Oury Jalloh Murder Poster
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Oury Jalloh Murder Poster

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"OURY JALLOH / DAS WAR MORD! / ERMORDET / 7. Januar 2005 / VON DER POLIZEI IN DESSAU / Deutschland / http://initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com"   Poster spreading awareness of the murder of Oury Jalloh, protesting government failure to enact justice, police brutality, and racism. The German text reads "OURY JALLOH / THAT WAS MURDER! / MURDERED 7TH JANUARY 2005 / BY THE POLICE IN DESSAU / GERMANY". Born in Sierra Leone, Oury Jalloh applied for political asylum in Germany from the Sierra Leonean Civil War. He was arrested on January 7th, 2005, and after revealing a BAC of 0.3% and cocaine usage, he was handcuffed by his wrists and ankles to a bed inside of a jail cell. Police officers at the station claimed that an officer had turned off an active fire alarm twice, only going to investigate after a third, different alarm played. In the downstairs cells, they found Jalloh alive and burning to death. The police officers involved were acquitted of all charges in 2008 (causing bodily harm wi

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