F-ck The Police
[News] Oscar Grant Police Murderer, Johannes Mehserle Released After Less Than A Year!
I know this is slightly old news but still had to acknowledge this absolute travesty. Unbelievable….
[Music Video] Hiatus – Insurrection (feat. Linton Kwesi Johnson)
This is my roots right here in a video! Peep game:
“This track is called ‘Insurrection’ and features vocals from the legendary dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. This track remembers the Brixton Riots of 1981. Both Hiatus and Linton Kwesi Johnson call Brixton home. Though the area has changed over time, when people go on about 1981 being the year of the Royal Wedding of Charles & Diana, they should remember that the folks in many cities had more pressing concerns: Unemployment, racial harassment, police harassment, inner cities burning… plus ca change la meme chose, as the French say.
This video looks like it’s from news footage of the time, and if this doesn’t make you burn with righteous indignation…God help you. The Tory politician Norman Tebbit had the insolence at the time to say that ‘My Father didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.’ (Screw you, Tory scum.) My A-Level Politics teacher used to say that ‘Riots are the ballot box of the poor.’ She was unquestionably right.”
[via Rock the Dub / 17 Seconds]
Music video: Jasiri X – The Real Huey Newton
LYRICS:
I remember Joshalyn Lawton police put a gun to her head
she was 7 all she could see was the weapon
how could this sweet little girl be threatening
6 witnesses the cop wasn’t even questioned
although it sounds simply insane
that officer killed a man who was mentally deranged*
6 months later this is my city where the mayor
fought a cop then got off a half hour later
and I say a prayer for Fredrick Germaine Carter
found hanging from a tree in Mississippi
and I ain’t talking bout in the 60s
this was last week
they called in a suicide so they can keep the blacks sleep
keep puffin ya hashish and sippin on champagne
a guarantee that n-ggas won’t do a damn thang
demand change my pen comes from a hand grenade
And this ain’t a diss to whiz and currency
cause I was burning tress everyday to age 23
and look what the Lord made me
All praise be to the God that raised me
You don’t crush the seeds you water them
if you wanna see your sons shine Father them
Huey was just 24 when he started the Panthers
F a problem lets start with the answers
One HOOD
Related:
* Man arrested in Yonge St. standoff has medical issues, mother says. [Toronto Star]
[via Grandgood]
‘This is racism pure and simple’ – Report shows racism in Montreal police ranks
This is from the end of September but I forgot to post it then and just came across the bookmark last night so….
“For the second time in as many months, a damning internal report has outlined the breakdown of policing in Montreal’s most troubled neighbourhood, going so far as to accuse officers of “racism.”
The Montreal Police Service had intended to keep the newest report secret and the city is facing accusations that it was trying to suppress the study.
But the coroner heading up the ongoing inquest into the death of 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva is weighing whether to allow it into evidence, something the police union and city oppose.”
Former Toronto Police Officer Claims He’s Not Racist for Wearing Blackface Halloween Costume…
While leashed to a noose held by his friend costumed as a Ku Klux Klansman! Let that sink in a for a minute while you also look at the photo above taken at the Halloween party they attended….
“”I don’t believe in the KKK. It was a Halloween mistake is what it was,” Terry Nunn told Toronto radio station AM640. The former Toronto police officer says people from work are asking him what he was thinking.”
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BTW: Nunn was Toronto’s Police Officer of the Year in 1981.
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