A recent walk with a M.O.M.S. http://ning.it/Mp6P60
group by coincidently finds themselves on the sidewalk walking and then being a witness to a "Police Fishing for Something and Finding Nothing Shake-down" of four young people of color. The dozen officers took over an hour (searching without probable cause) as the community watched and filmed and demanded answers. I couldn't help wondered where is the value in all this,  where is justice, and civil rights? The M.O.M.S group was in the process of walking 100 miles to bring awareness to a failed prison and mental health system that takes in family members and loved ones, then inside the prison / jail or hospital, they are put on drugs, which in many cases makes getting them out of the system and off the drug cocktails, very hard for a family to do. Its a travesty. {My video is posted below from our encounter with the police and the youth on MLK street in Portland Oregon 7.23.12}  http://youtu.be/xVM8--cs5xk