4/8 Legal Update on Yesterday's Dock Action

by Legal Support Team

Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:16PM

Update on protesters arrested at yesterday's anti-war actions in Oakland

4:30pm, Tuesday 4/8: Of the 29 people arrested during yesterday's anti-war action at the Port of Oakland, 4 people (1 woman and 3 men) still remain incarcerated. They are being held at the Santa Rita Correctional Facility. The police have delayed giving their reports to the District Attorney, so the D.A.'s office claims that it is unable to process the cases. They will allegedly arraign the 4 individuals tomorrow morning, at which point they should most likely be released. The legal support team asks people to call the numbers listed below to demand that their charges be dropped and that they be released immediately (rather than having to spend another night in jail.) Police reportedly targetted the woman in particular, believing her to be an organizer.

Please call:
Oakland District Attorney: (510) 268-7500
Oakland Police Chief: (510) 238-3365
Mayor Brown: (510) 238-3141

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§calling from New York

by person from NYC

Tue, Apr 8, 2003 6:43PM

you have New Yorkers calling as well :)

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§Last womon freed without charges

by update

Wed, Apr 9, 2003 2:38AM

I just got back from picking up the last of the female prisoners. She was released without charges. More information to follow, possibly from her. As far as she knows, the men are still in. She was released shortly after midnight, five minutes after BART stopped running.

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§Wanted: witnesses to shootings of woman and journalist

by Michael Haddad (haddad.sherwin [at] sbcglobal.net)

Tue, Apr 15, 2003 12:18PM

My civil rights law firm is representing people hurt in the Oakland Port protest on 4/7, and we are currently searching for witnesses who saw these individuals get shot:

1) the woman with long blond hair who was shot in the neck/chin (her picture with a "golfball" sized lump was published widely in newspapers and on the internet -- she was in the vicinity of the SSA driveway); and

2) an independent journalist, wearing press passes on his chest, who was shot in his hand as he was holding a video camera and filming the police (he was near the APL driveway at about the 300 block of Maritime).

If you have any information concerning these individuals, please contact me. Thanks, Michael Haddad, Haddad & Sherwin (510/ 622-7788)

For more information: http://www.lawyers.com/haddad&sherwin

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