Join us Monday July 6th at 5:00 pm at the parking lot on the corner of First St and E. Washington Ave. Young Gifted and Black will be holding a funeral procession for Tony Robinson and others who have been killed by the police on the 4 month Anniversary of Tony’s death. Shut it Down NYC is holding a solidarity action on this day in collaboration with YGB.
The recent killing of 9 people in Charleston and the spreading of fires burning Black churches is directly related to police killings of Black people. Ultimate disregard for Black life is shown every 24 hours when a police officer kills another Black person without consequence. Just as Matt Kenny was not charged with murder and was given his job back, so is the response across the country when similar murders happen by law enforcement. This institutional validation of the killing of Black people only supports white supremacist civilians to carry out terrorism against Black people.
Matt Kenny would have lost his job the first time he killed someone in 2007 if it were up to community members and Tony Robinson would still be alive. Rather than being charged with murder for killing an unarmed teenager, rather than being fired, Matt Kenny is now training other officers. We can not let him train other police officers to kill more unarmed young Black men. He must be fired and charged.
Join us as we drive in a funeral procession to key spots to show the injustce that has been done and the need for community control of the police. We believe that the only way that we can have any justice in the broken system of policing is one in which police are from the communities that they serve, and community members have direct control over hiring, firing, and setting priorities, policies and practices.
Justice for Tony Demands:
1) Dual track UN investigation into 1) the killing of Tony Robinson and others killed by police violence and 2) the gross racial disparities in Madison and Dane County.
2) Community Control over the Police: The community must have direct control over hiring and firing of police, and in setting priorities, policies and practices of the police in their community. The police must be from the communities that they serve
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