[g8-sheffield] appeal for arrest witnesses 4 july edinburgh

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

please forward to anyone who you think my be able to help,

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>> Were you treated by street medics at the Carnival for Full 
Enjoment?
>> medic on bail | 26.08.2005
>>
>> We are two medics seeking the people we treated in Edinburgh on  

>> the 4th July, to help with our forthcoming court case.
>>
>> My medic partner and I were arrested at the Carnival For Full  
>> Enjoyment in Edinburgh on the 4th July 2005, as part of the G8  
>> protests. We had spent the day working as street medics, 
treating  
>> about 15 injured people, and providing water and food.
>>
>> We were violently arrested by a snatch squad at about 5pm that  
>> day, and have both been charged with Breach of the Peace. We are 
 
>> due in court in October. When we were arrested we were inside a  

>> pen, watching for injuries and people in distress.
>>
>> The Crown has called three policemen who were part of the snatch 
 
>> squad to testify against us, and it is up to us to find 
witnesses  
>> for our side.
>>
>> Therefore, this is a call out for the following people:
>>
>> Any of the 7 or 8 people we treated for spike wounds in Princes 
Park
>>
>> Anyone we treated for other injuries, including two men with 
head  
>> wounds
>>
>> Anyone who witnessed the arrest of two medics on Princes Street 
at  
>> around 5 o' clock.
>>
>> details - We are both women, I have an English accent and am  
>> reasonably short, I was wearing a red tshirt or hoodie, black  
>> jeans with a studded belt, a medic kit over my chest and another 
 
>> medic kit on my belt. I was clearly marked as a medic, and was  
>> wearing a red headscarf and a red armband. I was also wearing a  

>> small khaki canvas backpack.
>>
>> My partner is taller and was wearing a black shirt. Her medic 
kit  
>> was a large pack around her waist, and she wore a yellow 
backpack.  
>> She has dreadlocks and a New Zealand accent. She was also 
wearing  
>> a red headscarf.
>>
>> Our arrest took place on Princes Street, on the corner of the  
>> park. We were surrounded by a snatch squad so probably not that  

>> visible, but we were both screaming in pain, and my medic 
partner  
>> was shouting "we are not resisting". Prior to this we had been  
>> standing together in the pen, and at one point I was kneeling  
>> close to the line of riot police to try and see an injured man 
who  
>> was handcuffed on the floor behind police lines.
>>
>> If you saw us treating people, or we treated you or a friend, or 
 
>> you saw us in the pen, or being arrrested, please contact me at  
 
>> dr_abcde at hushmail.com. Your evidence could be really helpful in  

>> this travesty of a court case - please help show the courts that 
 
>> the police cannot brutalise and arrest clearly marked medics and 
 
>> get away with it.
>>
>> For more details of what happened, this is an interview we gave  

>> after being released from custody.
>>  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/317485.html
>>
>> many thanks, solidarity to all those arrested at the G8
>> medic on bail
>>  e-mail:   dr_abcde at hushmail.com
>>
>>
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