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Protest over Roxbury Community College arrest
By adamg on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 9:21pm
About 25 residents and Roxbury Community College students and professors gathered across the street at the Roxbury Crossing T stop this evening to protest the way a 16-year-old wanted on various charges was subdued by Boston Police a week ago.
Ruth Kiefson, a professor at Roxbury Community College, discusses her outrage at the arrest, urges people to use cameras as their weapon against police brutality:
Taju Akinbode, a student at Roxbury Community College, says the way the kid was taken down would never have happened at a school like Boston University:
One of the organizers of the protest, Jamarhl Crawford, said he wants to see the city restore a board that reviewed complaints against police - and create a civilian review board with subpoena powers and the ability to launch its own investigations, rather than waiting for complaints.
James Hills, another organizer, said that while the evening's focus was on the arrest, there are other issues in the community; he's been organizing vigils for sometime now. Residents need to take a more active role in improving their community, from something as simple as getting to know their neighbors better to working to improving the system from within, starting with voting on Tuesday, he said.
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Comments
The "economic draft"?
Really? People are "forced" into the military?
Wow, they even have lefty wackos at RCC.
Intersetingly, nobody has filed a complaint with the BPD about this travesty.
If people of color were
If people of color were 'forced' to join the military then they wouldn't have one of the lowest percentages of enlistment per capita of any other race aside from maybe native Americans. As far as economics, the military has a minority of people from the very poor and very rich end of the spectrum.
Most of the military today is made up from from the middle class primarily from the south and midwest. The northeast, which has been losing local installations since the end of WWII (climate, cost, & space issues), is really the only part of the country which really doesn't contribute that many people to the armed forces (although I would argue the R&D done here makes up for the contribution to national defense).
My question to these people is why they are always outraged at cops for overuse of force, but always seem to be turning a blind eye to gang and other young brutality in the same locales?
Your answer is that the vocal
Your answer is that the vocal people you hear are not too bright and/or are aspiring "community leaders".
Mr. Turner can tell you the benefits of being a community leader.
no ones turning a blind eye
no ones turning a blind eye to the brutality partner. when you do step up they don't write nothing down, these cops just stand around and smile like their on a photo shoot. and btw, the military has nothing to do with this siguation. i'm black and also fought in desert storm and did 2 terms in this fake ass war on terror.who the hell wants to fight a war that isn't what they claimed we was fighting for in the first place. first thing they tried to do was commender the dam oil. nothing else. so before writing an opinon, you need to try to walk our shoes. and believe me, with the way i portray your mind set, you wouldn't last a week in any of the states i lived in. let alone the area of boston i live in now. do more research before you speak out.
Enjoy your privilege?
I hope so, becasuse you obviously should be more aware of it if you are saying garbagey stuff like this.
It sucks to be poor, and being poor means that you often have limited options. The military is one option in about, well, one or two for people growing up in inner cities, trailer courts, rural impoverished counties in the south - anywhere that special parents lack special money to help out their special offspring as you were obviously specially helped.
So please enjoy your privileged life and lifestyle - and be thankful that unlike me and many others all over the country - white and black and hispanic, rural and urban and suburban - you weren't signing those ROTC papers or enlistment papers as soon as you turned 16.
That's right knucklehead. 16.
16.
Taju Akinbode, a student at
Anyone else remember "Don't taze me bro!"?
The 16yo escaped felon
What exactly was he wanted/locked up for initially? So, lemme get this straight: the Police are the bad guys bc they were illegally videoed arresting an escaped felon who wouldn't comply to presenting his hands? How again should they have subdued him? By asking "pretty please with sugar on top"?
hey dumb ass look a little
hey dumb ass look a little closer at the video. he was already handcuffed when they started beating him down. thats why people are flipping.
He was not.
They had part of the cuffs on him, and then he pulled away with half or part of them on.