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DESCRIPTION:October 22nd is a Day of National Concern and Protest against police 
 violence.  (See http://www.october22.org/ )\n\nIn Santa Cruz, a collusive 
 City Council prepares to hand greater enforcement and banishment powers 
 over to individual officers and rangers with it steroid-enhanced expansion 
 of Stay Away Orders (See "Nasty Anti-Homeless Stay-Away Laws to Get 
 Exponentially Worse" at http://www.october22.org/)\n\nRecently there have 
 been reports of an SCPD assault on Oliver Howard on October 11th 
 ("Witnesses Report Excessive Use of Force by SCPD during Arrest near Court 
 House" at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/20/18763064.php\n\nThe 
 review of the citation records of Community Service Officer B. Barnett has 
 revealed a disturbing pattern apparently targeting homeless persons and 
 disproportionately citing African-Americans.\n(See attached citation record 
 of Officer Barnett) \n\nNearly 3/4 of Barnett's citations in his ignoble 
 career downtown have involved citing homeless people for essentially 
 victimless crimes (sitting, smoking, skateboarding).  Nearly 10% of his 
 citations were for African-Americans in a county that is 1.4% black by a 
 recent census.  \n\nOther recent incidents of alleged racial profiling 
 written up on this website include \n\n"Santa Cruz Police and First Alarm 
 Brutalize and Arrest People for Being Black and Homeless" at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/21/18760436.php\n\n"Selective 
 Enforcement of Smoking Ban, Obstruction of Video Reporting--Report to the 
 Chief!" at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/02/18759451.php .\n\nA 
 prior protest is shown and described here: "Protesters Demand Faster 
 Response from SCPD Regarding Record's Requests" 
 at\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/23/18761997.php\n\nThe 
 ongoing attack on homeless people is intensifying as winter gets closer as 
 church programs are cut back, city council rubberstamps harsher laws, and 
 the SCPD continues in its role in an ongoing Class War.\n\nThe SCPD 
 continues to seek more money for surveillance software (license plate 
 readers), declines to provide records of its contacts with other agencies 
 re: military-style equipment and other forms of prepared repression against 
 political protesters such as those in the Occupy Movement.\n\nWe will 
 continue to be organizing volunteers to defend the rights of homeless 
 people (Homeless Encampment Defense) as well as co-ordinate Copwatch 
 efforts city-wide.\n\nCome on down for "Don't Beat 'em, Eat 'Em'" brownies 
 and Mid-Day Coffee.  Hoist a sign to defend the rights of all of us in 
 public spaces sick of a militarized downtown.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/21/18763114.php
SUMMARY:October 22nd "Say No to Police Abuse" Day Protest Against Racial and Homeless Profiling
LOCATION:Cop Corner at Laurel and Center Streets across from Louden Nelson Center, 
 Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/21/18763114.php
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