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'WE WON'T ACCEPT' POLICE BRUTALITY
The leader of a national movement against racism and police violence in France has given a powerful interview to African Stream. Assa Traore is the sister of Adama Traore - who died in police custody in Paris in 2016. Since then, she’s tirelessly campaigned against police brutality and launched the Truth and Justice for Adama Committee. She was at a protest this week in the French capital following the death of another man, called Mozamba, which also involved police. A few days after that tragedy, Nahel Merzouk was shot point-blank by traffic cops sparking nationwide riots. Assa is now urging everyone to back her cause. She’s received awards for her services to the Black Lives Matter campaign. And in 2020 was named one of Time magazine’s “"Guardians of the Year" Her commitment and passion for justice are unwavering. Listen to her interview.
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#AdamaTraore was murdered by racist French cops in his cell in 2016. Jump to 2023 & nothing's changed. You're watching #Paris against the cops this afternoon. Working class ppl won't sit back & take it no more. This is what solidarity looks like. #Adama
Neerja Bhanot was a flight attendant on Pan Am Flight 73 when it was hijacked in Pakistan by Palestinian terrorists on September 5, 1986. She helped the pilots escape, saved American passengers from execution, and opened the emergency door so hundreds could jump to safety. Ultimately, she was killed while shielding three children from gunfire.
Twenty-two-year-old Indian air hostess Neerja Bhanot was always a woman of courage and convictions. Despite the traditions of her culture and her family's protests, she left her arranged marriage when her husband proved abusive. Then she struck out on her own and began working as both a model and a flight attendant for Pan Am. But shortly after she began her new career in the skies, disaster struck when a flight she was working was hijacked by four terrorists in 1986. Though she was new to the job, she proved to be the greatest hero of the entire ordeal. Over the course of 17 harrowing hours, she helped both the pilots and hundreds of passengers to escape. In the end, she was killed while using her body to protect three children from gunfire.
Bhanot was posthumously awarded medals of bravery from India, Pakistan, and the United States. And one of the children she saved grew up to be a pilot himself and credited Bhanot for his decision.