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For Immediate Release

OUTRAGED!!!
Statement By Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Michael Brown and now Eric Garner, both unarmed African American men openly murdered by
White policemen, followed with no indictment of the policemen who perpetrated the killings. I
am outraged!!!
Recently there was 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, 22-year-old John Crawford, III in
Beavercreek, Ohio and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, all unarmed young African
American men or boys unnecessarily shot down, murdered, in cold blood by policemen whos
mission it is to serve and protect the public. When will it stop?
I continue to urge those of us who are rightfully angry to maintain the discipline of non-violent
protest and engage in the effective use of non-violent direct action. This wrongful inaction by a
New York grand jury, along with a Bob McCullough manipulated and perverted St. Louis
County grand jury clearly reveals an American judicial system in crisis. We must march, protest,
boycott and vote about our anger.
Mad about it march and protest about it. Mad about demonstrate about it. Mad about it
boycott and withhold your money about it. Mad about it - vote about it! That is the most
effective way to change this unjust situation.

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founded Operation PUSH People United to Serve Humanity (estab. 1971) and the Rainbow Coalition
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