Racism Kills

Initiative in Gedenken
an Oury Jalloh
Truth, Justice, Reparation!
Initiative in Memory of Oury Jalloh / Haus Bethanien- Südflügel/ Mariannenplatz 2 / 10997 Berlin: Mobil:
0170-8788124
http://oury-jalloh.so36.net / initiative-ouryjalloh@so36.net

Public Invitation

Oury Jalloh, chained at his hands and feet,
burned alive on January 7, 2005, in Cell No. 5 of the police station in Dessau

Re: Petition to human rights organizations

Enquiry: Call for an independent commission to investigate the causes leading up to the death of Oury Jalloh

Refugee News Network (RNN) -- 2 January 2007. The District Court of Dessau has today made public the decision to open up court proceedings against one of the two accused police officers for the murder of Oury Jalloh.

Ichtershäuser Str. 37-39,
99310 Arnstadt,
11th November 2000.

To
Staatsanwaltschaft Meiningen,
Friedenssiedlung 14,
98617 Meiningen,
DENOUNCIATION OF NEO-NAZI ATTACK AND POLICE COMPLICITY

We, Fopa George, Patterson Kenwou and John Adana Resident in Arnstadt hereby agreed in good faith to denounce the Police complicity with the Neo Nazis to brutally humiliate us in the night of 21/22 October 2000 in Arnstadt.
That on the 21st October in Lindeneck Disco we were verbally and physically assaulted by some Germans while dancing in the said night club.At about 4 o’clock when we left the Lindeneck disco, some Germans of the same group of 15 then followed us with three cars and some moving on foot until we reached the Sud-bahnhof (Arnstadt). While coming after us they called us Niggers, Affe, Raus aus Deutschland and they also called our girlfriends schlampe.

Police abuse of power is built into the system that is designed to enforce capitalist relations of power and exploitation, they serve the powerful and protect the wealthy at the expense of the poor, the voiceless, the refugees and migrants while pretending to serve the general public.

But the authorities and the system protects and uses the racist cops to perpetuate racism!
The wide gap of silence which protects the "bad cops" and isolates or even criminalizes those who try to rescuee or protest against the police abuses must be discussed by the victims and those affected.

Media coverage tends to treat police racist controls even with assaults and intimidation, violence and physical brutality like yesterday's fish-wraps. The papers report such brutalities usually from the point of view of the police while ignoring the voices and accounts of the victims.

Meeting in Jena for the preperation of the campain against „racist police controls„ 21.3-23.3.2003

It follows a summary of the meeting in Jena. This summary is subjective and therefore please add, correct or ...
Racist police controls are part of a racist context. They can be put into practice because the public with its racist prejudices and discrimination on the one hand and the state with its racist laws and institutions on the other, legitimate these controls. It is clear that this form of direct discrimination cannot be understood nor fought against without putting it into the context of a racist system or society. So a campaign as here means also finding a balance between focussing of the problem and its generalisation. It means that police control must be in the centre of the campaign and the conditions for such controls must be subject at the same time. For example there was a specific suggestion, which was put forward by different persons, that we should not look at police controls isolated from the problem of ‚residenzpflicht’. Racist police controls are possible because of such laws as the ‚Residenzpflicht’. On the other hand this is also the reason why the public thinks that such controls are legitimate. And also because refugees or other-than-german-or-west-north-european-looking-people are always suspect to crime, be it because of drug panics or other paranoias like the terrorism controls. The proposal to see this campaign not only as a campaign of refugees but also of so called migrants and so called germans was generally agreed with. But there was also remarks on the fact that refugees play a special role in this campaign. Most of the control target refugees who are breaking the ‚Residenzpflicht’ or have no papers. So-called Migrants and Germans can be and are in fact object of such controls, but not facing fines. From this perspecitve this also means that refugees have the possibility to fight against these controls on a more serious level (disobedience) than others, which does not mean that so called migrants and Germans are not able to protest.