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<font size=3>Subject: SUPPORT BLACK PANTHER JACK JOHNSON JUNE 23 IN
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From: Afrykah WubSauda <afrykahwubsauda@gmail.com><br><br>
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<dd>The Campaign to Free Jack Johnson Needs 200 People to Fill the
Courtroom!<br>
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<dd>WHERE: </b>Clarence Mitchell Jr. Courthouse, Courtroom 236<br>
<dd>Calvert & Fayette Streets (Calvert Street entrance), downtown
Baltimore<br>
<dd>WHEN:</b> Tuesday, June 23, 2009<br>
<dd>TIME: </b>1:30 p.m. (be very early so that we get seats and fill
courtroom)<br>
<dd>STRATEGY:</b> Quiet, disciplined but organized support for Jack
Johnson<br>
<dd>GOAL:</b> Jack Johnson, a beloved Black Panther, Must Come Home!<br>
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<dd>FOR INFORMATION OR FOR RIDE FROM D.C., call Black August Planning
Organization at (202) 561-2898.<br><br>
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<a href="http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/pdf/Baltimore/An_interview_with_Baltimore_Black_Panther_Nana_Njinga_Conway_.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/pdf/Baltimore/An_interview_with_Baltimore_Black_Panther_Nana_Njinga_Conway_.pdf</a>
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</dl>From </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><b><i>An interview
with Baltimore Black Panther Nana Njinga Conway, the wife of political
prisoner<br>
Eddie Conway </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=1>by POCC
Minister of Information JR<br><br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=1>We'll go back to how
they manifested these false charges: In 1970, two police officers were
attacked by what according to<br>
police reports were three Black men who
"they"</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=1>identified as members of the
Black Panther Party.<br><br>
When they arrested two members of the Black Panther Party, one of them
was a man named Jack Johnson. Jack Johnson was beaten<br>
and coerced into signing a statement that they wrote, and in that
statement, it stated that he, Jack Johnson, and Jack Powell was the<br>
other Panther that got arrested, were involved in the police shooting,
and that Eddie Conway was also involved.<br><br>
They beat Jack, and they beat him so bad that when we finally got access
to Jack, he had so much bodily damage that we had to go to<br>
court to get him taken to the hospital, to have him seen at the hospital.
And he stayed in the hospital for a couple of days.<br><br>
During that time, the lawyer who had access to him, Jack told him that he
had been beaten to sign a confession that wasn't true.<br>
But by that time they had gone to Eddie's job and picked him up and
arrested him, and they were holding him without charging him.<br>
So once Jack was under his own legal counsel, he recanted the statement,
saying that he was coerced into signing the statement. So<br>
they had no grounds to hold Eddie, but they continued to hold
him.<br><br>
And we continued to try to get him released because they had no case.
Then the police officer who came to the assistance of the two<br>
police officers down was taken into a room and given two stacked decks of
pictures. In the two stacked decks of pictures, one stack had<br>
maybe eight pictures in it, and the other might have had 12. I'm not
certain on the numbers, but it was very low numbers in both<br>
stacks,<br><br>
The only picture that was duplicated in both stacks was Eddie's. And that
is the way in which they tell someone, "This is the<br>
person we're looking for."</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=1>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=1>So they used a stacked deck
and didn't have to, because they had his body there and could've put him
in a lineup.<br>
Then it would've been only the lineup, but they didn't do that. They had
this police officer to testify and say that he saw the<br>
person that was fleeing from him and shooting at him from a distance in a
dark alley and said that that was Eddie. What they also<br>
did was go into the Maryland House of Corrections and where they had a
paid jail house informant.<br><br>
That jail house informant had some more time to do in Jessup. I don't
know how much time, but after he got through doing this time<br>
in Jessup, he would be extradited to Michigan for some forgery charges,
because he had some other charges to face.<br>
What they did was cut a deal with him. They took him from Jessup and put
him in city jail, which is unheard of. If you're gonna<br>
extradite somebody, they take them directly to the other place, they
don't risk the flight of a prisoner by moving him from one jail to<br>
the other, just to the jail that they are taking him to.<br><br>
But what they did was take him down and put him in Eddie's cell for a
day, and in that day that he was in the cell with him, he went<br>
to Michigan. And then probably on their instructions, he wrote back to
the Baltimore police station and said that "I was in jail and
in<br>
the cell with Eddie Conway, and within the hours that I was in there with
him, he confessed to me and told me that he killed the police<br>
officer."<br><br>
And then he told them that he could prove it, because also Eddie had told
him that he had taken the officer's watch. And so they<br>
used that to go into court with. Jack told his lawyer that when they put
him on the stand to testify that Eddie was a part of it, he refused<br>
to testify against Eddie.<br><br>
What they did do was try to cut a deal with Jack and said that if you
would go on and testify against him and keep this statement like we<br>
got it "even though we're sure you have something to do with
it" we'll give you complete immunity and drop you off of the<br>
case. But Jack couldn't do it in good conscience, because he knew it was
a lie, and he wouldn't do that.<br><br>
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