Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Know Your Rights! Info for Women&Girls When Dealing with Police - Training Tmrw Thurs. Aug. 25 6:30pm


Know Your Rights! Info for Women&Girls When Dealing with Police
Training Tomorrow Thurs. Aug. 25 6:30pm

Black Women's Blueprint & the Muhlenberg NYPL are offering Know Your Rights Trainings for Women and Girls When Interacting With The Police. TOMORROW Thursday August 25th, 2011 - 6:30PM-8pm

AT THE MUHLENBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY - 209 west 23rd Street (near 7th Avenue) New York, NY
FREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP OPEN TO ALL.
Please join them for the an informational session and conversation—Women Know Your Rights When Dealing With the Police: Speaking truth about girls and women’s experiences with police brutality, beatings, sexual harassment, rape, intimidation and other dimensions of violence on various minority communities. It's time to unite our advocacy to end police abuse!
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If you have not heard ANOTHER NYPD Officer was charged with a violent sexual assault recently.
Off-Duty NYPD Cop Accused of Gunpoint Rape in Inwood
August 19, 2011 11:16pm

By Carla Zanoni, Murray Weiss, Ben Fractenberg and Tom Liddy
DNAinfo Staff

INWOOD — An off-duty NYPD cop was arrested Friday for allegedly raping a Bronx school teacher at gunpoint, police said.

The attack unfolded in the rear courtyard of a building on Park Terrace West at approximately 6:45 a.m., according to several witnesses.


Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110819/washington-heights-inwood/man-with-badge-rapes-woman-at-gunpoint-inwood-sources-say##ixzz1VZNSVeXk

Addressing the Justice Gap - NYTimes.com

Food for thought.

Addressing the Justice Gap - NYTimes.com:

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