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<p><small><small><small>Kali Akuno<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kaliakuno@mxgm.org" target="_blank"><br>
323 422-6025<br>
kaliakuno@mxgm.org</a> <br>
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<p style="text-align: right;" align="right"><small><small><small>Arlene
Eisen<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:arlene_eisen@sbcglobal.net"
target="_blank"><br>
415 305-7835<br>
arlene_eisen@sbcglobal.net</a></small></small></small></p>
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<p><u>For Immediate Release<b>:</b></u><b> </b></p>
<p><b><i>The U.S. judiciary exonerated hundreds of other “Zimmermans”
since 2012</i>
</b></p>
<p>George Zimmerman, the self-appointed neighborhood watchman,
acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin, is not alone. </p>
<p>In 2012, police officers, security guards and self-appointed
keepers of the peace killed 313 Black men, women and children. Like
the killing of Trayvon Martin, 288 of
these 313 extrajudicial killings involved unnecessary, excessive force.
Yet,
only 26 of the killers were ever charged with a crime—that is the
judicial
system ruled 91% were justified.<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="#13ffc65dab19fc11__ftn1" name="13ffc65dab19fc11__ftnref1"
title=""><span><span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">[1]</span></span></span></a>
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<p>After the Zimmerman verdict additional research found that of
the 15 security guards and self-appointed keepers of the peace charged
with a
crime, only four have been convicted. And of the 11 police officers
charged,
none have been convicted. </p>
<p>“<i>This data demonstrates
that Zimmerman’s acquittal follows the norm that systemically
criminalizes
Black people and institutionalizes denial of our human rights, </i>”
says <b>Kali Akuno</b>, an organizer with the <b>Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement (MXGM)</b>. </p>
<p><i>"Any one of these people
killed could have been my son or your husband or daughter”, </i>remarked
<b>Arlene Eisen</b>, member of the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee and
author
of the <b>Report.</b><i> “The more research I did, the more obvious it
became, that lawsuits
and tweaking laws won’t protect our children or prevent the next George
Zimmerman.”<span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <br>
</span></i></p>
<p><b>Akuno</b> announced a comprehensive
campaign of mass action to challenge hyper-surveillance, stop and
frisk, mass
incarceration and executions of Black people. “<i>Now is the
time for direct action to educate and exact a price for the continued
denial of
Black peoples’ human rights. We join the Boycott of Florida and the
call to
Free Marissa Alexander—the Florida Black woman sentenced to 20 years
for firing
a gun in the direction of her abusive husband. </i> For details, go to
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mxgm.org" target="_blank">www.mxgm.org</a>
or <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.operationghettostorm.org"
target="_blank">www.operationghettostorm.org</a></p>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="#13ffc65dab19fc11__ftnref1"
name="13ffc65dab19fc11__ftn1" title=""><span><span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">[1]</span></span></span></a>
. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">This data comes from <b><i>Operation
Ghetto Storm: 2012
Annual Report on the Extrajudicial Killings of 313 Black People by
Police,
Security Guards, and Vigilantes</i></b>, by Arlene Eisen, MA, MPH,
published by
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement</span>, <span style="font-size: 10pt;">April
2013,
download at </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Operation-Ghetto-Storm.pdf"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Operation-Ghetto-Storm.pdf</span></a><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> or </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.operationghettostorm.org/uploads/1/9/1/1/19110795/operation_ghetto_storm.pdf"
target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.operationghettostorm.org/uploads/1/9/1/1/19110795/operation_ghetto_storm.pdf</span></a><span
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<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">In Unity and Struggle,
<div>Kali </div>
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<div>Visit:</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mxgm.org"
target="_blank">http://www.mxgm.org</a></div>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://navigatingthestorm.blogspot.com"
target="_blank">http://navigatingthestorm.blogspot.com</a><br>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/user/kaliakuno" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/kaliakuno</a><br>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/kali.akuno"
target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/kali.akuno</a><br>
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