DC Vigil For Delegation Of Grieving Mothers 31
Washington DC, Wednesday December 10, 2014. Around 200 social justice activists assembled at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the US Department Of Justice in a Vigil For Delegation Of Grieving Mothers who've lost sons to police violence. Many of the women spoke movingly about the loss of their sons and of their experience seeking but not finding justice. The event was hosted by Mothers Against Police Brutality, CODEPINK, National Congress Of Black Women and Hands Up DC Coalition. The killing of Trayvon Martin by cop wannabe George Zimmerman and the failure by grand juries to indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner have reenergized the movement against police brutality. Many of the women present here tonight have been working on this issue for decades. In this photograph Dorothy Copp Elliott addresses the crowd. Dorothy's son Archie was shot and killed by PG County and District Heights cops on June 18, 1993 in District Heights, Maryland at a DWI traffic stop as he was driving home from his construction job in Virginia. Officers Jason Leavitt of the District Heights Police and Prince Georges County cop Wayne Cheney who were at the scene claimed that he brandished a handgun at them while he was handcuffed behind his back in custody in a police cruiser. No such handgun has ever been found. The cops fired 22 rounds at Archie, 14 finding their mark, and ended his young life. Both officers were acquitted of the murder. Just a year later Cheyney would be acquitted again for yet another killing. By the way, I'm from PG county, a proud 1971 graduate of Prince George's Community College. Back in the day PG was like Mississippi if you were on the wrong side of the badge.
DC Vigil For Delegation Of Grieving Mothers 31
Washington DC, Wednesday December 10, 2014. Around 200 social justice activists assembled at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the US Department Of Justice in a Vigil For Delegation Of Grieving Mothers who've lost sons to police violence. Many of the women spoke movingly about the loss of their sons and of their experience seeking but not finding justice. The event was hosted by Mothers Against Police Brutality, CODEPINK, National Congress Of Black Women and Hands Up DC Coalition. The killing of Trayvon Martin by cop wannabe George Zimmerman and the failure by grand juries to indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner have reenergized the movement against police brutality. Many of the women present here tonight have been working on this issue for decades. In this photograph Dorothy Copp Elliott addresses the crowd. Dorothy's son Archie was shot and killed by PG County and District Heights cops on June 18, 1993 in District Heights, Maryland at a DWI traffic stop as he was driving home from his construction job in Virginia. Officers Jason Leavitt of the District Heights Police and Prince Georges County cop Wayne Cheney who were at the scene claimed that he brandished a handgun at them while he was handcuffed behind his back in custody in a police cruiser. No such handgun has ever been found. The cops fired 22 rounds at Archie, 14 finding their mark, and ended his young life. Both officers were acquitted of the murder. Just a year later Cheyney would be acquitted again for yet another killing. By the way, I'm from PG county, a proud 1971 graduate of Prince George's Community College. Back in the day PG was like Mississippi if you were on the wrong side of the badge.