On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:42:22 -0000 Agent Smiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Clore Daniel C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Published August 3, 2000
villagevoice.com exclusive
A Black Bloc Mama Says She Took a Beating From Cops on the
Streets of Philadelphia 'They Were Kicking Me'
by Sarah Ferguson
Her face and body swollen and bruised, Jamie Loughner, 36, is
visceral proof of the violent police tactics that have been
used to suppress direct-action protests this week at the
Republican convention in Philadelphia -� tactics that have
been ignored by most major media.
The self-professed "den mother" for the anarchists of the
Washington, D.C.-based Black Bloc, Loughner says she and a
"partner" took to the streets on Tuesday with a 20-foot banner
that read "Stop the Texas Killing Machine" -� referring to
Governor George W. Bush's feverish rate of executions.
The banner was fashioned from red parachute nylon, and Loughner
had reinforced it with strands of wire to make it "harder for
the police to cut." At around 7 p.m, during the permitted rally
to support death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal outside the Municipal
Building, Loughner and a fellow Black Block activist darted into
JFK Boulevard to obstruct traffic.
"A cop approached us and tried to cut the banner," says Loughner,
"but he got mad because he couldn't cut it. So he started pulling
the banner away from us, but I couldn't just let go because I had
my arm wrapped inside the banner to make it easier to hold."
Loughner says that when the officer yanked, she "went flying to
the ground." According to Loughner and other witnesses, several
officers then began pulling her down the street. "They were
kicking me," she says, revealing dark contusions on her thighs
and arms. She holds up her hand, with the fingers bloody from
having the tips ripped off her fingernails when she tried to pull
loose of the banner.
"They rolled me face down on the ground and cuffed my hands in
the back, with the banner and the two poles still wrapped
awkwardly around my body," Loughner says. She claims she was
"thrown onto the floor of a police van filled with their stash
of ice water and soda," and driven around town for 20 minutes by
an officer, who decided to release her from custody and even
drove her to a local hospital, when he discovered the extent of
her injuries. After vomiting in the hospital waiting room,
Loughner was diagnosed with a minor concussion and "deep bruises
and contusions" to her right eye, forearm, thigh, and hip.
Philadelphia police declined to comment on the incident, noting
there was no record of Loughner's arrest.
Despite dizzy spells and a limping gait, Loughner has not given
up in her campaign against what she and other activists have
dubbed the "criminal injustice system." On Wednesday afternoon,
she joined a crowd of 500 to 700 protestors who circled Philly's
police headquarters, in solidarity with the more than 450 activists
who have been arrested since the start of the protests. In her
hands she held yet another banner, this one reading: "Stop Police
Brutality: Where Is the Brotherly Love?"
Tell us what you think.
mailto:editor@v...
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