> >PEP > > >Subscribe Forward this email Donate >MEDIA ADVISORY >For immediate release Dec. 1, 2011 >Contact: Ian Thompson, 213-251-1025 (Office) or 310-490-8595 (Cell) >PRESS CONFERENCE >Arrested Occupy LA Protesters Speak Out About LAPD Eviction Raid & Abuses, >While Hundreds of Protesters Remain Unjustly Jailed >Protesters, Community Groups, Civil Rights Attorneys will Demand Immediate >Release of all Jailed Occupy LA Protesters and to Drop Criminal Charges Now! >WHAT: Press Conference and Speak Out >WHEN: This Thursday, Dec. 1, 11am >WHERE: Los Angeles City Hall, west steps on Spring Street >WHO: Protesters arrested during LAPD raid of Occupy LA, including Michael >Prysner, Iraq war veteran and co-founder of March Forward!; Doug Kauffman, USC >graduate student organizer; National Lawyers Guild attorneys; Ian Thompson, >civil rights attorney and coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and others. >WHY: The nationally coordinated police assault against the Occupy Movement >took a dramatic turn on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning with the police >assault and mass arrest of Occupy LA protesters camping for two months on City >Hall lawn. >During and after the arrest of well over 200 protesters, City officials and >the Los Angeles Police Department violated the rights of peaceful Occupy LA >protesters. Police ripped up tents, brutally beat protesters with batons, >leveled guns at protesters' heads, and shot rubber bullets. Nearly every >protester arrested was charged with misdameanor failure to disperse. As of >now, only around 10 protesters have been released. >Their arrest was just the beginning of the abuses and violations suffered at >the hands of the LAPD. Although state law requires the release of those >arrested on misdameanor charges, bail was set for each protester at the >outrageously high amount of $5,000. In addition, attorneys were unlawfully >prevented for hours from seeing their clients. >The reality of what happened stands in stark contrast to >the widely-publicized, self-congratulatory statements by Mayor Antonio >Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck. >Iraq war veteran and Occupy LA arrestee Michael Prysner said, "I’m was one of >the very first Occupiers released from jail, where I spent nearly 24 hours >simply for exercising my first amendment right to peacefully assemble. Over >200 of my fellow protesters still remain in jail. >Prysner continued: "I’ve never experienced such needlessly punitive treatment >that I was subjected to after my arrest at Occupy LA. Kept in tight handcuffs >for over seven hours while sitting on a cold cement floor, given an abnormally >high bail amount for a minor charge, listening to a fellow occupier beaten >behind me as I and others were forced to stand facing a wall, hearing about >protesters being kept on a bus for seven hours without access to bathrooms, >and being told that without bail, we would be in jail for days." >Occupy LA arrestee Doug Kauffman said, "It is obvious that the City of Los >Angeles, just like in other cities, is using these tactics specifically to >intimidate, demoralize, and scare away the thousands of young people and >working families who are trying to make their voices heard during this deep >economic crisis. Those being held still are being subjected to nothing less >that terror tactics. All should be released immediately and the charges >dropped." >Organizers and Occupy protesters are available for interview. >-30- >A.N.S.W.E.R. 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