A memorial for stolen lives.New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Iris Baez was at home in Orlando, Florida The city of Orlando is a major city in central Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 185,951. A 2006 U.S. , just before Christmas in 1994 when she got a call telling her that her twenty-eight-year-old son, Anthony, was in a hospital in the Bronx. Anthony and his father and brothers were visiting their relatives in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of for the holidays. Baez immediately headed for New York, unaware that Anthony was already dead. He had died at the hands of a New York police New York Police may refer to:
"I would never think the police could kill my son," she says. "I never believed there was racism. Now I know there is racism, and I know how it feels." Iris Baez says she also now knows that nearly every day somewhere in America someone is killed or injured while in police custody. That's why she moved back to the Bronx and launched the Anthony Baez Foundation to help victims of police brutality in New York. The Anthony Baez Foundation is a sponsor of the Stolen Lives Project, which just published Stolen Lives, a 100-page book that lists the names of more than 300 people who have been killed in encounters with police or the border patrol since 1990. It also identifies their ages ethnicities, and the circumstances of their deaths. Most of these stolen lives belonged to black or Latino young men. Anthony Baez was Puerto Rican. Stolen Lives functions like a Vietnam Memorial on paper. It brings abstract violence close to home. The book proposes to "put a human face" on the epidemic of police brutality. The victims come from twenty-four states stretching from Hawaii to Maine. Ten pages are devoted to New York City victims alone. There's the story of nineteen-year-old Richie Pack, a man with cerebral palsy cerebral palsy (sərē`brəl pôl`zē), disability caused by brain damage before or during birth or in the first years, resulting in a loss of voluntary muscular control and coordination. who used a wheelchair. He exchanged words with a Chicago police officer in plain-clothes plain·clothes or plain-clothes adj. Wearing civilian clothes while on duty to avoid being identified as police or security: a plainclothes detective. who threw him out of his chair and against a pillar. Minutes later, he died. There's also the story of fifteen-year-old Angel Castro Jr., shot to death by a Chicago police officer in 1996. Stolen Lives is available for $5. or $3 each for orders of ten or more. To order copies or to submit names for consideration in future editions contact the October 22 Coalition, c/o KHL KHL Kids Help Line KHL Kent H. Landsberg Company Inc., Box 124, 160 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009. Or call 1-888-NO-BRUTALITY. |
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