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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Memphis Hosts KKK Rally, March 30, 2013




 His sign says "I support the Klan"

MARCH 29, 2013 UPDATE from organizers of anti-Klan rally:  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, Tennessee hosts its Klan rally on March 30, 2013. The City Council says hoods will not be allowed. That must be inconvenient for all the black Klan members in Memphis - people who participate in the elaborate cover-up regarding the police kidnapping and murder of Larry Neal, my mentally, physically disabled brother, in 2003, and deny his family due process of law. The Memphis Commercial Appeal did not state whether or not Hezekiah Sistrunk, Esq. of Atlanta plans to attend, but one can probably check The Cochran Firm's website for that information. One might expect David McLaughlin, Esq. and other Cochran Firm attorneys to attend if only they could wear hoods. No one can doubt The Cochran Firm's loyalty to the premise that guides the Klan, which is similar to the doctrine that was/is faithfully applied by the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program, called "CoIntelPro." I described this program in my article, "Mary Neal's Black History Month 2011." An excerpt is below:

Wikipedia describes the program: “COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was [is] a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations. COINTELPRO tactics included discrediting targets through psychological warfare, planting false reports in the media, smearing through forged letters, harassment, wrongful imprisonment, extralegal violence and assassination. Covert operations under COINTELPRO took place between 1956 and 1971 [it must have a different name now]; however, the FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception. The FBI's stated motivation at the time was ‘protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order [which was/is wealthy white supremacy. Working class Caucasians are not significantly more highly regarded than blacks, but they do not want the Klan to know].’”

So-called "civil rights leaders" have a novel response to the Klan's rally: "Ignore them." JoNina Ervin, Chairperson of Memphis Black Autonomy Federation, spoke about the so-called "leaders'" response: "The president of the Memphis NAACP and the head of the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) shook hands this morning on Channel 3, agreeing to "ignore" the Klan on March 30. Rev. Keith Norman, president of the local NAACP, is a paid consultant of the Memphis Police Department, which is why the NAACP has not said a word about the 13 people the cops have killed since [the beginning of] last year. The SCV is a white supremacist organization, and it is a disgrace that the NAACP would collaborate with them."

The Memphis Black Autonomy Federation and Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality have a different response: an anti-Klan protest with all people of conscience invited on March 30. See the organization's announcement and invitation at the end of this article.

I believe that many black politicians are also Klansmen or CoIntelPro agents against black people, like a noted photojournalist from Memphis during the civil rights era, Ernest Withers. In September 2010, Withers was exposed as having been an FBI informant under the COINTELPRO program. He was assigned to follow Martin Luther King, Jr. over the road during King's fight for civil rights. Read more about Withers and those like him in my "Black History Month 2011" article the link below.

Racial tensions usually escalate during economic downturns as Americans polarize to compete for jobs and social benefits. This is directly opposite to what We the People should do, which is unite for justice. It is unacceptable that 99% of Americans compete for 5% of the wealth while the elite live high off the hog. Working class Caucasians should watch the remake of "The Titanic" again to see who the elite would suppress if there were no black or brown people in this country. In fact, elitists have already begun treating working class whites like "nig*#s." That is not happening because there is not enough revenue for everyone to live comfortably. While politicians and millionaire media companies warn about the economic cliff, politicians appropriated $645billion for the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which might be used in part to erect and equip concentration camps for Americans (of all races) who are captured and interned without any criminal charges or opportunities for defense. America's economy is being deliberately "flattened" in order for corporations to enjoy cheap labor whether their workers are in India, China, Africa, or America. Perhaps not knowing that, the Klan in the 21st century probably blames blacks and Latinos for layoffs and reductions in social program benefits.

Instead of marching on Washington and demanding that all corporate owners and stockholders either Divest or Resign, the KKK is having a rally in Memphis. They will likely only have fun dressing up and reminiscence about the good old days when not only policemen but any Caucasian could kill blacks without it being a problem. After the rally, Klansmen will return home with the same problems that threaten the security and well-being of every American except elitists: corporate greed and government misdeeds. In Washington, the Klan could demand that officials take the following steps to get off the economic cliff:

1. Tax Wall Street transactions. Just a 2% sales tax on stocks and bonds traded on Wall Street could pay off the entire national debt in no time.

2. Stop using trillions of dollars (borrowed money) and our children to police the world or spread imperialism.

3. Stop all tax breaks for corporations that manufacture, assemble or deliver goods and services in/from overseas locations or in prisons. Increase tariffs on imports, and levy additional taxes on products made in prisons. The Klansmen may not have been told that many jobs we believe went overseas actually went to a slave plantation (prison) nearby, including former union jobs.

4. Divest or Resign. God said no man can serve two masters, yet this is what we expect government officials to do. As long as they ARE the corporations, they cannot be expected to place the needs of the People over their own stock portfolios. Get corporations out of government.

5. Repeal every law that violates the U.S. Constitution. Some states have repealed NDAA Section 1021 (concentration camp provision) as it applies to Americans only. They may not know about congressional bills to strip Americans of their citizenship. We all sink or swim together on this Titanic.

Instead of oppressing and intimidating minorities, it would behoove Klansmen to apply their collective energy to demanding liberty and justice for ALL. In fact, it would make sense for Klansmen to work in unity with all Americans to accomplish the five Changes numerated above and such other changes as deemed necessary to remove elitists' feet from Americans' throats. That would be more effective than slapping mulatto babies, shooting black youths, lynching middle aged, harmless black mental patients like Larry Neal, or risking Martial Law to hold a rally in racist Memphis among so many closet Klansmen who are black as well as white to protest the renaming of a city park that was originally named after a Klansman. Accomplishing positive change requires unity, rather than allowing elitists to play one racial group against another while they gather and keep all the wealth of the nation through unjust laws, wrongful foreclosures, corporate bailouts, tax breaks for the very rich, concentration camps and prisons. Positive Change is more difficult than holding rallies. It requires unity.

While the Klan prepares for its rally, according to the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation, the Memphis City Council is considering legislation to make it more difficult to get a permit for a march and a rally. JoNina Ervin said, "This is unconstitutional and a blatant attempt to suppress the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and the right of citizens to redress their grievances to the government. If the proposal becomes law, one group that it would very likely be used against is Black Autonomy Copwatch, to stop our protests against police murder and brutality." However, rally they will. See the announcement of a mass anti-Klan protest below, followed by references used for this article - links with more information:
Mass Anti-Klan Protest
To Take Place March 30
in Memphis, Tennessee

(Memphis, Tenn.) – A multiracial coalition of activists around the United States will come here on March 30 for a mass protest against the Ku KluxKlan.

“This is 2013, not 1913. The KKK is a white terrorist organization whose fear-mongering tactics will no longer be tolerated,” said JoNina Ervin, the acting chair of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation (MBAF), a local social justice group that created the anti-Klan coalition.

Hundreds of people throughout the United States are expected to participate in the protest led by the Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality, Ervin said.

The Klan is coming to Memphis, a majority black city, to protest the recent decision by the Memphis City Council to change the name of a park in downtown Memphis named after Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was the first grand wizard of the Klan and a Confederate general in the Civil War whose troops massacred hundreds of slaves.

The Klan has filed a permit with the City of Memphis to hold a march and rally on March 30 at the Shelby County Courthouse.

“It is a disgrace that Memphis officials took so long to rename Forrest Park,” Ervin said. Most big cities in the southern United States changed the names of parks and monuments named after Confederate generals years ago," she said. "Forrest Park was renamed Health Sciences Park."


References:


Permit Filed for Ku-Klux-Klan Rallly in Memphis
http://www.fox16.com/mostpopular/story/Permit-Filed-for-Ku-Klux-Klan-Rally-in-Memphis/GukTnaDC_E6hpUVEbgmyPQ.cspx
The Ku Klux Klan has filed a permit with the city to hold a protest rally over the renaming of Memphis parks. The permit requests a date of Saturday, March 30 at the steps of the Memphis Courthouse.

Memphis Council Wants No Masks at KKK Rally
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/feb/20/memphis-council-wants-no-masks-at-kkk-rally/
Suggestion: Take a zillion pictures, and make videos. Post them all over the Internet. People need to see how their co-workers, bosses, neighbors and relatives spend their weekends in Memphis.

NAACP and the Sons of the Confederate Veterans Join Forces Against the KKK: Ignore Them
http://wreg.com/2013/02/20/the-naacp-and-the-sons-of-the-confederate-veterans-join-forces-against-the-kkk/

Memphis City Council Looks at Guidelines Put in Place
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/feb/19/memphis-city-council-looks-guidelines-put-place-kk/

Occupy Demand: Divest or Resign
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-demand-divest-or-resign.html

Mary Neal's Black History Month 2011
http://maryneal.hubpages.com/hub/Mary-Neals-Black-History-Month-2011

While the working class in America engages in infighting, Homeland Security forces practice shooting them.
DHS Target Practice: Pregnant Women, Children and Elderly
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/02/dhs-target-practice-pregnant-women.html


Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://www.wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/main.html
The lynching of a mentally, physically ill black man in Memphis Shelby County Jail, in a so-called "chocolate city," and nearly ten years of CoIntelPro-like oppression against his family to prevent public discovery of the murder proves that the Klan has complicity from many public officials suppressing minorities, including help from African Americans in Memphis, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.

Additional articles in the Memphis Klan rally series (a growing list):

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

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

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

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

Note: Please try to comment below if you have any difficulty opening the twelve(12) links and seeing the three pictures on this page. Below is a photo of Mary Neal protesting at the Georgia Superior Court building in Atlanta, where Judge Wendy Shoob pronounced The Cochran Firm nonexistent in this state in order to save the crooks who saved Shelby County Jail from our lawsuit for Larry Neal's wrongful death. She is Jewish, but if blacks can suppress a black family for the system, why not Jews? What working class people of every race need to know is this: We need to unite against oppression from elitists. They are already integrated. See my poem, "Elite Integration" which is posted below. 


ELITE INTEGRATION, by Mary Neal
(all rights reserved)

Elite white people and black people done got together against little people
And they imprisoning 'em and waterboarding 'em and executing 'em
OH, LAWD! OH, LAWD!

Elite white people and black people done got together against little people
They lay 'em off, make 'em bail out banks, laying railroad tracks to concentration camps
OH, LAWD! OH, LAWD!

Listen, People - Here's what we got to do
Better get together, or they coming for you
OH, LAWD!

Mary Neal Protests Court Corruption at the Georgia Superior Court in Fulton County

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Memphis Police Bogus Prayer Vigil

MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT is up for accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA). Your comments are invited if you have an opinion about the law officers who secretly arrested mentally, physically disabled Larry Neal in 2003, hid him 18 days in jail while lying to his family and social worker ("We don't have him"), then returned the naked body of this harmless middle aged heart patient and denied the Neal family any excuse, explanation, investigation, arrest reports, or due process of law. The Neal family does not even know how they killed Larry - Taser, restraint chair, heinous medical experiments . . . (Eleven url links are in this article.) The brutality and murders of mentally ill people in Memphis did not stop with Larry's death, and neither is police violence limited to them. At least 11 people in Memphis were killed under the color of law in 2012, and two were already shot dead by MPD in 2013. Some of the victims' families are also DENIED open records. Comment on accreditation for MPD by calling (901)636-3904 between 1pm and 3pm ET, or write Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies at 13575 Heathcote Boulevard, Suite 320, Gainesville, VA 20155. Speak publicly at the police department's accreditation hearing in Memphis on February 4 at 5:30 p.m. at 949 E.H. Crump Boulevard. Tell them you object to crimes against humanity and government cover-ups.

As Memphis Police Department braces for the accreditation review, MPD scheduled a prayer vigil for February 2, 2013. (Eleven links are in this article.) Black churches will be up front for the event, called "Hands Around 201 Poplar." I do not know how many of the pastors are on Homeland Security's "Clergy Response Team" and payroll. Of course, one does not have to be a CoIntelPro preacher to pray for police officers, but ministers of God owe honesty to police officers and all people. Repentance is God's requirement for forgiveness. Black Autonomy Copwatch does not believe that requirement has been fulfilled, and it has not. See an email from Black Autonomy Federation about the prayer vigil. (Eleven url links are in this article.)
  
Greetings,

In retaliation for the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation's letter to the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies opposing the accreditation of the Memphis Police Department and in an attempt to discredit and disrupt our upcoming March 15-16 International Days of Action Against Police Brutality, Mayor AC Wharton and city officials, who have enlisted black churches as a front, are putting on a pro-police prayer "vigil" this coming Saturday (see news article, http://wreg.com/2013/01/29/hands-around-201-poplar/)


The so-called vigil, "Hands Around 201 Poplar," is being orchestrated by city officials and billed as "a stand against crime." But the mayor, the city council, the black ministers, and their allies almost never about the crime of police brutality in Memphis.


It is a crime that two Memphis cops shot and killed Steven Askew, 24, on Jan. 17, 2013, while Askew slept in his car with a gun reportedly on the front seat--a gun he was licensed to carry.

It is a crime that MPD officer Terrance Shaw shot and killed 15-year-old Justin Thompson on Sept. 24, 2012,
claiming that Thompson tried to rob him. Why couldn't Shaw, a trained cop, subdue this boy (if, in fact, Thompson needed to be subdued) without killing him? Will the investigation into Thompson's death ever be released to the public, or will the cover-up continue?


It is a crime that police beat and choked Lorenzo Davis, 28, to death on July 3, 2012, for allegedly possessing drugs. The medical examiner claimed that Davis died of cocaine poisoning, but doctors at Methodist Hospital who examined him told his mother that the only drug in his system was Tylenol.


It is a crime that Memphis police shot and killed Hernandez Dowdy, 38, on June 27, 2012, for stealing a car that was never really stolen because the white woman who owned the car filed a false police report.


It is a crime that at least 10 other people have died at the hands of Memphis police officers since Feb. 10, 2012.

It is not likely that much, if anything, will be said about these crimes of police murder at Saturday's "vigil." At our march and rally on Friday, March 15, and our mini-conference on Saturday, March 16 (details to follow), the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation, family members of people killed by the police, others who oppose police terror and corruption, including you, we hope, will protest the crimes committed by the Memphis police and begin to build a network of activists to fight police brutality in the Mid-South and around the country. We are not at all fooled or intimidated by the fake "vigil." We see it for what it is--a desperate attempt by city officials to disrupt, discredit and destroy the movement against police brutality that is developing in Memphis.


Peace and love,
JoNina Ervin
Memphis Black Autonomy Federation
(901)674-8430

P.S. Please join us on Monday, Feb. 4, at 5:30 p.m., at the police station at 949 E.H. Crump Blvd., where a public meeting will be held concerning the accreditation of the Memphis Police Department. [End of email]
 

References:

Wrongful Death of Larry Neal 

http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com

Clergy response teams (government preachers) are discussed in this article: God Facing Layoff by Supreme Court
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/god-facing-lay-off-by-us-supreme-court.html
Government preachers must be careful. The Holy Bible says, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isaiah 5:20

Don't Become Nazi America 
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/nazi-america.html

Memphis Police Body Count 

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/memphis-police-body-count.html

Mary Neal Finally Heard from Police
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/mary-neal-finally-heard-from-police-re.html

Six Mary Neal Censorship Videos
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/four-mary-neal-censorship-videos.html

Letter to Mary Neal's Terrorists
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/letter-to-mary-neals-terrorists.html

Open Letter to Hezekiah Sistrunk (law partner of The Cochran Firm Frauds)
http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-letter-to-hezekiah-sistrunk-esq.html

I got such CoIntelPro interference writing Sistrunk a letter that I decided to send him the poem that describes his firm's crime in contracting to be the Neals' wrongful death attorneys while actually helping officials cover up the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal. See "Justice Denied," a 21st century slave song, which is published below  and at this link

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/justice-musical-by-mary-neal.html
 
JUSTICE DENIED, a 21st Century Slave Song
by Mary Neal (all rights reserved)

 
One day Larry went missing
We looked for him high and low
For 18 days while he died in jail
“Have you got him?” The Jail said “NO!”

 
On August 1, police came
A dreaded knock on the door
“We have Larry’s body. He died in jail
Sorry. We won’t tell you more.”

 
“Well, tell it to our lawyers!
The Johnnie Cochran Firm!
Lynching is illegal!
You might get prison terms!”

 
“Over that sick coon? We doubt it!
But give it your best shot
We told him to stop singing loud; move on
But he would not!”

 
Mama cried silently as she signed her name
On the Cochran Firm’s contract
“Don’t let them kill other sick sons
Nothing can bring mine back.”

 
Lawyers gave us their assurance
And lots of tissues, too
Saying, “Dry your eyes, old Mama
We’ll get justice for you.”

 
But The Cochran Firm tricked us
Their promises were only lies
They held Larry’s case inactive
And never asked how he died

 
The letters David McLaughlin sent
Were false, every one!
The Cochran Firm worked for the jail
Nothing was being done

 
Too late to hire other attorneys
When we discovered the fraud
Larry’s case file was empty
How could they do this? Oh, Lord!

 
“We’ll sue you for defrauding us
You can’t treat clients like this
Larry Neal was a person
The life he had was his!

 
We’ll tell the Bar about your fraud
The jury will make you pay
You deserve to lose your license
New clients won’t come your way!”

 
“Over that sick coon? We doubt it
But give it your best shot!
Police told him, ‘Stop singing loud; move on!’
But he would not!”

 
Tennessee Bar said, “No biggie”
Georgia Bar ignored our complaint
Judge Shoob said, “What Cochran Firm?
There is none in this state”

 
“But judge, look out your window
The Cochran Firm’s right there!
On TV every few minutes
Your Honor, please be fair!”

 
“Get out of this courtroom!
Johnnie Cochran’s dead
We’ve got his firm and got his name
Now don’t you make us mad!”

 
“We’ll take you back to court again
You have a poor defense!
Your office is just blocks away
You can’t say you don’t exist!”

 
“We said it; judge signed it
Now get out of our face
Plead for justice all you want
You are the wrong damn race!”

 
“Look Media - A court order!
No Cochran Firm in Georgia!
Please tell the people to watch out
I’ll send some copies to ya!”

 
“Don’t bother; not interested.
Their clients are mostly blacks
Who cares if lawyers trick those folks?
It’s time you learn the facts!”

 
“But Larry was a human being!
He had a right to live!
The Cochran Firm worked for the jail
His death’s a secret still

 
We’ll write letters to Congress
And report you on the Web!
Jails and lawyers are not allowed
To conspire to hide the dead!

 
Georgia courts can’t protect you!
Nor the media or BBB!
We’ll tell the public what you did
And civil rights groups – you’ll see!

 
We’ll sue in federal court for your fraud
The jury will make you pay!
You deserve to lose your license
New clients won’t come your way!”

 
“Over that sick coon? We doubt it
But give it your best shot!
Police told him, ‘Stop singing loud;
move on!’ But he would not!”

 
“Judge look at this fraud; listen to lies
They told right in this court!
They helped the jail hide Larry’s death
While under contract with us!”

 
“We disclaim our Georgia office
Our Memphis office, too
Dismiss this case right now, Judge Batten
We all depend on you.

 
Wherever Larry’s family sues us
We claim we don’t exist
Can’t let this case ever go to jury

Sick black folks won’t be missed
 
Judge, don’t honor their subpoena
To Shelby County Jail
Can’t let this family ever know
What happened to Larry Neal!

 

This family is ridiculous
To think federal court would care
that lawyers lie to evade justice 

It’s an immaterial affair!”
 
“The Cochran Firm is right!”
Judge Batten did agree
“Case dismissed! Immaterial!
Don’t come here bothering me!”

 

“But Judge, they tricked us!
Helped police hide Larry’s death
He had a right to live his life
Regardless of his health!

 

Thank God! Here comes CHANGE!
We’ll tell Mr. Holder
He’ll investigate Larry’s murder
This cover-up is over!

 

Mr. Holder, they killed him
Under secret arrest in jail
Thank God, you’re here now
And justice cannot fail!”

 

“Were you waiting for me? Don’t be absurd!
Johnnie Cochran is Dead
We’ve got his firm and got his name
Now don’t you make us mad!
 


You don’t want to make us mad!”

 All rights reserved by Mary Neal

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
 

Such as you do unto ONE of the least of these, My brethren, you do it also unto me. ~Jesus Christ.


Repeat of Article:

MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT is up for accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA). Your comments are invited if you have an opinion about the law officers who secretly arrested mentally, physically disabled Larry Neal in 2003, hid him 18 days in jail while lying to his family and social worker ("We don't have him"), then returned the naked body of this harmless middle aged heart patient and denied the Neal family any excuse, explanation, investigation, arrest reports, or due process of law. The Neal family does not even know how they killed Larry - Taser, restraint chair, heinous medical experiments . . . The brutality and murders of mentally ill people in Memphis did not stop with Larry's death, and neither is police violence limited to them. At least 11 people in Memphis were killed under the color of law in 2012, and two were already shot dead by MPD in 2013. Some of the victims' families are also DENIED open records. (Eleven url links are in this article.) Comment on accreditation for MPD by calling (901)636-3904 between 1pm and 3pm ET, or write Commission for Law Enforcement Agencies at 13575 Heathcote Boulevard, Suite 320, Gainesville, VA 20155. Speak publicly at the police department's accreditation hearing in Memphis on February 4 at 5:30 p.m. at 949 E.H. Crump Boulevard. Tell them you object to crimes against humanity and government cover-ups.

As Memphis Police Department braces for the accreditation review, MPD scheduled a prayer vigil for February 2, 2013. (Eleven links are in this article.) Black churches will be up front for the event, called "Hands Around 201 Poplar." I do not know how many of the pastors are on Homeland Security's "Clergy Response Team" and payroll. Of course, one does not have to be a CoIntelPro preacher to pray for police officers, but ministers of God owe honesty to police officers and all people. Repentance is God's requirement for forgiveness. Black Autonomy Copwatch does not believe that requirement has been fulfilled, and it has not. See an email from Black Autonomy Federation about the prayer vigil. (Eleven links are in this article.)
  
Greetings,

In retaliation for the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation's letter to the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies opposing the accreditation of the Memphis Police Department and in an attempt to discredit and disrupt our upcoming March 15-16 International Days of Action Against Police Brutality, Mayor AC Wharton and city officials, who have enlisted black churches as a front, are putting on a pro-police prayer "vigil" this coming Saturday (see news article, http://wreg.com/2013/01/29/hands-around-201-poplar/)


The so-called vigil, "Hands Around 201 Poplar," is being orchestrated by city officials and billed as "a stand against crime." But the mayor, the city council, the black ministers, and their allies almost never about the crime of police brutality in Memphis.


It is a crime that two Memphis cops shot and killed Steven Askew, 24, on Jan. 17, 2013, while Askew slept in his car with a gun reportedly on the front seat--a gun he was licensed to carry.

It is a crime that MPD officer Terrance Shaw shot and killed 15-year-old Justin Thompson on Sept. 24, 2012, claiming that Thompson tried to rob him. Why couldn't Shaw, a trained cop, subdue this boy (if, in fact, Thompson needed to be subdued) without killing him? Will the investigation into Thompson's death ever be released to the public, or will the cover-up continue?


It is a crime that police beat and choked Lorenzo Davis, 28, to death on July 3, 2012, for allegedly possessing drugs. The medical examiner claimed that Davis died of cocaine poisoning, but doctors at Methodist Hospital who examined him told his mother that the only drug in his system was Tylenol.


It is a crime that Memphis police shot and killed Hernandez Dowdy, 38, on June 27, 2012, for stealing a car that was never really stolen because the white woman who owned the car filed a false police report.


It is a crime that at least 10 other people have died at the hands of Memphis police officers since Feb. 10, 2012.

It is not likely that much, if anything, will be said about these crimes of police murder at Saturday's "vigil." At our march and rally on Friday, March 15, and our mini-conference on Saturday, March 16 (details to follow), the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation, family members of people killed by the police, others who oppose police terror and corruption, including you, we hope, will protest the crimesk committed by the Memphis police and begin to build a network of activists to fight police brutality in the Mid-South and around the country. We are not at all fooled or intimidated by the fake "vigil." We see it for what it is--a desperate attempt by city officials to disrupt, discredit and destroy the movement against police brutality that is developing in Memphis.


Peace and love,
JoNina Ervin
Memphis Black Autonomy Federation
(901)674-8430

P.S. Please join us on Monday, Feb. 4, at 5:30 p.m., at the police station at 949 E.H. Crump Blvd., where a public meeting will be held concerning the accreditation of the Memphis Police Department. [End of email]
 

References:

Wrongful Death of Larry Neal http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com


Clergy response teams (government preachers) are discussed in this article: God Facing Layoff by Supreme Court
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/god-facing-lay-off-by-us-supreme-court.html
Government preachers must be careful. The Holy Bible says, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Isaiah 5:20

Don't Become Nazi America 
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/nazi-america.html

Memphis Police Body Count 

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/memphis-police-body-count.html

Mary Neal Finally Heard from Police
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/mary-neal-finally-heard-from-police-re.html

Six Mary Neal Censorship Videos
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/four-mary-neal-censorship-videos.html

Letter to Mary Neal's Terrorists
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/letter-to-mary-neals-terrorists.html

Open Letter to Hezekiah Sistrunk (law partner of The Cochran Firm Frauds)
http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-letter-to-hezekiah-sistrunk-esq.html

I got such CoIntelPro interference writing Sistrunk a letter that I decided to send him the poem that describes his firm's crime in contracting to be the Neals' wrongful death attorneys while actually helping officials cover up the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal. See "Justice Denied," a 21st century slave song, which is at this link and published above.

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/justice-musical-by-mary-neal.html

Director,  Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
 

Such as you do unto ONE of the least of these, My brethren, you do it also unto me. ~Jesus Christ