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...Nation is not to be confused with the League of Women Voters or the American Association of Retired Persons. They refuse to accept nonviolence as the only alternative, preferring militant action. The NYPD calls the Nation of over 3,000 members "a vicious gang with a P.R. campaign." One member of the Nation declared, "Let's get one thing clear: if you fuck with the Kings, then you have to be prepared to deal with the consequences...
...Since Rudolph Giulani was elected mayor of New York city, crime has decreased by 40 percent but police brutality in the same time period has increased by 60 percent, and 80 percent of the victims of this police brutality are people of color. Anthony Baez was murdered by the NYPD-he asphyxiated when an officer threw him to the ground in a choke hold after Baez had argued with the police for accosting his brother. The police warned Baez's mother to stay away from the Nation, but she ignored them. "I lost one son, but I gained hundreds," says...
...Nations is not be confused with the League of Women Voters or the American Association of Retired Persons. They refuse to accept nonviolence as the only alternative, preferring militant action. The NYPD calls the Nation of over 3,000 members "a vicious gang with a P.R. campaign." One member of the Nation declared, "Let's get one thing clear: if you fuck with the Kings, then you have to be prepared to deal with the consequences...
...Since Rudolph Giulani was elected mayor of New York city, crime has decreased by 40 percent but police brutality in the same time period has increased by 60 percent, and 80 percent of the victims of this police brutality are people of color. Anthony Baez was murdered by the NYPD--he asphyxiated when an officer threw him to the ground in a choke hold after Baez had argued with the police for accosting his brother. The police warned Baez's mother to stay away from the Nation, but she ignored them. "I lost one son, but I gained hundreds," says...
...wake of Diallo's death, the people of New York looked to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to reach out to the victim's parents and denounce the atrocity. Yet Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and staunch defended of the NYPD, has not followed the lead of the Attorney General and others who have condemned the police officers for their actions. Instead, Guiliani points to N.Y. City's declining crime rate as an implicit justification for the city's aggressive crime fighting...