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Stand UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spread The Word!!!!!!!!!
WE MUST MOVE AN ACT ON THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Below is an official press release but remember that we are encouraging
folks to call the 79th precint demanding the release of Lumumba, Dasaw
and Djbril!!! Call the 79th Precinct at 718-636-6611

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

9 February 2005

CONTACT:

asha bandele

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

(646) 541-9499

asha97@aol.com

www.mxgm.org

ORGANIZERS WHO MONITOR POLICE ACTIVITIES ARRESTED

Three members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Lumumba Bandele,
Dasaw Floyd, and Djbril Toure were arrested in the Bedford-Stuyvesant
section of Brooklyn just past midnight this morning. At the time of
their arrest, the three were engaged in the legal monitoring of police
activities as part of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Copwatch
Program.

According to Bandele, he Floyd and and Toure were driving down Greene
Avenue when they heard sirens blaring. They observed an unusual amount
of police activity on the block. They parked their car, turned on their
video camera and approached the scene when a witness to the events ran
past them stating that the police were beating someone. Bandele, Toure
and Floyd continued to walk toward the scene when they were stopped by
an officer who told them that they had to leave. Bandele told the officer
that they had a legal right to observe the activities, and that they
were not interfering with the arrest, only witnessing it. At that point, the
officer, who was never touched by Bandele, Toure or Floyd placed the
three under arrest, charging them with assault and obstruction of
governmental administration.

The copwatch program was initiated in 2000 as a response to police
brutality in central Brooklyn said Monifa Bandele, Lumumba's wife and a
founder of MXGM. We'd been involved in a year-long struggle to bring
the men who killed Amadou Diallo to justice and felt we had to do something
to respond to the ongoing abuse of Black men, women and children by
police.They were killing us, savagely beating us and they still are and
they were doing it with apparent immunity. For Lumumba and I, as the
parents of two small children, this issue had even greater personal
resonance. Every time he or any of us stand up for some other parent's
child, it's as though we are standing up for our own.

âThis arrest is outrageous,states Kamau Karl Franklin, attorney for the
three. They were involved in completely legal activities, and the irony
is that their treatment by police underscores the very need for a
program such Copwatch. We look forward to our day in court because it will
clearly demonstrate the contempt law enforcement too often feels
towards the Black community. Franklin hopes that this unfortunate event will
serve as a catalyst to make significant changes in who polices Black
communities, and how they police it.

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement was officially organized in 1995 as
an attempt to raise awareness about human rights violations in the Black
community. It was part of the coalition of organizations that filed a
lawsuit against the notorious street crimes unit, an effort which
ultimately resulted in the unit's disbanding.

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