Cincy 12. $5,000 to $25,000 bails for jaywalking arrests? Uppity in Yuppieville

Some bails have been lowered since the report copied farther down. From reading all the reports, looking at the videos, listening to the audios, etc.., it looks like many of the arrested protesters broke no laws, not even jaywalking. The police just got tired of the protesters being \"uppity,\" and tired of waiting for them to do something illegal.

The demonstration the protesters were arrested at in Mount Adams was against police brutality. So, like the last time in November 2000 during a police brutality march, the police arrested the protesters brutally. One protester was possibly arrested in a similar way to the Roger Owensby arrest that killed this black man by asphyxiation in November 2000 (see report copied farther down). Of the 4 people killed by Cincinnati police between November 2000 and April 2001, 2 were unarmed. That\'s 50 percent, folks.

Now maybe new readers will understand the outrage on April 7 when Timothy Thomas was killed and why the riots started soon after when no one could explain these deaths of unarmed black men.

The Mount Adams demonstration was also against the unequal enforcement of the martial law curfew that occured during the riots in April. Blacks had to obey the dusk-to-dawn curfew. Whites curfew violators were often ignored by police in many majority-white parts of Cincinnati. Some whites were actually given police escorts from bars and clubs, such as some bars in Mt. Adams. Welcome to apartheid.

So, white curfew violaters, a very serious first degree misdemeanor, that can get 6 months in jail, are ignored under Cincinnati apartheid. But jaywalkers now must pay $5,000 to $25,000 bonds? Huh?

By the way, the police officers who did a stop-and-go driveby, and unprovoked, beanbagged and seriously injured some mourners after the Timothy Thomas funeral April 14 are back on the job. I wonder if these police officers were doing some of the brutal arrests of the Mt. Adams demonstraters.

Why hasn\'t Mike Allen, the prosecutor, pressed charges for assault and battery against those beanbagging police officers, and why hasn\'t the police chief kept those mad-dog officers at desk jobs? Maybe it is because the police chief himself killed an unarmed suspect in 1980.

The Cincy police and the Cincy prosecutor, working together to keep people of color under the total control of corporate rule, and to keep anyone else from joining them in powerful coalition. Welcome to the modern police state and modern apartheid under a do-nothing conservative Democrat mayor in one of the most conservative cities in the USA.

Welcome to the Prison Industrial Complex. It\'s the American Gulag for people of color, and anybody who even jaywalks to help them.

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Mon Jun 4 15:14:49 2001 -- Legal Update
http://ohiovalleyimc.org/cgi-bin/imc.pl?where=display&article=501

Sean Marquis :lesmarquis [at] ziplip.com

June 4, 3PM - In regard to the arrests at the Mt. Adams demostration in Cincinnati on Sat evening:
All initial hearings are concluded with bails ranging from $5,000 - $25,000. The 2 acitivists with $25,000 bails were originally processed as John and Jane Doe and that is the given reason for their high bails, tomorrow they will both have continuance hearings in which their bails should be reduced.
Charges range from disorderly conduct to resisting arrest. Ora Wise is actually charged with resisting the arrest of David Mitchell who was in police custody across the street at the time of her arrest. So far bail has put up for at least 5 of the activists and they should be released sometime this afternoon.

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arrest of two indymedia activists during saturday\'s protest in cincinnati (english)
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=44907&group=webcast

by donkey kong 4:03pm Mon Jun 4 \'01

here is the audio of two indymedia people, a writer who was taking notes and a videographer who was filming, being arrested during saturday\'s protest in cincinnati. the police attacked protesters after they asked them to move to the sidewalk (which they did). police charged the crowd and went for the few minority protesters in a majority white crowd. then they went for the independent journalists.

listen to the report (sound: mp3 @ 1.8 megs)
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/arrest.mp3

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J2. June 2 Mt. Adams police brutality rally after main March for Justice rally. Here are compiled first-hand and second-hand reports of brutality of police arrests and jail guards. Also, many photo links for arrests.
http://ohiovalleyimc.org/cgi-bin/imc.pl?where=display&article=494

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There are many more Cincinnati March for Justice
photos, reports, audio, video, etc at
Ohio Valley Indymedia
http://ohiovalleyimc.org
San Francisco Indymedia
http://sf.indymedia.org/
Prisons and Police Brutality IMC
http://sf.indymedia.org/features/police/
Chicago Indymedia
http://chicago.indymedia.org/
and Global Indymedia
http://www.indymedia.org
10 pages (and growing) of great photos:
http://www.booksellersunion.org/cincinnati


Video, audio, text, photos, breaking news and more about the Cincinnati Ohio protests, April 7 2001 Timothy Thomas killing by police, rebellion, riots, killings of 4 blacks (one by asphyxiation - Roger Owensby) by Cincinnati police since November 2000, 6 since September 2000, investigations, politics, racial profiling, police brutality, police rampages, beanbag (METAL PELLETS - BUCKSHOT IN A BAG) and rubber/plastic bullet injuries and hospitalizations, etc.. 15 blacks killed by Cincinnati police since 1995 (16 when William Wilder is included). No whites. In Cincinnati there is NO local, independent, police review board with SUBPOENA power. The Cincinnati police are OUT-OF-CONTROL of civilian authority. A civilian President controls the military, but the Cincinnati police make their own laws?! A LOCAL POLICE STATE, where the white police union leader, Keith Fangman, regularly spouts off his rightwing, and sometimes racist (whether the dumbass knows it or not), opinions on a 50,000 watt, clear-channel, AM hate-radio, race-baiting, talk radio, call-in station (WLW 700 AM) that sometimes can be heard across 38 states. Corporate and progressive news URLs:
http://1230thebuzz.com/ --1230 AM. WDBZ. Cincinnati black talk radio. 1000 watts.
http://www.cincinow.com --TV 9. Video, audio, text, photos.
http://www.channelcincinnati.com --TV 5. Video, audio, text, photos.
http://www.cincynation.com --Various news sources compiled.
http://enquirer.com --Cincinnati Enquirer.
http://www.cincypost.com --Cincinnati Post.
http://www.cincinow.com/specials/city_in_distress/news/ --CinciNow unrest archives.
http://www.cincinow.com/specials/city_in_distress/news/video.shtml --Video archives.
http://www.real.com/player --RealPlayer 8 Basic is a free, streaming video, player.
http://www.citybeat.com/current/unrest.shtml --CityBeat unrest archives.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Local/Cincinnati_Riots/ --Yahoo Full Coverage.
At the bottom of the AP and Reuters newswire pages is a dropdown menu to select news from previous days. Check for Cincinnati news:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ts/nm/?u --Reuters.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ts/ap/?u --Associated Press (AP).
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/index.html -- Off The Wire. Raw news.
http://ovimc.org --Ohio Valley Independent Media Center has many Cincinnati Unrest articles on the homepage and/or in the archives. To see more, click the \"display all articles\" link at the bottom right, and then keep clicking \"display next articles.\" Post your articles! Links (full URLS starting with http) found in posted articles are made clickable.