[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Kwame/Merciful

[Lance Larkin]

Looks good with a couple of notes:

The subtitle appears to be an incomplete sentence.
BLACK MUSLIM COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS CONTINUES (what?)

I would suggest a direct link to the
www.stopAmerica.com website for those of us who
believe in instant gratification. Who wants to cut and
paste into your browser, when instead you can just
click?  :-)

Lance

--- jonathan lawson <jonathan at indymedia.org> 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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