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!

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:

Saturday, 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.

Saturday, 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.

Details soon. 

If you are interested in organizing for August 9th [Cotton Day] or in hanging up and handing out fliers for August 9th, please call Redwood Curtain CopWatch at (707) 633-4493.

The City of Eureka proves itself again to care more about pushing its weight around, stealing, towing, searching, seizing, than it does about YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO PLACE TO LIVE.

July 6, 2010  2:58am

Open Letter To Eureka Police Chief Garr Nielsen, Eureka City Council members, Eureka Mayor,
Eureka City Attorney, Sheryl Schaffner:

Re: EPD Sergeant Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez punches a young man in the side of the head and threatens teenage witness if he testifies to seeing the punch

Thoughts on police and policing

Featured, Racial Equity — By Jo Nubian on June 25, 2010 at 7:36 am

He may be a very nice man. But I haven’t got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he’s got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That’s the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. ~ James Baldwin

l spoke to Daniel (tasered man)'s Mom.  She said when the cops arrived Daniel was outside, calm at the time... The cops said something and Daniel said "Leave me alone," and backed away from the cops saying "Leave me alone, I am scared."

California town to lay off all city employees, disband police

Lenda,
Please encourage the family to request an independent autopsy and for the body to be PRESERVED. 

When the system tells a grieving family that they have 'this' many days to cremate or bury, the grieving family usually does it quick and has to rally together the money to pay for it.  PLEASE tell them that they are entitled, if they request and notice the coroner, to an independent forensics testing (not sure how to pay for it, but it would be a forensic pathologist that the family chooses) and that should halt the "destruction" of Daniel's body. 

Also, they should work on not allowing the body to be destroyed so that if or when they sue , there is a body to examine.  OFTEN, the coroner's reports (including toxicology) do NOT match up with 1) the injuries that parents have seen on their dead children's bodies and 2) the substances that persons had in them prior to death (i.e. nicotine, marijuana)

Del Norte man dies in Taser incident

The Times-Standard  June 23, 2010   1:15:10 AM PDT

A Del Norte County man who assaulted two sheriff's deputies [we can always count on the Times Standard to be the immediately decided judge and jury for an execution by cop] Tuesday morning died after he was shot with a Taser and began having trouble breathing, the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office reported.

Juanita Young is the mother of Malcolm Ferguson (killed by NYPD’s Street
Crimes Unit, cop Louis Rivera in the Bronx in 2000)

Nicholas Heyward, Sr. is the father of Nicholas Heyward, Jr. (killed by
NYC housing cop Brian George in Brooklyn in 1995)

Juanita Young and Nicholas Heyward, Sr. have been powerful voices in the
movement against police brutality. Through their own experiences, both of
these activist parents have also brought strength to many others who
suffer and/or have lost their loved ones to police violence.

Juanita just returned from Detroit, where she was giving support to the
family of Aiyana Jones, the seven-year old who was shot and killed
sleeping in her bed by Detroit police raiding her family's home. She

Aiyana Jones case, attorney says Video shows police fired into Detroit home
By Corey Williams and Ed White  The Associated Press May 18, 2010

DETROIT -- Police who carried out a raid on a family home that left a
7-year-old girl dead over the weekend were accompanied by a camera crew for
a reality television show, and an attorney says video of the siege
contradicts the police account of what happened. Geoffrey Fieger, an
attorney for the family of young Aiyana Jones, said he has seen three or
four minutes of video of the raid, although he declined to say whether it
was shot by the crew for the A&E series "The First 48," which has been
shadowing Detroit homicide detectives for months.

Police have said officers threw a flash grenade through the first-floor
window of the two-family home, and that an officer's gun discharged, killing
the girl, during a struggle or after colliding with the girl's grandmother
inside the home. But Fieger said the video shows an officer lobbing the

Justice for Oscar Grant! 
Murdered by BART Officer Johannes Mehserle
All out to Court  
Monday June 14th!  Starting at 7am, come thru all day!

Maryland Citizens Face Felony Charges for Recording Cops

Infowars.com
May 23, 2010

In Maryland, it is a felony to record thuggish cops as they push around skateboarding teenagers, beat sports patrons, and pull guns on motorists for speeding.

“Several Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera, and others have been intimidated to shut their cameras off,” reports WJZ 23 in Baltimore.

Maryland cops are using a Maryland law that states conversations in private cannot be recorded without the consent of both people involved in order to go about their business of harassing, intimidating, and assaulting citizens.

Call for Courtroom Solidarity

 Five protesters were arrested during the April 9 Anti-Police Brutality demonstration in Seattle, WA. This is a statement from three who were arrested at the same time on Capitol Hill.

On Wednesday night, March 31, 2010, Officer Justin Winkle of the Eureka Police Department [EPD], once again, went too far and hurt someone.

Winkle was one of the cops who killed Martin Cotton II in August of 2007- beat him to death. The other night, he abused a 20 year old woman who was happily skipping down the street. He stopped her and said that he was looking for a woman in particular (a “suspect”). He demanded ID, and when the woman gave him her name, he called it in. The EPD voice on the other end of the police radio informed Winkle that she was not the one- not the person the police were looking for. Nevertheless, Winkle continued to detain the young woman. She told him that she had done nothing wrong and wanted to leave, that there is no law against skipping, and she knew that she had a right to continue on her way.

Eureka Police Sgt. Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez (badge#13) and Patrick Bishop (badge #60) are the cops who fired their guns resulting in the murder of David Sequoia.  Brian Stephens of EPD was the other cop on the scene.

Redwood Curtain CopWatch was just about to send off a letter about Sanchez when we learned this info.

The letter is about Sanchez repeatedly THREATENING a houseless Eureka resident- saying he will SHOOT HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD.

We will also be updating our officer profiles with photos and more info soon.

March 19, 2010
ALBERT POLENCIA, 31 YEAR OLD MENTALLY ILL MAN, WAS TAZED TO DEATH BY
DOWNEY POLICE

CHASED from Downey to South Gate

KILLED in FRONT OF HIS HOME

Check out the Redwood Curtain CopWatch Taser file (a resource in process) We need volunteer help with this important database.

THE DEATH OF MARTIN FREDERICK COTTON II

UPDATE (Spring 08) FROM REDWOOD CURTAIN COPWATCH

<h2>INTERVIEW WITH RICHIE PEREZ</h2>
Founder, National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
& The Justice Committee
Edited by Blanca Vazquez

Contents:
1. Personal History
2. Policing in the Rudolph Giuliani Era
3. Anthony Baez: Organizing for Justice
4. The Families
5. Alliances with Street Organizations
6. Cover-Up
7. The Blue Wall of Silence and the Courts
8. Civil Disobedience
9. Rudolph Giuliani and the NYPD
10. Safety
11. Zero Tolerance
12. Arrest Quotas
13. Crime Rates
14. The Social Justice Movement
15. Police Accountability
16. Amadou Diallo
17. Gary (Gidone) Busch
18. Two Societies, Separate and Unequal
19. Racial Profiling
20. The Power Over Life and Death

 
Presented as part of the days of action against police brutality… 

FRIDAY NIGHT RADICAL FILM SCREENING OCT 17th  7pm  at PARC PARC is located in Eureka on 2nd Street between "D" and "E" UPSTAIRS in the wooden complex. Snacks provided