Above Photo: The Mother of Isaiah Hammett with her boyfriend and adopted kid in front of the city jail or “workhouse” in St Louis the day we ripped the fence open.

On June 7th, 2017 Isaiah Hammett, 21 years old, was executed by the St Louis SWAT team during a warrantless, no knock raid. He was shot over 30 times and screamed “Please, don’t shoot!” twice while officers stood over him before firing their final shots. Since then family, friends, and a few politicized members of the community have been going hard in the streets. Now they’re trying to shut us down, but they ain’t the ones who are gonna shut shit down.

August 7th will be the two month anniversary of Isaiah’s death, just two days before the anniversary of Mike Brown’s death. We would be overjoyed if on the 7th people in other cities were to plan and take part in actions in solidarity with the friends and family of Isaiah Hammett. Below is a statement of our intentions so you can get some type of idea where we’re coming from and what we mean by justice.

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We have continually been betrayed, violated, and harmed by the people who are supposed to protect us: the police. We’ve witnessed a pattern of law enforcement disregarding their own laws in order the harass, imprison, and kill members of our community based on a suspicion of guilt. Often these suspicions have been supported only by the sworn statements of confidential informants who are under duress and attempting to have their own charges dropped or reduced.

Above the police are judges who approve of search warrants over the phone in the middle of the night without reviewing probable cause, signing and sealing the paper warrants after the raids have already been executed. Meanwhile, politicians and legislators stand by “our” police in an effort to preserve their own positions of power and influence in society.

Are we supposed to get justice by our own hands? Who can we go to? Whose left to defend us?

In the case of a murder perpetrated by the police, the protocol is to go to the FBI and The Department of Justice. When the mother of Isaiah Hammett went to the FBI for help a federal agent said to her, “We don’t want to go to war with the police.”

Our last glimmer of hope? The United States Department of Justice. If you watch the news you might have differing opinions about this, but to allot of us it sure looks like over the past several years the DOJ has been presented with multiple cases where there was overwhelming evidence against the police. What is the phrase we hear from their mouths again and again: Justified Homicide.

That leaves us with no one to protect or defend us except ourselves and the people we love, no one to go to work for us in getting justice for Isaiah. This is why we want to inform the public of what we intend to do and invite you to participate with us in achieving our goals.

Statement of Intentions

– We intend to find out the names of the officers and other government employees who were present at Isaiah’s house on June 7th.

– We intend to find out each officers history of use of force.

– We intend to know the role of each person involved in Isaiah’s murder, as well as, the cover-up of what happened that day.

– We will continue to arm ourselves in self defense despite attempts by law enforcement to disarm us.

– We intend to make contact, and if possible, band together with the friends and family of other victims of police murder.

– We intend to make sure that the officers who murdered Isaiah are not able to do the same thing to someone else’s child.

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Informative flyer to print and distribute:

PDF HERE

Poster: 

PDF HERE

 

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For up to date information on our struggle here.

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To contribute to an independent autopsy, the funeral, and legal costs, go here. Please, please, help us its been almost two months with no autopsy or funeral.