Villagers, we are joining with others in The AfroSpear to blog for justice and protection of our Black Women and families. Rape is a physical act of violence. However, you can violate a sister's soul without sex being involved.
Drumbeats came to us from The Whirlwind Listserv about a situation earlier this summer with Yvette Hayes, a pregnant Kansas City principal. It turns out that two white Independence Police officers stopped her on Interstate 70 after dark and made her lie on her belly alongside speeding cars. Click here to see 4-minute unabridged video of the police interatction with this sister.
Villagers, there is no way to defend forcing an unarmed pregnant woman to the ground AT GUNPOINT on the side of a busy road. No matter her race, social standing, criminal record. Period. Even ABC News recognizes that this was wrong on so many levels.
Yvette Hayes, 33, thinks she was a victim of racial profiling by police and employees at the J.C. Penney store. Tim Lyons, a spokesman for J.C. Penney Co. Inc., said the store's security staff notified police that they had seen a vehicle -- a green Jeep Cherokee -- resembling one observed in a series of car thefts and break-ins. Police suspected that the vehicle Yvette Hayes was driving was connected with a series of car thefts. It apparently was a case of mistaken identity. Hayes was driving a green Jeep Cherokee.
Hayes described the situation as follows:
Click onto the link below for Ms. Hayes statement.
Police Force Unarmed Pregnant Woman at Gunpoint to Side of Busy Freeway
Drumbeats came to us from The Whirlwind Listserv about a situation earlier this summer with Yvette Hayes, a pregnant Kansas City principal. It turns out that two white Independence Police officers stopped her on Interstate 70 after dark and made her lie on her belly alongside speeding cars. Click here to see 4-minute unabridged video of the police interatction with this sister.
Villagers, there is no way to defend forcing an unarmed pregnant woman to the ground AT GUNPOINT on the side of a busy road. No matter her race, social standing, criminal record. Period. Even ABC News recognizes that this was wrong on so many levels.
Yvette Hayes, 33, thinks she was a victim of racial profiling by police and employees at the J.C. Penney store. Tim Lyons, a spokesman for J.C. Penney Co. Inc., said the store's security staff notified police that they had seen a vehicle -- a green Jeep Cherokee -- resembling one observed in a series of car thefts and break-ins. Police suspected that the vehicle Yvette Hayes was driving was connected with a series of car thefts. It apparently was a case of mistaken identity. Hayes was driving a green Jeep Cherokee.
Hayes described the situation as follows:
Click onto the link below for Ms. Hayes statement.
Police Force Unarmed Pregnant Woman at Gunpoint to Side of Busy Freeway
...and the saga continues!
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