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St. Petersburg, Florida police brutalize another African; steal camera phones containing evidence

InPDUM takes phones back; demands police out of the black community

By Fenty Tholley
Chair, APSP Sierra Leone (currently visiting ASI International Headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL)

On Friday, November 8 at 10am, I, Fenty Tholley, the Sierra Leone leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), was at the International Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida when a call came into comrade Diop Olugbala’s phone. He is the International President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM).

The call was from another comrade in the struggle named Mtundu, who reported that a brother from the African community was being attacked by the bloodthirsty St. Petersburg police. He was being beaten for no reason other than being an African.

President Olugbala and other InPDUM representatives went to the scene where the event took place – known as the Uhuru Park (aka Silver Lake Park).

I saw large groups of Africans gathering to stop the police brutality in their community.

InPDUM, which is the peoples organization for black power in the U.S. and worldwide, was able to organize and intervene by confronting the police and demanding the release of the African who was beaten and arrested, as well as the two cell phones that the police had taken from members of the community.

The phones contained footage of the brutality on camera. The police took the phones to hide evidence of the brutality they committed.

It was a serious struggle at the scene. Through organized resistance INPDUM and the people were able to win the struggle. We collected the phones back from the police.

As the leader of APSP Sierra Leone, I totally unite with InPDUM and the African community of St. Petersburg by strongly condemning this act of brutality and theft by the U.S. domestic colonial State.

I urge all true loving daughters and sons of Africa, wherever you are located, to unite in building for the remarkable upcoming event, the Sixth Congress of the APSP, scheduled for Dec 7-11 in St. Petersburg. The APSP is the only Party that serves as the vanguard in the struggle for black power and destroying white power.

Make sure you are part of it and join the struggle of InPDUM, because this is the only movement that is building a permanent solution to the police brutality in the black community.

Uhuru! Uhuru Means Freedom!

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The APSP USA Sixth Congress • Dec. 7-11, 2013 in St. Petersburg, FL