Sunday, June 1, 2008

Just thinking about ICS

I work with Copwatch and Berkeley Liberation Radio. Witnessed a ton of police brutality. Been told blatant lies from cops more frequently than straight answers. Several years ago, I planned to get arrested blockading trucks from going into this awful polluting facility in a residential area of W. Oakland. The managers of the plant told the cops they didn't want publicity of any arrests so the cops physically removed us just to the sidewalk where we would get up and go back into the street. I told a cop (who had my right arm in a kind of control hold as he pushed me around the street) that I had come to protest the activities of this company and I was prepared to be arrested. He said he wasn't going to arrest me, but if I didn't follow his instructions he was going to keep twisting my arm until it broke. Then he twisted my arm just a little and I could feel how close he was to snapping something. He said, see how close you are to breaking your arm?

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