“Rise up!” was the message a mass of anti-cop protesters wanted to send to New Yorkers yesterday, just two days after the tragic slaying of New York Police Department Officer Randolph Holder by a career criminal.
Activists and family members of those killed by police rallied Thursday in Times Square, the start of three days of protests and marches speaking out against violence at the hands of law enforcement.
While the rally was planned beforehand, many New Yorkers were left furious by the timing, claiming it gave the appearance of support for repeat felon Tyrone Howard, who allegedly brutally gunned down Holder on Tuesday.
While Holder’s death has created a nationwide wave of support for police officers, the protest organizers decided to go forward with their anti-cop message anyway.
“We need to put an end to police brutality and police murder,” speaker Nicholas Heyward Sr. told the crowd.
He continued, “We are talking about innocent lives that are being taken constantly and they never, never are being held accountable for the crimes they are committing.”
Just this summer Howard, the accused cop killer, had been released from jail into a drug diversion program and was wanted in a shooting last month, said Police Commissioner William Bratton, noting that the suspect had shown an increasing level of violence and shouldn’t have been on the streets.
Howard is expected to be charged with fatally shooting Holder during a gunfight Tuesday night on a pedestrian bridge after stealing a bike.
He was arrested in October 2014 along with 18 other people and charged with selling crack cocaine at an East Harlem public housing complex. But Bratton said Howard was released into a drug diversion program, which is meant to keep drug offenders from overcrowding the city’s jails.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Holder, who joined the force in July 2010, had an “exemplary record” as a police officer.
Holder was a native of Guyana. He worked in the NYPD division that polices the city’s public housing developments. His father and grandfather were police officers in Guyana, Bratton said.
The anti-cop RiseUpOctober events were the brainchild of activist Carl Dix and academic Cornel West, and are scheduled to continue for three-days before culminating on Saturday with a march in Manhattan.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
The protesters were just following Alinski’s Rules.
Like Alinski, they are all red communists, and should have been treated like Stalin would have treated fellow communists in the same circumstance – by machine gunning every last one of them where they stood.
The average number of murders in the US is about 20,000/year; of these some 14,000 are committed by Blacks 18-30 years of age; 90% of those victims or 12,600 are other Blacks. Black murderers are committing genocide of their own!
Keep up the good work!!!!
YES, “Rise Up!” PLEASE! “RISE UP!” PRETTY PLEASE!!!!! With SUGAR!!!!
Yes! Rise up! Our brave people in blue. Rise up and overcome this hate speech.
God bless all police!
Death to Cops!!!!
THEN WHO WILL PROTECT YOU MORON
Those “people” that complain about the Police are such hypocrites. When the Police ask for help on solving a crime, they don’t say a word and the criminal gets away. Then when the Police does find someone later, no one comes forward to identify him. Then when he resists arrest and attacks the Police, they use force. Then these Communists incite a riot and hurt the Police. Then when one of them needs a Police person and no one comes right away they complain.
Bingo! Couldn’t agree with your comments more!!!
Good hurt Police!
He continued, “We are talking about innocent lives that are being taken constantly and they never, never are being held accountable for the crimes they are committing.”
WHAT ABOUT BLACK ON BLACK LIVES TAKEN IN CHICAGO? That statement applies there 100 to 1 over applying to cops.
I think there cops should start shooting these mothers they get blame for it anyway this is Obamas world he wants to take guns away from good people and let the thugs have them this is his doing and al Jesse holder that’s what they want so I say kill them before they kill another cop and by the way he released all those thugs from jail is that a slap in the face to the American people this President is a JOKE hiim and the rest of the thugs in Washington .
A simple thing to do, just vote for TRUMP IN 2016
This is what happens when you are totally stuck on stupid and refuse to accept the fact that they are responsible for their crappy lives… not the cops. These are your typical entitlement victims seeking another person or group to blame for their pathetic lives, hands out and brains (if they have any) tucked in the back pocket for them to sit on!
Freaking bunch of good for nothing criminal morons!
This may be the beginning of a plan to start this country into civil disobedience so obama can incite marshal law so he can remain as president! Just a thought!!
this situation reminds me of decent Afro- Americans complaining that crack dealers were scaring customers from their legal businesses. The entitilled attitude blacks complained that stiffer penalities for crack cocaine compared to powdered cocaine were racist, Florida lawmakers listened and stiffened the penalties for powder cocaine to those laws appling to crack. After more complaints from business owners police began to crack down on all forms of cocaine dealing the entitilled attitude blacks cried profilling and racism
Have any of you thought about what the cause really is? God turned his face away from the jew’s because they refused to obey, and let them be taken into slavery, killed , raped and worked to death. He destroyed Sodom and Gommora for thier homosexual practice’s. How easy would it be to just rid ourselves of these parasites, and start a new useful society?
I guess giving up all the screwed up programs on TV , and the pot, and the other vices, is too much to ask? Like soft ball baseball hockey tennis billiards , golf, volley ball, etc, etc.
What a shame that we can’t even elect a decent representative, but help destroy the country by electing a non american Muslim entent on the ending of our way of life?
The END!!!