Press Conference for the October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality

At a press conference at City Hall on Monday, October 20, Bill de Blasio was given a letter from the October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality and the Stop Mass Incarceration Network calling on him to not allow the NYPD to prevent the march on October 22 from entering Times Square. As Carl Dix said at the press conference, “Given the abuse the NYPD has inflicted on people, we must be allowed to raise our voices in protest and to deliver our message that police brutality must STOP in Times Square before the eyes of the world.”
It is very important that the fight to force the authorities to allow the march to proceed into Times Square on October 22 be taken to a higher level. Everyone who hates the way the police brutalize and even murder people and get away without any punishment must add their voices to the call for the march to go into Times Square. We need you to:
• Call, Tweet and/or write Mayor Bill de Blasio and demand that the NYPD not prevent the march from proceeding into Times Square on the October 22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.
• Tweet the following message to @NYCMayorsOffice and @CommissBratton: RT Allow Oct 22 march in2 Times Sq #Oct22 Nat'l Day of Protest 2 Stop #PoliceBrutality #o22
• Mayor: Go to www.nyc.gov/htm... and fill out email with: “We demand that the NYPD not prevent the march on October 22 from proceeding into Times Square to deliver its message that police brutality must STOP on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.”
• Call and email the Mayor Bill de Blasio's Press Office with the same demand:[e-mail] [phone]
And most of all we need you to come out to Union Square on Wednesday, October 22, at 1 PM; to bring your friends, the people you go to school with, everybody, out with you to say in a loud, united voice that Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation must STOP!
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