Police Brutality

Feel Stage

by Augustus

First we familiarized ourselves with propny (Police Reform Organizing Project). They were able to help us by bringing us to go court monitoring. He learned so much through them and other organizations and individuals that we put together a teach in for the grades below us. we decided to make a mural with them dipicting…

by Onaje

We interview the head of the Police Reform Organizing Projecr, Robert Gangi. It started as four boys interviewing an educated activist and his intern. However, it became way more than that. First he introduced us to court monitoring. In court, we recorded in sheets the name, race, gender, charge and verdict of all of the…

by Ethan

On Tuesday, February 22 my group and I went to NYCLU, for a Know Your Rights Workshop. We traveled there by the 1 train and arrived at 4:20. This was the first fieldwork I’ve been on that was meant for teens. This Workshop was to teach kids what they can or cannot do when stopped…

by Jacob

This past Friday we went court monitoring with PROP. We went to the arraignment part of a criminal court in Manhattan on 100 Centre Street. After entering the court we received our notes sheets for writing down the cases. There we noticed that all of the people there were either Black or Hispanic. This to…

by Augustus

On Friday 1/22, my Group and I met with PROP leader, Robert Gangi. We met with him for our third time to go court monitoring at a court on Centre street in Chinatown. We had sheets that we could fill in the ethnicities of the people that were being tried for crimes in the court.…

by Onaje

Today we went down near the South Ferry to go to the ACLU/NYCLU. There we had an interview with Sam Thypin-Bermeo. He first showed us the amazing view at his office and then we all sat down at the table. The interview started out awkward and silent since we didn’t now Mr. Bermeo and we…

by Augustus

On Tuesday, 1/26 my group and I met with Sam Thypin-Bermeo from the NYCLU. We had to travel downtown to get to the NYCLU’s office. We immediately started our interview that included questions such as, “How did you get involved in Police Misconduct issues” and “Was there something in your life that drove you to…

by Ethan

On January 26 my group and I went to the NYCLU to meet Sam. Sam is a worker at the NYCLU and he focuses on police brutality and he is a lawyer. The ACLU is The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization whose stated mission is “to defend and preserve the individual…

by Ethan

On January 11th, my group and I had an interview with Ronald Kuby. Ronald Kuby is a lawyer for the American criminal defense. We learned a lot from his work. We asked him what made him start law? The moment he decided to got to law school was last year of college. Why criminal, civil rights? All…

by Onaje

On Friday, after our previous day’s meeting with Robert Gangi, director of PROP, we went to court. In court, we went to a room, sat on the bench and watch as many people walked up to the judge and all the people recording, writing down and saying stuff. Later on, Robert Gangi and his intern met…

by Onaje

On Thursday, we met up with Robert Gangi. Robert Gangi is the director of PROP; Police Reform Organization Project. We first met a while back on an interview with him and his intern. On that first interview with him we discussed the police quotas and how the are forcing police to arrest people for frivolous…

by Jacob

This past Thursday we met with Robert Gangi again. This meeting however, was to follow up on the court monitoring idea. Court monitoring is writing down and recording cases in the court. The purpose of this is to expose what really happens in court. Such as people going to court for ridiculous reasons. So after…

by Augustus

Today, 1/21 my group and I met with PROP leader, Robert Gangi for the second time. We discussed our court monitoring project which will take place on Friday 1/22. This court monitoring project lets us go into courts that bring in all the people arrested on little charges. Here we will see the racial prejudice’s…

by Augustus

On Monday January 11th my group went to Ronald Kuby’s offices, for an interview. We started talking about his early beginnings in law, though he didn’t plan to be a lawyer. He wanted to be an anthropologist though when he wasn’t accepted to the school because of his ego, he decided to practice law. He…

by Onaje

We met with the famous criminal and civil rights lawyer, Ronald Kuby, to interview him about his work. It was an honor to interview him knowing I will soon study this man and I’d already have a huge head start. I learned that the sold drugs as a teen. I learned he was brutalized many times…

by Ethan

On November 30 we went to the Robert Gangi’s office. Robert Gangi is the CEO of Prop (Police Reform Organizing Project). His organization exposes discriminatory and abusive practices of the NYPD.f We took the 1 train to 86th street and walked 1 block. When we go to his house he started to talk about his organization…

by Jacob

My group recently went to speak with Robert Gangi who is the founder of PROP(Police Reform Organizing Project). He explained to us mainly about what his organization does and how we could help out if we wanted to. He explained to us that PROP tries to make people more aware of the police’s actions and…

by Onaje

After contacting the Police Reform Orgization Project, we met up with the director of PROP, Robert Gangi, at his house. It was Augustus, Ethan, Jacob, Mr. Gangi, an intern for PROP and I. Although, it was we were discussing a very serious topic, the meeting was very casual. Mr. Gangi shared a lot of jokes throughout…

by Augustus

Today we met with Robert Gangi of PROP (Police Reform Organizing Project). He is the head of an organization that is working to alert the public of the brutality and injustices the police force conducts and we as a nation endure. We met him at his apartment that was also his office. He had a…

by Ethan

On Wednesday we went to see the “Black Panthers” movie. This movie was held at BAM which is the Brooklyn Academy of Music. We traveled there by train and arrived there by 10. We got there and it was in this movie theater and the movie started out talking about Huey Newton. Huey Newton was…

by Onaje

After watching a documentary focusing on the Black Panther Party, my opinion and knowledge of them have changed for the better.

by Jacob

This past Wednesday my group and I went to BAM to see a screening of the movie The Black Panther. It was a movie about the hard times that African Americans faced during the late 1960s. The Black Panthers were a group that retaliated against police brutality and stood up for all races/different kinds of…

by Augustus

On Wednesday 11/18 the Freedom of Speech group and ours went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The movie we saw was about the Black Panther revolution from the 1960s-70s. They were a group of African American people striving for equal rights, opportunities, housing, and an end to prejudices against African-American people. They were…

by Clair

When you feel unsafe, you call the police. That’s what you were told to do. But who do you call when the police make you feel unsafe? Our group is focused on the topic of Police Brutality. Too many citizens, and especially young men of color, are being targeted by the police rather than protected…

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