[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Kwame/Merciful

[Susan]

thumbs up with adjustments to the subtitle ...... Black Community Activists 
Targetted ...


At 08:56 PM 8/7/02, jonathan lawson wrote:
>Ok, I didn't mean to do this one but the story was too important. Details 
>may change quickly but here's what we have so far (if we approve this 
>quickly it'll be a scoop). Susan is currently rushing to finish a James 
>Ujaama feature, which we should post before, i.e. below, this one...
>
>subtitle: BLACK MUSLIM COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS CONTINUES
>title: Garrett and Allah Arrested in Violent Encounter
>
>On Wednesday morning, community activists <a 
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16754">Kwame 
>Garrett and Merciful Allah were arrested</a> after crossing the street at 
>the corner of  Second and Yesler and taken to the King County jail. In a 
>phone call from the jail, Garrett said that police officers rushed up to 
>them with weapons drawn, shouting, "jaywalking!," and beat the two with 
>batons, also using pepper spray to subdue them. Garrett said that he 
>suffered back injuries, and that Allah may have a broken finger. Neither 
>received immediate medical attention in custody. The two are reportedly 
>under investigation for felony assault of a police officer.
>
><p>Both activists were well-known critics of the Seattle Police. Allah was 
>recently awarded a cash settlement by the City after being assaulted by 
>Seattle Police in 1998, and Garrett had spoken against police violence in 
>Seattle in the days before his arrest,  appearing onstage at the Umoja 
>Fest and with Dead Prez at the EMP. Garrett is the son of <a 
>href="http://www.colorsnw.com/inside/article.htm">Omari Tahir-Garrett</a>, 
>former mayoral candidate and longtime advocate of founding an 
>African-American Heritage Museum in the old Colman School--a <a 
>href="http://www.ainfos.ca/98/may/ainfos00237.html">cause</a> which Kwame 
>and Allah share with Tahir-Garrett. After two trials and many months of 
>professing his innocence, Tahir-Garrett was convicted last week of 
>assaulting Mayor Schell last year,  leaving Garrett  in a position of 
>apparent leadership regarding the cause.
>
><p>After the recent secretive detention of Seattle journalist/activist 
>James Ujaama, webmaster of the anti-war site www.stopAmerica.com, some 
>observers are interpreting the Garrett/Allah case as further evidence that 
>law enforcement agencies are targeting black Muslim political activists.
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