Police brutality trial to begin
Published Apr 14, 2005 10:45 PM
A police brutality trial in the beating death of Joey Wilbon will start
April 19 in Baltimore, Md.
Wilbon, an auto mechanic with a family, was
about to look at a customer’s car outside his shop on July 5, 2000, when
he was approached and beaten by a Baltimore city police officer. Wilbon died
while in police custody. Asked about the details of the case, the Baltimore
police declined comment, and the state refused to release an autopsy report.
This case of police brutality against a Black worker
was first
reported in Workers World of
Sept. 21, 2000.
Wilbon’s mother and aunt.
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Renee Washington,
Wilbon’s fiancée and a member of Baltimore’s All Peoples
Congress, has championed this cause through protest and
determination.
Washington’s fighting spirit has brought the case to
the public eye and now to trial.
The All Peoples Congress has vowed to
show solidarity with Washington and the Wilbon family.
—Eddie
Boyd
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