Solidarity With The Chattanooga 3

On the 10th of January 2001, to coincide with the trial of the Chattanooga 3 in the United States, a solidarity action was held in Edinburgh (Scotland) to ask that all charges be dropped and to highlight the tragic consequences of police brutality in this country and abroad.

In 1999 3 African-Americans, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Damon McGee and Mikail Musa Muhammad, were arrested in the small Tennessee town of Chattanooga for daring to speak out against the deadly brutality of the Chattanooga police who have killed 40 people since 1980. Bizarrely, each of them face up to a year in prison for participating in a peaceful action. In contrast, not one of the 40 police killings has resulted in a prosecution.

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