Cops Charge Black Activist with "Lynching"
Defend Maile Hampton!
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1064/maile_hampton.htmlPublisher: Workers Vanguard
Date Written: 20/03/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX17728
On January 18, 2015, Maile Hampton, a young black woman and member of the ANSWER Coalition, was leading chants at a Sacramento, California, protest against a pro-cop rally. An online video shows the cops violently attacking several protesters, slamming a woman against a cop car and repeatedly throwing a man to the ground. While both were being handcuffed, the crowd chanted to let them go. Five weeks later, Hampton was arrested at her home. She now faces up to four years in jail on charges of felony "lynching"! A law supposedly intended to criminalize the extra-legal murder of black people, Mexicans and others by the racist terrorists of the KKK and their ilk, is now wielded by the police against those who actively protest the modern-day legal lynchings carried out by the cops.
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