police state in my inbox
from various sources, mostly from the stop-polabuse list, i’ve been getting more news that compels me to wonder why we don’t just go ahead and start calling a police state a police state.
- the guy who leaked the docs proving LAPD misconduct is being locked up for it
- a santa fe attorney was popped for comments he made in a chat room (in february)
- after coming under fire, pdx activists have laid out all the details on the joint anti-terrorism task force
- story from the AP wire, infoshop news, and elsewhere: A 57-year-old Harlem woman died of an heart attack Friday after police detonated a flash grenade and handcuffed her during a raid on the wrong apartment.
- minneapolis professional photographer retaliated against for catching police brutality on tape
- activists were rounded up the other day in st. louis:
- Police invaded two known movement homes Saturday morning, apparently in “pre-emptive raids” to prevent their attendance at Sunday’s demonstration against the World Agricultural Forum.
- Others were taken into custody while riding their bicycles to the BioDevastation gathering at Forest Park Community College, and the police have left the bicycles lying along the road.
- Sarah Bantz, organizer for MORAGE and a speaker at the BioDevastation conference, was arrested for having a container of Vitamin C capsules, which police are claiming to be an illegal drug.
- the air force women who were raped and whose cases were in the media in march were featured in another (not yet linkable) story, by joan lowy of the scripps howard news service that says the women were told when they entered the academy that they “should expect to be raped.”
- updated: the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center is saying that protest can basically be seen as terrorism.
