Protest Oakland Police Abuse of Oakland Students!

The following is endorsed by the Education not Incarceration Coalition...

ATTENTION YOUTH ADVOCATES, ORGANIZERS, CONSCIOUS COMMUNITY MEMBERS,
AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS:
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, SEVERAL STUDENTS FROM THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (SSJCD) WERE DETAINED, HARRASED, AND
THREATANED BY MEMBERS OF THE OAKLAND POLICE TASKFORCE DURING OFF CAMPUS
LUNCH. THE STUDENTS WERE ILLEGALLY SEARCHED (ONE STUDENT WHO STANDS ONLY
5 FT. 3 IN. AND 110 LBS, WAS PUBLICLY SEARCHED IN HIS BARE GENITALIA AREA
AT LEAST FOUR TIMES BY AN OFFICER MCGUINN), THREATENED WITH PHYSICAL
VIOLENCE, AND REPEATEDLY CALLED NIGG** BY WHITE OFFICERS. WHEN SSJCD
TEACHERS QUESTIONED THE OFFICERS AS TO WHY THEIR STUDENTS WERE BEING
DETAINED AN OFFICER GLOVER STATED SARCASTICALLY, "UNDER REASONABLE
SUSPICION OF BEING BLACK." WHEN ASKED FOR THEIR BADGE NUMBERS THE
OFFICERS LAUGHED AND REFUSED TO GIVE THAT INFORMATION TO SCHOOL STAFF.
SOON AFTER MOST OF THE STUDENTS AND STAFF OF THE SCHOOL BEGAN TO FILM THE
POLICE ACTIVITY AND RALLIED FOR THE RELEASE OF THE STUDENTS. OVER 5
CARLOADS OF OFFICERS DROVE AROUND NERVOUSLY AND SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASED THE
STUDENTS WITHOUT COMMENT, EXPLANATION, OR APOLOGY.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A COMMUNITY RALLY AND STAND UP AGAINST RACISM AND
POLICE BRUTALITY !

WHEN: 4:00 PM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH

WHERE: EASTMONT MALL POLICE SUBSTATION

7200 BANCROFT STREET suite 273

CONTACT: GEORGE GALVIS (510) 501-4185
http://www.may8.org