Lorenzo Ervin vs. Memphis Police and KKK

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Freedom Fighter - 

UPDATE from Bro. Ervin March 29, 2013:  New Assembly Point for Memphis Anti-Klan March 
Due to the police security zone, we will assemble at 12 noon [on March 30] in Court Center Square (between Madison and Jefferson) in downtown Memphis. Spread the word. Email organize.the.hood@gmail.com if more information is needed.

Memphis will host its KKK rally on March 30. The Klan will rally to protest a park's name change. The park was previously named for the first grand wizard of the KKK - Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was a Confederate general in the Civil War whose troops massacred hundreds of slaves. Forrest Park was renamed "Health Sciences Park." The city where police officers kill an average of one black citizen per month is accused of trying to stop any anti-Klan protest by arresting Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, vice-chair of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation. A call for help and more information are below and in the eleven(11) links in this article.

A brief biography for Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, former Black Panther Party member and internationally known freedom fighter, is available in BuggStories blog at the link below. The article gives information on the criminal charges lodged 12 years ago that gave rise to the fugitive warrant that may be used to punish Ervin for organizing people against police violence in Memphis and for planning the anti-Klan rally for March 30.
http://buggstories.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/3-anarchists-gold-book-lorenzo-komboa-ervin-chattanooga-1947/

Memphis is the city where my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, was secretly arrested (kidnapped) and held for 18 days in Shelby County Jail while police denied to his family and social worker that he was incarcerated. On August 1, 2003, police announced that Larry had been incarcerated throughout the time that his family and social worker searched for him as a missing person, and that Larry had just died in custody. They refused to say under what circumstances Larry died. Officials eventually returned Larry's naked body without any explanation, excuse, inquest, investigation, and with all requests for records and accountability DENIED by both the murderous jail and the United States Department of Justice, which was in oversight of the jail after a lawsuit by the USA regarding inmate abuse. Larry's survivors have been stalked, financially persecuted, and censored for nearly 10 years because we continue to ask "What happened to Larry Neal?" Such racism is why the KKK is welcome to rally in Memphis, a so-called "chocolate city," while people who plan an anti-rally are not.

A political prisoner is defined as being "a person who has been imprisoned for holding or advocating dissenting political views." It is traditional in America, like many totalitarian countries, to use imprisonment to punish people for exposing and opposing injustice. Numerous political prisoners who were incarcerated during the civil rights era are still behind bars, and new freedom fighters have followed. Another tactic is assassination of perceived leaders, as happened to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was murdered in Memphis in 1968. The happenings in Memphis today will demonstrate to the country and the world how little things have Changed, even with a significant number of blacks in government, including the President and U.S. Attorney General. I wrote a poem about that called "Mass Hypnosis."

Mass Hypnosis

This is how we'll win the game

Let just a few live the dream

Marches, sit-ins all in vain

Make 'em think they overcame

Show 'em an empty Jim Crowe grave

Apologize for making 'em slaves

Rising tempers, we must tame

Make 'em think they overcame.

Let a few experience success

Toms come aboard and control the rest

Millions will be left in pain

But they'll think they overcame.

(All rights reserved by Mary Neal, 11/13/10) 

See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

Below is a call for assistance from Black Autonomy Federation's leaders, Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin:

Greetings,

About 30 minutes ago [around noon on March 22, 2013], one officer from the Memphis Police Department knocked on our front door. We did not open the door nor talk to him. He left after we did not respond.

We think this cop may have come to arrest Lorenzo in connection with the warrant issued by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department in Chattanooga for the unpaid court fees and fines for his 2001
misdemeanor conviction. Lorenzo and two other black activists were convicted for disrupting a meeting of the Chattanooga City Council in 1998, where they had gone to protest against police brutality.

This harassment is coming now in order to disrupt the Anti-Klan Protest on March 30 that the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation initiated, with the creation of the Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality.The mayor and the police think that if they arrest Lorenzo, that will stop the protest. It will not.

Here 's what you can do to help. Complain to the police and the mayor about our harassment:

1. Call Memphis Police Department Director Toney Armstrong at (901)636-3700.
2, Email your complaint to the police at mpd@memphispolice.org.
3. Call Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, (901)636-6000.
4. Email your complaint to Wharton at mayor@memphistn.gov.

Love and struggle,
JoNina and Lorenzo Ervin
Acting Chair and Acting Vice Chair (respectively)
Memphis Black Autonomy Federation

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One can tweet the Memphis Police Department at @mpdMemphis. They have not tweeted since 2009, but the Twitter account is open at https://twitter.com/mpdMemphis .


Additional articles in the Memphis Klan rally series include:

1. Memphis Hosts KKK Rally March 30
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/memphis-hosts-kkk-rally-march-2013.html

2. Memphis Anti-Klan Protest March 30
http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/02/memphis-anti-klan-protest-march-30-2013.html

3. Retribution Against Memphis Black Autonomy Network's Co-Chair, Lorenzo Ervin
http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/02/retribution-co-chair-of-memphis-black.html

4. Black Genocide - Maafa21
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/black-genocide-maafa21.html

Published by Mary Neal, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill and Dog Justice for Mentally Ill 
http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com A call for help for persecuted freedom fighters and more information about the justice quest are in the eleven(11) links in this article.)

Repeat of paragraph 1: Memphis will host its KKK rally on March 30. The Klan will rally to protest a park's name change. The park was previously named for the first grand wizard of the KKK - Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was a Confederate general in the Civil War whose troops massacred hundreds of slaves. Forrest Park was renamed "Health Sciences Park." The city where police officers kill an average of one black citizen per month is accused of trying to stop any anti-Klan protest by arresting Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, vice-chair of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation. A call for help and more information are below and in the eleven(11) links in this article.