Newark, NJ: People vs. Police Terror
Interview with Parents of Police Murder Victims
![Banner: "Stop police brutality"](https://i.snap.as/1wmGIkgq.jpg "Banner: \\"Stop police brutality\\" Standing in front of the police station where his son, Earl Faison, was killed on April 11, 1999, Earl Williams responds to the news that the trial judge had set aside convictions of two of the five police officers convicted on civil rights charges in the case: “I said to myself, what kind of a system are we living under?” POP struggled against the dismissals and the convictions were reinstated in appeals court. Four of the five former officers are now serving in federal prison. \(Fight Back! News/David Hungerford\)")
Fight Back! talked on May 8 with Elizabeth (Bonnie) Moore, whose son Rasheed, 26, was killed in January by Newark, NJ police officer Thomas Ruane (see Fight Back! March/April 2005.) Fight Back! also talked with Earl Williams, whose son Earl Faison was killed by Orange, NJ policemen in April of 1999. After a struggle of five years, led by the Faison’s family and by the People’s Organization for Progress, four cops were sentenced to terms of 33 months each for violations of the victim’s civil rights. One officer was sentenced to nine years.