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The Disabled Community Can Learn from the Deaf Community On How To Respond & Make Cultural Work On Police Brutality.

Did and has the anti police brutality movement left behind one of the biggest groups that have been killed by police since the early 1980's when I got involved.

Press Release Black Disabled Art History 101- Children’s Book (9/17)

Press Release

Black Disabled Art History 101- Children’s Book

September/2017

Escalation With Military Weapons Provided by Urban Shield (Poem by LEROYF MOORE JR. for Protest Against Urban Shield)

City governments

giving out permits to White Supremacists

Under Blue Shield

Cocked & loaded by Urban Shield

Escalation to the the tenth power

The same story over and over

We fall for the state's answers

If only if Jeremy poem-song For Jeremy McDole

If Only If Jeremy

If only if

If only if Jeremy

Jeremy let’s talk, it’s ok you can’t walk

Let’s go deeper both know police watching us like a hawk

You got the wheels I got my cane, you and I let them talk

Put your manhood aside

It’s you and I so let’s ride

Who Will Be in Our Public Schools After Labor Day Waiting For Our Youth? Cops With More Power & Grant $$.

Both Democrats & Republicans have it wrong when they argue public safty and schools. Check It Out!

Confederate & Black Disabled People, More Than Statues Buildings Still Stands

Leroy's Suggestions on Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities Beyond Training.....

Yes I talk a lot about the problems so here are some of my suggestions toward police brutality against people with disabilities and who are Deaf.

SOME of My Suggestions: So what can we do as a community more locally?

A. Switching the focuus from what police need to what the community needs.

The Responses To Krip-Hop's Track SSI Dollarz By Men In San Bruno Jail

Back in the late 90's I and Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia had the honor to present our work in San Bruno jail. In July of 2017 I had another opportunity to present my work, this time, Krip-Hop Nation under Poetry For the People's teacher Amalia Alvarez. The men responded great to the videos, songs and talk all about Black disabled issues from Hip-Hop to police brutality but the spark was the song by Keith Jones and I entitled SSI Dollarz. We ended the class by writing what they thought of the presentation and a cypher.

July is ADA Month However When It Comes to Police ADA Means?

Back in the 90's a group of us in the Bay Area, Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF), POOR Magazine, Disability Advocates of Minorities Org, DAMO, Caduceus, Coalition on Homelessness and the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper got tired of seeing more and more police shooting of Black & Brown disabled people. We held rallies, open forums and talked to our political leaders but it kept on going on. We realized back then that nobody were collecting data on this issue except a very few activists.

Is It Time To Look What We Provide Our Disabled Youth When State Violence Is At An All Time High?

Wait! Since the late 80’s I’ve been protesting, advocating etc on police brutality against people with disabilities however today is totally different. I am use to reading and advocating for Black/Brown adults with disabilities but today our Black/Brown youth with disabilities are the growing cases of state violence in schools, on the streets, in group homes, locke