J.B.Gerald // #RuchellCinqueMagee / #HermanBell length of sentence for U.S. political prisoners
14.4.18
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Herman Bell of the New York Three was finally granted parole at his eighth parole hearing with his release date set for late April. Bell is 70. The State Parole Board immediately came under fire from New York's Patrolman's Benevolent Association, the widow of one of the slain patrolmen and part of the other officer's family. Both Mayor Bill de Blasio and State Senator Patrick Gallivan heading the state's Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committee, publicly stated their opposition to the Parole Board decision, undermining the rights and expectations of all prisoners, and the institution of parole. The sentence given Bell by the judge was not a life sentence but 25 years-to-life which intentionally includes the possibility of parole. Police and politicians don't have the legal right to take over the judge's decision, or the Parole Board's. Our pages haven't followed the "New York 3" among many other prisoners whose lives and fate were formed by the FBI and NYPD's administration of COINTELPRO policies. These were evident in the makeshift trial of the San Francisco Eight. But in New York this extreme public reaction of the police union, the PBA president Pat Lynch's harangue fit for a mob ("This animal” is how he referred to Bell) , the misstatements of fact, politicians' risking the democratic process for police approval, all warn of fascism. They also revile Bell, a model prisoner, whom they've made a target when he is released. Understanding that police anger remains tangled in the tragedies of two who died in the line of duty (many Black Americans have also died but simply walking down the street), it should be remembered that allegations of killing police was a crime of preference for prosecuting Black community leaders (and white radicals) under the COINTELPRO program, and often in circumstances where testimony of prosecution witnesses later came into question. Partial sources online: "Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Issue International Call for Justice for the SF8," Feb. 10, 2008, 4strugglemag; "Don't let Parole Become a Meaningless Concept," Editorial Board, March 18, 2018, The New York Times; "Free Herman Bell," Feb.21, 2016, Makheru Bradley.
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