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Police Target PAPV Organizer
by david
Wednesday, Sep. 03, 2003 at 1:31 PM
david@heartofdarkness.org
People Against Police Violence under attack
People Against Police Violence
801 Union Place, Suite 420
Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5523
For Immediate Release: September 3, 2003
Contact: Nathaniel Glosser, 412-322-1330 (cell)
People Against Police Violence under attack; Director to surrender herself to police today at 4 PM
Renee Wilson, director of People Against Police Violence (PAPV) will turn herself into police today at 4 PM at the Municipal Courts Building, 660 First Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh in response to a warrant issued by a Mt. Oliver magistrate. PAPV is scheduled to march in Mt. Oliver this Saturday.
The charges, which have no merit, were initiated by Mt. Oliver police after PAPV applied for a permit to march there to demonstrate for justice for two men who were killed in the borough � Charles Dixon, killed on December 21 by Mt. Oliver and Pittsburgh police, and Damian Jordan, who died in Mt. Oliver police custody in 1999.
Two weeks ago, three members of Ms. Wilson�s family were arrested while handing out flyers for the event in Mt. Oliver. Similar charges to those brought against Ms. Wilson were brought.
According to Nathaniel Glosser, president of the Rosenberg Institute for Peace & Justice, PAPV�s sponsoring organization, all of the charges brought are a result of PAPV�s advocacy for prosecution of members of the Mt. Oliver police. �They�re scared, so they are pulling out all the stops � bringing trumped-up charges against Ms. Wilson and her family in an effort to get them to back off. They want us to cancel the march and keep our mouths shut so that the deaths of Damian and Charles will be forgotten. We will not stop. We will not back off. Ms. Wilson will not go away. Nor will I nor the other members of PAPV. What the Mt. Oliver officials do not realize is that even if they succeed in jailing us, there are a dozen people ready to step up and take the lead. The peace and justice community will not stop until we have justice for Damian and Charles, until we have justice for all the victims of police violence, and until we stop all future acts of needless police brutality and killing.�
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