My friend Anaheim James, is one of the most peaceful protesters I know, he was in fact wearing a “no violence” sign on his back when a little over a year ago a police car, filed with soft, slow, angry officers, tried to run him down at a protest we held after the verdict in the Kelly Thomas case came in. Thankfully AJ is swift of foot, he leaped over the hood of the cop car, and as these photos show, dispersed the scene like the fucking wind. Despite all evidence showing James out dispersing overpaid, and overfed fullerton officers, he was arrested 3 months later and charged with … Get this… “FAILURE TO DISPERSE A RIOT”. AJ along with Patti Beers, Juan Zuleta and Adam Adler, all friends of mine, and all equally unjustly charged, will go on trial at north court on March 11th and they are all facing six months in jail if found guilty. According to the 170 page police report, 47 uniformed officers, and multiple plain clothes officers were there to keep the peace on the day of the protest. I was there as well, and there was No fucking Riot. If there had been a riot, you know like every ordinary 2am on a Friday night, it would be the incompetence of this department which should be on trial as they outnumbered us 3-1 by the end of the day.
When the district attorney’s office goes to such great lengths, and is finally tenacious about a prosecution, in order to prosecute protesters, who like AJ, were doing nothing more than filming the police, and they do so at a protest which only came about because this same DA’s office was so incompetent and unmotivated that they could not get guilty verdicts in a murder that a nation watched unfold on national TV, there is something seriously sinister with the OC judicial system. I contend in fact that every single charge against every single protester, represents one more blow, one more boot, one more taser shot, and on moe gloved fist to the legacy of Kelly Thomas.
AJ, Patti Beers, Juan Zuleta and Adam Adler, deserve and need your support, their legal costs are mounting and the press is mostly absent on this story. Please get involved!! One victim in this case is more than enough. More info on how to donate will be posted shortly.
-Bax
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#1 by Fullerton Lover on February 27, 2015 - 5:41 pm
Please note that this same Judge featured in the enclosed link, Scott Steiner, has already reprimanded one of the female KT protest defendants who appeared before him in North County courthouse here in Fullerton for simply “smiling”.
I was there.
The Judge actually made her come back after lunch and apologize to him before he sentenced her.
What a piece of work former Orange County Supervisor, Bill Steiner, left the world is beyond comprehension.
Where does he get his donations and political support from?
The Fullerton Police Officer’s Association is listed as his political benefactor.
Don’t believe me?
Go check him out some time in North Court over on Berkeley Avenue in Fullerton, and tell me he isn’t a first class douche that makes your skin crawl!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Steiner_%28judge%29
There is also an article about Scott Steiner in the OC Weekly which goes into MUCH greater detail about Investigator’s actually collecting semen samples from the Judge’s former chambers in Santa Ana before they slipped him into the arms of the fools of Fullerton where he wouldn’t draw TOO much attention…
http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2012/state-of-california/scott-a-steiner/
http://www.ocweekly.com/2013-03-28/news/moxley-confidential-scott-steiner-kasey-a-castillo/
Till now…
Timing is Everything!
#2 by streets on February 28, 2015 - 9:16 pm
What are we supposed to do? these public defenders are pieces of shit and so they know we cannot afford to fight them. Something just has to give.