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DJ Pete Rock: “We Deserve Justice”

Monumental 5 Press Conference
Monumental 5 Press Conference at City Hall on July 5, 2011 in New York City.

Yo, big up to Trymaine Lee of bvblackspin.com for continuing coverage of the “Monumental 5” police brutality situation. At a press release Pete Rock and his daughter (one of the 5 arrested and mistreated by police outside a Pete Rock & Smif N Wessun album release concert), give us an update and further description of what went on that night, from their personal perspectives. Check out the full article on bcblackspin, but here is a video excerpt.

To read our own original coverage of this story when it first happened, click here.

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