4-page policy released today outlines presumptively declining to prosecute most lower-level charges, and taking tumultuous circumstances into account for most higher charges. The new DA is an ally who acknowledges that most charges were unnecessary, exaggerated, and context-derived.
#JusticeforIsiah echoed throughout downtown Eugene tonight as hundreds of peaceful demonstrators circled the jail where the white male who perpetrated a vicious vehicular assault hate crime at a peaceful Black_Unity event was due to have been incarcerated.
The driver of this Subaru, at 15 to 20 miles an hour, deliberately drove into Black_Unity organizer, Isiah Wagoner, so hard that his body spun and almost entirely went under the vehicle. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital. Isiah intends to press charges, but for over an hour, police refused to even detain the perpetrator, who was identified and located by activists — not by cops.
The above link opens a .pdf that outlines Black_Unity’s demands for reform, legislation, community representation, defunding, demilitarization, and system change. These are among the main talking points being prepared by many who will participate in tonight’s public comments at the Eugene City Council meeting TONIGHT.
The following Guest Blog by Gracie is a direct copy and paste, verbatim, shared with her permission and is TIME-SENSITIVE: TODAY, 3 PM.
Tonight, unanimously, Seattle City Council voted to ban: use of tear gas and other “crowd control weapons”, use of choke holds; and covering of badge numbers with the so-called “mourning bands”...
In the fight for justice, dancers artists and MC’s join together to create a visual arts film focused on the Black Lives Matter movement. Through creative expression this film is an artistic response to systematic oppression and police brutality.
4-page policy released today outlines presumptively declining to prosecute most lower-level charges, and taking tumultuous circumstances into account for most higher charges. The new DA is an ally who acknowledges that most charges were unnecessary, exaggerated, and context-derived.
