[Ppnews] Cynthia McKinney - assault on Reverend Yearwood

[Political Prisoner News]

>From Cynthia McKinney

Let me state from the outset that I am sickened by video footage,  available
on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiradcejA6o ), of the assault on
Reverend Yearwood by the Capitol Hill Police.  Nowhere on the internet is
the footage available of the press conference I had on the subject of
certain Capitol Hill police officers.  But at that press conference were
black Georgia constituents who told of the utter contempt with which they
were treated at the hands of certain Capitol Hill police officers.  Kudos to
whoever it was in the hallway at the time of Yearwood's incident who had the
video or cellphone camera and the smarts to record it all.  I understand
Reverend Yearwood's leg was broken--all because he wanted to hear Petraeus
testify before Congress.  But what's more incredible is that according to my
friends, there has been absolutely no coverage at all of this incident in
what we call the mainstream media and that there have been no--repeat--no
Members of Congress to speak out against this travesty.  Kudos to Glen Ford
of www.blackagendareport.com and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! for covering
this incident.  The video will take only 7 minutes of your time, please
watch it.  Of course, the police charged Reverend Yearwood with a crime,
just like in New York, they've charged the Warrens, noted civil rights
attorneys, for having the audacity to take down the license plate numbers of
NYPD officers involved in beating a young, handcuffed Latino man.  I'm also
told that in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania another incident, this time involvidng
a woman, Diane White, was beaten and maced by cops, after having been pulled
away and out of site of the Festival she had organized for neighborhood
children.  This happens in the midst of two unthinkable incidents:  the Jena
6 situation in Louisiana with the imbroglio that has resulted from black
teenagers sitting under the "white tree" in the Jena High schoolyard and the
situation in West Virginia where a 20-year-old black woman was kidnapped,
raped, and tortured amid racial epithets and the Feds decide yesterday that
it's not a hate crime!  Unarmed blacks and Latinos are attacked and killed
in city after city across this country and there is little justice to be
found in the courts.  It is clear that our country needs a peace and justice
movement that brings people from all backgrounds together with a single
vision:  to make a better U.S.A. for all of us and the world!  If people in
Haiti and Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba, Nicaragua and Brazil can do it, I
know we can do it, too!


Claude Marks
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