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Pickets demand justice for Smoot
Published Aug 6, 2005 8:41 PM
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy was picketed by two
dozen people when she attended a fund-raiser and birthday party at the Baltimore
Rowing Club on July 31.
Family members, supporters and community
activists were protesting and demanding that Jessamy indict the prison guards
who killed Raymond Smoot on May 14 in the notorious central booking facility in
Baltimore. Over 30 inmates have died there over the last two years because of
the deplorable conditions at the prison.
The Emergency Coalition for
Justice called the protest and has been spearheading efforts to bring justice
for the victims of central booking, along with the victims of police brutality.
On May 14 Raymond Smoot was brutally beaten by prison guards at the
central intake prison. Eyewitnesses say the beating was done by over 25 prison
guards. It has now been almost three months since the killing of Smoot and no
murder indictments—no indictments of any kind—have come down on any
of the prison guards.
Andre Powell, an organizer with the Emergency Coali
tion, says that “the community will not lie down and watch as poor and
working people are arrested and thrown in jail because of the
‘zero-tolerance’ policies of the mayor and police department.”
Powell adds that the coalition, along with Smoot’s family, will be holding
monthly vigils in front of Central Booking every 14th of the month, the date of
his murder.
—Steven Ceci
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