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.
Eureka Police Department
Feb 15, 2010 Open Letter: STOP Eureka Cop Quigley from Abusing Houseless People!
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 7:21pmTo Eureka Police Chief Garr Nielsen,
Eureka City Council members,
Eureka Mayor Virginia Bass
Eureka City Attorney Sheryl Schaffner:
We, of Redwood Curtain CopWatch, receive report after report of unprovoked, vicious behavior by Sergeant Michael Quigley toward houseless people. With this letter we intend, once again, to alert you to Quigley's regular practice of abusing his authority and abusing people whom he apparently perceives to have little to no political power. As exhibited by his indecent and cruel behavior, Quigley believes he has absolute impunity to blatantly and repeatedly violate peoples' human and constitutional rights. This open letter goes out to hundreds of individuals and groups to call attention to Quigley's ongoing unacceptable behavior and to publicly call on you to correct it immediately and prevent any such misconduct and abuse in the future.
Eureka Cops Make Second Bunk Arrest at City Hall, VIDEO from Dec 12, 2009
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 1:47amEureka City Hall False Arrest, Harassment of Houseless from we watch on Vimeo.
Eureka City Hall False Arrest, Harassment of Houseless People
Video Transcribed- What are they saying?:
Officer Aubochon: We gotta advise you guys of a trespassing ordinance over here...'cause you were standing in the parking lot.
Quotes from Sgt. Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 11:21amThese are only a few of things we have been told that Eureka PD's Sanchez has said to people:
"No one will miss you if I shoot you in the back of the head"
"Do you go to this church? Well I am Catholic and I do go to this church [not true], and I don't want you sleeping at my church"
"If I see you again sitting anywhere with your blanket, I will take you to jail."
"You'd be better off in prison" [to homeless and disabled woman]
"You wrote a letter calling me a liar. That's why I'm giving you a ticket."
"If I see you here again with that sign, I'm gonna arrest you."
"You'd be better off dead." [to homeless, middle-aged woman]
Eureka Police Department arrests easy target, the VICTIM
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 06/20/2009 - 4:48pm911 Call for Ambulance Help Only Brought Grief and Arrest for Injured Victim
On Thursday afternoon (June 18, 2009) in Eureka, near the Blue Heron motel, a woman of color (possibly Asian or Native American) was observed being held against her will by a large man, while a smaller man was repeatedly antagonizing her and spraying her in the face with something (pepper spray, mace?)
The woman was struggling to get away.
