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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Members of the Caucus of African American Leaders and different civilian rights organizers connected Monday announced plans to protestation on the way to Ocean City up of Labor Day play to telephone attraction to the convulsive arrests of Black teenagers connected the boardwalk earlier this summer.
Civil rights activistic Carl Snowden, from the Caucus of African American Leaders, said protesters would beryllium retired connected Thursday “to rise the consciousness of those who are traveling to Ocean City” astir the arrests.
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In 1 incident, on June 12, officers were shown connected video repeatedly kneeling connected 19-year-old, Brian Anderson, aft helium and his 3 different friends were confronted astir the vaping ban.
“They wouldn’t archer maine what they were arresting maine for oregon wherefore I was being detained,” said Anderson.
In the different incident, on June 6, constabulary utilized a stun weapon connected 18-year-old Taizier Griffin aft confronting him astir vaping.
“I’m upset astir getting tased but I”m conscionable gladsome it wasn’t a gun,” Griffin said. “Honestly, it each started retired arsenic a mean day, and past I’m being arrested implicit a vape.”
Griffin, from Perryville, denied constabulary reports that helium threatened to termination officers.
Ocean City Police said the teens were disorderly and successful immoderate cases threatened officers.
Four teenagers from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were charged with a bid of violations stemming from the June 12 incident.
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Snowden said the caucus besides plans to battalion the courtroom for the Oct. 12 proceedings related to the June 12 incident, record a ceremonial ailment with the Justice Department and conscionable with state’s attorneys crossed Maryland to sermon akin cases of misconduct.
“There’s this content that if you conscionable support quiescent agelong enough, radical volition forget. It’s our volition to marque definite they bash not forget,” Snowden said.
Snowden joined civilian rights organizations in June successful Ocean City erstwhile they called for the suspension of officers progressive successful the convulsive arrests of achromatic teenagers connected the boardwalk implicit vaping.
In July, civilian rights leaders took a 100-mile autobus tour along Maryland’s Eastern Shore, calling it the Freedom Summer Bus Ride, stopping successful towns to code systemic racism. The autobus circuit ended successful Ocean City wherever the activists met Mayor Rick Meehan to personally sermon their demands but neither of their requests were honored.
Activists renewed their telephone for the officers to beryllium suspended and for an autarkic probe into the officers’ behaviour during a property league Monday and shared their plans to show Thursday from Annapolis to Ocean City.
“This is not the benignant of abrogation spot radical wanna spell to wherever there’s immoderate interest that radical are being treated otherwise due to the fact that of pigmentation of their skin,” Snowden added.
WJZ reached retired to Ocean City’s Mayor and Police Department but they person not responded.
In a June statement, Ocean City said, “Our officers are permitted to usage force, per their training, to flooded exhibited resistance. All uses of unit spell done a elaborate reappraisal process.”
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Snowden said the Caucus of African American Leaders is besides filing a ceremonial ailment with the Justice Department, calling for an autarkic national probe into these arrests.
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