Justice for Fritz Louissaint — Police violence in Rahway, NJ

This week our brother James Carey, Chairman of the Elizabeth branch of the People's Organization for Progress, contacted Fire on the Mountain to inform us that the People's Organization for Progress, will host a rally/march for Fritz Louissaint the mentally disturbed Haitian man who was shot 5 times at close range by Rahway Police Officers Sgt. Anthony DeCarlo and Edward O'Donnell.

Miraculously, Fritz survived the attempt on his life however, he's languishing in the Union County Jail for a crime he didn't commit. Police assert they were justified in using excessive force because Fritz Louissaint attacked them with a harpoon knife, an account that eyewitnesses strongly refute because he was holding a fishing pole handle.

 

Rahway's Mayor James Kennedy fabricated the story when he said quote: "I saw the videotape of the whole incident that was captured on the police cruisers video cam showing Mr. Louissaint with his hand over his head like in the movie Psycho, then he attacked the police." According to eyewitnesses, the police encountered Fritz in the courtyard of the motel, demanded that he put the fishing handle down and he complied.

 

Once Fritz began raising his arms in the air, they began shooting... it would be scientifically impossible for the incident to be captured on video cam because the police vehicles were facing North and Fritz was shot in the rear of the vehicles which would be (South.)

James note that if there's a videotape available it would totally exonerate Fritz Louissaint. Mayor Kennedy prejudiced himself and influenced the potential grand jury that would've been sequestered when he made that statement, therefore in the mines of everyone Fritz Louissaint is presumed guilty. Despite request from the ACLU of NJ, the Rahway Police have yet to relinquish the tape.

We encourage everyone to join us as we rally/march to demand justice for Fritz Louissaint. 

 

  Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010

Time: 12:00pm (Noon)

Place: Rahway Police Department, 1 City Hall Plaza, Rahway, NJ

 

For additional information, 

call NJ State POP Chairman Larry Hamm 

(973) 801-0001

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Justice for Fritz Louissaint — Oppose state-sponsored terror in Rahway, NJ

Update!!! October 11 Update!!!

James Carey, Chairman of the Elizabeth, NJ Branch of the People's Organization for Progress announced last night a "Massive Rally/Protest in front of the Rahway Police Department for Fritz Louissaint, the unarmed elderly man who was shot by two rogue police officers April 16th 2010 at the Kings Inn Motel after they fabricated a story indicating Fritz attacked them with several knives, a story that eyewitnesses strongly refute…"

The time and date of this rally will be Saturday, October 16th 2010 at 12 noon, and the location is 1 City Hall Plaza (see map), Rahway, NJ. Please join POP, our Elizabeth Branch and justice-minded people  and come to Rahway on Saturday…

At the Thursday, September 30 General Assembly Meeting of the People's Organization for Progress, the Chairman of the Elizabeth Branch of POP informed the meeting about this heinous case of police brutality in Rahway. He hopes to follow up with mass action. Check Fire on the Mountain for updates on these plans in the next few days…

On April 16, 2010 an unarmed Haitian-American man was shot at point-blank range by officers of the Rahway Police Department. Three of the five bullets hit Mr. Fritz Louissaint in the chest.


While that number of shots to the chest would normally make this a post-mortem campaign for justice, in this case Mr. Louissaint and his family are fortunate, though he presently languishes in jail, charged with a crime he could not have committed.

The Rahway cops maintain that they were justified in using deadly force because Fritz Louissaint supposedly attacked them with a machete-like knife. This account was strongly refuted by eyewitnesses accounts of the incident.

Rahway's Mayor James Kennedy went public claiming, "I saw the videotape of the whole incident that was captured on the police cruiser's camera showing Mr. Louissaint yielding a knife." Five months later, however, the police department and the prosecutor's office haven't produced this so-called smoking-gun evidence.

Mayor Kennedy prejudiced himself and irrevocably impaired the impartiality of any potential grand jury with his comments.

The Justice for Fritz Louissaint Campaign encouraged everyone who stands for liberty & justice to write letters or telephone New Jersey's U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and request that the Justice Department intervene and conduct its own investigation into Louis Louissaint's case…

U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman

Newark U.S. Attorney's Office

970 Broad Street, 7th Floor

Newark, NJ 07102

Phone (973) 645-2700

Fax (973) 645-2702

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