Contact: Steve Yip 646 703 1961
Carl Dix
11 June 2016
carlmdix@gmail.com
Justice for Freddie Gray—CONVICT & JAIL the Murdering Cops
What: Press Conference
When: Monday June 13 4:30 pm
Where: North Calvert & East Fayette, Baltimore, MD
June 11, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network with Dr. Cornel West, said today:
Baltimore police murdered Freddie Gray OVER A YEAR AGO. They came up on him for no reason and assaulted him. They bent him like a pretzel, to the point where his screams of pain were heard a block away. Then police threw Freddie Gray in a van and subjected him to the “rough ride” that has terrorized and tortured so many Black people in Baltimore. By the time they were through with him, Freddie Gray was near dead. He died a week later. Together, these police murdered Freddie Gray. They are ALL murderers and accessories to murder. Police saw him not as a human being but a Black man who they were licensed to torture and kill. This was a modern day lynching.
Over and over police in America kill Black and Brown people with impunity. What was different this time is that the youth of Baltimore rose up. Their uprising was followed by days of outrage and protest by people from all walks of life—especially students. The uprising and the aftermath forced the hand of the powers-that-be to bring charges against six police who murdered Freddie Gray.
But ever since, the wheels of injustice have worked to cover up what really happened, deny justice, and let the murdering police go free. They are letting the murderers walk on the installment plan. And media coverage has worked 24-7 to focus people’s attention on anything but the real issue: JUSTICE for Freddie Gray.
The first trial of the police who killed Freddie Gray ended in a mistrial. The second ended in an acquittal. Right now Goodson, the cop accused of ignoring Freddie Gray’s desperate demand for medical help, throwing him in the back of a police van, and subjecting him to a rough ride—at the end of which Freddie Gray was near death—is on trial for murder. This trial CANNOT be another whitewash. It CANNOT be another mockery of justice. What is needed to change things is for PEOPLE to take things into our own hands. We are making clear: there MUST be justice in this case. We are not asking, we are demanding:
Justice for Freddie Gray!
Convict the killer police and send them to jail!
The days when police can kill with impunity must be gone, and they can be gone.
Be there Monday! Stand tall!”
Carl Dix is available for interviews. Contact 646 703 1961
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