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Police declare 'open season' on Black community

by Betsey Piette, Workers World | 05.15.2008

Showing little concern for victims of police brutality, John McGrody, vice president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police, said that “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” means nothing to him. (Philadelphia Daily News, May 8)

In the same issue of the Daily News, columnist Michael Smerconish, a former attorney for the FOP, openly advocated that police should shoot suspects to save the time and expense of jury trials!

Police declare 'open season' on Black community

By Betsey Piette

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Ramona Africa and Linn Washington Jr. at the PhillyIMC, RNC 2000

by Democracy Now! | 05.14.2008

Check out this Democracy Now! interview broadcast from the Philly IMC during the RNC 2000, providing background on May 13, 1985 and the overall legalized brutality of the Philadelphia PD.

Democracy Now!

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Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Thugs

by Mumia Abu-Jamal | 05.14.2008

How much do you wanna bet that the cops, who were caught on film in the midst of aggravated assault, and as they committed the crime in common, criminal conspiracy, are never charged with these crimes -- and probably will never be arrested?

Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Thugs

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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