[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Flyingbrickvolunteers Digest, Vol 302, Issue 1

Fri Jan 20 20:36:29 UTC 2012

I don't think its anywhere close to a risk, because if they went after one
person because they matched the description, in a courtroom, they'd have to
arrest everyone in the beard bloc for looking that way. i really doubt they
would be able to justify that to anyone.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Megan Osborn <mrosborn1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> A beard bloc. Hahaha nice.
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> 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!
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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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Always with Solidarity

Nathan
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