This is sad news, but considering how Morehouse cops operate, this isn't the least bit surprising. I got this from an e-mail today from a Morehouse student:
PLAN OF ACTION:
Contact Morehouse College and Morehouse Police Department and demand
that an act of police brutality perpetrated against civil rights
icon Mukasa Dada (Willie Ricks) are corrected and that he is
compensated for his injuries.
Protest Police Brutality!
PURPOSE OF ACTION:
Rectify an act of police brutality against Mukasa Dada, formerly
named Willie Ricks, creator of the term "Black Power" and pioneering
civil rights activist.
Morehouse police beat up Civil Rights Leader and Elder, Mukasa Dada
former known as Willie Ricks of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on Thursday, November 10, 2005 at Morehouse College. As a Field Secretary for SNCC and overall freedom fighter for Black people in general, we feel this attack by Morehouse Police is dishonorable, appallingly contradictory, and a slap in the face to all Black Leadership past, present, and future. Mukasa Dada's history in the civil rights movement, Black power movement, and all Black progressive movements is impeccable. Not only did Mukasa Dada popularize the chant of "Black Power" but he also is highly spoken of by other civil rights leaders.
PHOTOS OF INJURIES
Who Is Mukasa Dada?
Civil Rights Leader, Elder, Father, Organizer, Orator, Field Secretary of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
"The fiery orator of SNCC" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here
"Willie Ricks must rank as one of those unknown heroes who captured the mood of history. In calling for Black Power, he caught the essence of the spirit, moving Black people in the United States and around the world who were poor, Black, and without power" - James Forman of SNCC
Popularized of the chant, "Black Power"
For more information about Mukasa Dada:
http://assatashakur.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3867
Exclusive Video Interview w/ Mukasa Dada:
http://www.panafrican.tv/video/MorehouseMukasa.wmv
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO NOW
Call Morehouse Police: 1-404-215-2666
Call Morehouse President, Dr. Massey: 1-404-215-2645
Call Morehouse Public Relations: 1-404-614-3788
Fax Letters to Morehouse: 1-404-659-6536 or 1-404-215-2729
Mail Letters To:
Dr. Walter E. Massey
Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30314
Discuss Current Action Alert with Others:
http://assatashakur.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=34
Flyers, Distribute Widely
Morehouse Police Beat Up Civil Rights Leader: Download Here (.doc): http://www.assatashakur.org/docs/mukasa2.doc
Morehouse Police Beat Up Civil Rights Leader: Download Here (.pdf): http://www.assatashakur.org/docs/mukasa2.pdf
Goals:
Fire involved officers (officer C. Cox and others)
Public written apology
All charges dropped
Restitution for Mukasa Dada and his family for medical services and humiliation
Outcomes:
Police Department notified that acts of brutality must be punished.
Public awareness of police brutality will be heightened.
Public will know that police often use false arrest to hide their own criminal intent.
Mukasa Dada will receive financial restitution.
FEEDBACK
Follow-up Poll Here:
http://www.assatashakur.org/1205.htm
Let's see…civil rights leader assaulted at famous historically Black college and not a peep about it from the mainstream media? Morehouse has some cracker-jack PR people, I tell you. This isn't any different from my sophomore year, when a friend of mine ended up in the ricochet crossfire of two students firing guns between dorms during finals week. And you know what the school did? They sent him to the hospital in a fucking taxicab. A fucking taxicab. He came back from the hospital and physical therapy to find that Morehouse pulled his scholarships and left him with no funding. He had to fight against administration to get it back. Dude walks with a limp to this day and the bullet is still in him.
And then there was that dude who got clobbered in the head with a 15-lb. weight after suggestively eyeing some guy in the weight room.
And then there was the freshman guy who ended up leaving Morehouse after filing sexual harassment charges against an upperclassman Greek who was hiding under his bed and feeling him up in his sleep.
And of course, you all know about the Gregory Love/Aaron Price incident and how that turned out.
You think you know about Morehouse? You still think it's a lofty institution of high moral standards and beliefs?
You have no idea.
Name's Karsh. 27. Country-born, city-raised, 
