Cop Block’s Pete Eyre on RT, Weighs-in on NYPD Employee Excesses

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On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 I joined Abby Martin on Breaking The Set, a program hosted on RT America, to discuss the recent shooting death of 16-yr old Kimani Gray by NYPD undercover employees, as well as related topics.

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Voluntary Islam by Davi Barker book
Police Reform Organizing Project NYPD-based group

The full episode, with the text from the video description, is below:

EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin calls out the corporate press for their round-the-clock coverage of ‘pope smoke’ whilst neglecting the Guantanamo hunger strikers, and the DHS buying 1.6 billon rounds of ammunition. Abby then talks to Pete Eyre, from Cop Block, about the NYPD’s involvement in the death of a Kimani Gray and their egregious overstepping of civil liberties. Abby then talks to Michael Dannenberg, of Education Trust, about the trillion-dollar student debt bubble. BTS wraps up the show with a look at Charles and David Koch’s financial empire & the extent of their influence in the corporate takeover of America.

Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.