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This is an Outrage! Six days after their unjust arrest, three anti-racist organizers in Denver are still in jail and still have not even been brought before a judge. This is clearly a punitive detention and a gross violation of their legal rights. The conditions inside the jail are terrible and unsafe. This is a purely political case -- state repression against the leaders of peaceful protests demanding justice for Elijah McClain.

After six days, three of the organizers still On Sept. 17, police agencies in the Denver area arrested several leading anti-racist organizers in a coordinated assault. People were arrested in a Home Depot parking lot, at their home by SWAT teams and pulled over while driving. The arrests targeted the movement to demand justice for Elijah McClain, who was brutally murdered by the Aurora Police Department. 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.

The same District Attorney, Dave Young, who has refused to charge the police officers who murdered Elijah McClain, directed these felony arrests of the organizers who have been protesting against him including four members of the PSL. He is engaged in a corrupt abuse of his authority to silence his critics and the demands for racial justice, a declaration of war against the First Amendment.

To defeat this outrageous attack, the targeted organizers need the greatest number of individuals and organizations possible to show their support. Sign on to the solidarity statement today!

The organizers now face over thirty bogus charges including “kidnapping” and “inciting a riot.” A mass campaign has been launched to win their freedom and drop these absurd and outrageous charges.

Much is at stake. The movement of the people has grown to one of the largest in U.S. history in the last few months since the murder of George Floyd set off a detonator in the fight against police violence and racism. But the forces of the Trump administration and supporters of the status quo at every level of government are trying to destroy and intimidate the Black Lives Matter movement with trumped up charges and retaliation against leaders, street repression, the denial of civil liberties and false propaganda to demonize this just movement.