October 24. 10:00 a.m. Cook County Courthouse. Chanting "We're not fooled, Becker murdered Gould," forty Streetwise vendors protested the continuing delays in the trial of Gregory Becker, the white cop who gunned down Joseph C. Gould, a Black Streetwise vendor, on July 30, 1995. Becker had shot Gould at point blank range, left him lying on the ground, and together with his girlfriend, then drove away from the scene of the crime. In the fifteen months since Joseph's murder, Becker's case is still stuck in pre-trial motions. Anthony Oliver, executive director of Streetwise, questions the continual delays in the trial, "I think there's a problem with race here, homeless here, low income, I think all those double standards apply to this case." A vendor and close friend of Joseph echoes that sentiment, "If Becker weren't a cop, he would go to death row. If Joseph Gould had been white, Becker would have gone to death row, he'd be in the penitentiary, at least for the rest of his life." The most serious charge originally leveled against Becker was "involuntary manslaughter." After a preliminary hearing judge knocked out this charge, continual protest forced the State's Attorney to go to a grand jury and indict Becker on a number of charges, including armed violence. Claiming that the evidence won't support it, the Cook County State's Attorney has refused to charge Becker with murder. Anthony Oliver doesn't buy it. "This case is clear cut based on the evidence, not on what Anthony is talking about, but the fact that this man was shot at point blank with the gun pressed on his skin, there's proof of that, what other proof do you need?" Before Thursday's protest ended, vendors were informed that once again, the trial has been delayed, continued until November 21. The defense again has raised a motion to throw out the armed violence charge, as well as the charge that Becker fled the scene of the crime. This latest delay only bears out that justice must come from the streets. "We're gonna have to have protest," commented Anthony Oliver, "we're gonna have to have public outcry about this."