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Loading …I waited in line this morning for an hour and a half to vote at the Little 5 Points community center. I wondered what was holding up the line until I saw this guy.
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Democratic Senate Candidate Jim Martin at the “Campaign for Change” rally Monday night at the Georgia capitol.
About 50 people showed up today at Woodruff Park in support of National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality.
One of the protesters was Iffat Muhammad Walker, whose brother Abraheem Muhammad was unarmed when he was shot in the head and killed during a confrontation with a DeKalb police officer in August 2006. The police report said that Muhammad had pushed an officer against a wall who had come to investigate a report of trespassing in an apartment complex at 3800 Flat Shoals Parkway and that the weapon discharged during the struggle, according to the AJC. A DeKalb County Internal Review Board later ruled that either Muhammad had pulled the trigger while attempting to shoot the officer or that the gun went off during a struggle.
Iffat says that the police report does not make sense and questions how her brother could have shot himself in the face. She also questions why the police are in charge of investigating their fellow officer. “It does not make sense. It’s like if I commit a crime and I investigate myself.”
Her brother’s case was one of twelve cases in which an officer fatally shot someone in DeKalb County in 2006, according to the AJC. In 10 of the 12 cases, the Internal Review board ruled the fatal shootings justified. In another fatal case, in which a suspect was beaten with a baton, pepper sprayed and later stopped breathing, the board found that the officers did not contribute to the death.
“We really want to know what happened, “ Iffat said during the rally. “I remember him as a very kind person. I dressed him for his funeral and that is the last time I saw him.”
(Photo of Iffat Muhammad Walker at the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality at Woodruff Park)
This week’s Time and Place photo was shot at 11th and Peachtree Street NE. For me, one of the benefits to living in the city is that the mirrored buildings create living canvases that change dramatically throughout the day. I like this photo because it combines that element of the city with another of my favorites — the workers who dangle fearlessly from buildings while they complete their daily jobs. To me, they are heroic. I also like the multidimensionality of this image — how the reflected building forms one world and the surface of the lines of steel form another dimension. The worker, seemingly walking at the top of the reflected building while touching the sky, forms yet another.
(Photo and text by Joeff Davis)
Was anybody else weirded out by McCain’s freaky laughing last night?
Paper mache doll by the Missile Dick Chicks outside the 2008 Democratic National Convention
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(Photo by Joeff Davis)
October 2, 2008, 9:35 p.m. at 502 Amsterdam Ave. N.E.
This weeks Time and Place photograph was taken off the television screen at the Amsterdam Café. When I go out on an assignment I try to previsualize an image before I arrive at the shoot and for this one I was thinking of somebody drinking in front of the television screen with the Vice Presidents debate going on behind them but when I got there that image felt a little too contrived so I started taking photos of just the television screen with a long lens and came up with this Palin shot.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Nearly 25 demonstrators gathered outside the Federal Reserve Bank Building at 10th and Peachtree today under the banner “Bail Out the People, Not the Banks” in protest of the controversial “economic recovery” package that was approved 74-25 by the U.S. Senate last night. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Friday on the package. Supporters of the legislation, including Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, threaten economic collapse if the bill fails, claiming its passage is essential not just for people on Wall Street, but also for folks on Main Street.
But these demonstrators weren’t buying it. Chants of “Stop Corporate Greed Fund Human Needs”, “Money for Main Street not for Wall Street” and “Bail Out the People Not The Banks” were punctuated by honking horns from passing vehicles in support of the protesters.
“I oppose bailing out billionaires,” said demonstrator Ingmar Smith. “We have been trying to get basic health care funded for 20 years but as soon as Wall Street needs money its available in a week.”
Demonstrators outside the Federal Reserve Bank Thursday afternoon
Supporters and loved ones of Troy Davis marched through downtown Atlanta and rallied at Ebenezer Baptist Church September 18, 2008.
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The Rev. Marvin L. Morgan and Steve Woodall were arrested this evening at Gov. Sonny Perdue’s office after spending all day there attempting to speak with Perdue about the Troy Davis death penalty case.
Morgan, Woodall and Sister Pat Sullivan began their wait just after 11 a.m. The governor never responded to their request. Morgan and Woodall were arrested after the Capitol closed at 5:00 p.m. and were taken away in a squad car. Police responded with a “no comment” when asked what charges Morgan and Woodall face.
Around 4:45 p.m., police blocked me from entering the building, threatened to confiscate my camera and escorted me out.
Late today, the Georgia Supreme Court denied Davis’ request for a stay of his execution, which is set for tomorrow evening. But the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would decide tomorrow whether to hear his appeal.
The Rev. Marvin Morgan, Sister Pat Sullivan and Steve Woodall showed up at Gov. Sonny Perdue’s office this morning asking to meet with the governor regarding tomorrow’s planned execution of Troy Davis.
According to Deputy Press Secretary Malli McCord, Perdue was not in his office and was unavailable by phone.
“We will let him know you stopped by,” she told the three individuals.
Despite this promise, the three decided to wait until the governor agrees to speak with them. “Our intention is to stay here until the governor comes and sees us or accepts our phone call,” the Rev. Morgan said, sitting on the couch in Perdue’s office.
Morgan presented a letter to Ms. McCord requesting that the state kill him instead of Troy Davis. Woodall has been fasting since Thursday afternoon and has camped out in front of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution building in an attempt to bring more attention to the case.
At 1:15 p.m. the three were still sitting in the governor’s office. The office closes at 5:00 p.m.
(Photo By Joeff Davis)
Hundreds of people marched from Woodruff Park down Auburn Avenue to the Ebenezer Baptist Church Thursday evening to protest the upcoming execution of Troy Davis. Seven of the nine witnesses who originally identified him as the killer have recanted their testimony. Chants of “We are Troy Davis” reverberated throughout the Auburn neighborhood. At Ebenezer Baptist Church, a service included speeches and prayer.
Davis’ older sister, Martina Davis Correia, described a call she had received Thursday from the president of France, who asked for more details about the case. She also alluded to the case being brought up at the United Nations Friday. But after years of fighting against her brother’s conviction, she seemed ready to face her brother’s death. “No matter what happens on the 23rd” she said, “we all win. We are going to dismantle the death penalty in Georgia.”
After the Board of Pardons and Parole refused Davis’ request for clemency last Friday, his only chance for a stay of execution is the state Supreme Court (it ruled in march 4-3 against allowing new evidence to be considered), the U.S. Supreme Court and President George Bush. Davis avoided execution last year when, less then 24 hours before he was sentenced to die, the parole board granted a stay. The demonstration Thursday ended with people joining hands and singing “We Shall Overcome.”
(Photo By Joeff Davis)
Hundreds of people rallied outside the Capitol Thursday evening in a final attempt to convince the state Pardon and Parole Board that Troy Davis shouldn’t be executed. Davis has been on death row since 1989 for the murder of a Savannah police officer. Although there was no physical evidence linking Davis to the murder and seven of the nine witnesses who originally identified him as the killer have recanted their testimony the state has given a Sept. 23 date for Davis’ execution. His last hope is the parole board, which meets today to hear testimony about the case. The two-hour rally included speeches by Davis’ sister, state Sen. Vincent Fort and two of 129 death row inmates who have been exonerated nationwide in the last 35 years. Davis also spoke to the crowd through a cell phone call from the prison where he is held. The board is expected to make a ruling on the case sometime in the next week.
See more photos from yesterday’s Troy Davis rally at the Capitol here.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
