By Ms, Beauty Turner
While Mayor Daley Irish eyes are smiling and sleeping,
young Black and Hispanic mothers are sobbing, crying and weeping.
Our babies are dying on our city street;
many of them with no food in their mouth and no shoes on their tiny feet.
Politicians tore down the jects,
saying it was infested with gangs and drugs and rats.
They built mixed income communities in it place,
saying you can move into it if you of another race
On a fix income, they lable you a bum.
But if you are rich and drink rum,
all day!
They say is that how we play!
We are in a recession with our wallets flat
Now they playing with our children lives; Russian Rolette ….
Having phony accountable meetings- waving Hi to the crowd a special greeting,
while marching with "Stop the killing" signs in the hood,
Thinking that all they have to do as politicians to make it good!
Not really getting any traction, only want Chicago as a tourist attraction.
Gun fire erupting in the air , about our babies they don’t seem to care!
All while saying Jody Weiss is the one that not being treated fair!
Chicago streets flows with blood, while Wisconsin rivers flood
Dying Black and Hispanic babies sleeping, young mothers lay crying,
sobbing and weeping.
Another child blood is spilled- another Black or Hispanic child is killed
Superintendent Jody Weiss, treat the Black and Hispanic communities as if they had lice.
Experimenting on our babies; like they are lab mices.
A weeping willow here, shedding a mother's tear,
Please dear Lord wipe away our fear!
The prayer that I pray; is dear God make them sincere!!!!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
"A word to the Weiss" by Ms. Beauty Turner
A word to the Weiss
Ms. Beauty Turner
National Award winning Journalist
Activist / Researcher
BeautyTurner@gmail.com
On July 15 the new police Superintendent Jody Weiss was summon to a hearing by the Aldermen on the second floor at City hall located at 121 North LaSalle.
An accountability committee meeting at City Council took place a little after 10AM.
Leading the charge was Alderman Isaac S. Carothers 29th ward;
himself as well as others were highly upset by the crime that have been erupting like hot lava throughout Black and Hispanic gentrifying communities.
Thinking hard about the killing of our youth here in Chicago; it made me think about our telephone lines being known for housing thousands of grey and white pigeons.
There’s an Analogy that stands out vividly in my mind like a sore red thumb; concerning the violence that is plaguing our communities.
That Analogy is……
If these actions are not addressed "Our children are standing on a fragile power keg that is ready to erupt into gun violence at the drop of a pigeon feather.
Over 35 youth have been gunned down on our city streets by allege gang members
As well as eleven young adults have been shot in the back and killed by law enforcement and the numbers are study rising like mercury in a thermostat on a hot muggy day with no end in sight!
Many hot communities that are experiencing youth killings are on the Southside, west side and the South east side-all the areas where many Chicago Housing Authority public housing residents have relocated into.
.
With Weiss not even into his job a good six months; the Chicago crime rate has risen 13%; leaving the streets of Chicago covered like the red sea in our youth blood and not in emerald green grass and yellow flowers like Mayor Daley said that he wanted.
Many of Chicago citizen’s are saying that protecting the environment and not the people is a very unpopular move
If these types of actions continue you can bet that there will be no 2016 Olympic here on the windy shores of Chicago!
Mayor Richard M. Daley as well as Weiss have joined forces blaming the media for bringing attention about officers that inflict unwarranted pain on to civilians, allegedly leaving them too timid to do their jobs affectedly.
Daley as well as Weiss are trying hard to implement the SOS tactics team that they earlier had dismantle because of corruption …….
Many people in high places told me that Weiss is being used as a scrape goat and he should be given time as he experiment with his strategy in policing Chicago.
My mother always said that there are many ways to skin a goat; one-way is to tell the truth and shame the Devil.
As Black and Hispanic women who are mother’s and grandmother’s we can no longer afford to continue to be silence while our children are being killed on our city streets as if they are in a war in Iraq!
Our babies are not lab mice so Weiss could continues {Daley} experimenting with their life‘s.
A word to the Weiss from the Black and Hispanic communities.
We want the killing to stop from gang members as well as from the hands of law enforcement?
And we want it NOW!!!!!
Do the job that you are being healthily paid for by the tax payers to do!
Protect all of Chicago neighborhoods as if it was the Gold coast!
Don’t neglect one, no not one, but serve all!
Ms. Beauty Turner
National Award winning Journalist
Activist / Researcher
BeautyTurner@gmail.com
On July 15 the new police Superintendent Jody Weiss was summon to a hearing by the Aldermen on the second floor at City hall located at 121 North LaSalle.
An accountability committee meeting at City Council took place a little after 10AM.
Leading the charge was Alderman Isaac S. Carothers 29th ward;
himself as well as others were highly upset by the crime that have been erupting like hot lava throughout Black and Hispanic gentrifying communities.
Thinking hard about the killing of our youth here in Chicago; it made me think about our telephone lines being known for housing thousands of grey and white pigeons.
There’s an Analogy that stands out vividly in my mind like a sore red thumb; concerning the violence that is plaguing our communities.
That Analogy is……
If these actions are not addressed "Our children are standing on a fragile power keg that is ready to erupt into gun violence at the drop of a pigeon feather.
Over 35 youth have been gunned down on our city streets by allege gang members
As well as eleven young adults have been shot in the back and killed by law enforcement and the numbers are study rising like mercury in a thermostat on a hot muggy day with no end in sight!
Many hot communities that are experiencing youth killings are on the Southside, west side and the South east side-all the areas where many Chicago Housing Authority public housing residents have relocated into.
.
With Weiss not even into his job a good six months; the Chicago crime rate has risen 13%; leaving the streets of Chicago covered like the red sea in our youth blood and not in emerald green grass and yellow flowers like Mayor Daley said that he wanted.
Many of Chicago citizen’s are saying that protecting the environment and not the people is a very unpopular move
If these types of actions continue you can bet that there will be no 2016 Olympic here on the windy shores of Chicago!
Mayor Richard M. Daley as well as Weiss have joined forces blaming the media for bringing attention about officers that inflict unwarranted pain on to civilians, allegedly leaving them too timid to do their jobs affectedly.
Daley as well as Weiss are trying hard to implement the SOS tactics team that they earlier had dismantle because of corruption …….
Many people in high places told me that Weiss is being used as a scrape goat and he should be given time as he experiment with his strategy in policing Chicago.
My mother always said that there are many ways to skin a goat; one-way is to tell the truth and shame the Devil.
As Black and Hispanic women who are mother’s and grandmother’s we can no longer afford to continue to be silence while our children are being killed on our city streets as if they are in a war in Iraq!
Our babies are not lab mice so Weiss could continues {Daley} experimenting with their life‘s.
A word to the Weiss from the Black and Hispanic communities.
We want the killing to stop from gang members as well as from the hands of law enforcement?
And we want it NOW!!!!!
Do the job that you are being healthily paid for by the tax payers to do!
Protect all of Chicago neighborhoods as if it was the Gold coast!
Don’t neglect one, no not one, but serve all!
Friday, May 2, 2008
Is CPD Making Unnecessary Contact?
Is CPD making unnecessary Contacts?
Ms. Beauty Turner
I received numerous of complaints of black men and boys on busses being searched and forced to fill out contact cards by the Chicago Police officers,
A black mother told me that she showed her four year old son; young black men being searched threw and threw by officers, talking as if she were disgusted by it.
She describe the scene:
One of the officer who were Caucasian dressed in his blue uniform pats down a young black man wearing a white tee shirt, they didn’t have too look to far, his pants were already hanging down over his buttocks revealing his blue and white stripy Michael Jordan underwear, he had no belt on.
His large black cotton candy natural uncombed hair spilled, wildly off from underneath his baseball cap.
As the officer yanks it off of his head, and ask the boy do you have anything in your pockets or in your hair that will poke me.
No. the boy replied!
Farther down the aisles other young men as well as older black guys were going through something similar.
While some of the elderly women, middle age women and young girls and some of the babies cried out as they looked up from their seat at this activity in shock.
They made each of the young men and older guys fill out contact cards.
I called CPD Spoke person department and asked them about Young black men and boys being searched on busses is that a law now?
“The police can do that if they receive a call from the bus driver about or during an incident,” A CPD spoke person said.
The mother told me that she told her son as she turns him toward the officers “I want you to see this; this is what you got to look forward to if you get old enough !” all while shaking her head in disgust.
Similar activities happen in slavery days a black mother would show her son a black man hanging from the limb of a tree after he had been lynched for speaking out or not obeying his master.
I could just imagine what that mother said in those days, probably something like this ‘This is what happens to black men that don’t follow the master rules! Or I don’t want you Toby hanging from no tree limb!
Fear was a big tactic that the system used in those days, Many people think that it seem to be similar in these days,
Another incident near 79th street: a young men standing by a car talking to friends who just were deplored out of Iraq- two black detectives jumps out of their car and start searching the young man that were talking too his friends that were seated in the car, allegedly using harsh and abusive language, After other people started to complain they gave the young man who was the driver in the car who had been in Iraq servicing his country a $150 ticket.
“I think that the searches Is against your Constitutional rights , I think the contact cards are just a blanket way of taking all of our rights!” Erick Bryant a young black man who by the way is a Music Engineer said.
Bryant went on too say he were told by an officer recently that you don’t have any rights!
“I don’t feel that what they are doing making people fill out contact cards are right!”
Patrice Robinson a young mother of a twelve year old son said
“If I saw them searching and doing that to my son I will have a fit!”
Robinson went on to say.
“Every black man is not a criminal,” Robinson went on to say.
When it comes to the Contact Cards I’m not satisfy with not knowing what they are doing with the data they are collecting!
Alderman Pat Dowels (3 ward) said.
After bringing these incidents to Attorney Tamara Holder attention (the Attorney who filed a law suit about the Contact cards)
A pattern and practice of police making citizens fill out contact cards must be addressed by our new Superintended Weiss, not all Black men are criminals!
Attorney Tamara Holder said.
You have a Constitutional Right not to be searched and Siege’s!
“Just stand up for your rights and say no even if it means getting arrested for what you believe in!” Holders Replied.
Ms. Beauty Turner
I received numerous of complaints of black men and boys on busses being searched and forced to fill out contact cards by the Chicago Police officers,
A black mother told me that she showed her four year old son; young black men being searched threw and threw by officers, talking as if she were disgusted by it.
She describe the scene:
One of the officer who were Caucasian dressed in his blue uniform pats down a young black man wearing a white tee shirt, they didn’t have too look to far, his pants were already hanging down over his buttocks revealing his blue and white stripy Michael Jordan underwear, he had no belt on.
His large black cotton candy natural uncombed hair spilled, wildly off from underneath his baseball cap.
As the officer yanks it off of his head, and ask the boy do you have anything in your pockets or in your hair that will poke me.
No. the boy replied!
Farther down the aisles other young men as well as older black guys were going through something similar.
While some of the elderly women, middle age women and young girls and some of the babies cried out as they looked up from their seat at this activity in shock.
They made each of the young men and older guys fill out contact cards.
I called CPD Spoke person department and asked them about Young black men and boys being searched on busses is that a law now?
“The police can do that if they receive a call from the bus driver about or during an incident,” A CPD spoke person said.
The mother told me that she told her son as she turns him toward the officers “I want you to see this; this is what you got to look forward to if you get old enough !” all while shaking her head in disgust.
Similar activities happen in slavery days a black mother would show her son a black man hanging from the limb of a tree after he had been lynched for speaking out or not obeying his master.
I could just imagine what that mother said in those days, probably something like this ‘This is what happens to black men that don’t follow the master rules! Or I don’t want you Toby hanging from no tree limb!
Fear was a big tactic that the system used in those days, Many people think that it seem to be similar in these days,
Another incident near 79th street: a young men standing by a car talking to friends who just were deplored out of Iraq- two black detectives jumps out of their car and start searching the young man that were talking too his friends that were seated in the car, allegedly using harsh and abusive language, After other people started to complain they gave the young man who was the driver in the car who had been in Iraq servicing his country a $150 ticket.
“I think that the searches Is against your Constitutional rights , I think the contact cards are just a blanket way of taking all of our rights!” Erick Bryant a young black man who by the way is a Music Engineer said.
Bryant went on too say he were told by an officer recently that you don’t have any rights!
“I don’t feel that what they are doing making people fill out contact cards are right!”
Patrice Robinson a young mother of a twelve year old son said
“If I saw them searching and doing that to my son I will have a fit!”
Robinson went on to say.
“Every black man is not a criminal,” Robinson went on to say.
When it comes to the Contact Cards I’m not satisfy with not knowing what they are doing with the data they are collecting!
Alderman Pat Dowels (3 ward) said.
After bringing these incidents to Attorney Tamara Holder attention (the Attorney who filed a law suit about the Contact cards)
A pattern and practice of police making citizens fill out contact cards must be addressed by our new Superintended Weiss, not all Black men are criminals!
Attorney Tamara Holder said.
You have a Constitutional Right not to be searched and Siege’s!
“Just stand up for your rights and say no even if it means getting arrested for what you believe in!” Holders Replied.
Monday, April 14, 2008
A "bitter" pill to swallow!
By; Ms. Beauty Turner
Twenty three Chicago Public School age children; were shot down and killed like rabid dogs; right here in the United State, where United States Senator, Presidential hopeful candidate’s Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton’s live , matter fact right here in their own backyards in Illinois through gangs and gun violence,
Our nation children use to chew Bazooka bubble gum and make it pop they use to
once hold on to a stack of books and colorful lollipops now they hold onto weapons like machine guns, Oozes, tech nine, and Saturday night specials as well as other versions of guns and pop each other.
As the future President You need to find out what is needed to give hope to the future generations that is yet too come!
But yet the Democratic Presidential Candidates are debating and fussing over words like bitter, or fighting over was Reverend Wright right to bring up race in America.
We the general public is believing that by listening to them that this fraudulent way of thinking is a bitter pill to swallow.
American people are losing their jobs like teeth from a frail ,comb in a tangle person head of hair, but yet they argue about being bitter. Our low income public housing has been demolished and pulled down like that statue of Hussein in Iraq, and many other homes in the private market has went in to foreclosure at the drop of a bad loan.
But yet they bicker about who’s elite enough or not!
The American people have grown sick and tried of being sick and tried and we have drew the line in the sand; either you get back on this high horse of an issue meaning the State of America or we will be bitter!
Large Air Line companies that were flying high like ATA in the Nation skies are going out of business, canceling all flights leaving the flying public with no where to plant their feet on solid grounds.
The American dollars has reduce itself to just the mere thread that holds it together,” a penny for your thought” if you know what I mean.
But yet these two officials sit high in their Ivory towers and look down their noses wondering if they are elite or not,
While over fifty public schools are due to be close before the end of the summer.
Bomb scares, and frighten notes are leaving College students crying in the rain with no one to dry their tears
Adding up to more school closing.
But yet you both bicker at each other about living the simply life, when there’s nothing simple about running the United State.
Many people have told me that they are appalled as American citizens to watch this public display of two of the most prominent
people that they once took as intelligent human being bickers about being bitter while the people
which is the glue that bonded America together fall to the wayside!
My advice to you is for you to get off your high elite horses and get back into the saddle of making America what it use to be and still can be “the greatest!”
“Now, go run tell that!”
Twenty three Chicago Public School age children; were shot down and killed like rabid dogs; right here in the United State, where United States Senator, Presidential hopeful candidate’s Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton’s live , matter fact right here in their own backyards in Illinois through gangs and gun violence,
Our nation children use to chew Bazooka bubble gum and make it pop they use to
once hold on to a stack of books and colorful lollipops now they hold onto weapons like machine guns, Oozes, tech nine, and Saturday night specials as well as other versions of guns and pop each other.
As the future President You need to find out what is needed to give hope to the future generations that is yet too come!
But yet the Democratic Presidential Candidates are debating and fussing over words like bitter, or fighting over was Reverend Wright right to bring up race in America.
We the general public is believing that by listening to them that this fraudulent way of thinking is a bitter pill to swallow.
American people are losing their jobs like teeth from a frail ,comb in a tangle person head of hair, but yet they argue about being bitter. Our low income public housing has been demolished and pulled down like that statue of Hussein in Iraq, and many other homes in the private market has went in to foreclosure at the drop of a bad loan.
But yet they bicker about who’s elite enough or not!
The American people have grown sick and tried of being sick and tried and we have drew the line in the sand; either you get back on this high horse of an issue meaning the State of America or we will be bitter!
Large Air Line companies that were flying high like ATA in the Nation skies are going out of business, canceling all flights leaving the flying public with no where to plant their feet on solid grounds.
The American dollars has reduce itself to just the mere thread that holds it together,” a penny for your thought” if you know what I mean.
But yet these two officials sit high in their Ivory towers and look down their noses wondering if they are elite or not,
While over fifty public schools are due to be close before the end of the summer.
Bomb scares, and frighten notes are leaving College students crying in the rain with no one to dry their tears
Adding up to more school closing.
But yet you both bicker at each other about living the simply life, when there’s nothing simple about running the United State.
Many people have told me that they are appalled as American citizens to watch this public display of two of the most prominent
people that they once took as intelligent human being bickers about being bitter while the people
which is the glue that bonded America together fall to the wayside!
My advice to you is for you to get off your high elite horses and get back into the saddle of making America what it use to be and still can be “the greatest!”
“Now, go run tell that!”
Democratic Presidential debate " A Bitter Pill to swallow"
“Go tell it on the Mountains”
“We will be heard from the bowels of the ghetto, to the grassy hills in the white house, to your Ivory towers
In the white fluffy Cumberland clouds, to the vast black holes in the universe.
God said, “Go tell it on the mountains!”
A “bitter “pill to swallow
By; Ms. Beauty Turner
Twenty three Chicago Public School age children; were shot down and killed like Rabid dogs; right here in the United State, where Senator, Presidential hopeful Candidate’s Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton’s lived, matter fact right here in their own backyards in Illinois through gangs and gun violence,
Our nation children use to chew Bazooka bubble gum and make it pop they use to
once hold on to a stack of books and colorful lollipops now they hold onto weapons like machine guns, Oozes, tech nine, and Saturday night specials as well as other versions of guns and pop each other.
As the future President You need to find out what is needed to give hope to the future generations that is yet too come!
But yet the Democratic Presidential Candidates are debating and fussing over words like bitter, or fighting over was Reverend Wright right to bring up race in America.
We the general public is believing that by listening to them that this fraudulent way of thinking is a bitter pill to swallow.
American people are losing their jobs like teeth from a frail ,comb in a tangle person head of hair, but yet they argue about being bitter. Our low income public housing has been demolished and pulled down like that statue of Hussein in Iraq, and many other homes in the private market has went in to foreclosure at the drop of a bad loan.
But yet they bicker about who’s elite enough or not!
The American people have grown sick and tried of being sick and tried and we have drew the line in the sand; either you get back on this high horse of an issue meaning the State of America or we will be bitter!
Large Air Line companies that were flying high like ATA in the Nation skies are going out of business, canceling all flights leaving the flying public with no where to plant their feet on solid grounds.
The American dollars has reduce itself to just the mere thread that holds it together,” a penny for your thought” if you know what I mean.
But yet these two officials sit high in their Ivory towers and look down their noses wondering if they are elite or not,
While over fifty public schools are due to be close before the end of the summer.
Bomb scares, and frighten notes are leaving College students crying in the rain with no one to dry their tears
Adding up to more school closing.
But yet you both bicker at each other about living the simply life, when there’s nothing simple about running the United State.
Many people have told me that they are appalled as American citizens to watch this public display of two of the most prominent
people that they once took as intelligent human being bickers about being bitter while the people
which is the glue that bonded America together fall to the wayside!
My advice to you is for you to get off your high elite horses and get back into the saddle of making America what it use to be and still can be “the greatest!”
“Now, go run tell that!”
“We will be heard from the bowels of the ghetto, to the grassy hills in the white house, to your Ivory towers
In the white fluffy Cumberland clouds, to the vast black holes in the universe.
God said, “Go tell it on the mountains!”
A “bitter “pill to swallow
By; Ms. Beauty Turner
Twenty three Chicago Public School age children; were shot down and killed like Rabid dogs; right here in the United State, where Senator, Presidential hopeful Candidate’s Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton’s lived, matter fact right here in their own backyards in Illinois through gangs and gun violence,
Our nation children use to chew Bazooka bubble gum and make it pop they use to
once hold on to a stack of books and colorful lollipops now they hold onto weapons like machine guns, Oozes, tech nine, and Saturday night specials as well as other versions of guns and pop each other.
As the future President You need to find out what is needed to give hope to the future generations that is yet too come!
But yet the Democratic Presidential Candidates are debating and fussing over words like bitter, or fighting over was Reverend Wright right to bring up race in America.
We the general public is believing that by listening to them that this fraudulent way of thinking is a bitter pill to swallow.
American people are losing their jobs like teeth from a frail ,comb in a tangle person head of hair, but yet they argue about being bitter. Our low income public housing has been demolished and pulled down like that statue of Hussein in Iraq, and many other homes in the private market has went in to foreclosure at the drop of a bad loan.
But yet they bicker about who’s elite enough or not!
The American people have grown sick and tried of being sick and tried and we have drew the line in the sand; either you get back on this high horse of an issue meaning the State of America or we will be bitter!
Large Air Line companies that were flying high like ATA in the Nation skies are going out of business, canceling all flights leaving the flying public with no where to plant their feet on solid grounds.
The American dollars has reduce itself to just the mere thread that holds it together,” a penny for your thought” if you know what I mean.
But yet these two officials sit high in their Ivory towers and look down their noses wondering if they are elite or not,
While over fifty public schools are due to be close before the end of the summer.
Bomb scares, and frighten notes are leaving College students crying in the rain with no one to dry their tears
Adding up to more school closing.
But yet you both bicker at each other about living the simply life, when there’s nothing simple about running the United State.
Many people have told me that they are appalled as American citizens to watch this public display of two of the most prominent
people that they once took as intelligent human being bickers about being bitter while the people
which is the glue that bonded America together fall to the wayside!
My advice to you is for you to get off your high elite horses and get back into the saddle of making America what it use to be and still can be “the greatest!”
“Now, go run tell that!”
Friday, April 11, 2008
"Snap, Crackle and Pop "
“Snap, crackle, pop.”
Ms. Beauty Turner
“Pop, pop pop;” no that isn’t the sound’s of snap-crackle-pop-
that you hear once you pour milk over your cereal in a bowl, nor is it the sound of fireworks popping and exploding in the windy city, stock yard air, on the lake front in downtown Chicago on the fourth of July.
But our children are hearing that sound much too often in low income communities all around the city.
Not only are they hearing it but they are falling prey to it and are dying right here on American soil.
In case you haven’t guess by now what I mean, “I mean gun shots.”
In too many of our communities gunshots have a way of erupting like an acid volcano from up the street, around the corner and down the block now that sudden areas in Chicago are being gentrified.
“I believe that this shooting and killing of our youth have a lot to do with the city plan to move ten of thousands of low income people from the housing projects into the private market,” Leona Williams a relocated resident from Robert Taylor Homes said.
After all there is an history about these types of actions like for instant in the early 1970 we experience this same type of problem in the Woodlawn community with a gang called the El Rukins allegedly creating a lot of chaos’s so that people would pack up their bags and leave the Woodlawn area so that policy makers, and sudden preachers could move poor people out and move richer people in.
Many people believe that the top gang leaders know this, but they are using the foot soldiers (who don’t know) to carry out these chaotic actions, so poor black people can leave the city, so this city can do what Woodlawn did, gentrify for the 2016 Olympic and to make this city a tourist attraction all from the red blood of our babies.
It use to be the sounds of children playing and laughing on the streets and in the parks, swinging on swings, sliding down sliding boards, playing in sand boxes, along with the smell of charcoal from barbeque ribs, chicken wings, hot dogs and hamburgers sizzling on a grill, young people playing baseball, young boys with big sloppy shorts hopping up making a shot at the hoops, little black girls braids bouncing up and down as they jump rope on the concrete side walks.
“Oh, those were the good Old days!”
“Oh, but what a different a day make!” ,
Now our babies are scared to play outside due to a chance of catching a bullet instead of a ball from gang violence.
Once a wise man said that a nation is judge by the laughter of her children
and guess what? Our children are crying at each other grave sites
So what is that telling you about our nation?
“This city have snapped, about to make me crackle and pop ,” Said Darryl Young a veteran known as (Pops) in the Robert Taylor Homes.
Ms. Beauty Turner
“Pop, pop pop;” no that isn’t the sound’s of snap-crackle-pop-
that you hear once you pour milk over your cereal in a bowl, nor is it the sound of fireworks popping and exploding in the windy city, stock yard air, on the lake front in downtown Chicago on the fourth of July.
But our children are hearing that sound much too often in low income communities all around the city.
Not only are they hearing it but they are falling prey to it and are dying right here on American soil.
In case you haven’t guess by now what I mean, “I mean gun shots.”
In too many of our communities gunshots have a way of erupting like an acid volcano from up the street, around the corner and down the block now that sudden areas in Chicago are being gentrified.
“I believe that this shooting and killing of our youth have a lot to do with the city plan to move ten of thousands of low income people from the housing projects into the private market,” Leona Williams a relocated resident from Robert Taylor Homes said.
After all there is an history about these types of actions like for instant in the early 1970 we experience this same type of problem in the Woodlawn community with a gang called the El Rukins allegedly creating a lot of chaos’s so that people would pack up their bags and leave the Woodlawn area so that policy makers, and sudden preachers could move poor people out and move richer people in.
Many people believe that the top gang leaders know this, but they are using the foot soldiers (who don’t know) to carry out these chaotic actions, so poor black people can leave the city, so this city can do what Woodlawn did, gentrify for the 2016 Olympic and to make this city a tourist attraction all from the red blood of our babies.
It use to be the sounds of children playing and laughing on the streets and in the parks, swinging on swings, sliding down sliding boards, playing in sand boxes, along with the smell of charcoal from barbeque ribs, chicken wings, hot dogs and hamburgers sizzling on a grill, young people playing baseball, young boys with big sloppy shorts hopping up making a shot at the hoops, little black girls braids bouncing up and down as they jump rope on the concrete side walks.
“Oh, those were the good Old days!”
“Oh, but what a different a day make!” ,
Now our babies are scared to play outside due to a chance of catching a bullet instead of a ball from gang violence.
Once a wise man said that a nation is judge by the laughter of her children
and guess what? Our children are crying at each other grave sites
So what is that telling you about our nation?
“This city have snapped, about to make me crackle and pop ,” Said Darryl Young a veteran known as (Pops) in the Robert Taylor Homes.
Monday, February 18, 2008
CHA residents wins a battle
CHA residents Wins a Battle
By; Ms. Beauty Turner
For numerous of years the Chicago Police Department have been arresting young men and young women
For trespassing when they came to visit a relative or simply if they lived in public housing developments and couldn’t show the officers a State ID.
Community Activist Barbara Moore alerted me to this issue in 2005 when her grandson were constantly being detained and arrested after visiting her in the Robert Taylor Homes I written about it in the South Street Journal.
Dariul Moore age 18 at that time were allegedly threaten and told by CPD not to visit his bed ridden grandmother while she lived in the projects.
Or he would be constantly arrested for trespassing.
“One time was to much to be arrested for visiting my Grandmother,“ according to Dariul Moore
“My grandson was afraid to come over and visit me,” Moore said in a telephone interview on February 17, 08.
“It felt wrong to me; as if it were illegal even back than!” Moore added.
It’s unconstitutional for residents in public housing to be treated any less than being American citizens.
Being poor shouldn’t make you any less than any one else in America; and any one else that being treated unfairly challenge it in the court of law.
Recently that same issue were raised in 2007 during my Ghetto Bus Tours.
Residents from the Dearborn homes, and Harold ICKES Homes told me what were taking place in their homes,
Residents from Harold ICKES Homes sued CPD,CHA and the city about this trespassing issue .
And this year they are finding out that fighting back pays off.
Recently Attorney Tamara Holder stood up in support of some of the residents in the court of law and this is the results.
Defendants Acquitted In Ickes Trespass Case Elevates Tamara Holder’s Fight For Public Housing Residents
CHICAGO, IL (February, 2008) – On February 8, 2008, Tamara N. Holder, Esq., who has been leading the fight for Harold Ickes Homes residents, recently won two cases of trespass on the Ickes property by way of acquittal. The State of Illinois failed to meet its burden that Ickes residents could not have visitors on the property and such visitors would be arrested for trespass by Chicago Police.
Each defendant, Larry Smith and LaCharles Washington, was charged with two counts of trespass: Trespass to State Supported Land and Trespass to Real Property. Attorney Holder subpoenaed the Chicago Housing Authority and the Woodlawn Organization (the Ickes’ property manager) for alleged rules and regulations that residents could not have visitors.
LaCharles Washington was visiting his infant child prior to going to school at 10 am, when he was arrested outside the steps of an Ickes building and detained for ten days. He was later told by an assistant public defender to plead guilty if he wanted go home since he could not afford to post bond. Attorney Holder was in court that day and convinced Mr. Washington to withdraw his plea of guilty and fight for his innocence.
Friday’s victories also settle a previous belief of Judicial Sub circuit No. 9 Judge Marvin P. Luckman, who, in open court, previously told defendant Larry Smith, “Unless you are on the lease, you can’t be on the Ickes property.” Mr. Smith is also the father of an infant child who resides on the property; he was arrested with the child’s mother, Marie Battle, last July. Attorney Holder tried Ms. Battle’s case last October, which resulted in a not guilty verdict by Judge Luckman.
These acquittals now set a precedent for the many pending and potential future trespass cases against relatives and friends of Ickes residents. The victories also provide more fuel to the class action lawsuit filed by Attorney Holder on behalf of Harold Ickes Home residents against the City of Chicago Police Department in October of 2007. Attorney Holder has received hundreds of complaints regarding abuse of police power, including but not limited to trespass.
Attorney Holder, who represented the men pro bono, commented, “the most important thing to me is that public housing residents realize that they do not have lesser rights just because the live in public housing.” She continued, “These victories prove that if you fight for what is right, you will prevail. Many of these arrests and prosecutions are flat-out wrong and a waste of the taxpayer’s money.”
So many other young people have been arrested in public housing from the year of 05 until now,
Many of them now have a felony on their records concerning these trespassing charges.
Get in touch with Attorney Tamara Holder at-
About Tamara N. Holder:
Tamara N. Holder, Esq., (http://www.xpunged.com) is one of Chicago’s rising legal analytical stars. She gained national attention for fighting for the rights of railroad workers who were fired in the name of “homeland security” which led to a Congressional hearing. Her law firm specializes in criminal defense, expungements, Governor’s pardons, police brutality and personal injury lawsuits. Ms. Holder sits on the Women of Power Alumni Association Advisory Board; and is also the founder of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Expungement Clinic.
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Because guess what if it is illegal now it were illegal than!
“Dare to fight back!”
“A close mouth never gets fed, and nobody knows your pain unless you tell them, and the squeaky wheel gets the oil!”
By; Ms. Beauty Turner
For numerous of years the Chicago Police Department have been arresting young men and young women
For trespassing when they came to visit a relative or simply if they lived in public housing developments and couldn’t show the officers a State ID.
Community Activist Barbara Moore alerted me to this issue in 2005 when her grandson were constantly being detained and arrested after visiting her in the Robert Taylor Homes I written about it in the South Street Journal.
Dariul Moore age 18 at that time were allegedly threaten and told by CPD not to visit his bed ridden grandmother while she lived in the projects.
Or he would be constantly arrested for trespassing.
“One time was to much to be arrested for visiting my Grandmother,“ according to Dariul Moore
“My grandson was afraid to come over and visit me,” Moore said in a telephone interview on February 17, 08.
“It felt wrong to me; as if it were illegal even back than!” Moore added.
It’s unconstitutional for residents in public housing to be treated any less than being American citizens.
Being poor shouldn’t make you any less than any one else in America; and any one else that being treated unfairly challenge it in the court of law.
Recently that same issue were raised in 2007 during my Ghetto Bus Tours.
Residents from the Dearborn homes, and Harold ICKES Homes told me what were taking place in their homes,
Residents from Harold ICKES Homes sued CPD,CHA and the city about this trespassing issue .
And this year they are finding out that fighting back pays off.
Recently Attorney Tamara Holder stood up in support of some of the residents in the court of law and this is the results.
Defendants Acquitted In Ickes Trespass Case Elevates Tamara Holder’s Fight For Public Housing Residents
CHICAGO, IL (February, 2008) – On February 8, 2008, Tamara N. Holder, Esq., who has been leading the fight for Harold Ickes Homes residents, recently won two cases of trespass on the Ickes property by way of acquittal. The State of Illinois failed to meet its burden that Ickes residents could not have visitors on the property and such visitors would be arrested for trespass by Chicago Police.
Each defendant, Larry Smith and LaCharles Washington, was charged with two counts of trespass: Trespass to State Supported Land and Trespass to Real Property. Attorney Holder subpoenaed the Chicago Housing Authority and the Woodlawn Organization (the Ickes’ property manager) for alleged rules and regulations that residents could not have visitors.
LaCharles Washington was visiting his infant child prior to going to school at 10 am, when he was arrested outside the steps of an Ickes building and detained for ten days. He was later told by an assistant public defender to plead guilty if he wanted go home since he could not afford to post bond. Attorney Holder was in court that day and convinced Mr. Washington to withdraw his plea of guilty and fight for his innocence.
Friday’s victories also settle a previous belief of Judicial Sub circuit No. 9 Judge Marvin P. Luckman, who, in open court, previously told defendant Larry Smith, “Unless you are on the lease, you can’t be on the Ickes property.” Mr. Smith is also the father of an infant child who resides on the property; he was arrested with the child’s mother, Marie Battle, last July. Attorney Holder tried Ms. Battle’s case last October, which resulted in a not guilty verdict by Judge Luckman.
These acquittals now set a precedent for the many pending and potential future trespass cases against relatives and friends of Ickes residents. The victories also provide more fuel to the class action lawsuit filed by Attorney Holder on behalf of Harold Ickes Home residents against the City of Chicago Police Department in October of 2007. Attorney Holder has received hundreds of complaints regarding abuse of police power, including but not limited to trespass.
Attorney Holder, who represented the men pro bono, commented, “the most important thing to me is that public housing residents realize that they do not have lesser rights just because the live in public housing.” She continued, “These victories prove that if you fight for what is right, you will prevail. Many of these arrests and prosecutions are flat-out wrong and a waste of the taxpayer’s money.”
So many other young people have been arrested in public housing from the year of 05 until now,
Many of them now have a felony on their records concerning these trespassing charges.
Get in touch with Attorney Tamara Holder at-
About Tamara N. Holder:
Tamara N. Holder, Esq., (http://www.xpunged.com) is one of Chicago’s rising legal analytical stars. She gained national attention for fighting for the rights of railroad workers who were fired in the name of “homeland security” which led to a Congressional hearing. Her law firm specializes in criminal defense, expungements, Governor’s pardons, police brutality and personal injury lawsuits. Ms. Holder sits on the Women of Power Alumni Association Advisory Board; and is also the founder of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Expungement Clinic.
MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACT:
ACM PR: A.C. McLean
TEL: 312 373 1778
Electronic Mail: acm@acmpr.com
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Because guess what if it is illegal now it were illegal than!
“Dare to fight back!”
“A close mouth never gets fed, and nobody knows your pain unless you tell them, and the squeaky wheel gets the oil!”
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