See other Dead Constitution Articles
Title: Houston Police Trample Protesting Janitors With Horses...
Source:
Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/ ... police-trample-pr_n_34427.html
Published: Nov 19, 2006
Author: My DD
Post Date: 2006-11-19 18:56:01 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 94
Comments: 3
From >http://mydd.com Here's a testimonial from one of the organizers of the protest. Brutality against workers should not be tolerated in our country. We sat down in the intersection and the horses came immediately. It was really violent. They arrested us, and when we got to jail, we were pretty beat up. Not all of us got the medical attention we needed. The worst was a protester named Julia, who is severely diabetic. We kept telling the guards about her condition but they only gave her a piece of candy. During roll call, she started to complain about light-headedness. Finally she just collapsed unconscious on the floor. It was like she just dropped dead. The guard saw it but just kept going through the roll. Susan ran over there and took her pulse while the other inmates were yelling for help, saying we need to call somebody. The medical team strolled over, taking their own sweet time. She was unconscious for like 4 or 5 minutes. They really tried to break us down. The first night they put the temperature so high that a woman--one of the other inmates--had a seizure. The second night they made it freezing and took away many of our blankets. We didn't have access to the cots so we had to sleep on a concrete floor. When we would finally fall asleep the guards would come and yell `Are you Anna Denise Solís? Are you so and so?' One of the protesters had a fractured wrist from the horses. She had a cast on and when she would fall asleep the guard would kick the cast to wake her up. She was in a lot of pain. Read the entire post here.
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: All (#0)
heres a pic:
They need "black Bears," which are lock down devices we in Earth First! use. They are thick steel pipes which have small D rings protesters clip to steel wrist bands with or without extension rings. They are great because it takes a long time to cut them off, and in an emergency the protesters still can free themselves from them. We also have intersection lock down tactics and protocols that add speed and sustainability to an action like this. Houston Janitors Trampled, longer version SEIU Action on 11.02.06
#2. To: Zipporah (#1)
(Edited)
#3. To: Zipporah (#1)
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest