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East Bay | Police State and PrisonsProtest Against Police Murder of Gary King Jr.
On Monday, September 24, over 100 family, friends, neighbors and other concerned people protested at Oakland City Hall against the murder of 20-year old Gary King, Jr.  youth_sm.jpg On Monday, September 24, over 100 family, friends, neighbors and other concerned people protested at Oakland City Hall against the murder of 20-year old Gary King, Jr. The facts of the killing related by the family based on eyewitness accounts tell a very different account than the police version that the mainstream media faithfully repeat. Gary was grabbed for no reason as he walked out of a corner store, tasered , and then shot in the back by police. After he was shot and lying bleeding, police handcuffed him. Gary's friend and neighbors told of repeated harassment by the police especially of youth wearing dreads. The police and media have repeatedly described Gary as a "murder suspect" even though there is nothing to show that Gary was involved in any murder. This was merely the reason the police gave for stopping Gary in the first place, that he supposedly matched the description of someone wanted for a homicide. This is nothing but criminalizing the victim. Gary's friends and family told of a loving, kind and caring young man who was working to get his GED and had just gotten a job selling vacuum cleaners. This is the second time that Sgt. Pat Gonzales, the cop who shot Gary, has shot someone.
Gary's family is determined to continue to fight for Justice for Gary and future demonstrations are being planned.
Parents Speaking Out
 parents_speak_out_sm.jpg Gary King, Sr. and Cathy King speak to the press
Justice for Gary
 justice_for_gary_sm.jpg
Locked Out
 locked_out_sm.jpg At the end of the rally family members attempted to enter City Hall to speak with the mayor only to find that all the doors to the building had been locked.
Cathy King
 cathy_king_sm.jpg Cathy King, Gary's mom
Comments (Hide Comments)Dear RCP....
Monday Sep 24th, 2007 11:28 PM
Do you think it was maybe in kind of poor taste to show up at a protest for this kid who got shot and peddle your papers on everyone, and get people signed up for your email list? Doesn't it seem maybe a little exploitative? Do you even live in Oakland? A kid got murdered, his parents aren't ever going to see him again, and while his dad his was talking about his son being shot in the back I saw one of ya'll walking around the crowd handing out papers. Tres tacky. Maybe it's time to show some honest solidarity with oppressed people instead of trying to recruit them. I think the US Military is already doing that.
Murder of Gary King Jr.
Tuesday Sep 25th, 2007 2:16 AM
the murder of Gary King is the result of the police crackdown ordered by our Mayor
yes now Ron has blood on his hands. our Mayor ihas lost control, last week he addressed a community group reguarding the violance in our streets and he ended this meeting by going on a tyrade directed at a poor woman who's son was killed in a drive-by. At this point I feel that we have made a big mistake in electing Mayor "Ron" to office. Democrat Dellums sings the company tune
Tuesday Sep 25th, 2007 4:36 AM
Democrat mayor Ron Dellums was a wealthy lobbyist for IBM, et al before becoming mayor. No rich person can possibly represent the workingclass, and Ron Dellums is no exception. One tip that Dellums was about to sing the company tune on police brutality was his support of millionaire Democrat Barack Obama, the one who was the first to call for bombing Iran. Obama, like every single other Democrat and Republican at every level of office is also a proud supporter of that US military base in the Middle East that exists to protect US oil profits, Israel. Obama has not supported single-payer health care. Obama supports the US embargo against Cuba. And, no millionaire can possibly represent the workingclass. The Democratic Party has NOTHING TO OFFER the workingclass and it is long overdue that the workingclass avoid the Democratic Party like the twin party of capitalism with the Republican Party that it is. Ron Dellums never offered a serious program to put an end to police murders or anything else. He gave lots of rhetoric but so far, there is no action. Now, he has made himself clear in support of the police murders, so please stop voting for the Democrats. If you want an end to police brutality, you have to vote Peace & Freedom or Green or run for office yourself. As to socialist newspapers circulating at these events protesting police brutality and murder, we need more of that to counter the capitalist press and their pro-police brutality lies and propaganda which is working overtime. We all know that if the victim were white, it would be front page news in the capitalist press and the cop would have been fired IMMEDIATELY. This is racism and an attack on the workingclass and that point needs to be made immediately and everywhere.
Concerned people protested at Oakland City Hall
Wednesday Sep 26th, 2007 12:12 AM
perhaps this protest would be best if we expanded to include
Democrat mayor Ron Dellums as part of the problem and call for accountability from our Mayor. and his Police Department such as it is. COUSIN GARY
( tallphigur8 [at] yahoo.com )
Wednesday Sep 26th, 2007 2:34 PM
I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS STILL GOING ON, I AM SOOO SORRY AUNTIE CATHY I HATE THAT THIS HAPPENED. I HAVENT SEEN GARY IN A COUPLE OF YEARS BUT I KNOW HE WAS A GOOD KID AND DIDNT DESERVE THIS IN NO WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. I FEEL SO BAD AND SO ANGRY THIS IS THE WORSE KIND OF RACIAL INJUSTICE AND I'M NOT THERE, BUT I'M PRAYING FOR YOU ALL AND I'LL SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND.......I LOVE AUNTIE & UNCLE
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