Author: FluxviewUSA
Added: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:52:13 -0800
Duration: 1218
MEDIA ADVISORY September, 4, 2008
For Immediate Release:
Contingent of Lawyers, Activists, and Media Take Concerns of Police
Brutality at RNC to Mayor Coleman's Office
Contact: Kris
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Hermes 510-681-6361
- WHAT: Attempt to meet with Mayor Chris Coleman about
escalation of police brutality in St. Paul
- WHO: Lawyers, activists, and members of the media
- WHEN: September 4, 2008 @ 4:00 p.m.
- WHERE: St. Paul Mayors Office, 15 W. Kellogg Blvd.
Police violence has not been limited to the streets. The Coldsnap Legal
Collective, providing support to people arrested at the RNC, has
received numerous reports of abuse in the jails. In addition to
widespread denial of medical attention, multiple people have been
brutalized by Sheriffs Deputies inside their cells. At a press
conference earlier today, recently released activist Elliot Hughes made
statements that while in jail he had a bag placed over his head, a gag
in his mouth, and was beaten to ...
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