Protest held in Fayetteville after man shot, killed by off-duty Cumberland County deputy Saturday

Jason with the little dog

You know the decent Jason was one he was a

kind hearted person

I'm saying he loved people

I'm pushing he loved that man

That man didn't know you know that's why he wanted

to walk away

Word you know he was aware of who he was

You know he was in tune with himself he was

in tune with his blackness

He wasn't he knew you know when he was really

part of the social justice movement people didn't know you

know that's how I looked at my big cousin you

know like a philosopher

You know what I'm saying He was there

You know we're from the east side we could be

pre rolled and you know he had he had his

hands in what we were doing you know for reduced

keys that that thank you cared about it cared about

you know I wanted to talk to you for you

know those young boys you know that age group of

teenagers you know when you catch him earlier and he

had a young son my cousin chris you know and

my cousin chris is at that age

You know you would never think you know what I'm

saying that And how close they was here

Mm hmm It is as a young son as a

young man something like that is important

You need that father

Especially at that age

He was a gift not only to this world but

he was a gift to everybody

You know it's not just his keys but he's definitely

gonna be truly missed greater than you know it

If this right here is just this is what Jason

would have wanted that anything would have came out of

this

This is what he would have wanted

Like don't forget me

Sure he want he want answers he wants justice and

he wants most

He always cared about change

He always cared about leaving a footprint on this earth

a seed salt and from there some physical growth there

has to be changed

There has to be more some substantial

We're tired of the same old news same old everyday

or you find something on the news something else doesn't

happen

I'm behind ain't too much change

Yeah get out of here

You know I'm tired of the false narrative

All right

The the hopes and promises the fake hopes and promises

during election time

Don't come around selling me a dream

Why You know they're they're scared not a you know

all the all the you know the object they're scared

of the net

That's where they stared at

You know you're wrong

If you have a moral compass you you're gonna know

you are what So you know as my first cousin

you know as my brother as a human being I'm

going to dedicate my life to making sure Jason here

justice right Mm hmm

And he's gonna get it

He is gonna get it

You know I couldn't sleep last night

You know and I probably won't sleep you know I've

been through a lot of trauma

Like you know what I'm saying We will you being

places that you've seen things even living you know what

I'm saying on the streets of Fairview you know and

now these kids out here get that trauma

So I'm gonna dedicate everything I have

And I hope you all will join us in screaming

louder and trying to get justice for my cousin Jason

This is what he deserves

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Yeah he won't

This is what we want

Okay

I ain't taking no for an answer

No

Fever

Yes

Yeah

Mhm

Thank you brother

I really appreciate you coming

And I know that was very very hard for you

to even have that conversation with us that I appreciate

you for giving us the time and allowing us to

have this space open for you and I'm happy

He did say that we talked about a dream right

Martin Luther King's birthday is coming up

We have our officials that will be speaking at all

these speeches talking about justice but yet you don't want

to give us justice

We have these officials talking about having photo ops and

saying hey we did this with martin Luther King but

we don't see you out here anywhere

We're talking about justice

We have officials here saying that I also understand your

pain because I'm black but I don't see you out

here talking about this situation and their 15 year old

son don't have a father

We don't have that right now

Where is that Where is our justice and we can

stand here and talk about it and we can stand

here and gripe about it

But I'm gonna tell you about has already sent the

deep the Department of Justice a request to come down

here and investigate and a couple of county sheriff department

we're not going to stop right here

We also notified our north Carolina statewide partners A

C

L

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Emancipating and they will be here

This will look like Elizabeth city until he is arrested

and Dustin is so let's get ready because we're gonna

sit in and we're gonna say go home and if

you don't go home if you don't arrest him we

will stay for days and nights until it happens because

we have to make sure that we honor why Luther

king said injustice anywhere

The industrious everywhere

Next up I have miss Elizabeth

She was a witness to what occurred and she rendered

aid not the deputy not happening

She rendered aid while he lay there in his blood

and he called the cops and said he was feeling

hospital hold on

thank you all so much as we have my name's

Elizabeth and I just wanted say I think God put

me as the person that looks like me I am

white and I am hispanic and I feel that I'm

trying to use this in my advantage and I want

all the news

All these videos to say

I solved everything

I heard everything

I was not hostile

I cared for him immediately

I didn't care what color he was or anything else

I saw a brother

I saw someone he needed me because no one else

we're gonna help him

No one else

And I'm saying this he was not acting crazy

He didn't jump on traffic

That officer murderer shot him hit him with his car

How would Jason jump onto a big truck Came up

to me and then you're here for your life and

you are in a big truck and and you're trying

to say you're protecting your family and your daughter who's

protecting us about people like you and using your authority

so I will not rest

I will be Jason's voice and I will forever be

a part that will forever be a part of me

and I will not be silenced

Many people have been trying to silence me and I'm

not gonna let it happen

I will reach out to my community and the news

can twist

You can twist what I'm saying

He was he was trying to go home

He was trying to go across the street to his

family

You can't tell me anything else

I saw what I saw

I saw that I was the only person yelling at

that officer to give me a towel give me a

shirt give me something to put pressure on his wound

and I was the last person he saw and I

made sure he heard words of love and hope that

it's okay baby we got this helps coming

You're gonna be okay you're gonna be okay because and

that's what helped me sleep last night guys because it

was hard because I wish I could have saved him

I really thank you so much

Where is your truth But what about him I will

not be I will be in that courtroom

You won't you will get sick and tired of me

posting and sharing

You can't you can't twist this guy's all these news

cameras you can twist this

We saw what we saw and my kids saw what

they saw and it breaks my heart

My son were in the background

Why is my friend mama grouse is my friend

Yes it breaks my heart but it's okay because this

is the last time I'm gonna cry

I am in the name of weakness because I am

a force to be reckoned with with people who know

me

I was born and raised here

These are my streets These are my people and I'm

an ally to everyone and I just thank you all

so much for hearing me and spreading the awareness

He was trying to go home

He was not a thug that man was a thug

that shot him

No the police didn't help me no one helped me

They just sat there and looked at me all chill

His wife playing with his hair

Her hair

His kids nothing no remorse playing with your hair

And as the officer told me to get off and

E

M

S finally arrived I started saying you're pathetic you murdered

him

You shot him

He's like no you know I didn't I'm protecting my

family my daughter and I told him you were in

a car

You weren't protecting anybody from shit

And that's when the officer told me we're not doing

this here

And I said we are doing this here right now

And then you put me in my car

He told me to drive down the pathway and another

officer minutes later and was not on the scene

Took a statement maybe a minute

I haven't heard from them

I haven't heard from anybody but they heard from us

They had so much fun

I keep hearing from us

I'm not letting this go though

Thank you so much

President Station

You're most oh my God you're a hero

You're a hero

You're a hero

Real talk definitely a hero

Call 911 for the injured person

He called his boss and I'm going to say that

because I heard it's not speculation and I will testify

in that courtroom

We heard him call his boss saying you need to

get here right now

His boss

He was a sheriff one I was he called his

boss

He could cover but it's okay because I saw him

because someone like me

for my people I quit too

It was like 2021

Thank you

Thank you thank you Elizabeth

Because we need people like this

We need people like this

And I just want to make sure we understand something

If it wasn't for the recording we wouldn't be here

We wouldn't be here we wouldn't be here

We would not be here

Justice is only served for George Floyd because of the

recording

Let's make sure we understand that without it going on

the news we would not be here discussing

And let's also make sure we know that less than

24 hours of a march armory sentencing

We're here now after 24 hours of white prison sentencing

we're here talking about the same situation of a man

jogging in the neighborhood versus a man trying to cross

the street to get home

Why are we still talking about this Why don't we

have Justin what is the problem So I'm gonna go

ahead and I'm allowing space for MS roberts MS roberts

husband was killed by sheriff deputy here

Okay

She's still waiting for justice

He had a mental illness

She called for them to come and commit him but

she's gonna explain to you the lies that have been

told in the news about her husband here in Cumberland

County

Same place we're standing at now

The lies that have been told in the media of

how it occurred how he was shot four times in

the back

Okay

So let's make sure we understand this ain't just Jason

We have had this happen in the last six years

here right here with the same people in the same

offices that want to get reelected right now

Okay so I'm gonna have MS roberts come up here

and speak and then we're gonna close out and give

you the next steps that we're gonna do as female

packet with the other organizations that's here so we can

continue on to get this justice as we move forward

with our statewide

That will be up here as well

Thank you

That's right

Try

I would like to uh first day my deepest condolences

to the walker family

Um um I know where you are because I've been

there and I'm still there and it is to the

shirt mr right

I saw a flyer that said it is right to

do the right thing

So we're calling on you to do the right thing

My question is what in the hell is going on

And your department where your officers are constantly shooting our

husbands our brothers our friends you're shooting them in the

back

You are coming into their homes you are shooting them

on the street you are shooting them in their cars

and we're fed up we are fed up we're tired

You are not right You are not holding your duty

that you have to the citizens of Cumberland County

If you have officers within your department that are fearful

and they are scared

You need to see their stop letting them suit our

husbands our brothers our son

It needs to stop

We need to hold them accountable because I'm sick of

marching

I'm sick of companies coming together shake this ship up

I'm fed up I'm fed up with it

I'm fed up with Y'all change the narrative and y'all

change it to make it seem like these people are

out here and they're doing all this and they're bad

People know somebody trying to get home

If it wasn't for like they said the video recording

Then how we wouldn't even be here

We wouldn't be here

But the thing is guys think about how other how

many other families we don't know about because there's no

video recording

16 months

The swat team went into my home

The sheriff's deputies did not have on any count of

body cameras

They claimed my husband charged at him with a machete

But why does he have three gunshot wounds Two of

them being in his back one in the back of

the neck

You explain that to me and all the shots are

in the floor

It needs to stop

It needs to stop

It's no deputies

Don't know if they stand send them home stop treating

us like we're a threat

We ain't hostile

We gotta sit on the scene and we got to

just be quiet while we watch our loved ones were

taken away in a body bag

What we're talking about

We hostile

No it ain't hostile

It's hurt

It's frustration because who's advocating for us Who's who's saying

sit down sit down

If you scared sit down

This is how you serve and protect

Every time you feel threatened you take your gun out

and when somebody's walking away you shoot them in their

back

You gotta do right

You gotta do it right

You gotta do balance

And I would say one other thing stop and elected

officials stop commenting on stuff that happens other places

But you don't want to comment on stuff that happens

My heart why you ain't talking about other families right

here in your

let's not think that it's all it's all roses and

it's not roses

It's plenty of families still looking for accountability answers

I stand in solitude with y'all

Anything that I can do

Please know My heart

My heart is with you all I know I know

I know anything you need

Please reach out to me please

Several cake has been an awesome resource for me and

my family along with other individuals in the community

But I cannot say enough things about patch

Yeah

Y'all got my prayers

Y'all got my prayers

Thank you

So um as we move forward uh favorite pack will

continue to have a plan of action coming up here

this weekend

Um we're protesting

So I would like to make sure everyone looks at

our page and we'll be collaborating with other organizations here

in Fayetteville locally

Um I'm not going to allow any space to ask

questions to the family

Sorry

Okay

Um for the news

Okay

Um uh if you want to get in contact with

them they're here

If they choose to speak to you that's okay

And we don't care what they say on the microphone

curse get upset cry because guess what This is their

space and their time and you will not violate it

That will not happen while we're here

Okay

Um let's make sure we take one moment of silence

for Jason and also those that have lost their lives

here in Cumberland County in favor from police brutality

So I just would like for everyone to shut their

eyes for one moment

Thank you

Mm hmm

Mhm

Thank you

Everyone as we go home to our home And as

our official sit in their $100,000 homes warm and cozy

with a nice fireplace

Just remember something someone lost their life and you could

have changed that

You have the power to change that right now

You have the power to make it happen

But yet You choose to eat your marshmallows by your

fireplace with your nice outfits your coach bags you're nice

binges and everything else but yet and still the people

are still hurting not only from this but from all

injustices and this is only 24 hours after sentencing of

a bard armory and we're here again right here saying

this it's horrible injustice

And yet we'll see you at MLK breakfast right shaking

our hands and we'll see you out there coming to

the neighborhood you don't come to to get elected to

get our vote right But yet and still you take

our money for your salaries

We pay your salaries and we want you out we

want you out now and we want you arrested for

any injustices that you chose to ignore

And that's what we're gonna do favor pack will be

pushing the issue to Department of Justice

We will continue to push the issue to the press

and we will continue to push it to our national

partners in Georgia that will probably up here as well

So let's just make sure that you continue to judge

and monitor our facebook page for our instagram and our

twitter

Do you have anything to say Founder Okay I'm gonna

let the founder come up here and talk

I'm getting off the mic but mr Shawn Mcmillan um

he'll say a couple words and then we're gonna close

out here with favorable activist movement

Alright someone said thank you to everybody that came out

here

It's not enough just to know about what happens

You have to be compelled to act you have to

be compelled to do something about it

And most times that's you putting yourself physically somewhere

So somebody sees you while we were here probably while

families down there at the courthouse

Police chief made an announcement that she's going to be

doing a press conference inside at 5 30 inside now

Do you think Do you think she would have made

that announcement if you weren't here Do you think she

would have made that announcement if they didn't see you're

posting this morning The way things work here Power concedes

nothing without a demand

Power concedes nothing without a demand

That's everywhere

Frederick Douglass said that it's everywhere

But it's especially here where white supremacy is rooted where

the evils that lurk inside these institutions are protected

Right So you have to put yourself in a physical

space to change things

Remember that please

We talked about the time that this has happened before

But we do

We do it at this honor

When we say it just happened before

I don't know the names of people that I know

of that have died at the hands of police

Those families don't have answers that never found justice in

this county

She killed Mcnair Lawrence Williams Adrienne roberts and we thank

you MS roberts for being here today

Tried to smother me

Hi cam Wendy satin

We just last summer in the in the jail

We still don't have answers on how Absolutely absolutely Wendy

sudden and I'm gonna I have two last names that

I really want you to think about until his homework

for today is go back and look these people up

and find out what happened

And ask yourself why why nobody ever got justice

The first name is Joshua Oxendine

When I saw the initial report of what happened last

night I thought about Joshua Watson because guess what they

said

He did too

He jumped on a car

We know there's an altercation with four police officers

We don't know those police officers and ants

We asked people in this building City hall all the

officials that are empowered right now

And we asked the police chief and the sheriff to

have a special council about this and they covered it

up

The police chief sat on the information of his his

deputy to homicide for a year

She had no intention of telling the public

We have to tell the public what happened

When we saw the autopsy look up Joshua Oxendine figure

out what happened

Let's continue to fight for justice for him and his

family

You know the last person Nigel Higgins Does anybody remember

him Naji Higgins That's the correct correct to say his

name

Naji Higgins

That in this community somebody MS roberts talked about how

all these politicians

I went to George Floyd's funeral are comfortable with talking

about

George Floyd

Guess who Naji Higgins was To George Floyd

That was his nephew

Mm hmm he died in your community

He was shot in the back

The officer Aaron Hunt

The only reason I know his name is because the

brave soul inside of that building probably released the video

to the intercept and it got online

That's the only reason I know the officer's name

That's the only reason we say

We see the video go home and look at the

video of Najee Haggins know that George Floyd's cousin was

killed in your community and nobody did anything about it

So we're going to continue to act

We have to change policies and laws

I don't want you guys to feel homeless

So I want to give you some other homework

All right

Let's go back

Let's make sure that we post about what's going on

and make sure that we post until there's an arrest

made for the person that shot Jason walker

We went to west until there was an arrest made

and that person is prosecuted

We also want that person's name released

We don't know who that is

We're calling for it

Press

I think y'all can help us out on that

If you can repeat what happened to Jason walker according

to the police you can find out this guy's name

Shaun King

We might need his help on this too

Right

He gets names and like ours

Right

So we're going to get his name

We're gonna get him arrested and prosecuted

All right

And then we're going to push for policy changes

That Mario talked about earlier

Independent oversight

They cannot police themselves when they're left on to their

own devices they cover up stuff

They think that you're not going to come out here

They think you're not gonna make any noise and it

continues to say barry we need an independent oversight body

that oversees them

Sits independently from them has no ties to them cannot

be controlled by them and takes a look at their

actions and able to make judgments on whether they were

fair to everybody

Right So independent oversight won't stop until that happens

All right

And then also mentioned before there are a couple of

people that are running for office here right now

I don't know of any elected officials here right now

and that's said in this next season and this next

season

Do not let them get elected

If they don't bring up what happened to Jason walker

don't let them get elected

If they don't bring up independent oversight

Alright Use your vote to make change

Because if you don't they'll continue to do the same

things more people will die and you can ask yourself

who's gonna be next right As a people We have

power to make those changes

So let's do it

All right

So thank you again for everybody that came out

Thank you for all the organizations that are organized to

get everybody here keep everybody safe

We're gonna close out in prayer

We have Mr Lamar Jackson traveled here as a as

a member of is a friend of the family's and

we'll just looters and pray or whatever the faith tradition

is

Uh we honor that but we're going to take a

few minutes just to ground ourselves spiritually in the battle

That's a hit

That's a hit

All right thank you sir

Let me say before we say this proud to our

God is that God hears and answers prayer

God shows light where there's darkness

Local families very dear family to us not talk with

him yet

Your mother and father graduated and passed school with me

They know that I will be shared with them in

these days

Let us talk to the Lord eternal God

Our father

We come now thank you for your love kindness and

tender mercies

Thank you for being our refuge and our strength and

our prison health and time of trouble

Father

We come this evening asking you to look on the

city of fitness

That which is to be known that you will shine

a light that which is in darkness will be brought

to the light and this day that we now serve

and the ages to come that we will do your

will and not are weak

Yeah you heard our prayers and days passed and gone

and we believe that you will hear our prayer today

Help us now Lord or we need your help in

this city as you have helped in cities across this

nation

The 4450

I'm not scared of that house

This is our prayer as we pray in jesus man

Everyone knows what's feets hurting everyone back is a little

tight

These are feelings that we're blessed to feel

Your voice is feeling raspy voice feeling for us

That's a blessing right now

Because unfortunately Jason can feel that right now

Might give us the instructions one more time

So we stay safe

But I want us to march one more time

I want us to be just as loud as we

were on our way here and we're gonna march right

back to the Sheriff's office because that's where the off

duty killer is is housed

Because I want them to hear from us one more

time

We're gonna march right back there

We're gonna take the street again

Alright let's go ahead and get those good destructions of

safe instructions

Mhm

Remember why we're here MS walker and the family

Okay this is what community looks like

All right

Said that we have to do this

Well we have we are with us to freedom fighters

The new black panther party and aligned security

They will be here with y'all from this day for

We just got back in town 24 hours ago from

Ben and Brunswick Georgia with their mother and other family

We don't talk this

Talk about being told

They're standing out there right now and will provide security

today and from this day

Four for y'all

Okay

I don't know if y'all know about that miserable city

down for Andrew Brown

They hit the streets for 100 and some days out

of Minneapolis Minnesota where we just came from doing christmas

We was out there with right For 19 months

They have taken over this area that the community owned

back in Minneapolis

But the community members what I'm saying that is saying

that to say is that y'all own this community you'll

pay tax dollars for these streets for this sidewalk

So whenever y'all need to rally don't ask for no

y'all do it

That man didn't ask further

Jason walker says his name

We go back we're not worried about stopping cars

We're gonna have somebody stop calls as we go back

and make sure our kids are in the inside make

sure everything is on the inside make sure our men

on the outside

I want you to stay strong

When I say Jason you say walker Jason Jason Jason

walker

Okay

Okay

Obviously what's up Okay already this one