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Lakota activists pepper-sprayed in protest against predatory liquor stores
August 27, 2012Women of the Oglala Lakota nation along with activists from Deep Green Resistance, AIM Grassroots, Native Youth Movement, Un-Occupy Albuquerque, Occupy Lincoln, and Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center took part in a march from Billy Mills Hall in Pine Ridge into White Clay to protest against the predatory liquor industry present there.
White Clay has a population of 14, yet 4 liquor stores in the town sell 12,500 cans of beer each day. The stores have been documented repeatedly selling to bootleggers, intoxicated people, minors, and trading beer for sexual favors.
“For over 100 years the women of the Oglala Lakota nation have been dealing with an attack on the mind body and spirit of their relatives”, says Olowan Martinez who is a main organizer of the event and resident of Pine Ridge. “The Oglala have been silenced through chemical warfare waged by the corporations who are out to exploit and make a profit off of the suffering and misery of our people. The time has come to end this suffering by any means necessary.”
Debra White Plume, a Lakota activist and resident of Pine Ridge who spoke at the event proclaimed, “A sober Indian is a dangerous Indian. We have to send a message to Nebraska and its citizens that we are not going to tolerate business as usual. This is the Women’s Day of Peace but that peace will soon be over”.
After the march and speeches members of Deep Green Resistance locked down and blockaded the road into White Clay.
Less than a half hour after the lockdown began a police officer rolled down their window and indiscriminately pepper sprayed into a crowd. Up to 12 people were pepper sprayed including the 10 year old son of a Lakota woman who helped organize the march. Also, an elder Lakota woman, Helen Red Feather, reported having her leg hit by a police car in motion. Medics with the protest treated pepper spray injuries.
At 7:39, the five activists who participated in the lock down were hauled off in a horse trailer to the Sheridan County jail in Rushville. They have since been released on their own recognizance.
Today, justice is far from complete, since White Clay continues to enable and enact the destruction of the Oglala Lakota and the people of Pine Ridge. The continued subjugation of the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Reservation will not end as long as the liquor stores in White Clay continue to operate.
Chants of “As long as it takes!” began by those locked down and the people standing with them in the crowd at the beginning of the lockdown. The struggle continues.
When white college kids get peppersprayed it’d like a bajillion notes and a meme of casual pepperspray officer.
Man, this is awful, look at that cop, even just standing over that poor kid. The hell?
Israeli police repeatedly taser Palestinian man in front of his children
The 42-year-old father of five was tasered five times for asking police to stop using disproportionate force with pepper spray after they sprayed on kids’ faces several times
A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem complained to the Justice Ministry department that investigates police misconduct on Thursday after a police officer shocked him five times with an electric stun gun in front of his five children on Tuesday.
The Palestinian, 42-year-old Talal Siad of the A-Tur neighborhood, was shot while out with his family at a Tel Aviv water park celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday. Siad checked himself into the hospital suffering from burns and nausea.
The incident took place after Tel Aviv police were called to Meymadion Water Park to control a brawl. Officers used pepper spray to subdue one of the participants. Siad, who was not involved in the brawl, attracted the officers’ attention by telling them they were using the irritant too freely.
“I was there with my family, my five children and my wife; we went out to have fun on our holiday,” he told Haaretz. “Suddenly there was a confrontation between a few security men and kids who were fighting among themselves. The officers wanted to arrest the boy who was seen naked in the closed-circuit television system. He fell down and they sprayed him in the face.
“I saw them repeat that action several times, and then got up with my 3-year-old in my arms and shouted at them to stop. I told the policeman, ‘What are you doing? You’re killing those kids,’ and he told me to leave. I said, ‘You’re being unreasonable, you go away.’”
In response, Siad said, the policemen threatened him with the Taser. “I shouted, ‘Do you want to shoot me?’ and then he shot me in the stomach,’” Siad added.
The BBC will probably never show this again. Watch to see the extent of media lies, racism and the anger of youth.
Reporter: Are you shocked by what you see now outside?
Darcus Howe: No. Not at all. I have been living in London for 50 years. There’s so many different moods and moments. But what I was certain about, listening to my grandson, and my son, is that something very very serious was going to take place in this country. Our political leaders have no idea. The police have no idea. But if you look at young Blacks, and young whites, with a discerning eye, and a careful hearing, they have been telling us and we would not listen, that what is happening in this country, to them, is— what is —
Reporter: If i can just stop you for a moment—you say that you’re not shocked—does this mean that you condone what happened in your community, last night?
Howe: Of course not! What would I condone it for? What I’m concerned about more than anything else, there’s a young man called Mark Duggan. He has parents, he has brothers, he has sisters, and two yards away from where he lives, a police officer blew his head off. Let me finish—[inaudible due to reporter interrupting]
Reporter: Well Mr Howe, we have to wait for the official (???) before we can say things like that. We don’t know what’s happened to Mr Duggan. We have to wait for the police report on it. If I can take you on a little bit, you’re talking about young people, your grandson
Howe: [keeps trying to speak and gets interrupted] They have been stopping and searching young Blacks for no reason at all. I have a grandson, he’s an angel, and he began to [???] when the police slapped him up against the wall, and searched him. I asked him the other day, if he had the sense that something was going seriously wrong in this country. I asked him how many times have the police searched you. He said papa, I can’t count there’s so many times.
Reporter: Mr Howe, that may well have happened and if you say it did I’m not going to gainsay you. But that is not an excuse to go out rioting and cause the sort of damage that we’ve been seeing over the past few days.
Howe: Where were you in 1991 in Brixton? I don’t call it rioting, I call it an insurrection of the masses of the people. It is happening in Syria, it is happening in Clapton, it’s happening in Liverpool. It’s happening in Port of Spain, Trinidad. And that is the nature of the hysterical moment. There is, it takes—
Reporter: [interrupting] Mr. Howe, if I can just ask you, you are not a stranger to riots yourself, I understand, are you? You have taken part in them yourself?
Howe: I have never taken part in a single riot. I have been on demonstrations and ended up in a conflict. And have some respect for an old West Indian negro, instead of accusing me of being a rioter. (???) Have some respect!
Reblogged for transcript
(via natellite)
Police Beat Man That Just Learned His Son Committed Suicide
According to the report, the man was brutally beaten after calling the Loganville, Georgia police for help after his son just committed suicide. The man left says he left the garage where he found his after paramedics began CPR and was pacing around in his front yard. He says a police officer then grabbed his arm and told him he needs to sit down. He jerked his arm from the officer and told him “Don’t touch me.” He said he did nothing else and the officer responded by tackling him.
After he was on the ground two more officers jumped in and held him to the ground while two more officers beat on him. Neighbors recount that they witnessed the police just standing over the man wailing away, punching him again and again while he was being pinned down to the ground.
(Source: anarchyagogo, via socialuprooting)
Video taken from when the protests were just picking up 5 days ago capturing police abducting activists, attempting to repress journalists and quell the protests (with very large sticks).
The whole world is watching.
