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Santa Cruz Indymedia | Health, Housing, and Public Services | Police State and PrisonsAny witnesses to a Police Assault Thur Night 2-4 10 PM across from the Cinema 9?
A homeless guy named Jack Straw reported that he was accosted by a police officer demanding to know if he'd "broken bottles" on the sidewalk. When he denied it, Straw reports being tackled from the back by two other officers, pepper-sprayed, and hog-tied, then taken to the County jail. He said police refused to tell him what he was being charged with. At the jail he reported having his request for an attorney and a phone call ignored, being denied medical treatment, and peppersprayed in custody when he continued to demand his rights. Jack is seeking witnesses who were downtown Friday nite. Straw describes the incident happening at Church and Pacific in front of O'Neill's Sports Shop or near there in downtown Santa Cruz.
Leave a message for Jack Straw at 831-423-4833 (my number and the voice mail for HUFF--Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom). You can also phone the radio show I do tomorrow (Sunday February 7th) 9:30 AM to 1 PM at 101.1 FM and http://www.freakradio.org. Or e-mail me at rnorse3 [at] hotmail.com. Strew says he was denied a breathalyzer or a blood test, though they claimed he was drunk, then released from jail at 3 AM without charges and without any of his survival gear or other property, which will be held at the police station until Tuesday. There's no indication that the officers involved have apologized for their behavior--if Straw's account is accurate--or been disciplined. One of the officers, Straw recalls, was named Jones. If anyone else has experienced abuse or harassment by the local police, security guards, rangers, or UCSCPD, please post an account here, or leave a message in the notebook at the Sub rosa Cafe at 703 Pacific Ave. The computers there also available for us to post on this website. HUFF meets Wednesday mornings at 10:30 AM (or soon thereafter) at the Sub Rosa. If it's closed, look for a note on the gate to see where we've moved. The ass you save may be your own or your friend's. |
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