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DESCRIPTION:*** Spread widely to folks in San Francisco and the Bay Area ***\n\nNote: 
 After tomorrow's court session, we'll send an alert on the trial schedule 
 for next week. Tyrelle is a beautiful young man and well worth your 
 support. Our profound thanks to all who respond by attending and/or 
 spreading the word.\n\nStand with Tyrelle Taylor as he stands trial\n 
 \nPack the courtroom for his trial starting Friday, 9am, 850 Bryant\n \nby 
 Mary Ratcliff\n \nIn his young life, Tyrelle Taylor has been at the heart 
 of two of the Bay View’s biggest police atrocity stories: the beating of 
 Tyrelle and four other children, age 12-14, on Martin Luther King Day 2002 
 and the terrible day Tyrelle was shot in the back repeatedly by SFPD 
 “specialists,” or sharpshooters, in 2005.\n \nThis Friday, Sept. 7, 9 
 a.m., at 850 Bryant, Tyrelle will stand trial on charges that better 
 describe what the police did to him. Check the calendar at Department 22 
 for the assigned courtroom. Public Defender Jeff Adachi is personally 
 representing him. We must pack the courtroom and stand with this young man 
 – our brother, our son – to show our refusal to tolerate police 
 terrorism any longer.\n \nWhat happened to Tyrelle in 2002 and 2005 is 
 nothing less than police terrorism. Both brutal assaults were committed 
 outdoors in heavily populated Hunters Point in front of many witnesses. The 
 police were clearly trying to teach residents a lesson.\n \nOn Martin 
 Luther King Day, when parents pleaded with police to say why they were 
 beating the children – and molesting the girls – the officer in charge 
 explained, “As long as you people are here, we will act like this.” 
 Could we ask for a clearer declaration of ethnic cleansing?\n \n“’They 
 never once said “Freeze” or “Stop,”’” wrote Bay View journalist 
 Apollonia Jordan, quoting a neighbor who witnessed the officers shooting 
 Tyrelle over and over again as they chased him through his housing 
 development on the morning of Sept. 9, 2005.\n \nA neighbor who recorded 
 what she witnessed immediately after it happened, wrote: “There are about 
 six police behind him. They’re everywhere, from the top on Northridge to 
 the bottom of my building running up behind him.\n \n“I yell out his 
 name; he yells back and says, ‘Sister, I can’t run no more They’re 
 trying to kill me.’ …\n \n“So I yell out at him, ‘Rell, keep 
 running. Try to make it to me.’ He’s limping and bleeding bad …\n 
 \n“I’m still hearing guns being fired and I think he got hit by a 
 bullet, because his body jumped forward as if something invisible hit him 
 in the back.”\n \nTyrelle’s strong spirit and the grace of God kept him 
 alive that day, but his pain was excruciating. I know because the Bay 
 View’s number was one of the few he could reach when, after a few hours 
 in the emergency room, he was locked in a cell at 850 Bryant. Bearing that 
 pain through the long, lonely nights matured him mightily.\n \n“It’s 
 time for us to stand up and fight for our lives and the lives of our 
 children,” Apollonia concluded in her story on the front page of the 
 Sept. 14, 2005, Bay View. “You may not have known Tyrelle, but what 
 happens when the holice attack one of your children or someone close to 
 you?”\n \nIn the months Tyrelle has resided in the San Francisco County 
 Jail awaiting trial, he has attended classes and read every book we could 
 send him and more. Read his letter to the Bay View and make up your mind to 
 be in court Friday morning to show the powers that be that in Hunters Point 
 we are standing our ground: We will not be terrorized, we will not be moved 
 and we will not abandon our children.\n \nTyrelle Taylor’s letter\n \nI 
 have been thinking about many things in life, and now I have found myself 
 in a world of trouble. I’ve been reading a lot and focusing on a lot of 
 things.\n \nI’m ready to move far away and see new things, explore the 
 world and live life. I feel if I go far I wouldn’t get in trouble.\n 
 \nNot that I’m trying to get in trouble, but I can be at the wrong place 
 and things like that, just because I’ve been shot before by the police. 
 So they would harass me just ‘cause.\n \nSo I’m ready to leave that 
 environment and live life, stay away from the bull. I have a family to 
 raise. I need to show them some guidance.\n \nI’m sitting right now in my 
 room looking out the window, looking at these houses and people getting out 
 of their cars. They seem so peaceful.\n \nI feel I can do that and I am 
 going to do that. I’m going to make it out of here and live my life. 
 I’m going to show the world.\n \n\nTo reach the Bay View, email 
 editor@sfbayview.com.\nTo subscribe to this list, email 
 sfbayview-subscribe@lists.riseup.net. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/06/18446129.php
SUMMARY:PLEASE pack the courtroom for Tyrell Taylor
LOCATION:850 Bryant, SF
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/06/18446129.php
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