Homeless Man Beaten by Fresno Police Officers

[annm4peace]

Source: Indymedia

the National news picked up the story of the shocking and violent video of 2 police officers beating up a defenseless homeless man. Sadly it isn't the 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd time that this has happened.
This behavior comes from the top down.

Read more: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/02/10/18569420.php

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Mike has been courageously reporting on the attacks of the Homeless for over 6 years.
this is a link to stories that have been posted before:

http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home/homelessness.htm

Read about Pam Kincaid.. I carried a poster with her name in St. Paul, MN as we where surrounded and some arrested by cops in riot gear.

One story after another and no one has investigated the (at the time) Mayor Alan Autry's office, Chief Dyer, or Sheriff. There have been lawsuits, but still the Homeless are attacked.

And the activists in Fresno have been trying to fight what has and is still being done to the Homeless. Unlike the L.A. and Bay Area they don't have as many finacial and other resources.
Failure has been the apathy from those in the Bay Area and L.A.... as long as you don't have to deal with it who cares?
In St. Paul, several years a go I went up to speak to Tom Hayden, to ask for his help in Fresno. (Like I do to many people, especially big name people) and he told me to my face when I gave him one of Mike's Community Alliance articles on the attacks of the Homeless..
Hayden said "I can't waste my time with them " (central valley). I then said: How can you say that ?, we need your help, they need your help.. they (the activists) are fighting to stop the attacks but need help from other areas" You are preaching to the choir in San Francisco, why don't you come to where the real battles are. " You are just going to leave them hanging?"
he was walking away and then said: "give it up, they are a waste of time, look what happened to Chavez".

*** So if you want to help... Call CA Attorney General and demand he send a team to investigate the Fresno P.D. and while he is at it.. release the previous AG's report of the spying of Peace Fresno.

Attorney General Gerry Brown.
Voice: [phone] or

(Toll-free in CA)

[phone]

Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

Attn: Public Inquiry Unit

P.O. Box 944255

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550

[Swagman]

1. citizens-arm yourselves with a camera..always carry it !

beating a homeless person.What cowards !:puke:

[The Brethren]

2. Absolutely!

What a group of a--holes.


Stimulus Plan ("American Recovery and Reinvestment Act") full text: Orig. House version -- http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/RecoveryBill01-15-09.pdf Senate version -- http://appropriations.senate.gov/News/2009_02_02_The_American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009.pdf Spreadsheet of Senate compromise -- http://appropriations.senate.gov/News/2009_02_08_UPDATED_Appropriations_Provisions_of_American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act.pdf?CFID=4043629&CFTOKEN=40573040 Text of Senate compromise version of fiscal stimulus legislation -- http://readthestimulus.org/amdth1.pdf

[Divine Discontent]

7. exactly! learn how to use your cameras on your phones QUICKLY folks!

it can mean evidence or no evidence!

Obama Inaugural items www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[junior college]

3. The guy probably deserved it

:sarcasm:

[Baby Snooks]

4. Why not call Nancy Pelosi and demand a federal investigation?

She is reflective of the problem. People in this country do not want to see the homeless. In San Francisco they can call the police and have them arrested. So it's not just the police. It's people like Nancy Pelosi. And Tom Hayden. And so many others. All "good" Democrats.

This makes me ill. We are destroying ourselves in this country. Waving our partisan flags while we point our partisan fingers at everyone else. We need to point our fingers at ourselves.

[951-Riverside]

5. I did and she said...

"a federal investigation is off the table" :sarcasm:

[Divine Discontent]

6. major gov't intervention needs committed involving the rampant abuse of citizens by cops eom

[Webster Green]

8. Pigs are sick fucks!

99% of them are sadistic mutherfuckers. The other 1% are just confused. :mad:

[annm4peace]

9. Boxer, Feinstein, and Pelosi have all been contacted

the activists had letters writeen to them. alerts to call all there of them for the past 6 years.

there have been rallys and marches in Fresno..

I live in MN now and I have take to my progressive Reps. but nothing happens.

Back in 1990 I worked at a private psych hospital and we started an out patient program with Mentally ill persons in group homes. These are very vunerable sweet people when they are well.

The hospital closed in 1993.. and others shortly after. The only real Mental Health care in fresno is for those who have a lot of money, and for triage..

since 1990.. many group homes have closed.. so there are many homeless Mentally Ill persons and Mike's stories if people bother to click on and read really break my heart.

Mike gave camera's to the HOmeless so they could document what they experieced and saw.. look at their photo's and read their stories.

Any of us could become so mentally ill, or have a Brain injury that leaves us livign on the street.
WHO would try to protect us ?

[annm4peace]

10. the new Fresno Mayor will also sweep this under the rug

She said that there is an independent Investigation.. what a joke.

In one month this will be forgotten and the homeless in Fresno will be terrorized again.

Hey,, that just made me think. Shouldn't the cops and city of Fresno be charged with Terroristic acts.

*** Yeah,, when you call Gerry Brown, tell him that maybe the FBI should be called in because of there are people in Governemnt doing Terroristic Acts against the Homeless Citizens.

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. Homeless Man in Fresno Beaten by State Sponsored Domestic Terrorists

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There, I fixed your headline for you... :-)

[RubyDuby in GA]

12. Chief Dyer is trying to cover his boys asses for them.

What's important is the 8 minutes or so before the taping began?!?! BULLSHIT.
They punched the guy in the face while he was lying on the ground handcuffed.

This crap - police brutality - is inexcusable. I hope someone represents this man and sues that department into nonexistence. Or at least so he will never be homeless again.