Justice For Jason: Stand Up Against Our White Supremist Court System
From shati via blackfolk
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"Late at night on February 3rd, a student at [Umass Amherst] was stalked, harassed, threatened, and called racial slurs by two men (not students, and unconnected with the college) lurking outside his window. Which they then smashed. The student - Jason - called the police, but before they arrived, the two men busted into the dorm and attacked Jason, breaking his nose. He defended himself, and the men were stabbed (no one’s said whether the men brought the knife in with them or whether it came from somewhere else); all three of them had to be transported to a hospital afterward. When the police arrived, they restrained and handcuffed Jason, who is of Jamaican descent, before finding out that he was the one who had called them for help.
Jason has no previous criminal record - instead he’s got a record of social service and volunteer work. He’s been arrested on multiple charges, including two counts of assault with intent to murder. At first he was the only one charged; since then, one of his attackers has been charged with hate crimes and disorderly conduct, and the other still has not been charged at all. Both are white.
There’s a blog up called Justice for Jason. It has more information on the incident, on the legal fallout, and on how to help Jason’s family with the legal costs of his defense, which could be as much as $15,000.
Window repair: probably a couple hundred at most.
Legal defense: possibly as much $15,000.
Bearing the legal brunt of your own racist victimization: priceless."
there will be a rally on the STUDENT UNION STEPS at UMASS AMHERST. it will be on wednesday march 12, 2008 at 12pm-1pm. if you can go to the rally, go. unfortunately i will be in rochester during the rally, so i won't be there.
please consider signing the petition on the site and donating money to jason's family to assist them with legal funds.
i am furious and sad and disgusted and unsurprised and yet somehow, completely shocked that they actually arrested and charged him.
i just want to reiterate that these two men followed someone into the dorm jason lived in. he did not let them in, he did not go outside to fight with them. they basically broke in and beat the shit out of him.
did anyone hear about the white south african students hazing the black workers at their school? they humilated them, forced them to perform tasks, pissed in their food and made the workers eat it.
and they caught the whole thing on tape.
Racist video sparks outrage in South Africa
Outcry in SA over 'racist' video
South Africa's ugly present
fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.
man, and fuck the bbc for putting racist in quotation marks.
cori, my thoughts are with you, jason vassell
SPREAD THE WORD!
"Late at night on February 3rd, a student at [Umass Amherst] was stalked, harassed, threatened, and called racial slurs by two men (not students, and unconnected with the college) lurking outside his window. Which they then smashed. The student - Jason - called the police, but before they arrived, the two men busted into the dorm and attacked Jason, breaking his nose. He defended himself, and the men were stabbed (no one’s said whether the men brought the knife in with them or whether it came from somewhere else); all three of them had to be transported to a hospital afterward. When the police arrived, they restrained and handcuffed Jason, who is of Jamaican descent, before finding out that he was the one who had called them for help.
Jason has no previous criminal record - instead he’s got a record of social service and volunteer work. He’s been arrested on multiple charges, including two counts of assault with intent to murder. At first he was the only one charged; since then, one of his attackers has been charged with hate crimes and disorderly conduct, and the other still has not been charged at all. Both are white.
There’s a blog up called Justice for Jason. It has more information on the incident, on the legal fallout, and on how to help Jason’s family with the legal costs of his defense, which could be as much as $15,000.
Window repair: probably a couple hundred at most.
Legal defense: possibly as much $15,000.
Bearing the legal brunt of your own racist victimization: priceless."
there will be a rally on the STUDENT UNION STEPS at UMASS AMHERST. it will be on wednesday march 12, 2008 at 12pm-1pm. if you can go to the rally, go. unfortunately i will be in rochester during the rally, so i won't be there.
please consider signing the petition on the site and donating money to jason's family to assist them with legal funds.
i am furious and sad and disgusted and unsurprised and yet somehow, completely shocked that they actually arrested and charged him.
i just want to reiterate that these two men followed someone into the dorm jason lived in. he did not let them in, he did not go outside to fight with them. they basically broke in and beat the shit out of him.
did anyone hear about the white south african students hazing the black workers at their school? they humilated them, forced them to perform tasks, pissed in their food and made the workers eat it.
and they caught the whole thing on tape.
Racist video sparks outrage in South Africa
Outcry in SA over 'racist' video
South Africa's ugly present
fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.
man, and fuck the bbc for putting racist in quotation marks.
cori, my thoughts are with you, jason vassell