Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.
Rolofson, Kurt
"Where do I go?" Cops arrest people for EXISTING poor
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 4:19pmRecently, some of us witnessed 4 (that's right FOUR) Eureka Police Officers arresting a woman for sitting in a covered bus stop late at night with only a blanket in her hand. Three vehicles, two of them K-9 units, were there. The officers were: Adam Laird (Badge #40), Kurt Rulofson (new guy), Ed Wilson (Badge #96), and Mike Guy (Badge #63).
The woman asked the officers, "Where do I go?"
She told them "I didn't do anything." But, you see, if you sit somewhere in public at night, when you have no other place to go, you get arrested.
After the woman was HANDCUFFED, male officer Rolofson, in the presence of the other cops and 4 copwatchers, searched her. That means he put his hands in her ass pockets and felt all over for... something (found nothing). It happens quite often here in Eureka- male officers searching women.
