Post by Papa C. on Jun 5, 2007 13:09:02 GMT
Sherman Austin detained for "terrorist ties" yet again!
This time in Torrance.
"I was heading home from the hospital just off of Torrance and Hawthorn where I went to see my girlfriends mom who had fractured her foot and arm earlier in the day. I left and was going southbound down Hawthorn and pulled into a 7-11 to get something to drink when the po-po was right behind me. I didn't know what I was being stopped for. The cop came up and said I had changed lanes too quickly when I entered the 7-11 parking lot. I said I didn't remember changing lanes too quickly. He asked why I had the car jack in the cab of my truck and asked if the car was mine assuming it could be stolen. He asked if I had any drugs on me several times. The usual drug dealer suspect like always. Then asked where I was coming from at this time of night and where I was going to, where I worked, again why I had the car jack in the cab of my truck and where I got it from, etc. It didn't seem like he was believing anything I said. Still suspicious he then asked if I had ever been arrested before or if I was on probation. Of course I had to answer yes and began to explain. I was asked to step out. put my hands behind me while I was searched and asked some more questions about my case and what exactly I was arrested for. They said to sit on the front bumper of the police car while the other cop searched my car. I had to explain a long story short about my case while the other cop searched my car after asking again if I had any drugs or anything illegal such as explosives. They asked if I had been stopped anytime before while I was on probation and if any of the stops were ever reported back to the PO. Another unit showed up with a camera and began taking pictures of my truck from different angles. There were now a total of 3 cops, 2 patrol cars. The cop then told me to look forward as he took several photographs of me from the front and both right and left side. The police kept stepping away and whispering to each other in conversations they didn't want me to hear which I thought was interestingly sketchy. While the cop was searching my car I just remembered I had our CopWatch materials with me. After the cop finished his search he came back over to me and said he had to ask because it was very suspicious, why I had the cameras and the scanner in the car. He also said he turned on the video camera and viewed the tape and saw footage of police which looked like Long Beach PD. He also looked at the pictures on the digital camera which were also Long Beach PD. I told him I was member of CopWatch LA and that we observe the police from a safe reasonable distance, make sure peoples rights aren't being violated, and we have a network of lawyers. He asked if we had a web site and I said yes you can google it. Not like plenty of cops don't go there already. He asked the other cop who was taking photographs if he had been to the site and he chuckled and said yeah. He knew about CopWatch LA. The other cop then looked around nervously and said are we being watched right now? I laughed and said to tell you the truth I don't know, you might be, you might not be. He then said well we've been very honest with you so you would be honest with us right? Is there a copwatch here right now? I laughed and said I didn't know anybody here in Torrance. Which is true. I rarely drive through Torrance. Then another cop pulled up who was the supervisor but left shortly. One of the cops explained that they would have to fill out a field report , similar to what they did last time when I got detained for "terrorist ties." All the photographs they took of me and my car would go into the report. They then handed me my ticket for switching lanes to quickly and that was that.
The guy inside the 7-11 looked concerned and was like what the hell was all that for?!?! it looked like a crime scene investigation going down in the parking lot. I told him they initially stopped me because they said I switched lanes too quickly when I pulled into the 7-11 parking lot. He was like what?! he see's people do that all the time and they never got stopped. Not to mention it was almost midnight and very few cars were on the street except for the police following behind."
- typed and posted by Laura
On August 4th, 2003 Sherman was convicted and sentenced to a year in federal prison under statue "Distribution of information related to explosives or weapons of mass destruction" because of a LINK on his web site. The explosives information existed on a web site not authored by Sherman but another individual who the FBI interviewed and decided not to prosecute. Sherman was setup by the FBI in a fabrication of evidence in cahoots with Dianne Fienstine, Ashcroft and prosecutors to persecute him for refusing to remain silent amidst the levels of political repression, death threats, surveillance, wire-taps, interrogations, heavily armed FBI agents surrounding and raiding his home on Jan 24, 2002, etc. which he faced while keeping Raisethefist.com online and continuing his organizing work in the community. Added onto his 1 year prison sentence was also 3 years of strict probation where he is not allowed to access a computer.
For more information on Sherman's case you can check out www.Raisethefist.com, or on GOOGLE, www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Sherman+Austin%22
Also the other time Sherman got detained for "terrorist ties" in Burbank, la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127422.php
This time in Torrance.
"I was heading home from the hospital just off of Torrance and Hawthorn where I went to see my girlfriends mom who had fractured her foot and arm earlier in the day. I left and was going southbound down Hawthorn and pulled into a 7-11 to get something to drink when the po-po was right behind me. I didn't know what I was being stopped for. The cop came up and said I had changed lanes too quickly when I entered the 7-11 parking lot. I said I didn't remember changing lanes too quickly. He asked why I had the car jack in the cab of my truck and asked if the car was mine assuming it could be stolen. He asked if I had any drugs on me several times. The usual drug dealer suspect like always. Then asked where I was coming from at this time of night and where I was going to, where I worked, again why I had the car jack in the cab of my truck and where I got it from, etc. It didn't seem like he was believing anything I said. Still suspicious he then asked if I had ever been arrested before or if I was on probation. Of course I had to answer yes and began to explain. I was asked to step out. put my hands behind me while I was searched and asked some more questions about my case and what exactly I was arrested for. They said to sit on the front bumper of the police car while the other cop searched my car. I had to explain a long story short about my case while the other cop searched my car after asking again if I had any drugs or anything illegal such as explosives. They asked if I had been stopped anytime before while I was on probation and if any of the stops were ever reported back to the PO. Another unit showed up with a camera and began taking pictures of my truck from different angles. There were now a total of 3 cops, 2 patrol cars. The cop then told me to look forward as he took several photographs of me from the front and both right and left side. The police kept stepping away and whispering to each other in conversations they didn't want me to hear which I thought was interestingly sketchy. While the cop was searching my car I just remembered I had our CopWatch materials with me. After the cop finished his search he came back over to me and said he had to ask because it was very suspicious, why I had the cameras and the scanner in the car. He also said he turned on the video camera and viewed the tape and saw footage of police which looked like Long Beach PD. He also looked at the pictures on the digital camera which were also Long Beach PD. I told him I was member of CopWatch LA and that we observe the police from a safe reasonable distance, make sure peoples rights aren't being violated, and we have a network of lawyers. He asked if we had a web site and I said yes you can google it. Not like plenty of cops don't go there already. He asked the other cop who was taking photographs if he had been to the site and he chuckled and said yeah. He knew about CopWatch LA. The other cop then looked around nervously and said are we being watched right now? I laughed and said to tell you the truth I don't know, you might be, you might not be. He then said well we've been very honest with you so you would be honest with us right? Is there a copwatch here right now? I laughed and said I didn't know anybody here in Torrance. Which is true. I rarely drive through Torrance. Then another cop pulled up who was the supervisor but left shortly. One of the cops explained that they would have to fill out a field report , similar to what they did last time when I got detained for "terrorist ties." All the photographs they took of me and my car would go into the report. They then handed me my ticket for switching lanes to quickly and that was that.
The guy inside the 7-11 looked concerned and was like what the hell was all that for?!?! it looked like a crime scene investigation going down in the parking lot. I told him they initially stopped me because they said I switched lanes too quickly when I pulled into the 7-11 parking lot. He was like what?! he see's people do that all the time and they never got stopped. Not to mention it was almost midnight and very few cars were on the street except for the police following behind."
- typed and posted by Laura
On August 4th, 2003 Sherman was convicted and sentenced to a year in federal prison under statue "Distribution of information related to explosives or weapons of mass destruction" because of a LINK on his web site. The explosives information existed on a web site not authored by Sherman but another individual who the FBI interviewed and decided not to prosecute. Sherman was setup by the FBI in a fabrication of evidence in cahoots with Dianne Fienstine, Ashcroft and prosecutors to persecute him for refusing to remain silent amidst the levels of political repression, death threats, surveillance, wire-taps, interrogations, heavily armed FBI agents surrounding and raiding his home on Jan 24, 2002, etc. which he faced while keeping Raisethefist.com online and continuing his organizing work in the community. Added onto his 1 year prison sentence was also 3 years of strict probation where he is not allowed to access a computer.
For more information on Sherman's case you can check out www.Raisethefist.com, or on GOOGLE, www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Sherman+Austin%22
Also the other time Sherman got detained for "terrorist ties" in Burbank, la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/127422.php
