“Harm Is Still Being Done”: 36 Years After MOVE Bombing, Misuse of Children’s Remains Reopens Wounds

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3 жыл бұрын

This week marks the 36th anniversary of the day the city of Philadelphia bombed its own citizens. On May 13, 1985, police surrounded the home of MOVE, a radical Black liberation organization that was defying orders to vacate. Police flooded the home with water, filled the house with tear gas, and blasted the house with automatic weapons, all failing to dislodge the residents. Finally, police dropped a bomb on the house from a helicopter, killing 11 people, including five children. The fire burned an entire city block to the ground, destroying over 60 homes. But the tragedy didn’t end on that day. We look at how Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania have used bones from one or two of the murdered children in their classes for years. “We still don’t know all the details about what happened in terms of the chain of custody,” says Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, an organizer and writer in West Philadelphia who helped bring the revelations to the public. “You can’t even begin to heal because the harm is still being done,” adds Mike Africa Jr., a second-generation MOVE member. “Everybody is just retraumatized.”
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@kevingordon8275 3 жыл бұрын

Those wounds were never closed and I'll never forget what happened in Philly

@Katie2986 3 жыл бұрын

I’m shocked by how little known it is - or was, this sickening news is helping bring it back to light. 🥺

@lapinchechismosa 3 жыл бұрын

@@Katie2986 are you really shocked though? The US news is extremely censored

@Katie2986 3 жыл бұрын

@@lapinchechismosa I suppose not, but very disappointed. And this was in the news at the time it happened, it just didn’t spark national, international outrage, as it should have.

@lapinchechismosa 3 жыл бұрын

@@Katie2986 we are out in the position of informing our friends and family, I’m so glad we have the internet nowadays, this news is spreading fast ❤️

@lapinchechismosa 3 жыл бұрын

@@Katie2986 everything I never wanted to experience as a child is coming to life now, I’m glad I didn’t have kids

@TheBlackParty 3 жыл бұрын

Why Have they not given them the children's bones yet? This is really sick.

@celticman1909 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! The whole thing is sick!

@SomebodySaveRap 3 жыл бұрын

They’re probably making furniture now 🤢

@pharoahkhan6458 3 жыл бұрын

Tulsa to Philly... amerikkka and they have the right to tell others about human rights GTFOH

@shawnwest4350 3 жыл бұрын

Straight facts

@justanotherti4790 3 жыл бұрын

And you what the International community can not believe the gruesome things done to us and some are pointing out the hypocrisy.

@zandale7418 3 жыл бұрын

It's wicked but not surprising. They don't look at black people as human beings

@eclaire1 3 жыл бұрын

Beyond barbarous 😢

@lorrainedaliessio3998 3 жыл бұрын

I find this horrifying and angers me to tears

@lorrainedaliessio3998 3 жыл бұрын

Mind blown. Heart broken.

@jazandjaxk5051 3 жыл бұрын

A Damn SHAME **

@GreenOrchid9 3 жыл бұрын

Their PTSD will NEVER go away wounds keep reopening with more salt!!😠😠🤕🤕🤔😷😤

@joshDammmit 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, just "wow..."

@Rhythmicons 3 жыл бұрын

I was a young child when that happened and the idea to set the apartment on fire was completely stupid to me at the time because OF COURSE they weren't going to keep the fire contained. if a 4 year old can figure that out, why couldn't the police chief?

@jannacoyote4246 3 жыл бұрын

Because the police chief was an absolute idiot, and an A-hole, who didn't really care about human lives - especially not the lives of people who weren't personal friends, or family, of his own. That's my guess anyway. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@javiercastillo7516 3 жыл бұрын

Only 2 people survived. EMPIRE FILES interview one of them.

@TheVuduYuDu 3 жыл бұрын

Go to Democracy Now's website they have a number of interviews with Ramona Africa

@MrTwenty20video 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your reporting. ✌

@travkip927 3 жыл бұрын

Defund and fine Universities who desecrate human remains! For instance, Skull and Bone society at Yale desecrate native American bones(Jeronimo).

@queenmommie8295 3 жыл бұрын

Karma is here now. You will reap what you have sown God word never comes back void. Give God all of the praises in all things happening here on the earth 🌍.👏🏻👏🏽👏👏🏼👏🏿

@valeriehaider3273 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sweetie.. mother's need to unite in every corner of the globe.. protests peacefully!!

@valeriehaider3273 3 жыл бұрын

Great broadcast/coverage Amy/and "outstanding" Crew.. finally received the FULL show this morning.. Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!!

@yiqwaba3833 3 жыл бұрын

I was 1 years old my grandfather passed in the coming November . I saw it on his Tomb stone my family made for him . I wonder if the remains we're taken after seeing this.

@efeathers1307 3 жыл бұрын

Just wrong! Evil!

@maryannchaisson6742 3 жыл бұрын

What horrific trauma for the remaining families! I’m not even an American, but my feelings of pain are of any human being! My deepest condolences to all. May God be with you! ☮️ 🙏🏽 🇨🇦 😢

@anitainmo489 3 жыл бұрын

Not at all shocked or surprised. Just disgusted.

@celticman1909 3 жыл бұрын

WOW! This is atrocious! I remember when all that happened. And I was taken aback and dismayed that so many people I talked to about the Philadelphia authorities dropping a bomb on people in a civilian neighborhood, killing them and burning down many homes of residents and got shoulder shrugs and replies like ,"they must know what they're doing".

@HOUSEOFMARGEAUX 3 жыл бұрын

Now America do you see why you have no right to tell other nations around the world how to act? Probably not your pride will be your downfall.

@rg9810 3 жыл бұрын

This is SICKENING

@traceyholland9882 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this well, Mayor Goode, got blamed for this, but he did not give the order to drop the bomb, former Mayor Rizzo's brother was the fire chief at the time, and he gave the order. I saw when they brought Mayor Goode in, he didn't have a clue as to what was happening, they hurried up and took him to a room, told him what happened then he stepped out of the room in front of the press to take responsibility for the madness the police and fire departments created. This is disgusting and the remains should be returned to the families for a proper burial.the

@AA-of4kl 3 жыл бұрын

Disgraceful,..if these places of higher learning & museums new of where they obtained the human remains from,..it's shameful ☘️🧠

@freebie808 3 жыл бұрын

Sad and sickening

@yishaqdavid2029 3 жыл бұрын

How the fuck have I never heard of this?

@Nine-Signs 3 жыл бұрын

It's not often I see her look absolutely astounded but given the subject I tend to concur, this is just madness, inhumane macabre madness.

@OldEarthWisdom 3 жыл бұрын

WOW

@estherphelps3606 Жыл бұрын

How wicked

@madonnadove 3 жыл бұрын

May you succeed! Bring the bones home for peace!

@vinniecasqer840 3 жыл бұрын

Scam artist's main tool is distracting the mark from what's coming for them.

@robincooper1182 Жыл бұрын

Smh. Nefarious!

@blukelly8344 3 жыл бұрын

No one with the means wanted make a movie

@kevinthomas3946 3 жыл бұрын

Whan i would very much like to hear exatly how you reported on this back then when you were a young reporter in Philadelphia

@michelep7017 3 жыл бұрын

They have a lot coming back to them. Our God will avenged. No one has to do anything. They chose God's wrath.

@yishaqdavid2029 3 жыл бұрын

What?

@Ann-ub4mf 3 жыл бұрын

This is Sick and Demonic.🤬

@ramiznorthland7179 3 жыл бұрын

Police: Why should we go easy way when is so many complicated ways available for us to use?

@darkmadder9897 3 жыл бұрын

"Stuck..."...

@zeropoint458 3 жыл бұрын

These stories are so sad 😭. May all beings have peace sovereignty and abundance.

@elevated_engineering6515 3 жыл бұрын

So there's isn't one dude in Philly that's about that life? Everybody thinks singing and walking in the street will address this problem... Pathetic.

@angelene990 3 жыл бұрын

Just 😷

@ktucker147 3 жыл бұрын

Demonic

@vinniecasqer840 3 жыл бұрын

The con artist's main duty is to distract the mark from noticing what's about to happen to him.

@Harbingerintheflesh 3 жыл бұрын

So Democracy Now really canceled Norman huh? What a shame

@juliusjewett4841 Жыл бұрын

Danielle Outlaw has her hands full this is not Oregon...

@SomebodySaveRap 3 жыл бұрын

And to think ... “post-racial” was a word in ‘08

@brigidscaldron 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot fathom what go through peoples fucking heads that they think something like this could ever be acceptable. At the least they should have morality to be ashamed of themselves.

@sunofuniversedaud3561 6 ай бұрын

These are American Indians. These people were not from Africa. They are the true and happiness of America. Tell the truth.

@simonclarke7309 Жыл бұрын

Definitely not a fascist country

@azariazr12 3 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@vinniecasqer840 3 жыл бұрын

The most important job of a scam artist is to distract the marks from what's coming at them.

@01Astek 3 жыл бұрын

Man can be very evil and wore when he thinks that he is doing the right thing. Very sad to know what happened here.. the good hope is the god will take care of all this Daniel 2:44

@rdreeves2332 3 жыл бұрын

Research The Venus Project, please. We can can go beyond politics poverty and war.

@vinniecasqer840 3 жыл бұрын

COVID has made medicine a military operation. Phoenix mother gives birth and her newborn is transported to other facility without PARENTAL knowledge or consent - no medical necessity reason. See Reallygraceful channel.

@vinniecasqer840 3 жыл бұрын

DARPA is using nanobot technology to modify soldiers' brains.

@vinniecasqer840 3 жыл бұрын

No Flint "retro" news? Guess if the bones have living marrow....and lead, all is well?

@juliusjewett4841 Жыл бұрын

its really sad bci remember this clearly I was a teenager from philly we was rooting for MOVE it shouldn't have happened...still going on now just different form...But I still luv philly its no different than as in Ukraine...But they want you to VOTE

@RukiaBlackBlazer 3 жыл бұрын

@TazexclusivesSchoolofContent @TazExclusivetheGoat

@destressfrlyf843 3 жыл бұрын

There's an anatomy online youtuber who uses corpses for educational purposes I had to unsubscribe

@everyonedeservestogohome2949 3 жыл бұрын

Delusional practicers of WS-it was sooo long ago, get over it 🙄😒 these ppl never ever change.

@aliciastanley5582 3 жыл бұрын

No one can get over the whole thing of what happened to these people. There must be respect and Justice for this whole incident for all of us and for our country. Dear God .

@yusufabdul7147 3 жыл бұрын

Get over it wow.

@aliciastanley5582 3 жыл бұрын

@@yusufabdul7147 Only a person devoid of any human empathy and compassion could say what you say. I doubt if you've ever truly loved anyone and suspect you have never felt truly loved.

@TheVuduYuDu 3 жыл бұрын

I hope I read this correctly as sarcasm.

@serenity4ever2010 3 жыл бұрын

You're saying get over this but America never got over 911 or pearl harbor.