[news] SQUEEGEE COUNCIL TRIAL UPDATE

[Gordon Flett]

  http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/04/123949.php

  SQUEEGEE COUNCIL TRIAL UPDATE
  by IWW • Friday April 02, 2004 at 06:40 PM


  SQUEEGEE COUNCIL TRIAL UPDATE 

  Kristel Dumas (Which was called 'X' in the last report about the squeegee council trial(1)) just arriver from a plane trip... She got arrested by the Victoria police for a warrent for not having saw her bail supervisor(which she need to see each day, because of this fake charges and because of her problem in organising her trial stuff because of language barriers. She got sent back to Vancouver by plane, where they constantly called her 'dumbass', instead of Dumas...She also got her backpack with her personnal effect stolen cos they said there's no place for that in the plane. It is more than reasonable to believe that next time they may refuse to release her before the end of her trial as she've got problems respecting those brutals conditions since the start... In order to show with what kind of lies the VPD and the court break our freedom of association, here are the accusations , the conditions of release and a copy of the contradictionnary statement of the cops on both her case and the other accused one: Stephane Blais. 



  'Count 1 
  Kristel DUMAS, on or about the 21st day of October, 2003, at or near Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, did assault Police Constable #2055 Luebkemann, a peace officer engaged in the execution of her duty, contrary to Section 270(l)(a) of the Criminal Code. 

  Count 2 
  Stephane Rene BLAIS, on or about the 21st day of October, 2003, at or near Vancouver, in the Province of British 
  Columbia, did assault Police Constable #1918 Blais(it is a mistake in the particulars, Blais is the accused, not the cops) a peace officer engaged in the execution of his duty, contrary to Section 270(2) of the Criminal Code.' 

  For those charges, both got released with condition of no contact with two squeegee council related comrades, and to see a bail supervisor as directed then. Kristel missed her court date and then got no contact conditions with the other accused also, and conditions of seeing a bail supervisor once a day (and sadly, it is not a joke...) Those conditions stays until the end of the trial, which mean more than one year. 

  Here are copied the assault part of the police statements. 

  BLAIS's CASE 
  Supposedly 'ASSAULTED' PC #1918 : I did not register what he said because he started to grab at me. He grabbed at my hands and the squeegees. He also moved his shoulders and hips as though he was going to throw a punch, I saw his shoulder rise. I focused my attention on him and was able to throw out a quick jab to his face but it connected only very lightly before he was being taken to the ground by PC 2080, Smith. 
  WITHNESS PC #2080 : At this point a lone male pushed through the crowd vastly approaching PC#l918 face on while screaming obscenities and demanding the return of a sqeegie brush. PC#2080 observed the same male clench his fist (right hand) cock his arm in a punching position and thrust his fist directly towards PC#1918’s face. PC#19l8 quickly deflected the suspects lundging fist and was simultaniously attacked by second suspect male. PC#2080 physically grabbed and controlled the ‘initial’ suspect male to the ground and placed him in handcuffs 
  WITHNESS PC #2055 :At that point, BLAIS lunged at PC 1918 
  WITHNESS PC #2051 :As PC 1918 began to seize the squeegees, the male came towards PC 1918 in an aggressive manner and swung his arms towards the arms of PC 1918 as he was taking the squeegees. As a result of his aggressive behavior, PC 2080 moved in and tackled this male to the ground. 

  So the assault cops say he just saw Blais taking a motion, the other say that he saw him punching him in the face, and the other say he took a swing toward his hands... The fact is that he was just trying to take back the IWW card the PC#1918 was ripping off. 

  DUMAS's CASE 
  Supposedly "ASSAULTED" PC #2055 : PC 2055 grabbed MAILHOT’s arms to apprehended her, DUMAS grabbed the back of PC 2055’s jacket. PC 2055 turned around to face DUMAS and pushed DUMAS off (see evidence of PC 1200 KODAK) 

  WITHNESS PC #1200 : I observed Dumas attempt to pull 2055’s arm from the first female. She grabbed at 2055’s sleeve. I observed both 2158 and 2055 turn towards Dumas at this point. 2158 pushed Dumas away from 2055 while 2055 shook her arm off. They both then immediately turned their attention back to the female they were restraining. I then observed Dumas step back towards the members and take a swing with her right hand at the back of 2055’s head. The swing appeared to be a looping punch. I felt 2055 had been struck in the ear area by this swing. I immediately moved forward and with assistance of 2051 took Dumas to the ground and handcuffed her. 

  WITHNESS PC #2051 : PC 2051 then observed accused DUMAS come up behind PC 2055 and started tugging on her arm. DUMAS then swung her arms in a “flailing” manner and struck PC 2055 in the head. PC 2051 and Sgt 1200 KODAK immediately moved forward, pulled her away and took her into custody. 

  So the assaulted one is the only one who don't know she got punched... PC #1200 say that 'I observed Dumas attempt to pull 2055’s arm from the first female'. It is to note that this first female was a pregnant woman who was 'being controled like a football player', as a comrade noted. Or, to use PC #1918 words, in 'a VERY NON agressive manner' 

  WHO BREAK THE LAW? 


  At a meeting at the Carnegie center, the police chief never've been able to answer under which law the cops were stealing squeegees to polite squeegee workers... PC #1918 also state how he deal with squeegees of people who are not even squeegeeing, even when we have the receipt for those squeegees(6 squeegees that IWW bought to squeegee council when they joined) : 'As I was finished with the group I had also decided to seize several of the squeegees for prevention of continued annoyance calls (a separate issue).yelling at the same time. One of them, a woman I had up until tnis point never seen before, thrust what looked like a receipt into my hand and claimed that she had paid for the squeegees and that she owned them.' 


  1: For those who don't know, it is 2 squeegee council member who got condition of not being with two IWW/squeegee council related people(while there was more withness, it is only those two they can't see), a member and a supporter. We got falsely accused(as you can see the statement from the cops) of assault and got brutal conditions, in order to destroy the squeegee council. 

  *Everything in Italic is taken words to words from the particulars 

  Podte Zaffer 
  Industrial Workers of the World 







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