Morning Report: Disturbing Hint from Councilman

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/morning-report-disturbing-hint-councilman/

By Ken Stone on Apr 29, 2015 05:00 am

Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman is gunning to crack the “code of silence” some think permeates the SDPD. But what about the City Council’s own self-imposed gag order?

After a council vote to settle two lawsuits with victims who allege sexual abuse by San Diego police officers (at a tab of $1.56 million), Councilman David Alvarez released a statement: “The actions that led to this settlement sicken me, and if I was at liberty to talk about them, I think the public would agree we need to face this problem head on and hold management accountable.”

VOSD’s Catherine Green and Liam Dillon gathered all we know. Alvarez also declined in March to talk about disgraced ex-cop Christopher Hays and the suits he spawned.

“He said a federal report on SDPD, which was released around the same time, gave him ongoing concerns about how supervisors handle potential misconduct by patrol officers,” they wrote.

“Many organizers at the forefront of the protests are women, and many members of the Gilmor Homes community with key involvement in the protests are very young people. On Saturday, women marshaled the march along, maintaining energy, leading chants from megaphones, and even ensuring that a female member of Freddie Gray’s family, who joined the march in her wheelchair, was able to stay on the front lines.

However, the visibility, or lack thereof, of black women in the protest narrative has also been problematic; early in the week, religious leaders explicitly called for men to march in front of women, for the purpose of protection, which the women in the crowd largely ignored in favor of a more egalitarian marching formation. Some male organizers made similar suggestions at Friday night’s small demonstration, stating that men should walk in front and on the sides of Saturday’s march to prevent women and children from being grabbed by law enforcement officials or hit by cars whose drivers became agitated during demonstrations that disrupt traffic.

A female member of Baltimore Bloc, one of the groups protesting the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, who wished to remain anonymous explained that this behavior likely occurred without people within organizations realizing their implications. A Baltimore organizer since 2007, and a marshal at Saturday’s protest, she said it is “kind of a natural habit to not realize the lack of acknowledgment of women,” but that those habits vary from group to group, and that media tend to focus on the presence and actions of men more than those of women.”

http://touch.citypaper.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83403015/

http://blackspaceblog.com/2014/12/08/an-open-letter-of-love-to-black-students-blacklivesmatter/

http://www.crunkfeministcollective.com/2015/04/28/a-black-mothers-love-or-what-love-looks-like-in-public/

United Against Police Terror – San Diego Call of Action in Solidarity with Baltimore Protests for Freddie Gray who died in Police custody after being beaten so bad 80% of his spinal cord was severed, and Mya Hall, 27 who was killed when officers opened fire Monday after allegedly crashed into a guard post at the National Security Agency, 28 miles away.

Mya Hall, 27 killed and Brittany Fleming, 20 was injured when officers opened fire Monday after the pair allegedly crashed into a guard post at the National Security Agency, 28 miles away.

“Now, their friends in Baltimore’s historic Old Goucher neighborhood, many with questions about the encounter with law enforcement, are in mourning. Death, they say, comes too often, too young and too easy to a transgender population marginalized by a society that they say forces some to resort to prostitution, or what they call becoming “survivor sex workers.”.http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/baltimores-transgender-community-mourns-one-of-their-own-slain-by-police/2015/04/03/2f657da4-d88f-11e4-8103-fa84725dbf9d_story.html

San Diego has recorded over 200 #SDSTOLENLIVES] by killer cops, over 700 people have been murdered by killer cops since #MIKEBROWN]. Will San Diego be rising for #BaltimoreSolidarity as well as for our own?

Meetup at 6pm at Rosa Parks Rec Center aka City Heights Performance Annex March will start at 7pm
3795 Fairmount Ave, San Diego, CA 92105

Remember to connect what’s happening at a national level is also happening in San Diego, The same issues that were exposed in #Ferguson, #Baltmore #NewYork ARE in SAN DIEGO. The system of power, White Supremacy, is well and alive in San Diego, hurting marginalized communities. Let’s make sure we seek justice for them. Let’s end the occupation of our communities by Police.

https://uaptsd.org/]

Over 200 #SDSTOLENLIVES, over 700 people murdered since #MIKEBROWN. SD rising for #BmoreSolidarity  as well our own https://uaptsd.org/victims/victims-murdered-by-sd-law-enforcement/

Over 200 #SDSTOLENLIVES, over 700 people murdered since #MIKEBROWN. SD rising for #BmoreSolidarity  as well our own https://uaptsd.org/victims/victims-murdered-by-sd-law-enforcement/