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SF8 case is close to Vic­tory!
Props to Mal­com X Grass­roots Move­ment

On what was sup­posed to be the start of the pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing and California’s con­tin­ued attack on the San Fran­cisco 8 (SF8), the false case of the state pros­e­cu­tion and attor­ney gen­eral Jerry Brown was fur­ther exposed. A week after Her­man Bell was given 5 years pro­ba­tion for vol­un­tary manslaugh­ter, more charges were not only reduced, but ulti­mately dropped against four more of the defen­dants. Ray Boudreaux, Harold Tay­lor, Hank Jones and Richard Brown were offi­cially released from the case fol­low­ing an arrange­ment where Jalil Muntaqim reluc­tantly pleaded no con­test to con­spir­acy to com­mit manslaugh­ter. The sen­tenc­ing times of Her­man Bell and Jalil Muntaqim mir­ror a sim­i­lar embar­rass­ment of the pros­e­cu­tion in the ear­lier dis­missal of charges against Richard O’Neal, who was also wrong­fully charged with con­spir­acy. Charges against Fran­cisco Tor­res remain, show­ing the pros­e­cu­tions ever­last­ing attack on African and Latino com­mu­nity elders.

The case against the SF8 is one of state spon­sored des­per­a­tion and extreme mis-management of Cal­i­for­nia fund­ing. Mil­lions of dol­lars has been spent since Jan­u­ary of 2007 to arrest, extra­dite and cre­ate hun­dreds of thou­sands of pages of evi­dence which have not led to a sin­gle mur­der con­vic­tion amongst the SF8. These recent actions add on to a 37 year legacy of state tor­ture and war against com­mu­nity lead­ers. This case has been built upon a series of human rights vio­la­tions start­ing with the 1973 tor­ture of Rueben Scott, Harold Tay­lor and the late John Bow­man. The unlaw­ful acts of California’s jus­tice sys­tem is respon­si­ble for attempt­ing to deny the SF8 their free­dom The broth­ers of the SF8 are fam­ily men, whose lives have been inter­rupted through this country’s con­tin­u­ing attack against peo­ple who stand for human rights.

All of the eight have been harassed and held as polit­i­cal pris­on­ers dur­ing the case. Her­man Bell and Jalil Muntaqim will return to New York hav­ing been incar­cer­ated con­tin­u­ously for well over 3 decades each. Although they will be leav­ing behind the last 2 and half years of SF County Jail time, they return to New York to face parole boards with felonies due to the neg­li­gence and des­per­a­tion of a defeated Cal­i­for­nia pros­e­cu­tion team. Within 30 days of return to New York, Her­man and Jalil will face parole boards for a poten­tial free­dom that they deserve. Human­ity must rise up and sup­port these broth­ers in their con­tin­ued strug­gle for jus­tice. While prepa­ra­tion for NY parole hear­ings begin, the peo­ple must unite and con­tinue to demand that all charges be dropped against all of the SF8 by sup­port­ing Fran­cisco Tor­res at his August 10th court hear­ing. Charges against Fran­cisco Tor­res must be dropped to com­plete the defeat of California’s attor­ney gen­eral and all other local, state and national forces that abuse their power.

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