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July, 2006

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Benton Harbor Prisoner Speaks Out

Editor's note: These are excerpts from a letter from a courageous prisoner.

Dear People's Tribune,

The Judges, County Sheriff Department, detectives, and the corrupt Benton Harbor Police Department collaborated and executed the plan to get rid of Rev. Edward Pinkney, just as they have the other innocent Black men and women of Berrien County.

Willie Lynch, an American slaveholder, offered his services back in 1712 on how to enslave. The above subjects have mastered his inhuman methods. To destroy and conquer, a few Blacks must receive half-ass good treatment and be fed steaks in exchange for helping humiliate their very own, earning the title of Uncle Tom and House Negro.

There have been mysterious killings committed by the Benton Harbor and St. Joseph Police. A young Black man was found dead in the St. Joseph River. "Whoever" killed him knew how to get away without leaving "any" clues. A young Black man was brutally beaten by the Police as he rode his bicycle through white St. Joseph. A Detective resigned after realizing that witnesses were threatened by the Police to make false statements to reach a conviction where a man was sentenced to life. These individuals are Black, and in Berrien County, that's a crime.

- Craig Shivers


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