[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Flyingbrickvolunteers Digest, Vol 302, Issue 1

[Megan Osborn]

A beard bloc. Hahaha nice.

I'm wondering how readily people are going to be willing to come out,
especially because anyone with that description could be accused of the
crime. Just a thought. This is a great (and funny) idea!


Megan Osborn
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*"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
explained." -Mark Twain
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>   1. Solidarity with Jeremy Hawthorne! Calling all Beards!
>      (Nathan Stickel)
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> From: Nathan Stickel <incoherentnickle at gmail.com>
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:45:25 -0500
> Subject: [FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Solidarity with Jeremy Hawthorne!
> Calling all Beards!
> Current Flying Brick resident, Jeremy Hawthorne, needs your help! Please
> read this and forward it to anyone who might be interested!
>
> Jeremy Hawthorne, arrested September 5th, 2011 while on a Copwatch patrol,
> is going on trial before a jury for allegedly slashing 7 tires on Virginia
> Commonwealth University vehicles, including two police cars. The charge is
> Destruction of State Property > $1,000, a Class 6 Felony.The case is
> clearly politically motivated; as a part of Richmond Copwatch, Jeremy is
> one of several who have been targeted by Richmond police in past months for
> their work against police brutality and poor jail conditions in the city.
> The notoriously heavy-handed RPD and its officers, ever the subject of much
> controversy, have bristled and taken a particularly antagonistic attitude
> with activists, protestors, and copwatchers, reacting in a consistently
> aggressive, violent, and reckless manner. Accountability, on the other
> hand, has been elusive.
>
> The “evidence” used to indict Jeremy is insubstantial, and many details
> surrounding testimonies evidence gathering, and the circumstances leading
> to Jeremy’s arrest, are questionable at best.
> Commonwealth Attorney Christopher Toepp is handling the case per his
> personal request, intent on a full conviction. Toepp has had a long year of
> high-profile cases, having been on the prosecution for the Monroe Park
> Occupation, and the African burial ground demonstration. If Chris Toepp has
> his way, Jeremy would face 5 years in prison.
> The description of the person depicted in the so-far unreleased
> surveillance footage is incredibly mundane: a beard, a hat (maybe camo,
> brown, or black?), tattoos, a black sleeveless or rolled-up shirt, a bag,
> and a step-thru frame bike. In Richmond, this could easily be thousands of
> people. The alleged acts occurred on August 23rd, the Monday proceeding
> Best Friends Day, meaning hundreds more out-of-town hipster look-alikes
> were wild in the streets.
>
> We encourage all those who think they may roughly fit this description to
> come to the hearing, inside the courtroom and out, as part of a “beard
> bloc.”
>
> Folks who wish to come out in support- the hearing will be in courtroom
> 305 of the John Marshall Court Building, 400 N. Ninth St., Richmond,
> Virginia; 9:30AM Wednesday, February 1st.
>
> For more information, you can contact rvaabc at gmail.com and check
> richmondlegalsupport.wordpress.com for updates.
> We ask all to donate to his legal fund, via the Richmond Anarchist Black
> Cross (2005 Barton Avenue, Richmond, VA 23222).
>
>  Our friends Eric Scott and Hunter Singleton also really need help with
> their legal fees after their arrests in a November Occupy Richmond march.
> Visit richmondlegalsupport.wordpress.com for more information.
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> Please share far and wide!
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>
> --
> Always with Solidarity
>
> Nathan
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