Fwd: GHCFJ News Conference Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tarsha Jackson
From: Johnny N. Mata <jnm...@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Subject: GHCFJ News Conference Thursday, February 17, 2011
To: Debbie Chew <debbie...@gmail.com>, Fred Cooper <flcoo...@gmail.com>, debbi...@ocahouston.org, "Ovide Jr. Duncantell D" <blackh...@msn.com>, Richard Farias <fari...@tccc-ryss.org>, Herlinda S Garcia <hsgarc...@yahoo.com>, Frank Garcia <unifie...@yahoo.com>, Sylvia Gonzalez <gonzale...@att.net>, hussei...@yahoo.com, "Lauren A. Izzo" <laure...@gmail.com>, Tarsha Jackson <tarsha.j...@gmail.com>, Maria Jimenez <dign...@hotmail.com>, Megan Jones <mdjon...@yahoo.com>, "Randall L. Kallinen" <attorney...@aim.com>, Arlene Kelley <grank...@hotmail.com>, Ester King <jamest...@yahoo.com>, Victoria MA <vw...@yahoo.com>, John Martinez <jmart...@att.net>, John Martinez <Jmart...@gmail.com>, Daniel Melendez <danielm...@hotmail.com>, Ben Mendez <nhpoh...@yahoo.com>, Silvia Mintz <sil...@plakelaw.com>, Dave Patwood <dpat...@igc.org>, Cecilia Pham <ceci...@yahoo.com>, Joel Salazar <w...@salazarlawfirm.com>, Carolyn Scantlebury <CPN...@yahoo.com>, Kaleem Siddiqul <kal...@cairhouston.org>, Bobby Singh <bo...@globaltimes.com>, Yolanda Smith <yol...@naacphouston.org>, SHELBY STEWART <shelby...@msn.com>, Sherwin Sun <she...@ccchouston.org>, Manuel Zamora <pun...@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Justo Garcia <justo....@usdoj.gov>
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Dear coalition members,
Please provide confirmation if you will be at the News Conference tomorrow. If we are at the trash hold of creating Intuitional change in our criminal justice system, and if we mean business, we must have a good showing. Please attend and bring a friend.
Johnny N. Mata
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Greater Houston Coalition for Justice American GI Forum, American Rights Association, Black Officers for Justice, Civilians Down, CRECEN, Council of American Islamic Relations, Grassroots Leadership, Houston Peace & Justice Center, League of United Latin American Citizens, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP Houston Branch, Office of the National LULAC VP for SW, MABA Mexican-American Bar Association, OCA Greater Houston Chapter, Texas Civil Rights Project, Hispanic Women in Leadership, Pastores En Accion (Pastors in Action)
GHCFJ calls a news conference on its passage of a resolution requesting the US Department of Justice to launch an investigation of "patterns and practices" of civil-rights violations by the Houston Police Department against minorities and others Houston,
The Houston Police Department and City of Houston’s integrity has disintegrated in the communities of color (minorities) and general public for its failure to come to grips with an institutionalized sadistic patterns and practices of civil-rights violations against minorities.
A controversial televise video showing a deplorable and brutal attack on teen Chad Holley by Houston police officers by ABC Channel 13 KTRK, kept out of the public view by public officials and perpetuated by a culture of a Code of Silence, set in motion a community outcry, and casted another dark cloud on the Houston Police Department. This episode is evidences of what the Greater Houston Coalition for Justice (GHCFJ) has been advocating for years; more transparency in our criminal justice system in Harris County, legislative reform in Texas’s Grand Jury system and the creation of an Independent Police Review Board.
GHCFJ has scheduled a news conference to announce its passage of a resolution in its monthly meeting, this past Saturday February 12, 1211. The resolution request the US Department of Justice to launch an investigation against the Houston Police Department’s “patterns and practices" of civil-rights violations by the Houston Police Department against minorities and others.
GHCFJ News Conference Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:00 am Federal Court Building 515 Rusk Houston TX 77002 GHCFJ request will be broad and include; 1.) Allegations of cover-ups; 2.) excess force incidents and unsettled high profile cases of deadly force: 3.) Misconduct of supervisors & managers; 4.) Policies that discriminate against internal/external stakeholders; and 5.) and Racial Profiling.
It is our believe that the only way the loss of HPD’s integrity can be achieved by Houston’s, and Harris County community will be to pressure the US Department of Justice to investigate the unsettled high profile cases of deadly force, examine existing HPD policies and procures and
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Tarsha Jackson
Grassroots Leadership
Houston, TX
832-837-3284
www.grassrootsleadership.org
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