Free Officer Howard Morgan demonstration at Noon today

(From Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression)

Demand that Gov. Pat Quinn immediately grant Morgan Executive Clemency

A demonstration to free Officer Howard Morgan will be held today, February 26, 2014 at the Thompson Center State of Illinois, 100 W. Randolph St. in Chicago, at Noon.

Attorney Benjamin Crump, Morgan family spokesman and family attorney of Trayvon Martin, and supporters of justice in Chicago and America will be the main speaker at the demonstration.

Crump, spokesman for Officer Howard Morgan, and family attorney of Trayvon Martin, and Attorney Lester Finkle, Howard Morgan appellate attorney, will hold a press conference at the Thompson Center State of Illinois, 100 W. Randolph St., in  Room 2-025.

Attorney Crump will outline the case against the Chicago Police Department and will discuss Morgan’s appeal of his 2012 unlawful conviction after having been acquitted of firing his weapon in 2007.

In a press release from organizers of the demonstration, it was stated that the demonstration is being held “because Officer Howard Morgan is innocent,” adding that Morgan is a veteran police officer who was shot 28 times by four white rookie Chicago Police officers in a traffic stop.  He was shot because he had the gun he carries on his job, and like many African American police officers killed by other white officers, the police assumed he was a criminal and tried to kill him.

For more information, contact Kareem Ali, 773-469-1499.

The Howard Morgan Defense Fund For Justice
Church of the Living God
c/o Mrs. Rosalind Morgan
1738 W. 67th Street
Chicago, IL 60636

773-476-9562