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May 29, 2014

Georgia Police Accused of Assaulting Former Black Panther 
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Georgia police are being accused of brutality after video emerged of an
officer shoving an African-American writer and activist to the ground.
Sixty-nine year-old Dhoruba Bin-Wahad was being questioned by officers
on his front porch. The tape shows an officer grabbing him by the wrist
and pushing him down. At a rally outside the Clayton County Police
Department, Bin-Wahad said he had been mistreated.

Dhoruba Bin-Wahad: "I was not out of control. I was not a flight risk. I
was not cussing them out, and let's assume that I did cuss them out.
Let's assume that I was verbally uncooperative. Let's just assume all
those things. Does that justify me being slammed on the ground while I'm
sitting there after being searched?"

A former Black Panther, Dhoruba Bin-Wahad was wrongly imprisoned for 19
years after being convicted based on fabricated evidence in a police
shooting case.

 

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