[News] Every 40 Hours! Extra-Judicial Killings of Black Women and Men: A New Report!

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Every 40 Hours! Extra-Judicial Killings of Black Women and Men: A New Report!

July 9, 2012

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement releases “Report on 
Extrajudicial Killings of 110 Black People since 
January 1st, 2012.”  Every 40 hours in the United 
States one Black woman, man or child is killed by 
police, and by a smaller number of security 
guards and self-appointed vigilantes.  These are 
the startling findings of a 
<http://www.voxunion.com/ExtraJudicialExecutions.pdf>new 
report on Extrajudicial Killings of Black People 
released July 9, 2012.  What motivated the 
round-the-clock research for this new 
Report?  More than two years ago, on New Year’s 
Eve, police killed two innocent men: Oscar Grant 
in Oakland, Adolph Grimes in New Orleans and shot 
Robert Tolan in a Houston suburb. Based on 
research started in 2009 after those murders, we 
learned there were a lot more killings that had 
not yet been uncovered. Then, after Trayvon’s 
murder, there was a huge public outcry and a few 
headlines about more killings. More grieving 
families and more calls for investigation. 
Further research became urgent and it 
demonstrated that Trayvon’s death was not an 
isolated tragedy. Between January 1, 2012 and 
June 30, 2012, at least 110 Black people were 
killed by police and their “deputies.”

For Immediate Release:

Contact: Rosa Clemente
Phone: 413-345-4018
Email: clementerosa at gmail.com

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement releases “Report on 
Extrajudicial Killings of 110 Black People since January 1st, 2012.”

Every 40 hours in the United States one Black 
woman, man or child is killed by police, and by a 
smaller number of security guards and 
self-appointed vigilantes.  These are the 
startling findings of a new Report on 
Extrajudicial Killings of Black People released July 9, 2012.

What motivated the round-the-clock research for 
this new Report?  More than two years ago, on New 
Year’s Eve, police killed two innocent men: Oscar 
Grant in Oakland, Adolph Grimes in New Orleans 
and shot Robert Tolan in a Houston suburb. Based 
on research started in 2009 after those murders, 
we learned there were a lot more killings that 
had not yet been uncovered. Then, after Trayvon’s 
murder, there was a huge public outcry and a few 
headlines about more killings. More grieving 
families and more calls for investigation. 
Further research became urgent and it 
demonstrated that Trayvon’s death was not an 
isolated tragedy. Between January 1, 2012 and 
June 30, 2012, at least 110 Black people were 
killed by police and their “deputies”.

“Any one of these people killed could have been 
my son or your husband or daughter”, says Arlene 
Eisen, member of the Malcolm X Solidarity 
Committee and co-author of the Report.

Rosa Clemente of the Malcolm X Grassroots 
Movement elaborates, “Nowhere is a Black woman or 
man safe from racial profiling, invasive 
policing, constant surveillance, and overriding 
suspicion.  All Black people – regardless of 
education, class, occupation, behavior or dress – 
are subject to the whims of the police in this 
epidemic of state initiated or condoned violence.”

The Report, produced by the Malcolm X Grassroots 
Movement (MXGM) and the “No More Trayvon Martins” 
campaign, is part of a larger effort. Kali Akuno, 
MXGM member and report co-author explained, “The 
Report shows how people of African descent remain 
subjected to institutionalized racist policies 
and procedures that arbitrarily stop, frisk, 
arrest, brutalize and even execute Black people. 
The killing will continue despite calls for 
investigations and lawsuits. We urge people to 
read this Report and join us in demanding that 
the Obama administration implement a National 
Plan of Action for Racial Justice to stop these 
killings and other human rights violations being committed by the government”.

To read the report visit 
<http://mxgm.org/>www.mxgm.org. For information 
on the petition visit 
<http://www.ushrnetwork.org/content/webform/trayvon-martin-petition>http://www.ushrnetwork.org/content/webform/trayvon-martin-petition.

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<http://www.voxunion.com/ExtraJudicialExecutions.pdf>DOWNLOAD 
AND SHARE THE REPORT HERE!




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