RNC protester "I was Beaten in the Ramsey County Jail"

[The Sushi Bandit]

RNC WC spokespersons told reporters they should be investigating the real violence of the week, which they characterized as police violence against protesters. A reporter asked about stories of abuse of protesters in jail, and a young man stood up at the side of the room and said, “I was beaten in the Ramsey County jail.”

Offered a microphone and the stage, 19-year-old Elliott Hughes said that “me and some friends were chanting for food,” when six or seven officers came into the cell. “One punched me in the face, and I fell unconscious. An officer slammed my head on the ground, waking me up.” Then, he said, he was dragged to a retaining cell, where the officers put a bag on his head and “did pain compliance on me.”

“I was screaming for God and crying,” he said, and eventually the officers took him to Regions Hospital for stitches and treatment.

Asked whether he had been given food, Hughes said he had been given food earlier in his imprisonment, but then got nothing for 12 hours. He said he was coughing blood and dry heaving and vomiting, and that “one officer said I was bulimic, and others called me ‘gay’ and ‘a princess.’”


more at: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/09/04/rnc-welcoming-committee-meeting-press-last.html#

[ladywnch]

1. let's jjust hope that all these people sue the living shit out the the city of St. Paul.

[Vincardog]

2. city of St. Paul and the RNC

[mzmolly]

3. Fletcher needs to be recalled.

This is an outrage.

[Gman]

4. Why are these cities already spending taxpayer money

to defend the likely hundreds and hundreds of lawsuits that will come out of this? These cities have probably already incurred many millions in contingent liabilities from lawsuit settlements.