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DESCRIPTION:FREE FLY BENZO - ALL OUT TO SUPPORT FLY BENZO - Monday at 9:00 a.m., 
 Department 12 at San Francisco hall of (in)justice, 850 Bryant.\n\nOn 
 Tuesday afternoon one day after DeBray Carpenter who is known as Fly Benzo, 
 a resident, activist and hip-hop artist in Bayview/Hunters Point spoke at a 
 well attended press conference in preparation of the October 22 Day Against 
 Police Brutality, he was talking about Yes on Prop H (school 
 placement/desegregation proposition) when San Francisco cops started 
 filming him, and then he started filming them filming him.  The cops tried 
 to take his camera; Fly tries to defend his camera.  The police start 
 attacking Fly, Tommy, his older brother, goes in to defend Fly, one officer 
 fell while trying to do a ridiculous take down and he hit his head.\n\nBoth 
 Tommy and Fly were beat up and went to the hospital before they were taken 
 to jail.  Tommy was ORd but charged with resisting arrest and 
 battery.\n\nFly was charged with resisting, battery and attempting to 
 incite a riot.  The arraignment has been put over to Monday at 9:00 a.m., 
 Department 12 at San Francisco hall of (in)justice, 850 Bryant.\n\nWho is 
 Fly Benzo?  According to Jeremy Miller, executive director of the Idriss 
 Stelly Foundation, “Fly is a young, articulate, charismatic man from a 
 radical family.  As a young organizer who is on the rise, I feel that the 
 SFPD is trying to clip his wings.”\n\nIt should be noted that after SFPD 
 chief of police Suhr got booed out of the Bayview Opera house meeting after 
 the police killed Kenneth Harding, Fly Benzo was illegaly arrested for 
 disrupting that meeting.  He and his family have been targeted and 
 retaliated against for standing up and speaking out against police 
 brutality.  And now he’s been arrested and assaulted for 
 copwatching.\n\nThe Oscar Grant Committee stands in solidarity with Fly 
 Benzo and demands all charges be dropped against him and his brother 
 Tommy.\n\n\ncheck out the SF Bayview piece:  
 http://sfbayview.com/2011/threats-or-payback/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/22/18694536.php
SUMMARY:Free Fly Benzo! Courtroom Solidarity Needed
LOCATION:Department 12 at San Francisco hall of (in)justice, 850 Bryant
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/22/18694536.php
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