Police brutality against striking workers in Detroit [Archive]

Unicorn

26th April 2008, 15:41

I went to another American Axle rally for Rich today. It was a great success through most of it. I was astounded and appauled by this site right before us.
This woman, an AAM employee, asked to "jay walk" along with other women. As she did a Detroit officer put her in a "chokehold" and litterally dragged her backwards to his cop car and arrested her. I was completely amazed. This woman is an older lady - I am told she is 65 with a heart condition - and she didn't do ANYTHING!

See the appalling pics on DailyKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/25/94932/1176/223/503210

Martin Blank

26th April 2008, 20:22

I've been down at the picket lines. This has been brewing for a while. Over the last couple weeks, the cops have been looking to provoke an incident so they can "bust heads" on the picket line. The AAM and GM bosses have been leaning on the city government and police department to enforce "order" ... and the UAW officials are going along with it. Our sister in the photos is basically being abandoned by the officialdom, claiming the incident had "nothing to do" with the strike!