![]() ![]() We know that the capitalist system is failing us. How many of you all love the people? How many of you all serve the people? And we’re here because we want to keep the families center stage. This is what the Isley Brothers call a caravan of love. Let’s don’t get it twisted: This is a love train. Cornel West.ĬORNEL WEST: Brother Jerome, we’re here because we have a deep love for those who have been abused by the police. JEROME McCORRY: It is with great pleasure I introduce the people’s scholar, the people’s leader. Martin Luther King said it this way: “Cowards ask, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks, 'Is it political?' Vanity asks, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks, 'Is it right?' There comes a time when neither safe, political or vanity is the reason why you stand. ![]() Cornel West said this: If you want to hear the truth, you must let the suffering speak. One famous person that I know who’s standing behind me right now named Dr. How many of you have seen the movie Fruitvale Station? I’m going to be short. Now I’m going to give my time to the families.ĬEPHUS ” UNCLE BOBBY” JOHNSON: I am affectionately known to the community as Uncle Bobby. And when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers. However, I just do also want to say: What am I doing here? I’m doing here because I am a human being with a conscience. I got something to say, but actually I would like to give my time to the families that want to talk. JEROME McCORRY: Brothers and sisters, Mr. But we need to root out those who are brutalizing our children for no reason. We are not anti-cop, because we know some of them are doing good job. We even feel for those who were shot just recently in Harlem. Law enforcement community should know that we are not against them. It never happened, because, nationwide, look at all these faces here. When you have tragedies like that, you need to learn what went wrong and correct it. But we have to prevent this from happening again. I told the world then, the day when they stood up and told me that the four cops who shot my son had done nothing wrong, that it was the fault of my son, I said to you, I say to you now, I said it then: We need change. ![]() How many more victims were unjustly killed since Amadou Diallo? We cannot even begin to count. In the spirit of my son Amadou Diallo, I say to you: We will see the end of this brutality in our lifetime. KADIATOU DIALLO: How are you doing, sisters and brothers? Hello, New York City. So what we gonna do? Fists up! Fight back!ĭon’t shoot! Hands up! Don’t shoot! Hands up! Don’t shoot! So what we gonna do? Shut it down! Shut it down! No justice for the brown, no justice for the black. PROTESTERS: No justice for the black, no justice for the brown. New York Police Department’s Street Crime Unit would later be disbanded. Well, today we end today’s program by bringing you some of the voices from Saturday’s rally, beginning with Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of Amadou Diallo, the unarmed West African immigrant who died February 4th, 1999, in a hail of 41 police bullets as he put his key in the door in his own door in the Bronx in New York. The rally took place one day after FBI Director James Comey said protests over police brutality may have fueled an increase in violent crime because officers are less aggressive. Cornel West, journalist Chris Hedges, as well as celebrities like the playwright Eve Ensler and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Some 40 families from across the United States impacted by police violence participated in the event, alongside scholars like Dr. ![]() On Saturday, thousands rallied in New York City against police brutality as part of three days of protest called Rise Up October. AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to come back to the streets of New York. ![]()
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