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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE :
POLICE BRUTALITY :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, NEW YORK, NEW YORK:
After Baltimore, a Call to Reclaim Mothers Day
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Published on Thursday, April 30, 2015
Valerie Bell
Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/30/
after-baltimore-call-reclaim-mothers-day
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/lfbvs4x
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Its hard for me to celebrate on Mothers Day. I feel the absence of my
23-year-old son, Sean Elijah Bell, who was killed on November 25, 2006. He
was out celebrating at his own bachelor party with his friends in New York
City. It was only a matter of a hours before his wedding, and I was so
thrilled.
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Sean and his friends were enjoying their night at a club where there
happened to be three undercover police officers present, conducting an
investigation of the club. A confrontation between patrons erupted
outside. One of the undercover officers, Isnora, said he overheard that
Seans friend was going to get his gun, and after calling in for backup,
Isnora followed my son and his friends to their car.
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Isnoras lieutenant had given him the order to proceed with further action.
But Isnora never identified himself as an officer, nor did he show a badge
when he pulled out his own gun and approached my son and his friends in
the car. My son, not seeing the officers badge, but only a man confronting
him with a gun, kept driving. Suddenly Isnora began to open fire, followed
by the two additional undercover officers who had arrived as backup. The
officers said later they thought they heard gunfire coming from Seans car,
but it was the other officers bullets ricocheting. One officer fired 31
shots and continuously reloaded.
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A total of 50 shots were fired at Seans car; 4 of them entered his body,
killing him.
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That was eight years ago but not much has changed since then. Seemingly
every week another unarmed black man is in the news, having been killed by
a police officer or vigilante who made another fatally false assumption.
Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott,
Rekia Boyd, Freddie Gray the list goes on. These were all sons and
daughters to someone.
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This year we are taking back the original intention of Mothers Day: a day
founded for mothers to stand up together to make collective demands. After
the Civil War and the economic turmoil that followed, American
abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, horrified by the wars and devastation of her
time, penned a proclamation to mothers everywhere:
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Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and
applause, she wrote. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all
that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience.
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It
says: Disarm, disarm!
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Howe called on women to promote the alliance of the different
nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the
great and general interests of peace.
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Its now a century after the founding of Mothers Day, and our sons are
still being taken from us. Society has not disarmed, but instead has
militarized to the teeth. Mothers sons everywhere are still killing and
being killed. We have had enough.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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David Dillard
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