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DA Young targets movement for justice for Elijah
McClain
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The ANSWER Coalition is organizing support and defense of
anti-racist organizers who have been arrested on frame-up charges in
Denver and are still in jail today.
Police agencies in the Denver area on September 17 arrested
anti-racist organizers in a coordinated assault. Three of Denver's
lead organizers are still in jail and face long prison sentences in
this political frame-up. The police made the arrests in a way to
intimidate and terrorize people. People were arrested in a Home Depot
parking lot, at their homes, and after they were pulled over while
driving. Among those arrested were the leaders of large-scale peaceful
protests that have gone on for months demanding justice for Elijah
McClain. They are facing multiple felony charges and years in prison
in an obvious frame-up aimed at stopping the movement for justice for
Elijah McClain.
What happened on September 17
Law enforcement units arrested several lead organizers of the mass
anti-racist protest movement that has been on the streets demanding
justice for Elijah McClain and other victims of police brutality. That
morning, Russell Ruch was arrested while in a parking lot at a Home
Depot. An hour later, five police cars surrounded and arrested Lillian
House while she was driving. S.W.A.T. teams arrived at Joel Northam’s
home and arrested him. Eliza Lucero, another committed organizer in
the Elijah McClain struggle, was arrested in this operation. Those
four are members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Terrance
Roberts of the Frontline Party for Revolutionary Action was also
arrested. Multiple other people have also been arrested in the recent
period in Colorado Springs, Denver, and throughout the state. House,
Northam and Lucero are still in jail as we publish this appeal.
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Eliza Lucero |
Lillian House |
Joel Northam |
The movement for justice in the Denver area has in the streets
constantly since the brutal murder of George Floyd and the release of
the footage of the Aurora PD’s murder of 23-year-old Elijah McClain.
These organizers have worked closely with other activists and family
members of local police brutality victims to amplify their cases. They
have committed no crimes, but only devoted themselves to the struggle
for justice! That is why they have been targeted and rounded up
today.
District Attorney Dave Young, whose office indicted the anti-racist
organizers, is the very same person who this protest movement has been
demanding press charges against the police officers who murdered
Elijah McClain. This is an obvious act of political retaliation --
Young is abusing the power of his office to take revenge on
his opponents.
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Solidarity rally in Washington,
D.C. |
Adam Northam, Joel Northam's brother,
speaks at solidarity rally in Philadelphia |
This attack on the Denver anti-racist movement and the PSL is part
of a concerted national assault on the Black Lives Matter movement, an
attack driven directly from the White House, from Governor’s mansions,
mayors and from local police chiefs and police departments around the
country.
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