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civilian oversight
National Day Against Police Brutality - Rally & March @ Poelker Park
Wednesday, October 22, 4:00 pm
Poelker Park, Tucker and Market across from City Hall
Tow Local Control BACK to St. Louis!!
No More Police Corruption & Scandals!!
Civilian Oversight of the Police Now!!
Speakers to include family members of police violence, police carjackings, community leaders, and others.
Wear black. Wear black. Wear black.
Sponsor: Coaltion Against Police Crimes and Repression (CAPCR)
Contact: 314-454-9005, capcr_cob@hotmail.com
Date:
10/22/2008 - 4:00pm - 10/22/2008 - 6:00pmCAPCR Press Conference 7/22 @ City Hall -- Police Impound Scandal
Please attend a Press Conference being held by the Coalition Against Police Crimes and Repression. The Press Conference will be at City Hall (on the Tucker Side) at noon on Tuesday, July 22. We will be giving our response to the current Police Department scandal--in which officers and the Chief’s daughter benefited from the private use of impounded vehicles. Police Commissioners have tried to cover up the inappropriate nature of the relationship between the Department and the Towing company. We need your show of support!
Date:
07/22/2008 - 12:00pmCAPCR Press Conference 7/22 -- Police Impound Scandal
Please attend a Press Conference being held by the Coalition Against Police
Crimes and Repression. The Press Conference will be at City Hall (on the Tucker
Side) at noon on Tuesday, July 22.
We will be giving our response to the current Police Department scandal--in which officers and the Chief’s daughter benefited from the private use of impounded vehicles. Police Commissioners have tried to cover up the inappropriate nature of the relationship between the Department and the Towing company. We need your show of support! Let the City
know that we need Local Control to hold this Department accountable.
More info:
Civilian Oversight Board Campaign
capcr_cob@hotmail.com
Upcoming Jerome Johnson Civil Trial
Jerome Johnson is suing the St. Louis Police Dept. and the City of St. Louis for
civil rights violations relating to his original shooting by St. Louis police and
the subsequent harassment which went on for years. This trial has the possibility of
exposing a pattern of abuse by a broad spectrum of St. Louis law enforcement. All
who are interested are invited to attend the trial, which begins January 22, 9:00
a.m. in the Eagleton Federal Courts Building. It is being held in the courtroom of
Judge Perry.
Most of you will remember the Jerome Johnson case. At age sixteen, he was shot seven
times and survived. Police claimed that he shot at them, but newspaper
investigations and eyewitness accounts discredited much of the police testimony. In
2002 Jerome was found innocent of all charges in a trial which exposed police
accounts as totally impossible to accept.
Before and after the trial, Jerome was subjected to constant harassment. He was
arrested on a gun charge which lacked any substance. He was shot at under suspicious
