Jacob

My name is Jacob McKinnon. This is my journey to becoming a better basketball player. Here is my story.

Police Brutality Share Stage

I have learned that it doesn’t take a lot of people to make a big change. As long as you are committed and willing, anyone can make a change. We will submit our police brutality mural to an art show. There it will be displayed as a memoir to the victims of police brutality.

Court Monitoring

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…

Meeting with Robert Gangi

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…

Meeting with Ronald Kuby

A few days ago we met with Ronald Kuby, a very famous criminal lawyer. Much like Ronald Kuby he explained to us the injustices of the police system. As a teenager he had many run-ins with the police and later realized that he didn’t like this and wanted to make a difference. Mr. Kuby told…

Meeting with Robert Gangi

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…

Black Panther:Vanguard of the Revolution

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…