I heard there was going to be a Black Lives Matter thing at the County Building. I decided to show up with my camera.



There were quite a few witnesses gathered around the speaker that was loud enough to hear from the street.

     

  

Raj from DeBug explained that we have quite a sequence of speakers. Hopefully the District Attorney will come down to speak with us at some point.

     

The woman that spoke next explained that her husband had been killed by the cops. He had been off his meds and quite hyper. They had heard something unfortunate and shot him. She said "He was a nice guy. He'd never do something like that."

     

The preacher explained that we are part of a bigger struggle that is going on from here to Oakland to Ferguson Missouri to all points east  and everywhere else the cops are exploiting the people.

The guy in blue gave a blow by blow of the time he was pulled over for a dead tail light and then was beaten by the cops at the side of the road.

Raj cut in to announce the DA had come down to listen to the mother read the letter and accept delivery of the 13,200 petitions we'd gathered signatures for.

     

I remember the DA giving her a personal apology for the behavior of his officers. He also promised to look into the matter further.

     

        

     

     

They played the footage of the cops beating the guy on the wall as soon as it was dark enough.

     

Soon enough we marched over to the Police Building...

     

  

     

  

     

This time the Chief of Police came down and talked to us.

     

Again a promise to look into the matter.

     

Again we saw that guy beaten by the police.

     

Somebody else that had lost a son to trigger happy police talked about what happened. Then the victims sister talked about missing her brother.

Then the preacher reminded us that we are part of a long term struggle. He invited us to get on the list to be informed of further upcoming events.



Somewhere in there they projected Officer White's words on the side of the building. Then a few days later I saw the following article in the paper.