MAINO SPEAKS ON POLICE BRUTALITY & PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

07.27.09

Reported from HipHopWired.com...

With Harvard Professor and Black scholar, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., being arrested last week, it seems that the media has put a spotlight back on racism and corrupt police officers running wild since the election of President Barack Obama. Brooklyn MC, Maino, recently spoke to HipHopWired about police brutality increasing as well as his recent dealings with the “rogue squad” when this May, his best friend “80,” was shot in the back by NYPD. Maino revealed, “Yo man, it's disgusting. It's something that we've been enduring all our lives and before we were born. In the situation with my peoples we got the money and the means to make sure that they don't get away with it but what about the families that don't have...

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