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We are dedicated to grass-roots struggle to end the aggressive role of police in and against our communities.
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Cotton v. City of Eureka and County of Humboldt:JURY TRIAL IN OAKLAND, OCTOBER 4, 2010
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 4:07pmOn August 9, 2007, Martin Frederick Cotton II was brutally beat to death- and then refused medical treatment -by Eureka Police and Humboldt County Sheriff "Correctional Officers" (in the jail).
Since August of 2008, there has been a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Martin Cotton's baby daughter (through a legal guardian) and by his father, Martin F. Cotton.
There is a trial scheduled in the Federal Court in Oakland in front of Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong and a jury beginning October 4, 2010, 8:30am. There will be at least fourteen cops exposed and on trial for killing Martin. Please begin organizing where you live to be there and make sure that it is known what these cops have done, what violence this system inflicts, and we want it to be understood- We will not tolerate intimidation, beatings, and murder by the police!!
We will be organizing people to travel to the Bay area to witness the trial. If you are in the Bay Area (or anywhere somewhat close), please organize support and presence in your area. And if you can help folks from Humboldt get there, let's talk.
- Adam Laird
- beat to death
- Bragg Perlman Russ Stunich & Eads
- Brian Claypool
- Dale K Galipo
- deprivation of rights
- EPD
- Eureka Police Department
- fderal civil rights case
- Justin Winkle
- Mitchell Brisso Delaney and Vrieze
- Oakland California
- police murder
- Saundra Brown Armstong
- Siehna Cotton et al v City of Eureka et al
- title 42 section 1983
- Vicki Sarmiento
DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, October 22nd and 23rd
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 3:48pm
DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
October 22nd & 23rd
No School * No Work
Call 707.633.4493
MORE DETAILS AS TIME NEARS!
Talk with bosses and teachers/professors about taking Oct 22nd and 23rd off work and school NOW- or just walk out when the Days of Action come!
If you are interested in fliering or getting involved in planning and organizing the Days of Action, please call!
New "Laser" Weapon in LA County Jail
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 9:25amThis is an article from
By JOHN ADAMS
Updated 7:17 AM PDT, Mon, Aug 23, 2010
New "Laser" Weapon Debuts in LA County Jail
"Assault Intervention Device" comes to Pitchess Detention Center
Guards at the Los Angeles County jail complex in Castaic will start using a newfangled weapon that produces a deep burning sensation -- which is not to be confused with a “warm fuzzy feeling” -- in whomever it is aimed at.
Man Killed by Mendocino Deputies on Wednesday in a Marijuana Garden was MARIANO LOPEZ FERNANDEZ, 31
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 11:13pmhttp://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/536 : Another Person Growing Marijuana Shot Dead by Mendocino Sheriff’s on August 18, 2010
Although, the Mendocino Sheriff's Department and the cop-complicit media continue to write about how the man who was killed and the other non-officers in this situation brandished weapons, "returned fire", etc, NO OFFICERS WERE INJURED. Isn't that always the case? The cops talk about how violent everyone else was, how in danger they were- but the only injured and killed people end up being the result of violence from the cops.
This is the second killing by Mendocino Sheriff Deputies over marijuana in a month!!
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STOLEN LIVES in Fresno California, list sent by M. Gloria Hernandez - Aug 19, 2010
Click HERE to see the STOLEN LIVES report from M. Gloria Hernandez of Fresno. The key to the acronyms used in the list are at the bottom of the document.
http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/files/stolen lives 2010 fresno.pdf
Ah... so it seems the more I dig the more I find.. Jerry Dyer was appointed chief
after Julian Boo Boo Celeya died.
So count the victims attribated to Dyer's leadership after Boo Boo. Its been ten
years since his appointment and I count 47 deaths and those are the ones we know of...
The Stolen Lives list for Fresno was compiled from the following:
Eureka Police Department TERRORIZING People Living Outside in Eureka
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 6:59pmSaturday, August 21, 2010:
The cops have been slashing tents and terrorizing people with night raids. Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez, holding a machete, and 4 other cops have been out since Wednesday are the reports I'm getting from folks.
SHERIFF RAIDS On People Living Outside in Southern Humboldt: tents slashed, possessions taken, people threatened
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 6:44pmSaturday, August 21, 2010:
We don't have all the info yet; A friend has gone to see if he can help people get their gear safely away.
We have reports of destruction of property by the police who are slashing tents and bagging camps in the Redway/Garberville area.
Also reports that people are being told they can't go back to their sleeping places or they will be arrested.
Hamilton seems to be the deputy in charge at the moment. McCall is the other one according to my informants.
Know Your Rights Workshop - SATURDAY, August 28th
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 2:27am
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS Training
How to Handle Encounters With Cops
Saturday, August 28th
1:30-5:30 pm
at Peoples' Action For Rights and Community
Q St. Alley between 3rd and 2nd
ALL AGES
FREE
SNACKS
Hosted by Redwood Curtain CopWatch
Call (707)633-4493 for more info.
Another Person Growing Marijuana Shot Dead by Mendocino Sheriff’s
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 1:43amEmail August 18, 2010: At 7:45 this morning on the scanner came the announcement that there was shooting in the Cahto Peak area (Laytonville). Then came,"one down, request medical aide". Finally came the news that it was an officer who had done the shooting and the officer was ok. Seems like the cops are slaughtering folks for marijuana , I suppose that is what it is about. They haven't said yet.
The victim must be Latino because they just announced that ICE was on the scene, along with California Highway Patrol....
2nd Fatal Shooting this Year by Mendocino Deputies Using New Marijuana Eradication Techniques
Too Many Laws, Too Many Prisoners
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 12:39am[article in The Economist!]
Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little
Jul 22nd 2010 | Spring, Texas
THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris’s home in Spring, Texas. Six armed police in flak jackets jumped out. Thinking they must have come to the wrong place, Mr Norris opened his front door, and was startled to be shoved against a wall and frisked for weapons. He was forced into a chair for four hours while officers ransacked his house. They pulled out drawers, rifled through papers, dumped things on the floor and eventually loaded 37 boxes of Mr Norris’s possessions onto their pickups. They refused to tell him what he had done wrong. “It wasn’t fun, I can tell you that,” he recalls.
- American Pain Foundation
- criminalise
- drug offenders
- Families Against Mandatory Minimums
- federal agent
- federal crimes
- honest service statute
- Human Rights Watch
- incarceration
- inmates
- mandatory minimum
- mens rea
- overcrowding
- parole
- Pew Center
- prison
- probation
- prosecutors
- Spring Texas
- The Economist
- three strikes law
