http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/01/223459.php

Title: SPEAK OUT Against Police Brutality and Murder
START DATE: 1/15/2009
START TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
Event Topic: police/law
Event Type: conference
Contact Name: Revolution newspaper
Contact Email: librosrevo@...
Contact Phone: 213-488-1303

SPEAK OUT Against Police Brutality and Murder
by Revolution newspaper Saturday, Jan. 03, 2009 at 9:50 PM

Protestmeeting at Immanuel Presbyterian

Julian Alexander is dead, murdered in cold blood
by the Anaheim Police Department on the night of
October 28, 2008, just a week after celebrating
his wedding and his 20th birthday. Julian heard a
disturbance on his lawn and stepped outside the
house thinking he would protect his wife and
family. He had a stick in his hand; the Anaheim
cop had a gun and immediately shot Julian twice
with the fatal bullet piercing his heart.
Julian's family watched as the cop turned Julian
over and handcuffed him before eventually having
him sent to the hospital. Three hours later
Julian was dead, his family left devastated.
Julian Alexander was completely innocent. This
crime was so outrageous that even the Anaheim
police chief had to publicly admit that Julian
was a totally innocent man. But no cop was ever
arrested, indicted or charged for his murder, let
alone tried, convicted and jailed. The cop who
killed Julian is back out in the streets and has
never even been identified to Julian's family or the public.
The Anaheim City Attorney claims that this cop
can't be publicly identified because of the anger
in the community over the murder, because people
are meeting and talking about why this kind of
police murder happens and the need to turn our
grief and outrage into resistance. According to
the City Attorney this situation threatens the
safety and well being of the police. What a
twisted and criminal logic - an innocent man has
been killed in cold blood by the cops and these
same murderers turn around and blame the people
who want to stand up against this outrage for the
murdering cops getting away with it.
Now they tell us that things have changed, that
the election of Obama as president will spell an
end to this sort of horror. The reality is that
inequality and white supremacy are so embedded in
this system, so fundamental to the way this
system works, that the rulers of this system
couldn't get rid of it, even if they wanted to.
Julian Alexander was killed because he was Black
and that alone is enough of a reason for the
police to kill a man in America. Racism and
discrimination against Black, Latino and other
people of color is built into this system. And
the police are a big part of enforcing all this.
From Anaheim to Inglewood to the LAPD, from New
York to Chicago and everywhere in between, the
enforcers of the system continue to cut down the
lives of mainly Black and Latino people. And
while they're doing this, the system covers up
its crimes and plays people against each other to
keep the whole system going. This is what is
happening in the case of "Jamiel's Law", an
effort to mobilize support among Black people for
intensified attacks on Latino immigrants after a
Black high school student in Los Angeles was
allegedly killed by a Latino immigrant gang member.
If you think the day should be long past when the
police enforcers of the system can get away with
rolling into the neighborhood and shooting down
innocent youth then join us in a public Speak Out
against police brutality and murder. Join family
members of those killed and brutalized and others
as we talk about why these murders happen and,
yes, how to turn our grief and anger into
resistance. It IS time to break out of fighting
each other and get with the revolution. It IS
time to Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution.

IDENTIFY, ARREST AND JAIL THE COP WHO KILLED JULIAN ALEXANDER!
JAIL ALL KILLER COPS!
Thursday, January 15, 7 - 9 p.m. at Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd. (2 blocks west of Vermont)
Sponsored by Revolution newspaper (online at
revcom.us). For more information or to get
involved contact Libros Revolución bookstore at
213.488.1303 or librosrevo@....
The views expressed are not necessarily those of Immanuel Presbyterian Church.

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