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Tyree Carroll remains in jail. His pre-trial conference is THIS WEDNESDAY. Let’s pack the court to help get him out! Meet us at Criminal Justice Center Room 805 (Judge Michael Erdos). [August 12 at 8:30am at 1301 Filbert St]
Immediately following the conference will be a press conference outside the courthouse.
7pm that night we will demand #Justice4Tyree at the 14th Police District’s regularly scheduled Police Service Area Meeting at Wister Playground, 4971 Baynton Street.
We must stand together and remind the system and those who work for it that BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!
Visit the #Justice4Tyree FB page for more information and join to stay updated. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1654305488121306/
Here’s What Happened:
On April 3, 2015 an unarmed, 22 year old Tyree Carroll was stopped across from his grandmother’s house in the Germantown section of Philadelphia for riding his bike the wrong way on a one way street. What started with 3 white officers ended in as many as 26 officers involved or watching in this Rodney King style beating. He was kicked, hit with a nightstick, threatened with a taser, called a piece of sh** and other obscenities as more police arrived. Tyree suffers from asthma and fearing for his ability to breathe like with Eric Garner and for his life, he defended himself from officers who were choking him. Fortunately, a neighbor recorded a video, where Tyree can be heard screaming for his grandmom to come to the door. It is an outrage as the Fraternal Order of Police has called this incident “good policing”. We know this kind of abuse goes on all too often, but it just so happens that this one, like Rodney King in LA, was caught on camera.
