Linking Police Misconduct with Human Rights Violations

Linking Police Misconduct to Human Rights Violations
Monday, March 28th at 6:30pm at the WESPAC Office
31 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 403
White Plains, NY 10601
(plenty of parking in City Center municipal parking lot)

Daniel Buford, human rights educator and activist will speak about his research linking human rights violations and arbitrary punishment and killing by United States law enforcement agencies. His research covers over 40 years from 1970 to 2015 of unarmed encounters between African Americans and law enforcement. He has uncovered trends and patterns in terms of the way that people of color have been killed as well as who is getting killed.

“Local communities need to be able to understand that when people are tasered, choked or have died as result of a neck injury from a rough ride in a police vehicle, these are human rights violations! People in our communities need to know when their human rights are being violated as result of police misconduct.” Daniel Buford

Reverend Daniel A. Buford is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio where he was educated in the Cincinnati Public School system and attended the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University. He has taught Doctor of Ministry students as a faculty member of the University of Creation Spirituality and the Wisdom University since 1997 in courses on wood sculpture and the creative process. Reverend Buford received a license to preach in 1974 and was ordained in 1977 by the Trinity Missionary Baptist Church in Cincinnati, OH.

Reverend Buford is a self described “Harlem Renaissance Man” with multiple talents as a sculptor, writer, community organizer, public speaker and minister. His sculptures and drawings are part of Allen Temple Baptist Church’s permanent collection and exhibit. His art has been displayed in the Bade Museum at the Pacific School of Religion and featured in Christianity Today Magazine and the 2000 International Review of African American Art Journal published by Hampton University at Virginia.

Reverend Buford is a founding organizer and trainer of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond based in New Orleans, Louisiana and has conducted Undoing Racism workshops throughout the United States, South Africa, Japan and Puerto Rico since 1980. He is the President of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, a peace and justice law think tank organization located in Berkeley, California.

Reverend Buford presented a summary of concerns regarding Hurricane Katrina human rights violations to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in New York on March 17, 2006 and in Geneva, Switzerland, July, 2006. His work in Geneva was sponsored by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and the Allen Temple Baptist Church where he has been a member for twenty-four (24) years.

This is event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Antiracist Alliance of Westchester. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact 914.449. 6514.