By JP Massar

In 2012, Alan Blueford was shot by OPD while trying to escape.

We know this is but one of many incidents in Oakland’s sordid past…

…
In 2007 unarmed Charles Davis was shot in the back and paralyzed…
In 2008 unarmed Jody Woodfox was shot dead while trying to escape…
In 2009 unarmed Oscar Grant was shot dead lying flat on his back…
In 2010 unarmed Derrick Jones was shot dead while trying to escape…
In 2011 unarmed Raheim Brown was assassinated in his car…
…

You can help SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE MADNESS.

• Sign the Change.org petition demanding Justice For Alan Blueford.
• The next time you read a newspaper article about how an unarmed man was killed by the police “because they thought he had a weapon” or “because he reached for his waistband” think about what you are reading, and recall this quote from a New York District Attorney after his run-in with NYPD:

  “Everything they ((the cops)) say is a lie.”

• Join efforts to Stop ‘Stop & Frisk’ such as the one being organized by Stop Mass Incarceration, or the New York Civil Liberties Union.
• Read The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander, so that you can talk intelligently and persuasively about the problems that revolve around the police and our criminal justice system.
• Visit the Justice 4 Alan Blueford website

Read the entire essay ‘Shot While Trying To Escape’ by clicking here.