Arrest

ACLU Condemns Arrests Of Organizer And State Representative

September 5, 2016 American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, www.urbanmilwaukee.com Resist! Arrest, Police abuse, Video

By American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. “The Milwaukee Police Department has once again demonstrated its preference for occupation, excessive force and belligerence over genuine engagement, civil dialog, and de-escalation,” said Larry Dupuis, Legal Director of the ACLU of Wisconsin. “People have a right to stand on a street corner – to observe and record the police, as Jarrett was doing, or for any other reason. Unfortunately, rather than protecting people and their rights, law enforcement in this community all too often engages in the sort of destructive behavior to which Jarrett and Jonathan were subjected last night. Although no one deserves to be treated like this, the police made the mistake this time of abusing people who were in a position to insist on their rights.” Jarrett English said, “The situation was confusing, because I really did not know what I was being arrested for. It was embarrassing and dehumanizing . . . "

Did $200,000 Bail Keep Pipeline Activist Out Of Sunoco’s Way?

April 6, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Arrest, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - The Sheriff, District Attorney and a judge in Huntingdon County, PA may have stretched the law and infringed on individual civil rights in assisting a gas transmission company to get a wildlife sanctuary cleared for pipeline construction. Sunoco Logistics Partners is in the midst of eminent domain proceedings in Central Pennsylvania to construct the Mariner East 2 pipeline. A court order favorable to the company, punitive bail set for activists resisting the clear-cut for the pipeline, plus allegations of endangerment and arbitrary arrests

Three Arrested As Sunoco Logistics Clears Forest In Huntingdon

April 1, 2016 Coryn Wolk, www.facebook.com Resist! Arrest, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

By Coryn Wolk for Clean Air - Huntingdon, PA - Backed by Huntingdon County sheriff’s deputies, Sunoco Logistics Partners’ chainsaws cut a swath through forest that the Gerhart family had protected for decades, clearing the way for the Mariner East 2 pipeline. By March 30 the 3-acre right-of-way was almost entirely cleared, aside from two trees occupied by protesters on platforms high above the ground and some adjacent trees. One of the tree-sitters is Elise Gerhart, whose mother, property owner Ellen Gerhart, was arrested along with two others.

New Short From Anti-Fracking Documentarian Crusader

March 30, 2016 Kate Erbland, www.indiewire.com Resist! Arrest, FERC, Fracking, Protests

By Kate Erbland for Indie Wire - Documentarian and anti-fracking pioneer Josh Fox was arrested last week in Washington, D.C. while doing two of the things he does best: Protesting fracking and filming the entire thing. Fox was on hand to protest the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its role in continuing to permit fossil fuel projects that will greatly accelerate climate change. More specifically, Fox and a group of like-minded individuals were protesting FERC’s role in using eminent domain to condemn and clear-cut a wide swath of maple trees across the Holleran family maple syrup farm in New Milford, Pennsylvania...

Why Student Loans Are Creating A Permanent U.S. Underclass

February 27, 2016 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com Educate! Arrest, Student Loans

By Derek Royden for Occupy - The case of Paul Aker – a man recently arrested in Houston on a warrant that, authorities say, was issued for his failure to appear in court regarding an almost 30-year-old, $1,500 student loan – isn’t unique. As many as 1,500 people are facing similar penalties in Houston alone, and many thousands of others elsewhere across the country. Still, the image of seven heavily armed and armored U.S. Marshals taking a shackled man to jail for an ancient, unpaid student loan of such a trivial amount put the college debt crisis back into the spotlight – if only for a few days.

Utah Man Dies In Police Custody After Being Illegally Arrested

February 24, 2016 M. David, www.thefreethoughtproject.com Educate! Arrest, Police abuse, Utah

By M. David for The Free Thought Project - Tremonton, UT — Bear River, Utah resident Rex Iverson, 45, died in the Box Elder County Jail on January 23 after being incarcerated for his failure to pay an ambulance bill. A deputy arrested him on a $350 bench warrant issued by the justice court on December 29. He was found unresponsive in his cell by a detention deputy a few hours after being arrested. “We go to great lengths to never arrest anybody on these warrants,” Box Elder County Chief Deputy Sheriff Dale Ward told the Ogden Standard-Examiner.

US Marshals Arresting Those Who Owe Overdue Student Loans

February 19, 2016 Staff, www.prorevnews.blogspot.com Educate! Arrest, Student Loans

By Staff of Undernews - Fox News, Houston TX - The US Marshals Service in Houston is arresting people for not paying their outstanding federal student loans. Paul Aker says he was arrested at his home last week for a $1500 federal student loan he received in 1987. He says seven deputy US Marshals showed up at his home with guns and took him to federal court where he had to sign a payment plan for the 29-year-old school loan.

In Dangerous Precedent, NYPD Moves To Make Resisting Arrest Felony

February 16, 2016 Staff, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Arrest, Law, NYPD

By Staff of Mint Press News - On Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton urged state legislators to consider increasing the penalty for resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony. The change, he argued, would help New Yorkers “get around this idea that you can resist arrest. You can’t.” It would also give cops an easy way to turn victims of their own worst impulses into the worst class of criminal. In theory, a resisting arrest charge allows the state to further punish suspects who endanger the safety of police officers as they’re being apprehended...

Cape Cod Activist Found Guilty; Act Of Conscience Or Crime?

February 8, 2016 Karen Vale, www.capecodbaywatch.org Resist! Activists, Arrest, Energy, Massachusetts, Protests

By Karen Vale for Cape Cod Bay Watch. Plymouth, MA - Seventy-three year old Paul Rifkin of Mashpee, Mass. was on trial February 2 at Plymouth District Court. The charge was trespassing at Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on Mother’s Day in 2015 during a rally with 40 other protestors. Two people were arrested, and it was Rifkin’s third arrest at Pilgrim. Rifkin refused to plead guilty or accept a deal with the prosecution because his actions last May, he stated, “deserved commendation, not condemnation.” He chose to have a jury trial with the possibility of jail time. A jury of six was selected and Rifkin represented himself.

Anti-Drone Activist Reports To Jail For Six-Month Sentence

January 21, 2016 Patrick O'Neill, www.ncronline.org Resist! Activists, Arrest, Drones, New York (NY)

By Patrick O'Neill for NCR - Wondering if she will ever see her mother again, Catholic anti-drone activist and grandmother Mary Anne Grady Flores made a final stop Tuesday, Jan. 19, to say goodbye to her mother, Teresa Grady, before leaving Ithaca, N.Y., to report to jail to begin serving a six-month jail sentence in East Syracuse, N.Y. In a case that has dragged on for almost three years, Grady Flores, 59, chauffeured by two of her four children, headed off into a threatening winter snowstorm hoping to get to the Town of DeWitt Court by Tuesday afternoon, where she was remanded to custody at the Jamesville Correctional Facility.

Drone Resister Found Guilty

September 24, 2014 Upstate Drone Action, www.truth-out.org Resist! Arrest, Drone, Law

Syracuse, NY - Carrying flowers and three documents to Hancock Field Air National Guard Base can result in severe consequences. Drone resister Mark Colville of the Amistad Catholic Worker, New Haven, Connecticut, was found guilty after a two-day trial and fifty minutes of deliberation by a DeWitt Town Court jury. On December 9th, 2013, Colville and two Yale Divinity students brought a People's Order of Protection to the front gate of the base to demand an end to drone attacks which are carried out from Hancock. This action was in response to a recent request by Raz Mohammad, an Afghan national, whose brother-in law was killed by a U.S. military drone strike. Gate personnel rejected the petition.

9 Greenpeace Protesters Charged With Felonies After Banner Drop

September 18, 2014 Staff, www.wlwt.com Resist! Arrest, Environment, Greenpea

CINCINNATI —Nine Greenpeace protesters were arrested after a pair of multi-story banners was hung from the two Procter & Gamble towers in downtown Cincinnati on Tuesday. "It was pretty bizarre when that run came out that we had people hanging from the building. The first thought was its window washers. But then we heard about the banners that were coming down and everything else and certainly it was much more than that," Capt. Paul Broxterman said. He said the activists had broken window locks to get out, then braced the windows shut so police couldn't get to them.

52 Tibetan Students Detained In Vadodara

September 18, 2014 Staff, www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com Resist! Arrest, Student protest, Tibet

Two Tibetan students, Tensing and Sonam, studying at MS University in Vadodara, who had approached city police, seeking permission to hold a demonstration against the China president's visit, were detained for questioning by crime branch sleuths. They were later shifted to Vadodara. A team of SOG officials rushed to Vadodara and later some officebearers of Tibetan Students Association (TSA) were detained by the local police for questioning. Senior police of ficials in Ahmedabad later said that 52 Tibetan students — 26 boys and 26 girls — have been detained in Vadodara as a precautionary step. "There is a general intelligence input about a possible self-immolation bid. We are taking all precautions and keeping a close watch on the developments," said a senior police official. Tibetan students in the past have held demonstrations against China, demanding a free Tibet.

All Charges Dropped Against MI CATS Tar Sands Protestors!

September 12, 2014 Jake McGraw, www.michigancats.org Resist! Arrest, Direct Action, Energy, Environment, Law

On July 24th in memory of the 2010 Tar Sands disaster in the Kalamazoo River, over 20 protesters gathered for an afternoon of speeches, music, and, resistance to the controversial Enbridge line 6B. During the protest Al Smith and Jake McGraw were wrongfully arrested on the Polly Ann Trail outside of a Precision Pipeline staging area in Oxford, adjacent to Lakeville Elementary School. They were taken into custody and charged with failure to obey a police command and mass picketing. This morning both charges were dismissed in Rochester Hills District Court. “It is a clear conflict of interest for a corporation such as Enbridge to contract local police forces as their private security guards. The dismissal of our charges is evidence of this conflict. We were acting within our first amendment rights to peacefully protest. We were wrongfully arrested in violation of our civil rights. I was assaulted by a security guard that day. Today, we were vindicated thanks to the commitment to justice by our National Lawyers’ Guild attorney Denise Heberle.” Jake McGraw, from Hartland Michigan.

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