This goes on and will continue to go onInnocent in shooting, Nicetown youth spent five months in prison
By Joseph A. Slobodzian
By rights, Lionel Franks should have graduated from high school in June, near the top of his class.
By rights, he already should have started his freshman year at Lincoln University, studying culinary arts.
By rights, he should have been anywhere but in jail for five of the most important months of his teenage life, accused of shooting a man 12 times on a North Philadelphia street.
Franks' bad-dream detour into the city's criminal-justice system began April 9, a Friday mostly spent touring the Lincoln campus in rural Chester County. Back home in his Nicetown neighborhood by midafternoon, he changed into an Adidas sweat suit, green with white stripes down the pants and sleeves, and went shopping for sneakers at a sporting-goods store on Germantown Avenue.
Minutes into the return trip, Franks was swarmed by police. A man had just been gunned down 12 blocks away, they told him, and two witnesses had identified him as the shooter.
Franks showed the officers his bag from Olympia Sports and his new shoes. "You got the wrong guy!" he protested as they cuffed him.
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let's face it , even here in NYC when Black and poor parents cannot afford a good 1200 dollar attorney or have networks of church or community toput upthe funds, folks get burned
the Fortune Society? forget it cut to shreds
The Legal Aid Society? forget it Cut to shreds
our tax dollars had paid forthat, yet we have not established a national voting stragey as schools fail, crime rises and all of our good, excelelnthard working young men and young women are looked at as
not humans but sheep to be fleeced at a profit by the
Prison Industrial Complex
Every minute that brother spent in the system, the system was making money on his suffering and the suffering of his family
and more then likely his life is ruined because in some states you cannot get a job even if one has an arrst without a conviction
So as the economy declines do you think, the system cares about Black suffering?
or the bottom line of their profits as public /private penal systems and the annual report to be presented to their investors
At present with the national African American GDP
we have enough money so that every Black family could have a
private legal council both civic and criminal
Will this happen?
Only if we work collectively on it
otherwise we will see more and more of these kinds of reports as the economy declines
the conspiracy theorists say the Illuminati maintain power and control, by destroying or harming the good and the innocent, while rewarding the evil and the wicked
ironically the same tactics they used on African young men (Franz Fanon) during colonization, they seem to be useing here on our children
If we let them