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1. systematic discriminatory
and targeted practices
culminating in gross viola-
tions of human rights of
protected groups, such as
extrajudicial killings."
The first thing we must
begin to realize here is
that Genocide doesn’t just
apply to the extermina-
tion of a whole entire race
but to any people targeted
in whole or in part for
systematic destruction by
any of those means de-
signed to bring about this
objective. In other words
a lion doesn't have to kill
every zebra in order for it
to be considered geno-
cide, all it simply has to
do is systematically target
or hunt down one zebra
at a time and this will
suffice.
Likewise African Ameri-
cans have been systemat-
ically targeted for de-
struction in (cnt’d pg.2)
Faced with a nationwide
epidemic of police killings
Blacks are beginning to
redefine their struggle in
terms of human rights and
putting their plight before
the UN as a case of geno-
cide. (Note: This article is
not meant as a criticism of
those who genuinely put
their lives on the line as
law enforcement officers,
however this article is
meant as a critique of
those who put the lives of
others in danger by using
law enforcement as a tool
or apparatus of institution-
alized racism)
Eric Garner, Michael
Brown, Walter Scott,
Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd
and Freddie Gray. These
are just a few of the many
fallen at the hands of
rogue police officers, most
of whom are acquitted or
never indicted by the
state. They are part of a
death toll which accord-
ing to a 2012 report
amounts to just about
one Black person killed
every day or once every
28 hours (313 annually).
To put these numbers in
perspective, there are now
more Blacks killed at the
hands of police annually
than the amount of
Blacks lynched in any
one year during the entire
Jim Crow period. At the
current rate, over the
next 10-15 years there
will be more extra-judicial
killings of Blacks at the
hands of the police than
the total number of
Blacks lynched during
the entire Jim Crow peri-
od (1877 to 1968) which
is estimated at about
4,000!
Baltimore and Ferguson
(along with places such
as Cleveland, Chicago,
New York and L.A.) are
just a few names in a
larger mosaic or pattern
of systematic abuse and
police repression of
Blacks and other people
of color which basically
amounts to Genocide. Ba-
sically put, Genocide as
defined in part by article
2 of the 1948 United Na-
tions (UN) convention on
the Prevention of Geno-
cide is the "intent to de-
stroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religious group"
and that includes "killing
members of the group."
The UN Special Advisor
on the Prevention of Gen-
ocide (UN OSAPG) in its
eight-point framework
analysis on genocide fur-
ther defines specific acts
and mentions among
them "widespread and/or
“G” is for Genocide
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T H I S I S S U E :
“G” is for
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T H I S :
Is there a
connection
between
slave patrols
and modern
policing?
Does the
extrajudicial
killing of
Blacks by
police fit the
definition of
Genocide?
What can
the Presi-
dent do to
end Racial
Profiling?
A lion systematically targets
and hunts down zebras one
at a time
2. P A G E 2
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from pg. 1)
ment; Segregated hous-
ing and biased lending
practices such as re-
strictive deeds,
"redlining" and
"blockbusting" have
been replaced by "urban
renewal," subprime
lending and gentrifica-
tion; forced labor and
convict leasing have
been replaced by mass
incarceration; and last
but not least, lynchings
have been replaced by
extrajudicial murder of
mostly unarmed Blacks
at the hands of law en-
forcement.
The Origin and Role of
American Policing
To understand the re-
cent epidemic of extra-
judicial killings we must
understand that the
modern concept of
American policing is
rooted in the slave pa-
trols and militias that
were used to maintain
order during slavery.
The slave patrols and
militias (along with
bounty hunters) per-
formed a dual function
in not only safeguarding
the property of Whites,
but in also confining the
movement of Blacks to
plantations (except for
those who possessed
slave passes); the ap-
prehension (and in
many cases kidnapping)
of both free Blacks and
fugitive slaves; as well
as the suppression of
slave revolts. To this
effect, the second
amendment was adopt-
ed in 1791 as a compro-
mise to slave holders
allowing each state the
right to bear arms and
maintain a militia. By
default this right im-
plied a duty and obliga-
tion upon every White
man to maintain order,
and this idea (cnt’d pg3)
whole or in part by vari-
ous methods both dur-
ing the 250 year period
of slavery and the sub-
sequent 100 year period
of Jim Crow, as well as
during the current post-
Jim Crow Civil Rights
Era. These methods
have included murder,
rape, torture, lynchings,
forced labor (convict
leasing) as well as vari-
ous political and eco-
nomic methods such as
voter disenfranchise-
ment, segregated hous-
ing policies and biased
lending practices, etc.
Many of these methods
of the Jim Crow Era
have been replaced by
their modern counter-
parts: Voter disenfran-
chisement methods
such as poll taxes and
literacy tests have been
replaced by new restric-
tive voter I.D. laws and
felon disenfranchise-
Left: Lynching of Shipp and Abram in Indiana (1930);
Right: Police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson (2014)
This early 20th century
painting depicts the round-
ing up of Blacks by slave
patrols (NY Public Library)
Sources:
One Blackman
killed once every
28 hours by police
or vigilantes
(Operation Ghetto
Storm- alter-
net.org):
http://
www.alternet.org/
news-amp-
politics/1-black-
man-killed-every-
28-hours-police-or
-vigilantes-
ameriCa-
perpetually-war-its
Operation Ghetto
Storm (click on
link below to
download or scan
code with your
smartphone):
http://
www.operationghe
ttostorm.org/
(cnt’d pg. 3)
3. P A G E 3V O L . 7 I S S U E 2 F R E E
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from pg. 2)
Convict-lease system of
the Jim Crow period
would later give way, or
morph into the current
system of policing dur-
ing the end of the Jim
Crow era in the late 60's
under the guise of "Law
and Order" and the
"War on Crime" in re-
sponse to the growing
unrest of the Civil
Rights and Black Power
movements.
Tools such as the Omni-
bus Crime Control and
Safe Streets Act of 1968
provided among other
things federal funding
for local law enforce-
ment agencies as well
as funding for "riot con-
trol," while the 1968
Supreme Court decision
to uphold the "Terry
Stop" (Terry v. Ohio)
was reinforced in the
Second Militia Act of
1792 which called upon
"Each and every free
able-bodied white male
citizen of the respective
states" to be enrolled in
the militia.
During the post-slavery
Jim Crow period which
followed the Civil War
southern states utilized
"Black Codes" to confine
and restrict the move-
ment of free Blacks and
incarcerate them in
prison for the smallest
of infractions. Under
the "Convict-lease" sys-
tem Blacks were sen-
tenced to hard labor
and leased out often-
times to the same plan-
tations where they were
previously enslaved.
The Black Codes and
made "stop and frisk"
and thus the current
phase of mass incar-
ceration possible. It
was also within this
context that SWAT
teams first appeared
to combat this grow-
ing unrest, and their
paramilitary tactics
would later be adopt-
ed by many of the
Tactical Narcotics
Teams or Street
Crime Units now em-
ployed to wage a "war
on drugs" in mostly
Black and Brown
neighborhoods. Con-
trast this to the gov-
ernment's response to
the recent heroin epi-
demic which has moved
into the suburbs where-
in the White House re-
cently announced (as of
last year) a new 2.5 mil-
lion dollar initiative with
the goal of prioritizing
the treatment of heroin
addiction over punish-
ment.
Thus much like its slave
era and Jim Crow coun-
terparts, policing today
is still based on the
confining and contain-
ment of Blacks to cer-
tain areas (in many cas-
es high crime inner cit-
ies which were fostered
by governmental poli-
cies) wherein few dare
venture out into places
where they "don't be-
long," (cnt’d pg.4)
Sources (cnt’d)
More Black people
lynched in U.S.
than previously
thought
(washingtonpost.c
om):
http://
www.washingtonp
ost.com/news/
post-nation/
wp/2015/02/10/
even-more-black-
people-were-
lynched-in-the-u-s
-than-previously-
thought-study-
finds/
Updated report on
lynching in Ameri-
ca (Equal Justice
Initiative- eji.org)
http://www.eji.org
/files/EJI%20Lync
hing%20in%20Am
erica%20SUMMAR
Y.pdf
Lynching in the
United States
(wikipedia.org):
https://en.wikiped
ia.org/wiki/Lynchi
ng_in_the_United_
States
Origins of U.S.
policing: "Stop and
Frisk: From Slave-
Catchers to NYPD,
A Legal Commen-
tary" by Gloria
Marshall (Trotter
Review):
http://scholarwor
ks.umb.edu/trotte
r_review/vol21/iss
1/9
(cnt’d pg. 4)
Left: A poster warning against police officers acting as slave
catchers in Boston (1851);
Right: A slave patrol badge from N. Carolina (1859)
4. P A G E 4
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
“G” is for Genocide (Cnt’d from Pg 3)
especially late at night,
for fear of being profiled
or harassed unless they
can produce documents
such as a police badge,
a PBA card, or other
certifying credentials
acting as sort of a mod-
ern day slave pass for
otherwise normal activi-
ty assumed suspicious!
This confinement was
reinforced by the 1896
Supreme Court ruling
in Plessy v. Ferguson, in
which law enforcement
officers played a vital
role in enforcing the
"separate but equal"
mandate in all areas of
public accommodation.
Although "separate but
equal" was struck down
in 1954, some segments
of law enforcement still
continue to enforce un-
official segregation
through other means
such as "racial profil-
ing." This includes
armed and unarmed
community patrols who
much like their Jim
Crow counterparts once
known as "nightriders,"
assist in the confining
and containment of
Blacks often with dead-
ly results. The most fa-
mous case is that of 17
yr. old Trayvon Martin
who was gunned down
by self-appointed com-
munity watchman
George Zimmerman in
2012, as well as a more
recent case in 2015 in
McKinney, Texas in
which police officers
responding to a call on
behalf of residents,
roughed up Black teen-
agers at a pool party
and viscously pinned a
15 year old African
American teenage girl to
the ground as one
White adult male by-
stander stood by appar-
ently ready to assist.
What must be made
clear here in summary
is that with the advent
of "Law and Order" and
the "War on Drugs" (as
opposed to those condi-
tions which produce the
crime and drugs in the
first place), it officially
sanctioned a wave of
legalized extrajudicial
killings of Blacks up
until this day which
would surpass those of
the Jim Crow era.
(Cnt’d pg. 5)
During Jim Crow police
officers enforced the rules
of segregation. Rosa Park
was arrested in 1955 for
refusing to sit in the back of
a segregated bus.
McKinney, Texas police
officer Eric Casebolt (left)
proceeds to assault 15
year old Dejerria Beckton
as an adult male bystander
stands over top of her
ready to assist. Officer
Casebolt later resigned
from the McKinney, Texas
Police Department after he
was suspended due to
outrage caused by the viral
YouTube video of the inci-
dent
During protests in August
2015 commemorating the 1
year anniversary of the
slaying of Michael Brown
groups of armed Whites
known as the “Oath Keep-
ers” patrolled the streets of
Ferguson
Sources (cnt’d)
Slave Catchers
and Slave Resist-
ers
(usslave.blogspot.c
a):
http://usslave.blo
gspot.ca/2011/05
/slave-
catchers.html
Second amend-
ment ratified to
preserve slavery
(truthout.org):
http://www.truth-
out.org/news/item
/13890-the-
second-
amendment-was-
ratified-to-
preserve-slavery
Second amend-
ment (wikipedia):
https://en.wikiped
ia.org/wiki/Secon
d_Amendment_to_
the_United_States
_Constitution
War on Drugs cre-
ated to target
Black people
(UPI.com):
http://www.upi.co
m/Top_News/US/
2016/03/23/Nixo
n-aide-War-on-
Drugs-created-to-
target-black-
people-anti-war-
protest-
ers/29914587044
78/
(cnt’d pg. 5)
5. P A G E 5V O L . 7 I S S U E 2 F R E E
This becomes crystal
clear with the recent
release of U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice (DOJ)
reports on cities such
as Cleveland and Fergu-
son, wherein numerous
incidents of biased po-
licing and excessive
force are documented
against Blacks, espe-
cially in the case of Fer-
guson, Missouri. These
targeted police practices
such as those employed
by Ferguson (and other
jurisdictions as well)
leads to increased en-
counters with law en-
forcement, often with
fatal results, as in the
case of 18 yr. old Mi-
Extrajudicial Murder
part of a greater pat-
tern of systematic
abuse known as
Genocide
It is within this context
that those killings
which recently occurred
in Ferguson, Baltimore,
Cleveland and other
major cities have taken
place: as part of a great-
er pattern of extrajudi-
cial killings dispropor-
tionately targeting
mostly unarmed Blacks
which is proof of "intent
to destroy in whole or in
part" and as such quali-
fies as genocide under
point no. 7 of the frame-
work of the UN OSAPG.
This becomes even more
apparent as the federal
government fails to pro-
tect Blacks under its
own laws such as the
fourteenth amendment
which guarantees all
citizens equal protection
under the law, as well
as the failure of the fed-
eral government to out-
law practices such as
racial profiling and ex-
cessive force when it
has the power to do so
either by legislation or
executive order, and
this constitutes the fail-
ure to maintain effective
structures to prevent
the capacity to commit
genocide under point
no. 2 of the framework
of the UN OSAPG.
chael Brown who ac-
cording to eyewitnesses
was gunned down by
former Ferguson P.O.
Darren Wilson in Au-
gust 2014 while at-
tempting to surrender
after Wilson initially
approached Brown and
a group of teens with
abusive language for
walking in the street.
We also have the case of
Eric Garner of Long Is-
land whose illegal
chokehold death was
captured on video in
July 2014 after alleged-
ly committing the minor
infraction of selling
loose (cnt’d pg. 6)
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from Pg 4)
Even the young aren't safe from Jim Crow Lynchings and
Extrajudicial Killings:
Left: 14 Year old Emmet Till was brutally beaten, tortured
and murdered by a mob of White men in 1955 for allegedly
flirting with a White woman;
Right: 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by Cleve-
land PD in 2014 while playing with a toy gun
Sources (cnt’d)
White House funds
new Drug initiative
(Whitehouse.gov):
https://www.whit
ehouse.gov/the-
press-
of-
fice/2015/08/17/
white-house-drug-
policy-office-
funds-new-
projects-high-
intensity-drug
White House
spending millions
to combat heroin
epidemic
(cnn.com):
http://www.cnn.c
om/2015/08/17/
politics/white-
house-heroin-
initiative-fight/
Youtube video of
McKinney, Texas
Police officer chas-
ing Black teens
with gun and pin-
ning 15 year old
girl to ground at
Pool Party
(Warning-Images
Disturbing):
https://www.yout
ube.com/watch?v=
bpWP8aMcOo8
(cnt’d pg. 6)
6. P A G E 6
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
“G” is for Genocide (Cnt’d from Pg 5)
cigarettes, as well as
that of Walter Scott,
whose "lynching" was
also captured on video
in April 2015 as he was
brutally gunned down
eight times by Officer
Michael Slager after
running away from a
traffic stop for anoth-
er minor infraction: a
broken tail light!
Then there's 12 year
old Tamir Rice of
Cleveland, Ohio who
in November 2014
met his fate after po-
lice responding to a
call of someone bran-
dishing a gun (which
the caller admitted
may or may not have
been real) opened fire
within 2 seconds of
their arrival after alleg-
ing that the 12 year old
was reaching for his
waistband; and 22 Year
old John Crawford also
of Ohio was immediate-
ly gunned down in 2014
in a Beavercreek
Walmart by police with-
out question after re-
ceiving a 911 call from
an individual within the
store (Ronald Ritchie)
claiming that a man
was pointing an AR-15
at children while reload-
ing. This is despite the
fact that store video
shows that Crawford
was merely carrying a
toy BB gun and had not
pointed it at anyone,
and despite the fact
that Ohio is a state
where it is lawful to
openly possess and car-
ry firearms in the first
place!
Don't forget the case of
Rekia Boyd, the 22 year
old Black woman who
was shot in the back of
the head in 2012 by off
duty Chicago police of-
ficer Dante Servin after
firing several shots into
the group she was with
after telling them to
"quiet down." Servin
was subsequently ac-
quitted of the murder of
Rekia Boyd on grounds
of a technicality in
which the judge ruled
that the officer's actions
were "intentional" and
"beyond reckless,"
thereby throwing out
the charges of invol-
untary manslaugh-
ter and reckless-
ness.
Finally let's not for-
get 25 year old
Freddie Gray whose
agonizing and bru-
tal death at the
hands of Baltimore
PD, also caught on
tape, touched off
days of protests and
disturbances in
April 2015. Video
clearly showed a
handcuffed Freddie
Gray, in near paralysis
and barely able to walk,
yelling as Baltimore PD
dragged him to a police
van after being appre-
hended moments earlier
face down with his
hands and (cnt’d pg. 7)
Sources (cnt’d)
DOJ report on Fer-
guson Police Dept
(click on link be-
low to download or
scan code with
your smartphone):
https://www.justi
ce.gov/sites/defau
lt/files/opa/press-
releas-
es/attachments/2
015/03/04/fergus
on_police_departm
ent_report.pdf
Feds deny NYPD
cop killer had ties
to "Black Guerilla
Family"
(huffingtonpost.co
m):
http://www.huffin
gtonpost.com/201
4/12/20/ismaaiyl
-brinsley-nypd-
black-guerilla-
fami-
ly_n_6361324.htm
l
Who was Ismaaiyl
Abdulla Brinsley?
(townhall.com):
http://townhall.co
m/tipsheet/mattv
espa/2014/12/22
/who-is-ismaaiyl-
abdullah-brinsley-
n1934691
(cnt’d pg. 7)
Michael Slager stands over
the handcuffed body of Wal-
ter Scott (bottom) after
gunning him down 8 times
as he tried to flee (top).
Video also showed Slager
apparently trying to plant a
Taser gun near the body of
Scott in order to justify the
shooting.
Walter Scott.
7. P A G E 7V O L . 7 I S S U E 2 F R E E
article 2 of
the UN con-
vention on
the preven-
tion of geno-
cide as well
as point no.
7 of the
framework of
the UN
OSAPG.
The above
goes hand in
hand with
part of a
greater effort
on behalf of
the state and
the corporate
controlled
mainstream media to
label all Blacks as crim-
inals, as they did in the
case of the Baltimore
rebellion when they re-
ferred to those who par-
ticipated in the demon-
strations as "thugs" and
gangbangers, and sug-
gested that there was a
nationwide threat by
street gangs to kill po-
lice officers, just as they
initially suggested in
late 2014 when they
attempted to connect
Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the
enraged killer of two
NYC cops to alleged
street gang activity or
"religious motiva-
tion" (i.e.- "Muslim") in
the wake of Eric Garner
protests, only to find
none.
feet pinned behind his
back like a pretzel while
horrified onlookers
pleaded with arresting
officers. The Baltimore
rebellion of 2015 which
ensued received nation-
al as well as worldwide
attention and was with-
out a doubt a catalyst
in the subsequent
charging and arrest of
those officers involved
in Freddie Gray's mur-
der by Baltimore Prose-
cutor Marilyn Mosby.
These and countless
other incidents in which
Blacks are systematical-
ly targeted for wide-
spread abuse and ex-
cessive force as well as
other less obvious
methods of destruction
definitely constitutes
genocide under both
By contrast Whites have
engaged in similar ac-
tivities in the recent
past such as:
the gunning down
of 2 Arkansas police
officers by white
supremacist Jerry
Ralph Kane in 2010
the 2012 attack on
a Sikh temple in
Wisconsin by white
supremacist Wade
Michael Page in
which 6 worshipers
were killed
the gunning down of
2 police officers and
a civilian on June
14, 2014 in Las Ve-
gas by white su-
premacist couple
Jerad and Amanda
Miller
the gunning down of
two Pennsylvania
state troopers in
September 2014,
leaving one of them
dead, by white sepa-
ratist Eric Frein
a massive shootout
involving two motor-
cycle gangs in Wa-
co, Texas in May
2015 in which 9
people were killed
and 18 injured
a brazen broad day-
light attack on Dal-
las police headquar-
ters in June 2015
leaving the attacker,
James Boulware,
dead (cnt’d pg. 8)
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from Pg 6)
Sources (cnt’d)
Sniper who kills
Pennsylvania
Trooper not la-
beled as terrorist
(newsworks.org):
http://www.news
works.org/index.p
hp/local/national-
interest/72902-
sniper-kills-
pennsylvania-
state-cop-yet-
nobody-calls-him-
a-terrorist
Oregon Standoff:
What the armed
group wants
(CNN.com):
http://www.cnn.c
om/2016/01/04/
us/oregon-wildlife-
refuge-what-
bundy-wants/
Oregon Standoff:
Are the Bundy
Brothers Terror-
ists? (RT.com):
https://www.rt.co
m/op-
edge/327871-
oregon-bundy-
brothers-
terrorists-protest/
Oregon Sheriff
Greets with Hand-
shakes, not Hand-
cuffs
(occupydemocrats.
com):
http://www.occup
ydemocrats.com/o
regon-sheriff-
greets-ammon-
bundy-with-warm-
handshake-
instead-of-
arresting-him-for-
armed-
insurgency/
(cnt’d pg. 8)
The death of Freddie Gray in 2015
touched off days of protests in Balti-
more. The arrest and detention of Fred-
die Gray in a police van resulted in a fatal
injury in which his spine was 80% sev-
ered.
8. P A G E 8
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
“G” is for Genocide (Cnt’d from Pg 7)
the June 17th, 2015
slaughter of 9 un-
armed African
Americans in a
South Carolina
church by white
supremacist Dylaan
Roof
The November 23,
2015 attack on
Black Lives Matter
protesters
in Minne-
apolis by 3
White
masked
gunmen in
which 5
were
shot and
wounded
The No-
vember 27,
2015 at-
tack on a
Colorado
Springs Planned
Parenthood center
by Robert Louis
Dear in which 9
people were wound-
ed and 3 killed, in-
cluding one police
officer.
and a January 2016
standoff involving
150 heavily armed
anti-government
militia members
near Burns, Oregon
in which one militia
member was killed
and six others taken
into custody
Despite the fact that
most of these acts have
involved some sort of
heinous brutality or se-
ditious behavior such
as attacks on police of-
ficers, there has been
no similar effort by law
enforcement, the main-
stream media, or even
the president to de-
scribe these individuals
as thugs, gangbangers,
or terrorists! Thus the
effort on behalf of the
state and the main-
stream media to con-
sistently portray Blacks
to the exclusion of oth-
ers as part of a
"dangerous" and
"disloyal” security threat
through the use of
"dominant, controlled
media" constitutes moti-
vational factors towards
the commission of geno-
cide according to point
no. 4 of the framework
of the UN OSAPG.
The Role of Adverse
Socioeconomic Condi-
tions in Urban Vio-
lence and the use of
Targeted Policing
Although the media
continues to portray
Black communities as
inherently violent, what
is not discussed by the
media is the
fact that much
of the violence
which grips
Ferguson and
Baltimore is
caused by the
existence of
adverse socio-
economic con-
ditions (as well
as repressive
policing tactics)
and not the
reverse. Condi-
tions which for the most
part were instituted by
governmental policies
throughout the start of
the Jim Crow Era and
well into the middle of
the 20th century which
led to economic dispari-
ties in jobs, education
and housing and the
creation of most of the
segregated inner city
neighborhoods which
exist up until this day.
Conditions such as the
"deliberate deprivation
of resources" and the
"lack of proper housing"
which according to
point no. 6 (cnt’d pg. 9)
Sources (cnt’d)
The Cointelpro Pa-
pers: Documents
from the FBI's Se-
cret Wars against
Domestic Dissent
(pg. 110) by Ward
Churchill and Jim
Vander Wall:
http://www.krusc
h.com/books/ken
nedy/Cointelpro_P
apers.pdf
Michael Brown's
parents address
UN (CNN.com):
http://edition.cnn
.com/2014/11/11
/us/ferguson-
brown-parents-u-
n-/index.html
UN raises con-
cerns over grand
jury decisions
(washingtonpost.c
om):
http://www.washi
ngtonpost.com/ne
ws/post-
na-
tion/wp/2014/12
/05/u-n-experts-
raise-concerns-
over-grand-jury-
decisions-in-
michael-brown-
and-eric-garner-
deaths/
(cnt’d pg. 9)
“there has been no similar
effort by law enforcement,
the mainstream media, or
even the president to
describe these individuals
as thugs, gangbangers, or
terrorists!”
9. P A G E 9V O L . 7 I S S U E 2 F R E E
lions in the past and
this has continued in
modern times with
measures such as the
FBI's counterintelli-
gence program
(COINTELPRO) which
targeted Black leaders
in the late 60's and ear-
ly 70's, or more recent
programs such as the
War on Drugs, NYPD's
Stop and Frisk and Bro-
ken Windows which tar-
gets Blacks in general
for excessive summons,
search and seizures,
arrests and incarcera-
tion, and this also con-
stitutes genocide under
point no. 7 of the frame-
work of the U.N. OSAPG
which specifically men-
tions in part the
"targeted elimination of
community leaders and/
or men and/or women of
a particular age group."
of the framework of the
U.N. OSAPG constitutes
an act of Genocide.
These conditions hold
true not only for Balti-
more and Ferguson but
elsewhere in places
such as Trenton, New-
ark and Asbury Park,
New Jersey- and it is for
this reason that NJ
Governor Christie saw
fit to send 150 of his
own state troopers to
Baltimore alongside al-
ready thousands of dis-
patched Maryland state
police during the 2015
uprising: in keeping
with the original role
and function of the
state militias in quelling
slave rebellions.
This has always been
the state's response to
those conditions which
gave rise to slave rebel-
Extrajudicial Murder
and Genocide as Hu-
man Rights violations
and the Role of the
U.N.
It is within this context
that the parents of Mi-
chael Brown and other
victims of police brutali-
ty recently began to
take up their fight at
the United Nations in
Geneva, Switzerland: in
order to bring up the
plight of African Ameri-
cans and the genocide
committed against them
at the hands of law en-
forcement through poli-
cies fostered by the U.S.
government. A delega-
tion from the U.S. con-
sisting of the family of
Michael Brown, the U.S.
Human Rights Network
and other activists at-
tended a conference in
Geneva in November
2014 in front of the UN
Committee against Tor-
ture resulting in a De-
cember (cnt’d pg. 11)
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from Pg 8)
Sources (cnt’d)
UN Guidelines on
Genocide (click on
link below to
download or scan
code with your
smartphone):
http://
www.un.org/en/
preventgenocide/
advisor/pdf/
osapg_analysis_fra
mework.pdf
117 countries
slam US police
brutality
(mintpressnews.co
m):
http://www.mintp
ressnews.com/117
-countries-slam-
american-police-
brutality-at-un-
human-rights-
council/205588/
U.S. faces scathing
review
(aljazeera.com):
http://america.alj
azeera.com/article
s/2015/5/11/us-
faces-scathing-un-
review-on-human-
rights-record.html
(cnt’d pg. 10)
The heavy-handed response to the Ferguson and
Baltimore protests exemplifies the use of targeted
and militarized policing
UN Assembly Chamber
(Geneva)
10. P A G E 1 0
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
FBI Cointelpro: Then and NowSources (cnt’d)
Deadly force: Po-
lice use of Deadly
Force in the Unit-
ed States
(Amnesty Interna-
tional):
https://www.amn
estyusa.org/resear
ch/reports/deadly
-force-police-use-
of-lethal-force-in-
the-united-
states?page=show
Amnesty Interna-
tional Report on
use of Deadly force
in the U.S. (click
on link below to
download or scan
code with your
smartphone):
https://www.amn
estyusa.org/sites/
de-
fault/files/aiusa_d
eadlyforcereportju
ne2015.pdf
(cnt’d pg. 12)
The following is an excerpt from an FBI document dated 1968 in which the stated
aims of its counterintelligence program (Cointelpro) was to:
"Prevent the rise of a Messiah who could unify, and electrify, the militant Black
Nationalist Movement. Malcolm X might have been such a messiah; he is the
martyr of the movement today. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah
Muhammad all aspire to this position. Elijah Muhammad is less of a threat
because of his age. King could be a very real contender for this position should
he abandon his supposed “obedience” to "white, liberal doctrines" (nonviolence)
and embrace Black Nationalism."
(Memo, "Counter intelligence Programs: Black Nationalist Hate Groups," FBI
memo dated 3/4/68.) Note: bold print added for emphasis
The following is an unclassified FBI document released 2015 authorizing aerial
surveillance over Baltimore in the wake of disturbances following the death of
Freddie Gray:
A Rose by any other name still smells the same!!!
11. P A G E 1 1V O L . 7 I S S U E 2 F R E E
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from Pg 9)
2014 report which con-
demned the Michael
Brown and Eric Garner
grand jury decisions,
while the family of Re-
kia Boyd attended a
May 2015 Geneva con-
ference before the UN
Human Rights Council
in which 117 member
states issued a scathing
report condemning the
U.S. among other things
for its disproportionate
use of excessive force
against Blacks in the
United States.
In addition to that Am-
nesty International also
released a report shortly
thereafter in June 2015
on the use of deadly
force in the U.S. and
concluded among other
things that Blacks are
disproportionately af-
fected by the use of le-
thal force by law en-
forcement, and that all
50 states within the
U.S. have failed to
adopt policing stand-
ards in compliance with
international law when
it comes to the use of
lethal force. Further-
more the report recom-
mends that the federal
government pass legis-
lation ensuring that all
federal, state and local
law enforcement agen-
cies come into compli-
ance with international
law when it comes to
the use of lethal force,
and that the federal
government adopts leg-
islation requiring the
collection of data on
police shootings and the
prohibition of racial
profiling by all law en-
forcement agencies in
the U.S. (cnt’d pg. 12)
The family of Michael Brown pleads their case In front of
the UN committee on torture in Geneva
Amnesty Int’l
Report on Use of
Deadly Force:
"States are required to
respect and to protect
the right to life...The
police in any society
will at some point be
confronted with a
situation where they
have to decide whether
to use force and, if so,
how much. Enacting an
adequate domestic
legal framework for
such use of force by
police officials is thus a
State obligation, and
states that do not do
this are in violation
of their
international
obligations."
(UN Special
Rapporteur on
extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary
executions, Amnesty
International report
on use of Deadly
Force, pg 2, June
2015)
Paul Robeson (left) and Malcolm X ((right) were among the leading activists calling for the
plight of African Americans to be taken up at the UN and charging America with Human
Rights violations
12. P A G E 1 2
C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from Pg 11)
In Conclusion: The
Connection between
Reparations and
Genocide
On a related note we
must discuss the sub-
ject of reparations here
because the subject
cannot be separated
from the issue of nearly
400 years of genocidal
treatment of Blacks in
the United States. Rep-
arations for African
Americans should basi-
cally consist of mone-
tary compensation for
over 250 years of chat-
tel slavery; 100 years of
Jim Crow Segregation;
and last but not least
the past 50 years of
post Jim Crow and Civil
Rights Era abuses
which includes voter
disenfranchisement,
targeted subprime lend-
ing, excessive force, ra-
cial profiling, and mass
incarceration just to
name a few!
Each of these compo-
nents has a monetary
value either in terms of
labor (wages) or asset
accumulation and in
fact can be measured
out. For instance, if we
take a look at a 1983
study by researcher
Larry Neal the estimat-
ed value of slave labor
alone from 1620-1865
ranges from 963 Billion
to 97 Trillion dollars
depending on the rate of
interest, while econo-
mist James Marketti
puts the value of slave
labor (from 1790-1860)
at a mere 2 to 4.7 Tril-
lion dollars. Other stud-
ies suggest that the loss
in terms of wages and
asset accumulation due
to job and housing dis-
crimination just
from1929 to1969 alone
is estimated at 1.6 tril-
lion dollars in lost wag-
es and 80 billion dollars
lost PER GENERATION
in terms of accumulated
property wealth, and
this of course is just the
tip of the iceberg. This
does not even include
the estimated value of
business and property
losses which came as a
result of the deliberate
destruction of over 100
Black towns and cities
at the hands of White
mobs in (cnt’d pg. 13)
Sources (cnt’d)
Documenting the
costs of Slavery,
Segregation, and
Contemporary
Racism: Why Rep-
arations are in
order for African
Americans (click
on link below to
download or scan
code with your
smartphone):
http://www.law.h
arvard.edu/studen
ts/orgs/blj/vol20/
feagin.pdf
(cnt’d pg. 13)
Slave labor formed the backbone of the American econo-
my from 1620 to 1865.In this 1861 photo slaves can be
seen processing cotton in South Carolina.
(Timothy H O’Sullivan/Library of Congress)
This 1939 “Residential Se-
curity Map” of Chicago
indicates in red those are-
as occupied by minority
and low income residents
who were subsequently
denied FHA backed mort-
gages
13. P A G E 1 3V O L . 7 I S S U E 2 F R E E
“G” is for Genocide (cnt’d from Pg 12)
the late19th and early
20th centuries. There-
fore the subject of repa-
rations is directly relat-
ed to the subject of gen-
ocide because if no at-
tempt is made to hold
accountable those re-
sponsible for over 350
years of past genocidal
behavior such as slav-
ery and segregation,
then there is no need to
expect them to cease
from engaging in cur-
rent genocidal behavior
such as extrajudicial
murder and mass incar-
ceration which is merely
a 21st Century holdover
of the slave patrol and
militia apparatus upon
which the modern con-
cept of American polic-
ing is rooted.
Army rounds up prisoners after the complete destruction
of the Black district of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921
Sources (cnt’d)
The Case for Repa-
rations by Ta-
Nehisi Coates
(click on link be-
low to download or
scan code with
your smartphone):
http://www.theatl
antic.com/magazi
ne/archive/2014/
06/the-case-for-
repara-
tions/361631/
14. P A G E 1 4
Picture of the Month
This 1851 poster issued in Boston warns Black residents against
police officers acting as slave catchers.
15. P A G E 1 5V O L . 7 I S S U E 2 F R E E
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