[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Flyingbrickvolunteers Digest, Vol 302, Issue 2

[Megan Osborn]

I agree. But then again, they've been doing a lot of unjustifiable things
lately. Didn't they arrest 3(?) people at first, and then just charged
Jeremy, when there was only one person in said "surveillance"?


Megan Osborn
**
*"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
explained." -Mark Twain
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Megan Osborn <mrosborn1 at gmail.com>
> To: flyingbrickvolunteers at lists.aktivix.org
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> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:32:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: [FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Flyingbrickvolunteers Digest, Vol
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> 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
> **
> *"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
> stands explained." -Mark Twain
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> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:00 AM, <
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>>   1. Solidarity with Jeremy Hawthorne! Calling all Beards!
>>      (Nathan Stickel)
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Nathan Stickel <incoherentnickle at gmail.com>
>> To: Flying Brick listserv <Flyingbrickvolunteers at lists.aktivix.org>,
>> flyingbrickupdates at lists.aktivix.org
>> Cc:
>> 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.
>>
>> Please share far and wide!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Always with Solidarity
>>
>> Nathan
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> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:36:29 -0500
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> 302, Issue 1
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>> **
>> *"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
>> stands explained." -Mark Twain
>> *
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:00 AM, <
>> flyingbrickvolunteers-request at lists.aktivix.org> wrote:
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>>> Today's Topics:
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>>>   1. Solidarity with Jeremy Hawthorne! Calling all Beards!
>>>      (Nathan Stickel)
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Nathan Stickel <incoherentnickle at gmail.com>
>>> To: Flying Brick listserv <Flyingbrickvolunteers at lists.aktivix.org>,
>>> flyingbrickupdates at lists.aktivix.org
>>> Cc:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Please share far and wide!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Always with Solidarity
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> Flyingbrickvolunteers at lists.aktivix.org
>>> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/flyingbrickvolunteers
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