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NJ Black activists say Al Sharpton, Ben Crump arent helping their cause – My Central Jersey

Activists take over Z'Kye Husain news conference in Bridgewater

Activists take over start of Z'Kye Husain news conference with civil rights attorney Ben Crump in Bridgewater.

Thomas P. Costello, MyCentralJersey.com

BRIDGEWATER Noted civil rights attorney Ben Crump came to the townshipWednesday to address the force police used on a Black 14-year-old at Bridgewater Commons seen in a video that went viral last month.

But before Crump could utter a word at his press conference planned outside the entrance of the Bridgewater Police Department, he was upstaged by a man with a loudspeaker who argued people like Crump and the Rev. Al Sharptonare not helping to solve racism in the United States.

The disruption started even earlier in the day when an anti-Black Lives Matter banner was seen hanging on a pedestrian bridge over the rampfromRoute 22 to Route 202-206, near Bridgewater Commons.

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The banner was removed and is being investigated, according to township officials who had no other comment.

"I urge everyone in the community to stand up against bigotry as we work through our recent issues. Incendiary language from any side will not help with the healing our community needs to experience in order to move forward," Somerset County Commissioner Shanel Y. Robinson said in a comment about the banner.

Refusing to allow the organizers of the Crump press conference and rally to speak, a Newark man named Afrikasaid he believes police terrorize the Black community and nothing has changed since the civil rights movement.

"We're still catching hell. They are still lynching us. We're tired of people like Al Sharpton and the National Action Network speaking for us," Afrika said, adding the Rev. Steffie Bartley, northeastern director of the National Action Network, was trying to cut him off from speaking.

"We don't have no money. We don't have no platform. We're the ones sleeping on the floor to feed our kids, working at these jobs where you can't even pay rent. The rent is too high in North Jersey. We'reslaving two or three jobs to take care of your family," he said. "We can't live like this and listen to these people that come into our community when something happens and get a paycheck. Al Sharpton is a millionaire, and I'm broke. We're all broke. I'm living paycheck to paycheck."

He said Crump and Sharpton, who was scheduled to attend the event but did not,don't live in the Somerset County community and they are being paid to attend the event

Afrika said the family of 14-year-old Z'Kye Husain has been brutalized by police and the system.

"We're herefor systemic racism, not just one incident," said another activist, who refused to be identified, who asked members of the large crowd if they had been beatenby Bridgewater police.

"This isn't a social gathering. These situations happen and they come into our town, they create a circus, and they are gone," the man said. "Show me any of these faces that will be here in Bridgewater Township when 5 percent of the Black people get pulled over by the police. Where are you guys going to be when they got to fight the town by themself? I'm only 15 minutes away, I'll be here."

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The man said there were dozens of pastors gathered for Crump's event, but it's hard to get one to come out into the streets.

The man said the press conference should have been held in conjunction with the roundtable hosted by the township, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. Thursday.

Andrew Buckmire, a former Bridgewater resident who now lives in North Brunswick,said what happened with Z'Kye has been happening in Bridgewater and Somerset Countyfor more than 35 years.

"I'm here to support Z'Kye but to support the bigger picture because I was Z'Kye. I've been harassed by this police department from 12 years old to 18 years old," said Buckmire who along with Afrika refused to let anyone silence their microphone as tensions grew between the activists and the organizers of the Crump press conference.

"These people are not our leaders. They don't lead nobody," Afrika said. "Sharpton, Crump, they're not leading nobody. They are here to make money. We explain how we're suffering, and they are going to get paid. They are millionaires. They are not staying in our community. Why are we listening to them? Why do they speak for us? They don't speak for me."

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New Brunswick resident Tormel Pittman, who is scheduled to be one of the participants in Thursday's roundtable, said he's tired of gatekeepers speaking for the community.

"They don't come with a plan. They comewith their hands out, they come to exploit a situation that was already going on," he said. "They exploit our pain. What will be the situation that will stop this from going on? We demand change."

The disruption promptedCrump and the Husain family to moveinside the municipal complex where the news conference was held a short time later.

When asked about the activists comments at the end of press conference, Crump had no comment.

Email: srussell@gannettnj.com

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10th Anniversary of Death of Trayvon Martin Observed at National Action Network – Our Time Press

Led by Mrs. Sybrina Martin, Mayor Adams, Rev. Sharpton and others

by BenYakaswww.gothamist.comReverend Al Sharpton and Mayor Eric Adams were joined by Sybrina Fulton and her family to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the murder of Fultons son, Trayvon Martin, in Harlem on Saturday.

Of course today is a bittersweet day, said Fulton, who noted that she usually does not make plans or appearances on the anniversary of her sons death. A lot of people talk about Trayvon Martins story its not a story for me, its a tragedy. Because a story has a beginning and an ending. There is no ending for what I carry in my heart.

Fulton, who started the Trayvon Martin Foundation in the wake of her sons death to bring awareness to ending gun violence, said we have to continue to hold people accountable for killing our loved oneswe cant give up, weve come too far.

Adams credited Fulton with turning her pain into a purpose, transforming it from a burial into a planting, and today we see the fruits of her harvest in the foundation that she has established and continued to pursue.

Adams spoke of how Fulton has worked to redefine the term stand your ground, the Florida statute that neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman used as his defense after he fatally shot the unarmed 17-year-old Martin on February 26th, 2012, in Sanford, Florida.

Adams argued that Fulton had turned the phrase into a rallying cry to fight against discrimination and unfair laws. He said that continuing the fight for Martin now means fighting against bigotry of all kinds, and connected it to hate crimes happening throughout NYC recently.

Trayvon was shot and killed because of who he looked like, Adams said. That is what youre seeing if someone is Asian, theyre being murdered because of who they look like. Someone who is in the transgender community is being assaulted because of who they look like. Someone who is Jewishis being attacked because of who they look like. Someone who is wearing a hijab that is being spat on or assaulted because of who they look like. If we stand our ground for Trayvon, were standing our ground for every group in the city. You cannot be treated based on what you look like.Zimmerman was ultimately acquitted of the charges of second degree murder and manslaughter, and, after a three-year inquiry, the Department Of Justice decided not to charge him with a hate crime either.

Sharpton, who introduced Adams and Fulton, said unequivocally that Martin was a victim of a hate crime: We wanted today, 10 years later, to say in his name [that] we stand against all hate crime whether its against Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Jews, gays, hate against anybody is wrong. You cant just fight for yours; you got to fight [for] everyone.

At Saturdays event, held at National Action Networks House of Justice at 145th Streetand Lenox Avenue, Sharpton criticized what he called microwave activists people who get heated up for one issue and then disappear and called Adams a long distance runner in comparison.Eric Adams is not here because hes mayor, hes mayor because hes been there all along, Sharpton said. Dont get it twisted. A lot of folks that will criticize him in the name of their [activism] were not active when Eric Adams was an activist out there, when there were just a few of us. Dont show up late to class and start taking attendance; get a seat in the back.

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PROMOTING A HATER: MSNBC Has Rabid Antisemite Al Sharpton …

In what could only be described as a staggering lack of self-awareness, MSNBC invited rabid antisemite Al Sharpton on to discuss last weekends terrorist attack at a Texas Reform synagogue.

Lest you forget, the deadly Crown Heights antisemitic riots in 1991 are widely blamedon Sharptons race baiting, and he later protested in front of Jewish-owned stores in Harlem that were eventually burned to the ground. Not exactly the person who should be giving his perspective on an anti-Jewish terror attack.

Critics all over social media pounced on the ill-advised choice by MSNBC to have Sharpton on to discuss the incident.

YWN will remind our readers that Al Sharpton wasnt always an unrepentant MSNBC star, and first-in-line to agitate a racial situation anywhere in the country. Thirty years ago a tragic car accidentin Crown Heights Brooklyn escalated into a pogrom against the Jewish people. The media usually gives it a politically correct description: violence between the areas Blacks and Jews. But the violence was not two-sided. The Crown Heights riot was an attack on the Jews by the neighborhoods Caribbean community, fueled in large part by Al Sharpton, the Reverend who does not believe in the commandment about bearing false witness.

Sharpton called Jews diamond merchants during the aftermath of the Crown Heights riots, which took place in Brooklyn in 1991. Sharpton, who led protests that led to the riots, said at the time If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

On the third day following the tragic Crown Heights car accident, Sharpton joined Sonny Carson and led a march. The marchers proceeded through Crown Heights, carrying anti-semitic signs and an Israeli flag was burned. Rioters threw bricks and bottles at police; shots were fired at police and police cars were pelted and overturned, including the Police Commissioners car.

Riots escalated to the extent that a detachment of 200 police officers was overwhelmed and had to retreat for their safety. On August 22, over 1,800 police officers, including mounted and motorcycle units, had been dispatched to stop the attacks on people and property.

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