Turning A Moment Into A Movement

This week's topic on Turning A Moment Into A Movement is inspired by the book… “You See A Hero, I See a Human Being” by David  A Robinson, Esq. Based on David's knowledge, litigation experience and practice in the area of police misconduct, he has authored a book on the subject called “You See a Hero, I see a Human Being.” It is available at momentumbooks.com and Amazon. T he E-book is availa...

This week ….we will discuss Police Behavior and how unaddressed misconduct leads to wrongful convictions. Our guest Abdul Hakeem will discuss his own recent experience with Officer misconduct….and how no accountability has lead to many convictions being overturned in Detroit. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, actions by police officers, including witness tampering, violent interr...

“Reforming the prison entails changing its existing practices to make the system a better one. Abolishing the prison entails dismantling it wholesale. Reformers object to how the prison is administered. Abolitionists object to the prison’s very existence.” — Ruby C. Tapia- -Prison reformers have uniquely focused on advocacy, policy change, and healthcare support for people already in the criminal...

Both federal and state prisons punish and correct the behavior of criminals. The biggest federal prison vs. state prison difference lies in the type of crime committed. Federal prisons are for individuals who break federal laws while state prisons are for those who break state laws. Although each system is different there are many similarities. This week we welcome our guest Mr James Jones and Lis...

Being wrongfully accused and convicted of a crime can lead to serious negative consequences to those wrongfully accused and their families. A recent study estimated that wrongful convictions occur in 6% of criminal convictions leading to imprisonment. Other research estimates that up to 15.4% of all convictions are wrongful. It been demonstrated that racial and class bias are involved in wrongfull...

Every day is Wrongful Conviction Day to those that are Innocent and Incarcerated Wrongfully in Prison for a Crime that they didn’t do.... October 2, 2021 ...is International Wrongful Conviction Day. This day set aside to give 24 hours awareness to recognize the Injustices that leads to Wrongful Convictions. If you survive the police encounter, there’s a possibility you could be wrongfully convicte...

In honor of Wrongful Conviction Day and the upcoming Wrongful Conviction Summit, we will be discussing Wrongful Convictions and how it Impacts Families. Wrongful arrests, prosecutions and convictions shatters families! It is a tragedy and a family’s worst nightmare that’s brought on by a system that is supposed to provide public safety, one that is supposed to protect our children from harm. For t...

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents…. Turning A Moment Into a Movement! Our September 17, guest is: Mr Keith Bennett The Program Director/Coalition Organizer “FORCE Detroit LIVE FREE’ Mr Bennett is the Director of Community Initiatives /Former Director Flip the Script Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit 2020 Recipient of Michigan African American Leadership Leader of The Year Award. Mr Kei...

September 10, World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) is an awareness day observed on every year, in order to provide worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides, with various activities around the world since 2003. The number of people who took their own life while on supervision after leaving prison has increased sixfold since 2010 to a rate of one every two days. This week we will be discus...

This week’s guest is Ms Kimberly Annette Woodson. Kimberly Woodson founder of Redeeming Kimberly, Michigan Liberation Campaign Organizer to end Truth in Sentencing practices, CFSY/ICAN regional connector ….former Juvenile Lifer that served 29 years in MDOC…Women In Prison, Abused! Shamed! and Silence! BLIND DENIALS... pt 3 Prison offer little or no trauma-care or mental health services. No one tal...

Turning A Moment Into A Movement..... Welcomes Abdul Hakeem as our special guest Friday August 27, 2021 6pm EDT BLIND DENIALS pt 2 .... "ACCOUNTABILITY" Taking the Blind Denial conversation to the next level. How do we get the Criminal Justice Professionals to take accountability for their role in Wrongful Convictions? Abdul Hakeem  is a steward of justice, a trailblazer who believes in equal...

We are BACK!!!!! From the book Blind Injustice by Mark Godsey.... Chapter 2 BLIND DENIALS..... This week we will discuss how Law Enforcement's psychological denial of their fallibility and the possibility that they could have made a mistake. Judges, Prosecutors, and Police contribute to wrongful convictions by taking “unreasonable and intellectually dishonest positions” while they operate "under a...

Although "WE" are on vacation....we had to POP-IN to have this very important conversation with Michigan Justice Advocacy about the.... "Good Time Makes Good Sense Initiative" ...... Restoring Good Time policy to Michigan Prisons. Michigan Justice Advocacy is doing a statewide petition drive to show Michigan Legislators that the citizens of Michigan want them to implement a good time policy. A Goo...

Last year, 20 people who had been wrongfully convicted of crimes in Michigan were exonerated. Only one other state exonerated more people in 2020. Illinois had 22. Nationally, 129 people were exonerated. Twelve of Michigan’s exonerations were people convicted of murder, three were for attempted murder, two were for child abuse, one was for robbery, one was for assault, and one was for selling or p...

Systemic racism has led to the mass incarceration of Black People in America… As of 2019, Black people are 14% of the U. S. population… and 40% of the U. S. incarcerated population …. for every 100,00 black person, 2,306 black people are either in the prison, on parole or probation system. Black males were incarcerated at the rate of 4,347 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. There are more African...

The conversation continues on the Bail Reform.....The Kelief Browder story.... and Taylor Pennington from the Free Billy Movement will be joining us to discuss The Guilty Plea Problem. WHY DO INNOCENT PEOPLE PLEAD GUILTY TO CRIMES THEY DIDN’T COMMIT? According to the Innocence Project.... -95%...of felony convictions in the U.S. are obtained through guilty pleas -18%...of known exonerees pleaded g...

𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙝 𝙗𝙖𝙞𝙡. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩. You are presumed innocent under the law, yet so many suffer the harms of incarceration unless they have enough money to pay bail and buy their freedom. Our Criminal Justice System treat you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. This two-tier system criminalizes poverty and is a str...

From the first interaction with police and throughout the entire Criminal Justice experience , Black people are criminalize, and discriminated every stage of the process. For far too long, Black & brown bodies have been profiled, surveilled, policed, lynched, choked, brutalized & murdered at the hands of the US Criminal Justice System. "Our Criminal Justice System treat you better if you a...

Join Jay Love, Attorney Hugo Mack, Trischè Duckworth, Ally Hughes, Rev Tia Littlejohn and Edward Sanders to continue this very important history defining conversation....now that the Chauvin trial is over and he was found Guilty...... now what? The verdict was not Justice It was Accountability! We have so much more work to do! Within minutes of the trial verdict, there was another police involved...

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents .... TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT! With the Derek Charvin trial, as well as the recent police shooting death of Daunte Wright....not to mention thousands of others that succumb to brutal force by police. There is a much needed conversation that must happen about policing in marginalized communities. A simple traffic stop shouldn't result in Death! We at...

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents .... TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT! The Season Review and Open Conversation with the Panel...   -Attorney Hugo Mack  -Trische' Duckworth of Survivors Speak  -Rev Tia Littlejohn - Life Coach & Behavioral Therapist  -Edward Sanders-Paralegal & Social Worker  -Ally Hughes of MI Liberation & Accountability for Dearborn &n...

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents .... TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT! Confirmation Bias, coupled with tunnel vision and a rush to judgment, switches a case from an evidence-based investigation into a suspect-based one, in an effort to solve the case. When detectives and prosecutors think they’ve invested too much into a case to even consider the possibility that they may be wrong…even so...

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents .... TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT! Confirmation Bias, coupled with tunnel vision and a rush to judgment, switches a case from an evidence-based investigation into a suspect-based one, in an effort to solve the case. When detectives and prosecutors think they’ve invested too much into a case to even consider the possibility that they may be wrong…even so...

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents .... TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT! Inadequate Defense and Wrongful Convictions   The failure of overworked lawyers to investigate, call witnesses or prepare for trial has led to the conviction of innocent people. When a defense lawyer doesn’t do his or her job, the defendant suffers. Shrinking funding and access to resources for public defende...

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents .... TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT! Junk Science, Forensic Fraud and Wrongful Convictions wk 4  Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is flawed.... It was popularized in the early 2000s, it has never been scientifically validated. Medical experts now know that their belief in how to diagnose a clear sign of child abuse based upon a determination of shaken baby...