New York City Council Candidate Christina Gonzalez

 Download Podcast Join Black Talk Radio News host Scotty Reid as he discusses some of the political and social news of the day.  Christina Gonzalez is running for the New York City Council on the Green Party ticket and will join the broadcast tonight. Christina Gonzalez has been a fierce activist against the NYPD Stop & Frisk campaign, police brutality and was so effective in her tactics that the NYPD issued threatening posters of her that listed her home address as described her and her partner Matthew Swaye as “professional agitators” who were engaged in filming police who racially profiled, stopped and frisked young men in the Black and Hispanic communities. Christina hopes to represent the citizens of District 7 as she hopes to capture a seat on the next city council. Visit her campaign website @ http://www.freestina.com/   This news and more tonight on Black Talk Radio News....

Pennsylvania Arrests & Sentencing Disparities - Diop Olugbala Sentencing Hearing

The Pittsburg Tribune Review is reporting that Allegheny County councilman William Russell Robinson said on Wednesday that he wants to meet with the county's president judge to discuss whether racial inequity needs to be addressed in the court system, a day after a judge claimed whites get better deals from prosecutors.



Also out of the State of Pennsylvania, Diop Olugbala who is the President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement was a guest on Black Talk Radio News & Views on Wednesday to discuss racial profiling and other issues of concern in the Black community in Philadelphia. Olugbala faces up to years in prison when he is sentenced on October 13th after a felony assault on a police officer conviction that stems from a protest he and others staged at Philadelphia city council meeting in 2009.

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