Lawmakers make 'hands up' gesture on House floor
By LUCY MCCALMONT | 12/2/14
Several lawmakers took to the House floor Monday evening to make the “Hands up, don’t shoot,”
gesture to protest the police shooting of the unarmed Ferguson teen, Michael Brown.
“Hands up, don’t shoot. It’s a rallying cry of people all across America who are fed up with police violence,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said as he took the floor. “In community, after community, after community, fed up with police violence in Ferguson, in Brooklyn, in Cleveland, in Oakland, in cities and counties and rural communities all across America.”
Jeffries added that people are fed up with injustice, a broken criminal justice system and “continuing to see young, unarmed African-American men killed as a result of a gunshot fired by a law enforcement officer.”
(Also on POLITICO: White House debated Ferguson trip)
“Now this is a problem that Congress can’t run away from and the [Congressional Black Caucus]
By LUCY MCCALMONT | 12/2/14
Several lawmakers took to the House floor Monday evening to make the “Hands up, don’t shoot,”
gesture to protest the police shooting of the unarmed Ferguson teen, Michael Brown.
“Hands up, don’t shoot. It’s a rallying cry of people all across America who are fed up with police violence,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said as he took the floor. “In community, after community, after community, fed up with police violence in Ferguson, in Brooklyn, in Cleveland, in Oakland, in cities and counties and rural communities all across America.”
Jeffries added that people are fed up with injustice, a broken criminal justice system and “continuing to see young, unarmed African-American men killed as a result of a gunshot fired by a law enforcement officer.”
(Also on POLITICO: White House debated Ferguson trip)
“Now this is a problem that Congress can’t run away from and the [Congressional Black Caucus]
stands here today to make sure that Congress runs toward the problem,” Jeffries said. “That we
come up with constructive solutions to breaking this cycle, this epidemic, this scourge of police
violence all across America.”
Joining Jeffries were Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Al Green (D- Texas), who praised the handful of St. Louis Rams’ players for also making the “hands up” gesture as they entered the field for their game on Sunday.
“This has become the new symbol, a new statement, a statement wherein people around the country now, are calling to the attention of those who don’t quite understand that this is a movement that will not dissipate, it will not evaporate. It is a movement that is going to continue,” Green said on the floor.
Cell phone thief busted for kicking a mom holding her baby
Joining Jeffries were Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Al Green (D- Texas), who praised the handful of St. Louis Rams’ players for also making the “hands up” gesture as they entered the field for their game on Sunday.
“This has become the new symbol, a new statement, a statement wherein people around the country now, are calling to the attention of those who don’t quite understand that this is a movement that will not dissipate, it will not evaporate. It is a movement that is going to continue,” Green said on the floor.
While these fools try to create a mythological victim, cities like Newark NJ are suffering from crime, murder and shootings. If you watch the news from places like NYC and the crime reports you see that profiling is a false argument.
Cell phone thief busted for kicking a mom holding her baby
The cell phone snatcher who assaulted a woman holding her 3-month-old baby has been arrested after cops found him hiding out at his uncle’s Bronx home, cops said Tuesday.
Alonzo Brown, 18, allegedly kicked the 24-year-old mom in the back near East Tremont Avenue and Bronx Park Avenue in West Farms around 12:45 a.m. Friday, according to police.
The victim and her child, who was nestled to her chest, fell to the ground and suffered minor injuries, cops said. They have since been treated and released from Jacobi Medical Center, authorities said.
Cops caught up with Brown early Tuesday at about 9:30 a.m., police sources said.
He was hiding out in his uncle’s Decatur Avenue apartment in Bedford Park, police sources said.
Brown has prior arrests for petit larceny and at least two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.Charges in this case are still pending, cops said.
A side note:
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said as he took the floor. “In community, after community, after community, fed up with police violence in Ferguson, in Brooklyn, in Cleveland, in Oakland, in cities and counties and rural communities all across America.”
Hakeem Jefferies is the nephew of the famous jew hater Leonard Jefferies.
He achieved national prominence in the early 1990s when he claimed that Jews financed the slave trade, used the movie industry to hurt black people, and that whites are "ice people" while Africans are "sun people". Jeffries was discharged from his position as chairman of the black studies department at CUNY, leading to a lengthy legal battle.[1][2][3] Dr. Jeffries was reinstated. In November 1994 the Supreme Court told the appeals court to reconsider after a related Supreme Court decision.
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