Occupy Oakland Activist Arrested on Charges Related to MayDay Protest – #FreePrince

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Occupy Oakland Activist Arrested on Charges Related to MayDay Protest – #FreePrince
http://politicalfailblog.com/archives/7129

During the 2012 Mayday protests in Oakland, the OPD switched up it’s normal crowd control tactics and sent in ‘snatch squads’ to remove people who they perceived to be planning unlawful actions. Without any warning, groups of officers marched in formation directly through the crowd in search of their targets, as you can see in the below video. Prince was one of the activists to be targeted and arrested early in the day. More than three officers assaulted Prince, before one used their tazer to bring him down. It’s more than clear that there was no reason for any of these arrests to be made, as no illegal activity (on the part of the protesters) was taking place. Prince was held for 72 hours, brutalized, and released with no charges. The DA quietly filed charges later, and issued a warrant for his arrest.

Two of the officers involved in Prince’s brutal arrest on MayDay have been identified as Officer Fukuda and Officer W. Burke. Officer Burke was seen on Mayday, multiple times, pointing his rifle at people in the crowd, and waving it around carelessly. Officer Burke was also fired at one point, for falsifying search warrants, but was rehired in arbitration.

On Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 the Oakland Police Department sent ten officers to Prince’s home to make good on their warrant. With their rifles drawn, the officers surrounded his home before entering and removing him from his bedroom in handcuffs. Prince’s warrant came from a court date where a third charge, PC 69, (threatening an officer) was added by the Alameda District Attorney’s office without notice.

With his first child expected to be born within the month, Prince needs all of our support so he can be home and ready to embark on the journey of fatherhood, rather than battling the legal system because he decided to stand up for what he believed in. A better world for the next generation, is that too much to ask?

(Video and more at the link.)

[sabrina 1]

1. And still not a single Wall Street Criiminal arrested yet.

Sooner or later this house of cards is going to fall.

Thanks for the info on this decent, moral human being. The persecution of good people only emphasizes the moral depravity of those who are so afraid of the people they are willing to commit even more crimes to try to silence them.

It won't work. It never has.

[sabrina 1]

2. Nothing that comes from the Oakland PD has any credibility whatsoever.

I wonder is it possible for the people to file a complaint against this department, listing the multiple egregious actions, including the deliberate attempted murder of two Veterans? I thought this Department was taken over because of its failure to comply with regulations btw?

It is unconscionable that these criminal acts have yet to be dealt with, even more disturbing that all this happened under a Democratic mayor.

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3. Both nearly-murdered Veterans have lawyers active. Hope for the best... n/t

[sabrina 1]

4. Good, I am glad as the 'internal' investigation into those two attempted murders did nothing

to bring the perpetrators to justice. More covering up of criminals in the department is all we seem to get.

I was thinking more of the crimes they committed against the people. Against the Constitution, which those attempted murders were a part of. But the people should be able to exercise their 1st Amendment rights in this country without fear of being murdered by the civil servants whose salaries they pay.

Such a lawsuit, maybe on a national level, would, at the very least, shine a light on what is happening to the Constitutional rights of the people.

Not so much to extract money from the Government, but to bring these crimes against the people onto the national stage, to force a conversation about the militarization of the police, to dig into who was behind the brutality, and to find out finally if the American people really WANT a democracy, or if they are happy to live in a country where you can be falsely arrested and beaten to near death simply for assuming you had a right granted in the Constitution.

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5. Yep, you can't trust police to police themselves.

Sorta like in LA, where the two women who were shot at 102 times for attempting to deliver a newspaper to the home of a cop named in Chris Dorner's manifesto, will not be given a new truck by the police department which did so, and the person will never be able to claim the supposed $1 million reward for Dorner, and it's also doubtful the cabin owner whose property was burned to the ground will receive anything but grief.

It pays to keep all of these things in mind.