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Pepper Spray Photos And Video Needed

Alan Graf, head of The National Lawyers Guild chapter here in Portland Oregon, and The Northwest Constitutional Rights Center is sending a call out for video and photos documenting police using pepper spray to disperse protesters.
Alan Graf, head of The National Lawyers Guild chapter here in Portland Oregon, and The Northwest Constitutional Rights Center is sending a call out for video and photos documenting police using pepper spray to disperse protesters on November 3rd.

"If you have photographs and or videos of police using pepper spray to disperse protestors, Please contact me. I want to see them. We can use these photos and videotapes against the police in litigation. Good videos along with witness names and phone numbers WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE."

"I am also interested in talking with witnesses and people who were sprayed and/or injured by pepper spraying or police brutality from yesterday's protest."

To contact Alan Graf, information is below:

Alan Graf
1020 SW Taylor St., Ste. 230
Portland, Oregon 97205
503-452-2375

See also our website: www.nwcrc.org

URL:  http://www.nwcrc.org; www.hippielawyer.com
In Particular... 05.Nov.2004 15:54

Varro

In particular, video for the spraying of Andrew Pottermeyer (the young man in the Seattle Seahawks shirt profiled in today's Portland Tribune) would be greatly appreciated, but all pepper-spray use videos will be helpful.

note to alan graf 05.Nov.2004 16:06

yttocs

Alan et al, I also thought there had been new guidelines adopted by the City of PDX Police Bureau concerning the use of the equistrian mounted patrol.....no aggressive rushing into peaceful crowds for their own macho satisfaction. I witnessed (no still or video photos) two instances of dangerous charges onto the sidewalk into the crowd for no (or a very minor) infraction. If that is the case, let us not let up on our VERY loud voices to the new mayor elect, independent police review, judicial channels, or on the Police themselves (even though they seldom disipline their own) Resist. yttocs

I witnessed those 2 horse incidents 05.Nov.2004 16:19

I'm mad as hell too!

I hope they'll take those 2 fatassed cops to task for mistreating their horses and the crowd!
They're too damned fatassed to be riding such small quarter horses and they don't know how
to ride them correctly in the first place!
Please go after their fatasses and put 'em back to pounding pavement with their fucking feet!

i have footage 05.Nov.2004 18:20

Ogo iakaos@gmail.com

I have about an hour of footage of the protest from 5pm till around 8:30pm. Though I do not have footage of anyone being peppersprayed directly, I do have footage of multiple arrests as well as people experiencing the aftereffects of being peppersprayed. I also have video documentation of horse cops charging protestors on the sidewalk and trampling them. [This clip has already been posted, to the IMC and also archive.org]
I have not yet had time to capture the remaining footage to the computer, but will be posting more footage once I get the chance to go through it. Feel free to use the footage/get in touch if it will be of use to your case.

phone book? 05.Nov.2004 19:04

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there's a Pottmeyer in the phone book in Tigard.....probably the same one?