Breaking: Oakland Arrestees Treated Inhumanely

[kpete]

Breaking: Oakland Arrestees Tortured
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I just got word from a friend of a friend about the conditions that arrestees from the actions. It isn't pretty, in fact it's disgusting.

"Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners from the Oakland Commune were being denied medications (some had seizures) while the guards said they didnt care if they died. Some people were brutally beaten. The put tear gas in the vents of my cell twice. They were keeping people without restrooms forcing them to shit and piss themselves or puke all over and stay in the same area...."

MORE: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/31/1060354/-Breaking:-Oakland-Arrestees-Tortured?via=siderec



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i will try to update when i find more info, kpete

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UPDATES:
There's at least one Kossack who was arrested, allie123 is her nick here I believe, and she had spoken about being denied medicine the last time she was sent to Santa Rita Jail. Just to be clear, the Jail is run by the Alameda County Sheriffs Department, not the OPD, so this is yet another law enforcement agency abusing protesters and it is absolutely disgusting.

Allie123 is an excellent poster who usually writes about Haiti. I hope she's okay.

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Once in Alameda County custody, the arrestees have been held for a prolonged period under horrendous conditions, often remaining overnight in holding areas with no beds or blankets. Some arrestees were apparently held in a shower room. NLGSF has received many reports of injured persons being denied medical care and arrestees denied access to necessary medications.Women arrestees were forced to give urine samples in front of male officers, ostensibly for pregnancy testing.

Critically, arrestees were denied access to counsel. On Sunday night volunteer lawyers with the NLGSF were denied access to clients and told to return in the morning.

MORE:
http://www.cafemom.com/group/99198/forums/read/15887881/Police_Violence_Targets_Occupy_Oakland_Demonstration_January_30_2012

[EFerrari]

1. The last time my friend was arrested by the OPigD

they denied her MS medications and told her nobody cared if she died, "welcome to jail".

[backscatter712]

2. Abu Ghraib happens every single day in American jails and prisons.

People being denied medications.

People being subjected to humiliations from strip-searches to being forced to piss and shit themselves.

People being beaten.

People being raped, either by staffers or by other inmates while the guards deliberately looked the other way.

One person was killed after he was strapped to a chair, and pepper-sprayed repeatedly.

This shit happens all the time.

[provis99]

3. but the American people don't care about that.

All they care about is that an American flag got burned.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. Sad that an inanimate, symbolic object matters more to some

than the civil liberties of citizens and the well intentioned, patriotic values that they are fighting for. All the feigning outrage, and pearl clutching is an endorsement of human value determined by dollars, and complicity with the race to bottom.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. +1000.

Sickening, isn't it?

[Cleita]

6. We have become no better than Egypt or Syria or any other number of

countries where people are seeking justice and freedom from want.

[quinnox]

7. well they deserved it, damn it, for burning our American flag!

[Bonobo]

8. That DOES seem to be the underlying feeling on the part of some people. nt

[quinnox]

9. yep

bumping for those same people so they can celebrate these "infidels" getting what they deserve!

[malaise]

10. I've noticed that

This is way too sad- it is unacceptable - it is wrong- what is happening to American values

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. But that's OK! They stole an empty building and they burned a flag!

Waterboard the bastids, I say!


This shouldn't need a but the way things are going lately I'd better put it in here.

[T S Justly]

12. Torture? Now, I see why there's outrage over burning a flag. K&R (nt)

[Starry Messenger]

13. k&r

[dana_b]

14. I posted some more info in another thread

earlier today. Read the first piece there (scary stuff!):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002252047