Akai Gurley–another unarmed black man murdered by the racist ‪#‎NYPD‬. Akai, 28 years old, was gunned down in a stairwell in the Pink Houses on Linden Blvd. in East New York on Thursday night. We write for two reasons: (1) as NYC Solidarity for Palestine we offer our condolences to the parents, family and friends of Akai and (2) we hereby announce that we will be postponing our Solidarity Open Mic scheduled for today. Our black brothers and sisters have never had their human dignity respected in this country. We know that black lives don’t matter to the police just like we know Palestinian lives don’t matter to the Israeli colonial forces. So, today we stand together by postponing our event that we worked hard on to take our bodies and our love and rage to the streets.