5 YEARS LATER...REMEMBERING BRO. TIMOTHY THOMAS! ---This is an reposting of my March 2o, 2005. Blog-- April 7, 2001. A young 19 -year-old teenager was brutally gunned down in a dirty back alley in the Over-The-Rhine area of Cincinnati. His name was Timothy Thomas. This young man was to become the 15th in a long line of unarmed black men being shot and killed by The Cincinnati Police in a 5 years time span. We must always remember our brother Timothy Thomas who was being harrassed by police for having a couple of unpaid parking tickets. He was aware of the Cincinnati police and their racial bias/profiling against blacks, being the victim of it himself from time to time. Cincinnati Police Officer Steven Roach murdered our brother and spent not a day in jail for his henious crime! Steven Roach is no longer with the CPD, he is currently harrassing and (probably) brutalizing blacks in the city of Evendale, where he was transfered following the unrest in 2001. The Black Fist calls what happened in April 2001, an "unrest" because in our opinions, A Riot is leaving racist white bodies lay bleeding and or dead in the streets. And that did not happen. A few hotdog stands were overturned, some garbage cans were set on fire and one white man got beat up and pulled from his delivery truck being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Let us never forget Bro. Timothy Thomas who left behind a mother, siblings, a woman who loved him and (at the time of his death) a 4 month old baby boy, a whole host of friends and a strong united black community that rallied and spoke out against his murder and fought hard to see Steven Roach imprisoned for his crime! The Black Fist stood front row center, as we did in the Owensby case to speak out , protest, go to City Hall, the Hamilton County Commissioners and hold annual rallies on Fountain Square to keep the memory of Timothy Thomas alive and to bring light to the ugly darkness of Police Brutality! That is and always has been our agenda from the beginning. April 7, 2006, will make 5 years since the murder of this unarmed 19 year black youth, the "unrest," the curfew placed on only the black people here in this town by non other than then mayor and political failure Charles "Charlie" John Luken. Let us always remember our beloved brother, Timothy Thomas and always remember, "There will be no peace, until black people get justice!" The Boycott Continues. No Justice, No Profit...Keep Your Money in Your Pockets!!! BLACK FIST, BLACK POWER, BLACK NATION!!!