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Community activists protest at courthouse
By
Steven Ceci
Baltimore
Published Feb 24, 2011 9:22 PM
Protest against racist attack in Baltimore.
Photo: William Hughes
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On the morning of Feb. 16 a protest was held outside the court
hearing of two brothers who brutally attacked a 15-year-old African American
student on Nov. 19, 2010, as he was walking from school to his
grandmother’s house. The two brothers, Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim, are
members of a Zionist vigilante group called Shomrim. When they were patrolling
the neighborhood and came across the student, they told him he didn’t
belong in that neighborhood and proceeded to beat him up.
Adding insult to injury, newly elected Baltimore City State’s Attorney
Gregg Bernstein reduced felony charges against the two brothers to minor
misdemeanors. This insulting lowering of charges has led many people in the
Black community to call for Bernstein’s resignation.
The protest was lively, with participants loudly chanting “No justice, no
peace!,” “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”
and “Hey hey, ho ho, Gregg Bernstein has got to go!” The organizers
of the protest are demanding the Shomrim be disbanded; full prosecution of the
two brothers, including hate crime charges; and resources for neighborhoods
that have too long been neglected.
The protest was called by the All Peoples Congress, the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference Baltimore Chapter, the Baltimore Black Think Tank, and
longtime community activist Leo Burroughs. Students from Morgan State
University and Baltimore City Community College participated in the protest and
affirmed that they will participate and organize more students to come out for
the trial date of May 2.
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