Smith Homes leafletting campaign features police officer on 'wanted poster'

Tim Hopkins, a Greensboro revolutionary communist, says a leaflet presenting Greensboro police Officer Jermeir Jackson-Stroud in a "wanted poster" context was handed out in the Smith Homes public housing community on Sunday. Hopkins said the leafleting was geared to take "on general harassment by police and recent 'bannings' of residents and community leaders."

Because of some obscene language, I'm not posting the leaflet, but it reads, "Wanted, armed and dangerous: Officer Jermeir Stroud, GPD. For profiling young Black men; harassing, accosting and brutalizing women and children; beating and brutalizing residents of public housing and for being a hateful lying-*** piece of s*** pig who has terrorized Smith Homes Community for years. This man is armed and dangerous. Do not approach. Organize the people to stop all forms of police brutality and harassment."

Stroud is a Police Neighborhood Resource Center officer assigned to Smith Homes, which is owned and operated by the Greensboro Housing Authority. He is also a plaintiff in a federal discrimination lawsuit against the city, along with 39 other black officers.

Meanwhile, a candlelight march for Oscar Grant, an Oakland, Calif. citizen killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, will take place from 9 to 11 p.m. tonight, beginning at the Beloved Community Center and ending at the Greensboro Police Department headquarters. Oakland residents reportedly rioted on July 9 after a jury acquitted Officer Johannes Mehserle of murder but found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter.