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Ernest Rutledge

Spoke to Democracy Now! Thursday at People’s Organization for Progress march commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Newark rebellion. Rutledge’s 19-year-old brother James was killed by the police 40 years ago. He was shot 39 times.

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