The Student Coalition Against Racial Profiling was formed as a reaction to severe police brutality against black and brown youth in the Bushwick, Brooklyn community.
Victimized Youth Organize Against Police Brutality
Excerpt: It was a somber day in May. Thirty-two grieving young people were walking to the subway train in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood. They were on their way to a wake for a friend, Donnell McFarland, who had been tragically murdered at the age of 18.
The full version of this article was published and appears in the Workers World website.
Community activists Oona Chatterjee and Jesus Gonzales of the group Make the Road By Walking, and Asher Callender, student at Bushwick Community High School, discuss the formation of the Student Coalition Against Racial Profiling (SCARP) in Bushwick following the arrests of over 30 young people on their way to a friend’s wake last month.
Interview conducted by Brian Lehrer of WNYC.
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NYCLU Wants Probe Of Students Arrested En Route To Funeral
Excerpt: The New York Civil Liberties Union has called on the New York Police Department to conduct a thorough investigation into the recent arrest of nearly three dozen students walking to the funeral of a friend.
The full version of this article was published and appears in the North Country Gazzette.
More than 350 Bushwick residents gathered last night to protest the recent mass arrest of 32 teenagers. The students were en route to a wake and charged with being disorderly, something the teens deny.
REPORTER: Police say the teen being mourned was a gang leader and that many of those arrested wore shirts with his image. Councilman Charles Barron says just because they wore the shirts, doesn’t mean they’re gang members.
BARRON: I’ve been to several funerals in East New York. It is common practice you get a shirt memorializing the person that was deceased. Read the rest of this entry »
IN response to the arrest of over 40 students en route to the wake of a recently deceased friend, Make the Road by Walking’s Student Coalition Against Racial Profiling will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday June 5, 2007. Read the rest of this entry »