Will the Victim of Fresno Police Beating be sent to Gulag?

[annm4peace]

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/24/18597736.ph...
Please email this to others, and post where you can.

Will the Victim of Fresno Police Beating be sent to Gulag?

This is an update about what happened to Glen Beaty, the homeless man who was beaten by Fresno Police on February 9. The video of the incident was shown around the world.

http://www.ksee24.com/home/video/39384717.html?video=YH...

(you have to get past the commercial.. it is horrific, and NO one held accountable)

snip..

Rather than conducting a transparent independent investigation of this apparent excessive force incident, local government, the police, and the criminal justice system have held Beaty in Jail, had him declared mentally incompetent to assist in his own defense, and are in the process of having him shipped to a state mental institution. While this sounds like something that might have happened in the Soviet Union (shipping political dissidents and people who know inconvenient truths to Siberia), it is business as usual in Fresno.

Beaty should not be sent to a U.S. Gulag where he may never be heard from again. The Community Alliance newspaper demands that the truth be told about this incident, that Beaty is not further victimized, and that more transparency is used in the affairs of this city’s government.

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Unfortunately, there is no support group for Glen except for a couple people trying to be at his trial. They had to say: The hearing got postponed until Thursday, May 28th at 8:30 a.m. One thing I learned is that it is significant that the police wanted to press charges resulting from the February 9 incident, but the DA decided not to file. So, Glen is only being held on some outstanding issues that happened a couple of years ago.

I'm just trying to keep this issue alive so that it doesn't get swept under the rug, so that they (the police, courts, etc) are not able to victimize Glen again, and so the police are held accountable for their actions of Feb 9.
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This is not an exaggeration of him being sent far away.. it happens

So here is what we CAN do ASAP, no matter where we live:

Please call and/or write:

Fresno District Attorney, Elizabeth Egan
("It is the victim that counts." ~ Elizabeth A. Egan)

Phone: [phone]
Address:
2220 Tulare St. Ste 1000
Fresno, CA 93721.

Ask:
1. Why hasn't a full investigation been completed by now on the police beating of Mr. Beaty? Demand a full police report be release to Mr. Beaty's attorney, as well has the name of the officer's involved in the beating.
2. Tell her you are concerned Mr. Beaty is being held in Fresno Jail on a no bail felony and concerned for his welfare, especially since he might be sent to a mental institution.


Call CA Attorney General and demand he send a team to independently investigate the Fresno P.D. beating of Mr. Beaty and also the fact Mr. Beaty is being charged with a no bail felony.
Attorney General Gerry Brown.
Voice: [phone] or [phone]

Attorney General's Office
California Department of Justice
Attn: Public Inquiry Unit
P.O. Box 944255
Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

Thanks for your help,

[annm4peace]

1. email works better

When I tried to call both the Fresno DA and CA General Attorney's office I did not get through, nor able to leave a comment..

but I did find out we can send an email to
the Fresno DA at: http://www.co.fresno.ca.us/webform.aspx?id=21201

[deek]

2. Update?

What is this man's condition? What happened in regard to the "officer"?

[mp9200]

3. Scumbags

That's all i have to say.

[clixtox]

4. Apparently he was committed to Atascadero State Hospital...

a maximum security institution, for three years.

The ACLU is still "on the case" concerning the police beating, fortunately captured by video and shown around the world.

I was employed at Atascadero in 1967 doing alternative service as a conscientious objector until the Reagan cuts to the states mental health programs helped create the "homeless problem".

[annm4peace]

5. Thanks for posting the Update

It seems the man goes from one hell hole to another. I hope they are able to get him stablized.