Straight Words hosts Naba'a Richard Muhammad, Bj Murphy and James G. Muhammad closed the April 1 broadcast with a discussion of news and important stories and heard from callers.
Brother Bj focused on Final Call newspaper coverage of the passing Rasul Muhammad, a beloved NOI student minister and son of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, and read from a touching, insightful article by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan about the nature of love. Read the Minister's words at www.finalcall.com.
Brother James talked about the tragic deaths of twin brothers Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis, 19, in Hiawassee, Georgia, a majority White area with a history of hostility towards Blacks, covered in The Final Call. The investigation is still ongoing and so far there are more questions than answers about what happened to the young men at this point.
Lastly, Brother Naba'a brought up a new policy in Chicago's Englewood community that allows police to arrest and charge people instead of prosecutors reviewing arrests and filing charges. This is way too much power granted by newly elected Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neil Burke, who replaced Black county prosecutor Kim Foxx.
"That’s not how arrests in Englewood were made in the past. But that’s the way it’s being carried out today in the 7th Police District. And, if all goes well for the county’s top prosecutor’s plans for reducing violent crime in the predominately Black neighborhood, the practice of Chicago police filing charges without a prosecutor’s review will be implemented in all of the city’s 22 police districts," reported the Chicago Crusader, a Black-owned weekly.
"It’s called the Bypass Felony Review Pilot Program, an experimental procedure that gives Chicago police officers in Englewood more power to arrest suspects they believe committed a felony. The program began in January," the Crusader said.
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