things you know nothing about. Stay out of black folk’s business. The same thing I say about white on white murders, Chinese on Chinese murders, Italian on Italian murders, etc. Talk about one, talk about another. Thing is, you aren’t dying from the Nazi takeover of cops…yet. Too stupid to get past your racism to see that you are next. You are contributing to a machine that uses you to legitimize its evil.
wow. you know, i just saw someone reading that new malcolm x book by manning marable and it made me sad…this makes me furious.
Good logic mister whiteshyts. I know when the eternal others of your kind kill each other you get all giddy and decide that it would be more than your right to invite yourself and your ilk to help out. However in response to these cop murders if I or anyone else used your logic and went out and offed a bunch of pigs using the excuse,”Hey!.. well they shoot themselves and each other all the time!..What the fuck is your problem!?” I don’t think I’d get very far in your system or in the realm of your public opinions. So don’t expect the blame the victim logic to work here. Furthermore, where we need to start isn’t for you or anyone like you to decide. You could force your will on people though, that should come naturally.
Whiteshyt, please take that stuff to stormfront.org. so you all collectively commiserate and talk about how much you hate Michael Vick and how much “reverse racism” has made your life so unbelievably difficult that you can no longer function.