Support sean bell and his family in court!

Join People’s Justice in front of the Queens Criminal court house Monday February 25th at 9am to Support Sean, Joseph, and Trent and call for justice for all of victims of police brutality.

Monday February 25th

@ the Queens Criminal Courthouse
900am 125-01 Queens Blvd. near Hoover Ave & 82nd Ave.
E or F train to Union Turnpike 

Sean Bell was murdered by the NYPD in a hail of 50 bullets in November 2006. For more information and to support his family in honoring his life and calling for justice, attend the Monthly Vigil on Sat, Feb 23rd at 7pm. Near the 103rd. Precinct (168th. Street & 91st. Ave.)

Take the F train to 169th. Street stop (exit at  the 168th St. exit) and walk down the hill.

Police Murder Victim Khiel Coppin

Peoples' Justice – a coalition of NYC-based grassroots organizations fighting police brutality -

has issued this statement today condemning last night's killing by the New York Police Department (NYPD) of 18-year-old Khiel Coppin. 

(this item written by Gabriel Thompson originally appears in ColorLines Issue #47 Nov/Dec )

From the moment that the trigger was pulled, the shooting by the police of an unarmed Black male followed a familiar trajectory.

Early in the morning of January 24, 2004, Timothy Stansbury Jr. and his friend Terrence Fisher were enjoying a birthday party in a friend’s apartment when they left to retrieve additional compact discs (Fisher was the party DJ). They took to the roof, a technically prohibited but commonly used shortcut for residents moving within the buildings of the Louis Armstrong Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. They picked up the CDs at Fisher’s apartment, were joined by another companion and headed back up the stairs to return to the party.

Just before 1 a.m., the threesome reached the top of the stairwell, with 19-year-old Stansbury in the lead. As he arrived at the door leading to the roof, it swung open from the outside, and a single bullet was fired into his chest, landing between his ribs and cutting through all three lobes of his right lung. He tumbled down the stairs, bleeding profusely. The high school senior died less than three hours later.