From: Taka Ono (takaono5@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 20:32:24 EDT
"This is serious police repression, and the worst
case of police abuse, racism, and misogyny that we
have ever seen."
"If you can send legal defense funds, and/or support
our case against the Costa Mesa Police Department,
please call (714) 303-0004, or e-mail
atlachinolli_front@yahoo.com."
To: sweatshop-watch@yahoogroups.com
From: "Ernesto Nevarez" <Troquero@thegrid.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 21:13:14 -0700
Subject: [sweatshop-watch] Sweatshop protesters
attacked, arrested! Orange County
Please distribute widely!
-----Original Message-----
From: FilmMakerZ@aol.com [mailto:FilmMakerZ@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: [gpoc_discuss] URGENT-Legal Support Needed
for Naui Huitzilopochtli
In a message dated 7/5/02 3:24:47 PM Pacific Daylight
Time,
cyber_industrian@yahoo.com writes:
> Subj: URGENT-Legal Support Needed for Naui
Huitzilopochtli
> Date: 7/5/02 3:24:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time
> From: cyber_industrian@yahoo.com (Diabla)
>
>
>
> Naui Huitzilopochtli, an Orange County activist, was
> arrested yesterday in Costa Mesa, at a Nike Town
> Protest. He is in desperate need of legal defense
> funds. Please distribute this information to anyone
> who can help.
>
>
> Orange County Activist Jailed on July 4, at Costa
> Mesa Nike Town Protest
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - On July 4, 2002,
> approximately thirty protesters convened upon Nike
> Town in Costa Mesa, to protest against corporate
> abuse and sweatshop labor. The protest was
> peaceful, fun, and colorful, from 12:00 until
3:00PM.
> Around 3:00, three young white males waving an
> American flag approached the protestors, shouting
and
> making obscene gestures toward them, and
> began kicking their signs. A crowd gathered, and one
> of the men threw an apple, which hit one of the
> protesters in the face. At that point, one of the
> white males began grabbing his genitals, and shouted
> "suck my dick, bitch" to one of the female
protestors.
> He then proceeded to shout at her, and another
> demonstrator, Naui Huitzilopochtli, telling them to
> "Go back to Mexico, you fucking wetbacks." All three
> were telling them, "Let's go, come on motherfuckers,
> I'll kick your ass." They began throwing pennies at
> the protestors, taunting and spitting at them.
>
> All of a sudden, a masked person ran up, and
> squirted the men with red paint. The unknown
> assailant fled the scene, and the Costa Mesa police
> (who had been present the whole time) intervened on
> behalf of the three white males. One of them told an
> officer that he had been assaulted with paint, and
> when the police asked him who did it, he pointed to
> Naui. Without question, the officer grabbed Naui,
and
> handcuffed him. Numerous protestors who witnessed
the
> event told the officers that Naui was innocent. But
> the police told them to "shut up," or they would all
> be arrested. The police then declared the
> demonstration to be an unlawful assembly, and they
> gave the protestors two minutes to disperse. The
> police allowed the three white males to fill out
crime
> victim reports at the scene of the incident, but
would
> not allow any of the protestors to fill out reports
> against them. In fact, the police told the
protestors
> that if they did not leave, everyone would be
> arrested.
>
> The protestors then went to the Costa Mesa
> police station, where the clerk at the front desk
> asked, "Why didn't you fill out a report at the
crime
> scene?" They informed her that police officers would
> not allow them to do so. Approximately twenty
> protesters arrived at the station to file
complaints,
> but the police threatened to arrest them. They had
to
> fill out the reports in the parking lot.
>
> It is very disturbing how Naui and the protestors
were
> treated by Costa Mesa police officers. The police
> refused to listen to witness testimony at the scene.
> Naui's family had to post bail, for a crime he did
not
> commit. Despite the fact these three white males
> shouted racial slurs, threw objects, spit at,
> and sexually harassed the protestors, somehow, THEY
> were the crime victims.
>
> This is serious police repression, and the worst
> case of police abuse, racism, and misogyny that we
> have ever seen. We plan to go to the Orange County
> Human Relations Committee, the Costa Mesa City
> Council, and pursue whatever legal methods we can
use
> to ensure that justice is served. This case has
placed
> financial hardship on Naui and his family. He is in
> great need of legal defense funds, and court
> solidarity. He will not plead guilty to a crime he
> did not commit. If you can send legal defense funds,
> and/or support our case against the Costa Mesa
Police
> Department, please call (714) 303-0004, or e-mail
> atlachinolli_front@yahoo.com.
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