Brother Ace Washington "has it going on"- he has been a social justice activist in SF's Western Addition District for decades. Ace is an anchor on KPOO radio and Direct Access TV Channel 29. He videotapes hearings of the weekly SF Police Commission and Board of Supervisors for the SF.GOV Channel, and he has his own desk in City Hall's Press room, #247. He is a singer and a producer, owns his own security business, is a painting contractor, is the House Manager at the Idriss Safe Haven Collective in SF Bayview Hunters Point, and has seats on the Idriss Stelley Foundation Board of Directors and SF's African American Community Police Relations Board.

On Friday night December 30th, Ace Washington stopped at Rassala's Jazz club on Fillmore and O'Farrell to talk to a friend. One of the club's managers told him that he was not welcome there and exhorted patrons to not talk to Washington. Ace questioned this treatment and the manager stated that she was calling the police. While Ace was standing outside of Rassala's, 4 police officers apprehended him, wrestled him to the ground, threatened him with batons and forcefully applied pressure to his legs and chest. One officer twisted his fingers backward while he was handcuffed, and 8 officers sat on his neck and back, pushing on his buttock with boot and repeatedly kicking his left ankle. Once he had been arrested and forced into the police car, his fingers were twisted backward again.

Ace was released at 5:30 am on Saturday, charged with assault, resisting arrest and trespassing, although he is not aware of Rassala's having any restraining order against him. When he arrived at Idriss Safe Haven Collective late morning, Ace recounted his ordeal and showed his injuries to Mesha Monge-Irizarry: substantial swelling and knots on his left leg above the ankle which had been stomped on (broken skin), chest, wrists and fingers, inflicted while Ace was on the ground, face down. Read more of Ace's story

Maurice Campbell, ISF Board Member and Director of the Community First Coalition and David Grace from Enemy Combatant Radio got on the air with Mesha Monge-Irizarry on ECR's "SF VILLAGE VOICE" show to talk about the SFPD's assault of Ace Washington. Audio Mesha says, "Time was (of) the essence: silence kills in these PD brutalization cases, as Ace would be more at risk, considered as a potential liability for PD and the City, given his prominent activist position in our community, if he did not publicize his fate ASAP! Ace called on the show and (the audience) got to listen live his detail recount of the assault."

Ace Washington has been summoned to appear in Court at the Hall of Injustice at 850 Bryant Street in San Francisco on Thursday January 5th, 2006, at 9:00am in room #101. "Ace, On DA Case" will next be aired on Friday January 6th on KPOO 89.5fm frin 4 pm to 5:30 pm, "Ace in your Ear, Maling it Loud and Clear!" An On Da Case yahoogroup has been started by the Idriss Stelley Foundation. Talking to a Wall! by Leroy Moore.