SUPPORT LANEY STUDENT, BRUTALLY ARRESTED BY POLICE

[Rane Stark]

Today, at Laney College (Oakland, CA), a student was violently tackled and arrested by Alameda County Sheriffs during the March 2nd protest against the budget cuts. As part of the March 2nd protests, students had marched on the district office, demanding to speak with the Peralta Chancellor. Instead, they were met by a row of angry Sheriffs aggressively protecting the suddenly locked and empty district office.

When the Chancellor finally emerged, students presented him with their concerns, questions and demands. When a group of LGBTQI students from a group called Queers Fighting Back stood up to present hundreds of petitions calling on the administration to make Laney a safe campus for LGBTQI, the police violently detained one genderqueer student.

For more than 8 hours, we were unable to get information regarding the student’s location or the charges she is facing. Now, we have been informed that she is being charged with battery of a police officer, resisting arrest, causing a riot and disrupting a peaceful assembly and that bail is set at $35,000 (which means we need to turn over $3,500 to have her released).

We will be publishing an official statement in the next couple days. In the meantime, we need urgently to raise money for bail. Please, if you or your org can donate money, contact SUP at supl...@gmail.com or call 310 308 0866.

We also need people to mobilize out to the hearing this Friday at 2pm to demand the charges be dropped.

[Ross Murray]

Let me know when you publish the official statement.
That is important for me to see if I want to help in any way.
I understand the cops can be a pain much of the time.
It's all in how she chooses to handle herself in court.
Ross

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Ross Murray