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Oscar Grant Committee statement to Richmond City Council

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At the October 3, 2017 Richmond City Council meeting, Gerald Smith delivered the following statement on behalf of the Oscar Grant Commitee:

In February 2016 the Richmond City Council passed an important piece of local legislation. Basically it stated that hence forward if a citizen of Richmond is shot by the Richmond police there will be an independent investigation not controlled by the Richmond Police Department or the city attorney’s office.

Why? Because there was a serious cover-up of the actual circumstances surrounding Pedie’s death. People that have read the relevant documentation know this.

Now the Richmond police union and the assistant city attorney have revealed at the August and September meetings of the Richmond Citizens Police Review Commission that they are dead set against a transparent independent investigation.

Time does not permit me to share more details. But the situation is crystal clear: Who runs this city? The people of Richmond through their elected representatives or corrupted individuals and organizations that have a direct conflict of interest in the public of this investigation. Thank you.

Oscar Grant Committee Letter to Sacramento DA about Yvette Felarca

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View or download this letter as a PDF document

October 3, 2017

The Honorable Anne Marie Schubert
District Attorney of Sacramento County,
901 G Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
daoffice@sacda.org

Dear District Attorney Schubert,

We continue to be deeply concerned about the prosecution Yvette Felarca on what appear to be trumped-up charges. We wrote earlier that her arrest in connection with the June 2016 events in Sacramento appeared to be a case of selective prosecution. Now it appears that the Berkeley Police Department is joining in, targeting Ms. Felarca in what appears to be a premeditated and unwarranted arrest on the part of the police. (See the YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HZN1Qb44Yk.) This raises the question of possible collaboration between the police and the neo-fascists and white supremacists. In light of the vicious smear campaign against her by the Alt-Right, it could be argued that the police should be protecting Ms. Felarca, not harassing her further.

We fear that the recent arrest of Ms. Felarca may be used as a pretext to increase her bail, even though no one has suggested that she has become a flight risk. If anything, she has become more dedicated to her cause and is in no sense a flight risk.

In the interests of justice, the Oscar Grant Committee again urges you to drop the pending charges against Yvette Felarca and certainly her bail should not be increased in what might be seen as a punitive manner.

Sincerely,

Eugene E Ruyle, Oakland, CA
For the Oscar Grant Committee
Against Police Brutality and State Repression

Resolutions passed on April 5 2016

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RESOLVED: The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality and State Repression opposes and condemns Donald Trump’s call for increased state repression of U.S. Government prisoners through the use of waterboarding and other even harsher methods of torture. The progressive movement must vigorously oppose these torture techniques as a dangerous move in the direction of a repressive police state.

RESOLVED: The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality and State Repression recognizes and endorses Senator Bernie Sanders’s call to investigate every police killing of an unarmed civilian and any death of a prisoner in police custody. We support building a mass movement to implement these demands.