Call in: Drop The Charges Against the 11/4 646
Call in: Drop The Charges Against the 11/4 646
Wednesday, November 18th & 19th from 7 AM – 7 PM
- Governor Tim Walz: 651-201-3400
- Mayor Jacob Frey: 612-673-2100
646 people were arrested for public nuisance on November 4th for protesting Trump and for Black Lives in Minneapolis. We were kettled by the MN National Guard, State Troopers, and MPD in an effort to try to scare the movement from future protests. The governor and the mayor are worried that there will be another George Floyd uprising because there has been no change in the system (yet) which killed Floyd and that we will respond with more mass protests. Please call to defend our right to protest and to demand that our charges are dropped. Thanks!
Background info on the arrests: https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/11/05/state-leaders-face-backlash-over-arresting-hundreds-of-protesters-in-minneapolis/
Sample script:
“My name is [name] and I’m a resident of [city]. I’m calling to demand that all charges be dropped against the 646 protesters who were arrested on November 4 on I-94 in Minneapolis. This was a protest against the police murders of George Floyd and so many others, demanding all votes be counted in the previous day’s presidential election and real police accountability from the winner. What would have been a short, safe march on one direction of highway became a dangerous six-hour ordeal as police surrounded protesters without giving any dispersal warning, physically blocked protesters from exiting the highway, closed both lanes of traffic, assaulted bystanders, and largely refused to wear masks to help prevent Covid-19 transmission.Many protesters face ‘public nuisance’ charges, but the real public nuisance was the police decision to escalate the situation with unlawful mass arrests. It will also be a public nuisance to bring these flimsy, politically motivated charges before the court system which is already backlogged due to the pandemic. These charges are an attempt to intimidate the Black Lives Matter movement out of its First Amendment rights rather than address the ongoing crisis of unaccountable police murders. Drop ALL charges against the I-94 646 immediately.”
Please spread the word! Initiated by the Anti-War Committee.