In an exception to my usual policy, I'm going to link to a website that is not that of a mainstream print journalism organization. The bloggers at this site can hardly be accused of being hostile to Richards.
This is quoted material from the article. The article notes that the correct name of the charge for which Richards was convicted is “attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police custody.” The old name was “felony lynching.”
Also note that the person who had allegedly left the restaurant without paying was a "suspect had already assaulted and injured someone.” There is no indication that Richards was aware of those allegations.
Black Lives Matters Pasadena Activist Jasmine Richards Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail in “Unlawful Taking” Case
By EDDIE RIVERA, Community Editor
4:46 am | June 8, 2016
Black Lives Matter Pasadena activist Jasmine Richards was sentenced Tuesday morning to 90 days in LA County Jail less 18 days time served. Richards was also ordered to attend anger management classes following her conviction last week. Richards was found guilty of “Attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police custody” in an incident last August. ... The charge, until last year, was known as “felony lynching.”
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LA Deputy District Attorney Christine Kee asked for 180 days in County Jail, and pointed out Richards’ previous convictions over the years, including petty theft and assault. Richards had also received two violations while on bail for the charge. The probation department’s recommendation was for one year in County Jail. ... Kee told Judge Lu that Richards had “inserted” herself in to a case that “had nothing to do with her, and where a suspect had already assaulted and injured someone.” She “did not allow the police to do their job,” Kee added. ... Richards has previous convictions for assault and petty theft in 2010 and 2011, Kee reminded the judge.
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Richards will return to court July 14 for pre-trial hearings in her two pending misdemeanor cases. She is charged with making a criminal threat and disturbing the peace in one incident, and battery of a police officer and resisting arrest in a second incident. ... Prosecutors said they have video of both incidents.
Let's go back to September:
Black Lives Matter demonstrators denounce arrest of Pasadena organizer
By Brian Day, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Posted: 09/03/15, 9:51 PM PDT | Updated: on 09/03/2015
PASADENA >> Southland Black Lives Matter activists expressed outrage Thursday over what they described as the “targeted arrest” of a Pasadena organizer on “false” felony charges stemming from a confrontation with officers at La Pintoresca Park last weekend. ... Jasmine Richards, 28, was
arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of taking a person from lawful police custody by means of a riot — legally defined as lynching, inciting a riot, resisting or obstructing police and child endangerment.
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This was Richards’ second arrest by Pasadena police since late-march {sic}, when she was
arrested on a series of misdemeanor charges stemming from a March 24 Black Lives Matter rally. That case is pending.
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Richard’s arrest Wednesday resulted from a confrontation four days earlier at La Pintoresca Park between police trying to arrest a woman on suspicion of battery and Black Lives Matter protestors led by Richards, Ibarra said. ... Officers had responded to a report that a woman punched at least one restaurant staff member after being unable to pay her bill while eating at a restaurant in the 1300 block of North Fair Oaks Avenue, police said. The restaurant staff pointed out the suspect, 20-year-old Benita Escoe of Pasadena, who had since walked to the park, Ibarra said.
Police took Escoe into custody for the alleged assault when Richards and other protestors, who had gathered a the park following a peace march, rushed toward the arresting officers, Ibarra said. ... Richards and other members of the group repeatedly tried to grab Escoe away from police custody, Ibarra said.
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