Sunday 30 May 2010

Demonstration against Racism and Police Brutality



On May 30, a few hundred people marched from the Stadium, where 36-year old Maxwell Itoya was killed last Sunday, to police headquarters. This was one of the first times that immigrants took part in a demonstration here in large numbers. The demonstration was a response to the racist police killing of Max last week and the subsequent arrests of Africans at the immigrant marketplace. 25 are charged with assaulting a police officer, despite the fact that the situation was started by unjustified police agression.
The march was organized by friends of Max, ZSP and a solidarity network; it was joined in by anarchists and antiracists with a few people from left groups taking part.
Solidarity group: www.solidarnizmaksem.bzzz.net

Our video:
http://cia.bzzz.net/demonstration_against_racism_and_police_brutality

Links to press, photos, below.



Videos from mainstream TV:
http://www.tvn24.pl/-1,1658506,0,1,rasizmowi-stop-ukarac-zabojce-nigeryj...
Mainstream news plus video:
http://warszawa.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,95190,7952281,Tancza_i_spiewaja_dla...