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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:02:45 -0700<br>
Subject: From Marty Price -- RE: Feelings of Great Love...<br>
From: "Frederick D. Perry"
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3>Dear brothers and Sisters please
distribute this as widely as you can . Don’t assume that we have the same
email lists. Getting this from both of us would be a little annoying
getting this from neither of us could leave a good friend in the dark.
Even the best news reports have essentially acted as judge and jury in
the case... Help get the word out to the network.<br>
FREDERICK DOUGLASS PERRY - Smoke<br>
-- <br>
</font><font size=4> "If you stick a knife nine inches
into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if
you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing
the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the
knife."<br>
El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)<br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3><b><i>From Marty Price:<br><br>
</i></b>Dear Brothers and sisters, friends and comrades,<br><br>
Thank you so much for the kind words for Styles. Styles indeed did
stand tall during this debacle. Being implicated by someone you
knew in an insane murder for whatever reason is maddening. The fact
that don Juan not only absurdly "confessed" to something he
probably did not do shows you the effect of a lifetime of criminal
addiction in a person who is a known schizoid, a person who has been
institutionalized twice that we know about, who has self medicated with
cocaine, heroin and liquor for over thirty five years is
abysmal.<br><br>
You put a deranged, delusional junkie in the hands of an opportunist,
prevaricator like Lt. Russell Lopes of Berkeley Police department...and
you find an innocent man behind bars, his life completely
disrupted. The fact that this so-called police lt. could contrive
evidence, publicly lie about a composite picture, a graphic sketch
wherein he can now see by running the pictures back on a computer dating
scheme matches Styles to the shooter is preposterous. The original
composite done with the only eye witness showed a dark or brown skinned
black man, with an Asiatic cast to his eyes. Styles does look like
a whiteman with no possible match, but yet this rent a cop(I say that
because he is retired and should stay that way) can publicly lie shows
his viciousness is boundless.<br><br>
The authorities announced that Styles would be freed 26 hrs before he
actually was. They did not bring him to court yesterday for his
appearance and then would not tell us where he was. His attorney
then called and told Styles wife that Styles would be released from Santa
Rita at five. Styles son Sandor and I waited from five until 1:30
in the morning for his release. One of my former students was
released around midnight. He hugged me when he saw me and told me Styles
was being held in a cell and handcuffed the whole time he was in the
cell. I guess handcuffing an innocent man, who has had no charges
against in , in a cell would indeed prevent him from being a flight
risk. I maintain that this Berkeley ex-cop probably trained the
idiots working at Abu Gharib. This Lt. can do what he does because
most of the police establishment in this country is above scrutiny.
The newspeople who waited with me where completely amazed, "wow they
really have it in for your brother" Of course it was easy to
check on who Styles is character wise as everyone in this town basically
knows my brother and our family.<br><br>
Our family is genuinely concerned for the pain caused to Officer
Sukamoto's family, but our family has suffered this kind of loss
also. Our cousin living in the affluent community of Malibu, Ca.
was raped and murdered at the age of 14. Her body(remains where
found under a bush high in Latigo Canyon. Of course her killers
were never found, she was a black girl living among the well to do, a
high achiever, a talented musician, but at the end of the day she was a
black girl who received no justice even though my comrades Kenny, and
Fernando gave the cops the names of the killers.<br><br>
We also feel for the family of Don Juan Graphenreed. His brothers
Joey and Reggie along with his mother were shocked to know that Don had
implicated Styles and accused him of being the shooter, but then they
have had to live with the lies caused by his illness and addiction for
all of his adult life. A man devoid of conscious, who has stolen
from his kids, grandkids and everyone in his family.<br><br>
We have been completely gratified by the response of our family, extended
family and friends world wide. If indeed they had attempted to
arraign Styles the courthouse would have been packed. Our union
brothers and sisters from local 510 were prepared to leave Moscone at
lunch to support him, and he received support of the Oakland teachers
union as well.<br><br>
This Lt.. Lopes needs to be challenged and dismissed. Not only
slandering our brother, but the deliberate slander of the Black Panther
Party as well. If memory serves us correctly it was 24(?) panthers
murdered by the police in an 18 month period nationally and not one cop
brought to justice(read the public record of the cops who murdered Fred
Hampton and Mark Clark....it is schooling that these men were given
immunity for murdering a man their own informer had drugged). WE as
a family supported the efforts of the BPP and the memories of the fine
young brothers and sisters who attempt to do something monumental in the
face of our people's history in the US. we salute them! Venceremos,
Martyp</font> <br>
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