The Burnerz (Zumbi of ZION I + The ARE of Trackmasters) have responsed to the recent violence in Oakland with a track "Cops Hate Kidz." Say what you will, Zumbi ain't never lie...
“Cops Hate Kidz is written as a response to the murder of Oscar Grant by a Bart Police Officer, as well as the murder of four Oakland officers last week. The Burnerz feel that the tragedies that we are witnessing can be attributed to the long history of police brutality experienced in the black and brown communities.”
Oakland stand up, get organized. Look out for one another. Stand tall or not at all. Found this video too, prolly unofficial, but still pretty thick with footage from Justice for Oscar Grant protests and references to other brutality cases.
My flight home was welcomed by a text message that read "oakland is going off tonight... get home safe my dude..." I knew about the protest at Fruitvale station, but by the time we were riding home, shit was on fire and the cops and hellacopters were all over downtown. The media is busy sensationalizing the damages, citing estimates of up to $150,000. Speaking of damages...
BART should pay the ALL damages during protests in addition to whatever the family needs and then some... fuck that, the officers pay should automaticly go to the family for the rest of his life.
The family is suing for 25 million dollars.
What ever $ settlement associated with this murder should be LARGE ENOUGH to make BART feel the sting daily... and what are we to do? I don't feel safe on the train anymore as long as their police are armed. I've lived most of my life blocks from Fruitvale station and have been lined up and harrassed by the BART popo hella times coming to and from St. Elizabeth High just 2 blocks from Frutivale Station. It really could have been any of us. How will the damage to the community be repaired? In a way, this happened to all of us.
I know it's hard to be strategic in all this anger... but we must.
NWA- Fuck The Police Part of me thinks I shouldn't... fuck it. Police Brutality... some Amerikkkan poets wrote a song about it... like to hear it? Here it go...
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