Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Quoted in Press TV Article on 'US Medical Students to Protest Chokehold Death of Eric Garner'
Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:38PM GMT
Medical university students from across the United States are planning protests to denounce the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in New York City by a white police officer who was not indicted.
Students at 70 medical schools around the US including in Atlanta, Boston and Chicago plan on Wednesday to stage “die-ins” to simulate being dead to protest the killing of Eric Garner and other African Americans by police.
Garner was killed on July 17 in Staten Island after Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold, which was prohibited by the New York City Police Department.
An ongoing nationwide protest against police brutality erupted on December 3 after a grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo. The decision came a week after a Missouri grand jury did not indict a white officer in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson on August 9.
In New York, the NY Justice League, a non-profit civil rights organization, asked local officials to fire the white officer who killed Garner and called for an international day of action on Wednesday to end police brutality.
In Berkeley, California, protesters blocked traffic on highways on Tuesday and called for justice for slain African-Americans. More than 150 protesters were arrested around the city overnight.
“Since the collapse of slavery in the United States, police have been used as a coercive mechanism for the suppression and the oppression of the African American people,” Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire told Press TV on Wednesday.
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| Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire. |
Medical university students from across the United States are planning protests to denounce the chokehold death of an unarmed black man in New York City by a white police officer who was not indicted.
Students at 70 medical schools around the US including in Atlanta, Boston and Chicago plan on Wednesday to stage “die-ins” to simulate being dead to protest the killing of Eric Garner and other African Americans by police.
Garner was killed on July 17 in Staten Island after Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold, which was prohibited by the New York City Police Department.
An ongoing nationwide protest against police brutality erupted on December 3 after a grand jury decided not to indict Pantaleo. The decision came a week after a Missouri grand jury did not indict a white officer in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson on August 9.
In New York, the NY Justice League, a non-profit civil rights organization, asked local officials to fire the white officer who killed Garner and called for an international day of action on Wednesday to end police brutality.
In Berkeley, California, protesters blocked traffic on highways on Tuesday and called for justice for slain African-Americans. More than 150 protesters were arrested around the city overnight.
“Since the collapse of slavery in the United States, police have been used as a coercive mechanism for the suppression and the oppression of the African American people,” Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire told Press TV on Wednesday.
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