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Uplifting Black Liberation and Black Communities, Milwaukee racial justice organization, responds to Sylville Smith verdict

June 21, 2017 by Uplifting Black Liberation and Black Communities 2 Comments

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The Center for Popular Democracy released the following statement on behalf of Uplifting Black Liberation and Black Communities (UBLAC), a racial justice community organization in Milwaukee close to the Sylville Smith family, through UBLAC’s organizer Markasa Tucker:

“While Sylville Smith’s family struggles to go on without him, his killer will go home tonight. We are sickened and outraged, mournful, and in disbelief.

Contrary to the public portrayal, Sylville was a loving man, who held his family together, putting their needs even above his own.

Today’s verdict lays bare what we know too well in Milwaukee: there is no justice for Black people in our city. Sylville Smith was murdered, and ripped from his family, as a result of the destructive policing policies targeting the Black community in Milwaukee. This result exemplifies why Milwaukee is deemed the worst place to be Black in America.

It is past time for a real investment in our communities to address poverty and trauma, and it is certainly not the moment to pour millions of dollars into a police department which continues to terrorize our people.

We join calls from across the country to divest from failed policies of criminalization and to begin investing in people and communities.

Sylville will not be forgotten.”

For update information on actions and next steps, please visit Facebook.com/UBlacMKE

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  1. Avataremanuelzepnick says

    June 22, 2017 at 6:37 pm

    Good Evening My fellow Sherman Park residents . Even though the verdict was UNFAROABLE , I am so proud of my fellow residents acting like mature citizens and showing restraint . Now lets move forward and make The Sherman Park community as vibrant as when my beloved aunt kato lived at 3700 north Sherman Blvd with her husband and 2 children from 1957 _1963 . We can return to the glory days of 60 years ago , 60 years later . The sherman park neighborhood has a semi_surban feel , 2 excellent parks . convientely located excellent services . The TWO most important areas to work on . Public Safety and schools . Its up to you , to make it happen.

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  2. AvatarJACQUELINE HUDSON says

    September 20, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    Where are you located. What is your mission statement.

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