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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.

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