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For Immediate Release
May 9, 2008 |
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey
Melanie Roussell
Shin Inouye (Nadler)
Candace Sandy (Meeks)
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(Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, announced that a community forum will be held in New York City regarding pressing national issues of law enforcement accountability and strategies for ensuring improved policing and greater public confidence in the fairness of the response to tragedies such as the Sean Bell case. Reps. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Nydia Velasquez (D-NY), Jose Serrano (D-NY), Ed Towns (D-NY), and NY State Senator Malcolm Smith will also attend. The forum will be held on Monday, May 12 at NOON at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House, Lower Level Auditorium, One Bowling Green, New York, New York.
The members will hear testimony from expert witnesses as well as representatives from the New York community.
WHO: Reps. Conyers, Meeks, Nadler, Scott, Rangel, Velasquez, Serrano, Towns, Clarke, and New York State Senator Malcolm Smith
Deborah Ramirez, Professor, Northeastern University
Chris Stone, Professor, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Mary Frances Berry, former Chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and Endowed Chair at the University of Pennsylvania
Rev. Al Sharpton, President, National Action Network
City of New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly (Invited)
Hillary Shelton, NAACP Washington (Invited)
Michael Hardy, Counsel for the Sean Bell Family (Invited)
Hazel Dukes, NAACP New York (Invited)
WHEN: Monday, May 12, 2008, NOON
WHERE: Alexander Hamilton US Customs House, Lower Level Auditorium, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004
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