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DESCRIPTION:PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY  DEMAND OAKLAND FIRE RACIST COPS  This Thursday, 
 there will be an important rally in Oakland for police  accountability.  A 
 number of recent incidents of police abuse and violence are coming before  
 the Citizen Police Review Board (CPRB), the official local watchdog agency. 
  We need the community to come out and show the CPRB that Oakland won't 
 stand  for violent, racist and potentially murderous police to walk our 
 streets.  Oakland youth have for too long been causalities of the war on 
 crime.  We  say:  "No more!"    Thursday, March 25, 2004  RALLY:  5.45 pm   
  CITIZEN POLICE REVIEW BOARD MEETING:  6.15 pm  OAKLAND CITY HALL (14th and 
 Broadway)  11th Floor  Enough is enough.  Please join us in demanding NO 
 MORE RACIST COPS IN OUR  COMMUNITIES.  We are demanding that the Oakland 
 Police Department fire  Officer Joseph McGuinn and Lt. Mike Yoell, both 
 notorious for being abusive  in the black community.  For more info, 
 contact:  George Galvis    510.501.4185  Malaika Parker    415.902.0643     
                  This action is being brought to you by  Bay Area  
 PoliceWatch, All of Us or None, and  Malcolm X Grass Roots Movement    
 Details about the officers in question:  Lt. Mike Yoell   Lieutenant Yoell 
 has a long history of abuse, excessive force, and  falsification of 
 reports.  He is well known in the community and in the  police department 
 as a problem officer.  But, despite numerous community  complaints against 
 him, Lt. Yoell has remained a high-ranking official in  OPD.  Here's what 
 the CPRB will be talking about Thursday:  Two years ago, Oakland officers 
 under Yoell's command brutalized two young  men - Elliot Noble and Michael 
 Henry  - in Oakland's Brookfield  neighborhood.  An officer in a patrol car 
 chased Michael on his bike.  The officer hit  Michael with the car and 
 knocked him off his bike.  As he  lay on the ground  injured,  Lt. Yoell  
 tried to choke him.  Elliot heard that this was happening to his friend and 
 went to the scene  with his camera.  As soon as he arrived, Elliot began 
 taking pictures.  A  cop took his camera away and grabbed Elliot by his 
 testicles and throat.  The officer slammed Elliot into a police car and 
 detained him for no reason.  Officer Joseph McGuinn  Joseph McGuinn also 
 has a long history of brutality.  In 2001, he was one of  six cops involved 
 in the brutal killing of Jamil Muwwakkil, a 36 year-old  black man who was 
 literally beaten to death by OPD officers.  Since then, McGuinn has racked 
 up numerous complaints:  * This February, OPD officers ­ including McGuinn 
 ­ detained, harrassed, and  threatened three Oakland high school students. 
  McGuinn forced one of the  students to submit to a search of his bare 
 gentalia at least four times.  During the incident, the cops repeatedly 
 called the students "niggers."  * Despite an official complaint detailing 
 this serious abuse and misconduct,  the Department allowed McGuinn back on 
 the streets.  A month later, McGuinn  harassed a black man at his home in 
 Sobrate Park ­ another example of  blatant racial discrimination and 
 profiling.   \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/24/34153.php
SUMMARY:Oakland Rally for Police Accountability
LOCATION:CITIZEN POLICE REVIEW BOARD MEETING:  6.15 pm  OAKLAND CITY HALL (14th and 
 Broadway)  11th Floor
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/03/24/34153.php
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