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Bakari Kitwana speaks with Minister Quannell X about a recent wave of police brutality incidents in Houston, Texas, targeting young Black males. This issue is especially relevant considering the recent police brutality cases of Aiyana Jones and the troubling case of Chicago cop, Lt. Jon Burge, accused of torturing black men.Recently the alleged beating of 16 year-old Chad Holley by eight police officers heightened tensions in that city. Quannell X talks with newsone.com about a videotape of the incident captured by an area business surveillance camera, which Minister X viewed and turned over to the mayor and police chief.

Quannell X is a Houston area community activist and leader of the New Black Panther Nation. He has been leading protests in that city in response to the beating of Chad Holley and the recent acquittal of police officers responsible for shooting an unarmed Robert Tolan, son of former major league baseball player Bobby Tolan, in his driveway.

Bakari Kitwana is CEO of Rap Sessions, Editor at Large of Newsone.com and author of the forthcoming Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era. (Third World Press, 2010).

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    YOUNG BLACK Males of the Want to Be Rapper, Thug, Gangster a/k/a self willed COWARDS’S, should STOP acting a dam fool everythere they go! I’m actually waiting for some of them to grow a set of fangs, a tail and pointed ears & that’s the ONLY REASON why they are NOT TRUE ANIMALS! I hope the Penal System start bulding prison’s into the grown & simply drop their Dumb A**’s right on down into them! N

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    NO PITY HERE! They are getting EXACTLY in life what they are putting out! MISERY!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Crystal_Blaze/ Crystal_Blaze

    New Black Panther party is racist and puts the real Black Panther Party to shame because everyone associates their stupidity with the real BPP.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ashley118059/ ashley118059

    Im so sick of these Uncle Toms and Sellouts leaving comments in the forum. Yall need to be shot in the head and set on fire. This boy did nothing wrong to be beat up like that! The officers were racist as hell, not the black panther party. Dam, what happened to yall? White folks got yall right were they wont you. Yall are embarassing. Anyway, i look forward to the video getting released, and justice being served. This has to stop.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Radar-Dreamer/ Radar-Dreamer

    I agree with you Ashley,the white establishment have become successfull in making many of us feel that our maltreatment by society is somehow our own fault this is the reason for these negative comments against the work of the new black panther party on the issue of police brutality in Houston.I descrie myself as a moderate but I do recognize that there are many situations where the police/white society needs to be confronted and stood down.One thing is a guarantee,one day the police will brutalize each one of these uncle toms and or their children then lets stand back and see them run to Sharpton,Farrakkhan and Jackson for support cause thats how these type are,they only champion black rights when it has something to do with them as oppose to us as a people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    They Radar-Dreamer? Run to Fat Al? Jessie Jackson for what? Who are they Leading but the Blind Folk’s? People don’t have to run to either one of those clowns all it has to be is a Situation/Circ**stance whereas they’ll be Media, News Cameras ANYTHING that would get their Faces On Display they won’t have to ran too, no sir, they’ll show up! Uncle Tom, Uncle Tim, Aunt Bertha, A Common Thug, Criminal, Gangbanger, they’ll show up & create all the strife they can and Milk the situaton(s) for what it’s worth!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/digg_it_up/ digg_it_up

    8 COPS AGAINST ONE DUDE? daaaam…..if something aint wrong with that i dont know what is…..someone has to stand up for us…much props X

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NENECAROLINA/ NENECAROLINA

    u know every time u look a round a cops is doing something to a black man it not rigth a all it make if it not one thing it other cops have to see some one need to something there and it sad how there love to see are black man in jail and it rage do not care how the cops say it is every time i came on here it all way a black man get beat all i get to say my heart go out to the family of them stop the beat there

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/U_InquireMi/ U_InquireMi

    Police brutality and abuse against brothers is getting worst by the day. It’s sad, yo9u can’t even sit around in your neighborhood for a few without them harassing you.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sempfi00/ sempfi00

    quannell X…may i say anymore..lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lastog33/ lastog33

    This is the same scenario played out on every street in every city in America! This type of brutality is no longer exclusive to the black man, it has reached every race, color and creed of which cannot afford legal representation. The Police in this country are on a ride that we as the people, put them on!

    Our television and movies are all in praise of the animal that we have released amongst ourselves. You ask, why are so many young black men, are brutalized and murdered by the police? Answer…Cowardice, fear and a number of other penned up issues that motivates, the coward. I mean really, 12 officers to apprehend a 15 year old unarmed boy?

    White people in general are leary and afraid of black Americans. White America has demonized the black man to the point of surrender, in a misguided attempt to conquer
    their own fears. Criminals should be dealt with in an aggressive manner however, once a man is down and poses no threat, that individual should be dealt with in a civil manner. The Police in most predominately black neighborhoods out number the citizens, and are overwhelmingly White with no ties to the community they police.

    Anyone black, old, White, Hispanic or American Indian is subject to a firm beat down ,
    depending on how that particular officer’s day is going. I’ve witnessed, minor traffic stops backed up by an army of police officers basically, standing about chit chatting. Awaiting
    the opportunity to intervene and bring the pain. We as Americans have given absolute power to law enforcement in this country, as we all no “Absolute power, corrupts absolutely!”

    “Officer! If you are too afraid to perform your duties in an exemplary manner, then you should seek other means of support.” For the Police Officers, standing around the shopping malls of America having a laugh at a security guard because you think you are better because of your law enforcement status, here’s a question for you…”After your 20 year tenure, and they put you out too pasture, what job are you best qualified for?”

    America, has granted the Police the power and arrogance that they currently enjoy, phrases like, “It takes a special breed to become a Police Officer?” Are you serious? Twenty plus
    years in the Marine Corps has taught me, that a special breed is nothing more than an excuse for bad behavior. Any man who shoots an unarmed man is a coward and should be treated as such. This recent beating represents the street gang mentality of law enforcement, our inability to hold these men accountable, is the assurance of future incidents, seriously, the next one, could be you!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SWEETASSUG/ SWEETASSUG

    Bottomline here is ………the guy did a crime so he is going to jail for it and going to be punished.

    The screwed up thing about the POLICE AND WHAT THEY DID ……. is…..

    They should of hand cuffed him and put his butt in the patrol car and took him down and booked him for the crime…………PERIOD………………..

    Their ass is out in the open having an azz wHoopin contest on a guy that is lying on his stomach on the ground with his hands behInd his neck…..

    THIS IS EVEN MORE DISTURBING……..AT LEAST…. 6……….. OR….. MORE POLICE IS BEATING THIS GUY…… …IN STEAD OF ARRESTING HIM …….

    THIS WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PAID TO DO…..TO PEOPLE…..

    YOU TELL ME WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE….

    POLICE LIKE THIS ARE SCREWED UP IN THE HEAD AND THEY THINK THEY CAN DO AND SAY ANYTHING ….AND GET AWAY WITH DOING SO…

    THESE COP WAS NOT DOING THEIR JOBS…..THEY WERE TEACH THIS DUDE NOT TO MESS WITH COPS ………SCARE TACTIC…

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