N6 Update on Arrestees

Does anyone have video of the elderly woman that was beat trying to cross the max tracks? If you do it would really help with her case. The police wouldn't let us leave downtown on the max. We were chanting "Let us go!" the woman tried to cross to ask what was going on. It looked like the riot cop shoved her back by the head. Then she approched them and angerly asked them "why they had struck her? What was going on?" They grabbed her by the head and it looked like they were trying to put her in a compliance hold. Confused she pulled away. So the cops reached out and grabbed her by the head and repeatedly struck her head against a barracade. Then 3 or 4 of them grabbed her bent her over the barracade all the while siezing her by the hair and cuffed her. I know that the corperate media at least got some footage of that. I hope to god they don't turn the tapes over to the pigs. For justice sake. Was any independant video there?

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thank you gdc for stepping up.

there were two video crew to my left as we watched the police brutalize the older woman. who were they? they should have the video. It was bad.

When will we as a community and as a country get the courage to move forward and sacrifice? I feel ashamed that I did not move forward and try to help that woman.

I saw, watching to see what kind of coverage the news would give us, that they actually showed that clip on TV. But they said that she bit the police, which I didn't see, and doesn't seem very realistic.

we can help such people is, first of all, video tape, video tape and more video tape. Secondly by providing wittness in court of law. These steroid loaded police officers need to know that we the community can bring pressure to bear. We can identify them personally, and spead their names throughout the community. We can put pressure on the politicians (or is it vote scam gangsters?) who supposedly are in control of them. There are many things the community can do to bring much pressure to bear.

Interfering, physically, with the police is NOT an option. That will only result in escalation of repression and brutility. The meat-headed police officers have to be taught that they are, in fact, answerable to the community.

On the other hand, maybe these sort of actions will get the pie-in-the-sky Bush/Kerry supports to realize, eventually, that the Republicrat politicians do NOT have our best interests in mind.

Do not tell us what are "legitamit" options. I have been rescued from police capture. I have rescued from police capture. Do not box us into your own dogmatic crap! YES, in this situation we would have been boxed in and had a smaller chance of fleeing police repression, and would have created it. Yes in this instance your right. There are a great many instances where what you said is wrong. Not having expierence with un-arrest on your part doesn't mean there are not situations where it is tacticly feasable, and even desireable. I have literally seen it galvanize a crowd. In a way that your blanket generalizations about tactics, and top down rehtoric will not.

peace