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A Port Canaveral police sergeant was fired Friday after an internal investigation showed he offered other officers a target resembling Trayvon Martin to use for shooting practice.

Sgt. Ron King, a firearms instructor and two-year veteran of the force, offered the target of a hoodie-wearing figure at the range near Cocoa during the first week of April, Rosalind Harvey, a port spokeswoman, said Saturday.

anotheriteration:

TOMORROW

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Oakland, California: Rally For Alan Blueford: Demand Prosecution for OPD Officer Miguel Masso!

March 5, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Alameda Courthouse & District Attorney’s Offices
12th Street & Oak Street
Oakland,CA 94612

justice4alanblueford.org
alanblueford@yahoo.ca

If you’re in the Bay Area you’ve got to be there tomorrow!

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Another picture from the US embassy in Cairo after protestors stormed it yesterday, seizing and burning the American flag.

No good deed goes unpunished in Oakland.

The mercenary crew known as the Oakland Police Department raided the Victor Martinez People’s Library in the early hours of this morning, evicting the librarians on site and boarding up the building.

When a young man from my neighborhood was murdered a block from his house two months ago the police response was essentially zero. No team of squad cars, no cordoning off the site, no attempt at investigation at all as far as we can tell.

But when people in Oakland try to serve the community and open a public space that’s really public, dozens of cops descend immediately. City workers are woken at midnight and rushed to the site in order to board up the building under cover of darkness.

To borrow a phrase from Noam Chomsky, the people’s library presents the threat of a good example. If people see a community center opened outside of the law, without the intervention of the city or a church — then they might start thinking about what else they could do for themselves and maybe question why the city and the cops have so much power in the first place.

That’s why no good deed will continue to go unpunished in Oakland.

PS to Oaklanders: Meet outside the library (1449 Miller) at 10:00 this morning for a meeting about what to do next.

ETA: The people’s library has set back up on the sidewalk outside the same site today. Come down and borrow a book or (better yet!) come talk with us about next steps and what else we can do to keep changing our community for the better, Jean Quan and OPD notwithstanding.

Source for photo: Indybay

At 4:00am this morning the Lakeview Sit-in and People’s School for Public Education was raided by 40 cops.

All people present were forced to evacuate and two arrests were made.

But the fight does not end here…

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urbanafrofuturism:

I do believe I was one of these stops.

Domestic terrorism.

White supremacy in action. NYPD’s “Stop and Frisk” policy is a significant component of America’s infamous criminal “justice” program, which works out in practice like this:

Or another way to look at it:

(Images from the Prison Policy Initiative)

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thepoliticalnotebook:

Back to Tahrir. Protesters returned to the streets ahead of parliamentary elections and the ensuing violence is now in its second day. Police doused the crowds with tear gas, rubber bullets, and “birdshot” pellet cartridges and clashes erupted with protesters, including mutual stone-throwing. Two are dead and more than 600 have been injured so far.

Ursula Lindsey over at The Arabist writes:

These clashes feel almost unavoidable, given the military council’s terrible performance, the increasing vocal criticism it is facing, the rising tensions of all kinds surrounding the upcoming (poorly planned, utterly confusing) elections — given the terribly unclear transition process that has been put in place, and the fact that none of the revolution’s demands, including the reform of the security forces and real transitional justice, have been met.

Indeed, the transition has been going very poorly, with the Supreme Council of Armed Forces and the people increasingly at odds over lack of progress and the apparent moves of SCAF to gain political power. 

Above: A protester with the Egyptian flag. Photo Credit: Reuters. [Via.]

Al Jazeera now reporting at least 11 dead in Tahrir today. To hell with SCAF and all cops and armies! Victory to the Egyptian revolution!

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