Activist says cops roughed her up for hanging anti-Bush posters

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Step Away From That Poster! Activist Says Cleveland Heights Cops Roughed Her Up For Hanging Anti-Bush Posters

AT 5-FOOT-4, and weighing in at 130 pounds, Carol Fisher doesn’t seem like the kind of person who assaults police officers. She has a calm and polite manner. She works as an executive assistant. She volunteers at Revolution Books.

Cleveland Heights police, however, are awaiting her grand jury indictment on two counts of felonious assault. They allege that she swung her fists at two officers who were in the process of arresting her Saturday afternoon.

Fisher had been hanging green posters urging that President George W. Bush step down from office, and promoting events associated with the State of the Union address and a rally in Washington, D.C. Saturday. She says she was using a staple gun to hang posters on wooden phone poles when a policeman shouted from across the street that she would face a $100 fine for doing that. Cleveland Heights has an ordinance prohibiting the hanging of posters and flyers on public property.

“He told me to stop, and I stopped,” Fisher says. “And I walked away. Then he told me to take the poster down or be fined.”...



Police State Suppressing World Can't Wait Action in Cleveland
By Carol Fisher

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_20945.shtml

Jan 31, 2006, 23:50

The following is a first-hand account of police harrassment and brutality against a World Can't Wait organizer in Cleveland. If anything like this happens to you, let us know asap! Contact [e-mail].

My name is Carol Fisher, and I am on the staff of Revolution Books in Cleveland OH. At the bookstore we have been immersed in building and supporting the initiatives of World Cant Wait. Yesterday, 1.28.06, while putting "Bush Step Down" posters on telephone poles along a major thoroughfare on a sunny Saturday afternoon, I was brutalized by Cleveland Heights police, charged with 2 counts of felony assault and held incommunicado under police custody in the hospital! This outrage and others like it must be exposed and opposed by all who hate the direction that the Bush regime is taking this country and the world.


Here is what happened:


I had set out from my house with a full agenda, to contact lots of people and get out materials about our upcoming Cleveland event to Drown Out the State of the Union address, and the call to march around the White House on Feb. 4th. My first stop was the an area known for its community of artists and progressives, where I stapled up posters for blocks and was greeted warmly by those who saw and appreciated what World Cant Wait is doing. I talked to an artist, and a Palestinian store owner who took fliers to distribute to customers...

[4morewars]

1. Freedom is on the march !

And by "freedom" I mean jack-booted thugs enforcing the fascist agenda, and by "march" I mean beating and jailing anyone that dares to resist.

I WANT MY FUCKING COUNTRY BACK !

[FloridaPat]

2. Proud to be an American.

[havocmom]

3. We need to raise $$ for those little cameras like they use on 60 Minutes

when they go places where they aren't supposed to bring cameras. Sad, but average Americans who insist on exercising their rights might wanna consider the need to have a friend with a camera sorta follow them around and film without becoming a person of interest themselves ;)

Time to expose the thugs in uniforms who wanna stretch the limits. Good cops would probably be happy with some help cleaning up their ranks.

[hang a left]

4. Something tells me there is gonna be a lot of grief for the police

department over this. Surely there were witnesses. She states so in her post. I hope they get a hold of them.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I hope someone heard the cop say

shut up or I'll kill you and that he hated anti-Bush people. I hope there were witnesses who saw police brutality. I hope those cops lose their jobs-they don't deserve them, for they aren't preserving the peace or protecting the public.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

6. great...

looks like another step toward police state.