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DESCRIPTION:Keep Up the Pressure! Justice for Sean Arlt!\n\nRelease the Video, Audio, 
 and Names of his Police Killers!\n\nHold the Cops, Politicians, and DA 
 Accountable! No to Laura’s Law!\n\nProtest at Laurel & Center Street 
 (Next to The Santa Cruz Police Station)\n\nThursday, November 10th, 1:30 
 PM\n\nCoffee and baked treats will be available. Speak out. Bring signs and 
 more people.\n\nPolice claim they killed Sean Arlt to prevent him from 
 attacking them with a garden rake. They\nalso say audio and video back 
 their story. We say prove it. Release the audio and the video NOW! We\nare 
 outraged at the stonewalling by City Manager Martin Bernal, Police Chief 
 Kevin Vogel, Mayor\nCynthia Mathews, and the entire Santa Cruz City 
 Council--allowing the police to withhold the name of\nArlt's killer as well 
 as the video and audio of the incident.\n\nEven if the police version of 
 events is true, which we in no way assume to be the case, we ask\nwhy four 
 cops could not subdue Sean Arlt without shooting him in the head and chest. 
 Why weren’t\ntactics of de-escalation used? Why didn’t police use less 
 lethal force like a Taser or aim for his legs?\n\nWe are also outraged at 
 the corporate media’s coverage, taking the unproven allegations of 
 the\npolice as fact. For instance, stories that identify Sean Arlt as 
 “the man who attacked police with a metal\nrake” should insert the word 
 “allegedly”. Until the police release their evidence, all we have is 
 an\nunproven allegation by the police. The corporate media shows bias by 
 treating police claims as fact.\n\nWe are reminded of the Santa Cruz police 
 murder of homeless activist John Dine in 1997. The\npolice falsely claimed 
 that John Dine was pointing a toy gun at them, but all independent 
 eyewitnesses\ncontradicted this lie. Some eyewitnesses were so outraged 
 that they became activists on the issue.\n\nWe also oppose calls by the 
 Santa Cruz Sentinel and the anti-homeless fascists of Take Back\nSanta Cruz 
 for Laura’s Law to be implemented in Santa Cruz in the wake of this 
 police killing. Laura’s\nLaw increases police powers over people 
 diagnosed with mental illness. Forced drugging and increased\npowers of 
 involuntary detention are both part of Laura’s Law. Yet, many psychiatric 
 drugs are\nunproven, addicting, and dangerous. People “off their meds” 
 sometimes act crazy, not because they are\nin their true un-drugged state, 
 but because they are going through withdrawals. Though some may find\ndrugs 
 helpful, medication must be a matter of personal choice not state 
 coercion.\n\nNigeria, which does not have the massive drugging for 
 schizophrenia that the U.S. does, has a\nhigher recovery rate for that 
 condition than the United States. Likewise, so-called 
 anti-depressants\nknock people off their rocker so badly that they increase 
 suicidal and homicidal behavior in patients.\nOver time, these types of 
 drugs cause early death by destroying the liver and other internal 
 organs.\nSanta Cruz should not get into the business of forcing people to 
 take these drugs against their will. Sean\nArlt, a father of a four-year 
 old child, did suffer mental illness. This police killing, however, should 
 not be\nused to increase police powers over people diagnosed with mental 
 illness.\n\n “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and 
 it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you 
 have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be 
 imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with 
 either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the 
 endurance of those whom they oppress….  “If there is no struggle, there 
 is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate 
 agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain 
 without thunder and lightning.” -Frederick Douglass\n\nSponsored by 
 Homeless United Friendship and Freedom (HUFF) and the Revolutionary 
 Tendency (RT)\n\nEndorse and build the event. Contact RT at 
 steveargue2@yahoo.com or HUFF at (831) 423-4833 \n\nFacebook Event Page:  
 https://www.facebook.com/events/1025101160932432/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/03/18793068.php
SUMMARY:Keep Up the Pressure! Justice for Sean Arlt!
LOCATION:Protest at Laurel & Center Street (Next to The Santa Cruz Police Station)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/03/18793068.php
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