From NYC Revolution Club:

Military Style Shock & Awe Assault on Black & Latino Neighborhood!
Stand Up! Speak Out! Resist This Outrage!

June 12, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

• A grandmother stepped from her bedroom to find a gun in her face. She tried to shield her 7 year old grandson from the cops, who revealed his piggish contempt for the people, saying: “We’ll get him later.”

• A young woman 16 years old, woke with a gun shoved in her face, dragged from her bed in her underwear she was handcuffed and thrown to the floor next to her mother, while the cops ransacked the apartment. “Now I can't sleep, even a knock on the door makes me jump.” 

On June 4th at 6:00 A.M as helicopters hovered overhead, 400 police in body armor, with weapons drawn, charged down hallways breaking down doors with battering rams in private apartment buildings and two housing projects in West Harlem. Mothers scrambled to protect their children, especially their teenaged boys. It was a scene reminiscent of slavery days, or U.S. troops rousting villagers in Vietnam or present day Afghanistan. Dozens and dozens of young men, ages 15 to 30, were dragged away by cops. They have been given bails of hundreds of 1000’s of dollars in some cases and are facing 15 years to life.  

“All the police and helicopters, radios popping… I thought there was a terrorist attack or something. Then when I saw what was happening I realized it was terrorism. The police was terrorizing the neighborhood.”

The June 4th raid was a brutal escalation of this system’s war on Black and Latino people, especially the youth.  It is bound up with the criminalization of generations of young people by a system that has no future for them other than the horror of mass incarceration, poverty, misery, or death at an early age. It is part of a slow genocide that could become a fast one.

The authorities have seized center stage—lying about what they did and why—laying the groundwork for even more vicious, brutal, and totally illegitimate attacks. 

“The role of the police is not to serve and protect the people. It is to serve and protect the system that rules over the people…” by Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:24 

We Must Not, We Will Not Accept These Attacks on the People!
Stand Up! Speak Out! Resist This Outrage!
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Speak Out, Press Conference called for by the Revolution Club NYC
Go to www.revcom.us for updates. For more info call 917 501 0354

Endorsed by: Stop Mass Incarceration Network (www.stopmassincarceration.net)
& Residents of the West Harlem

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